Dr Travis Seale-Carlisle

Lecturer

Email Address: travis.seale-carlisle@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address: F13 William Guild Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
110 St. Machar Drive
AB24 2UB
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School/Department: School of Psychology

Biography

I earned my BA from the University of California, San Diego in 2012 and my PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London in 2017. Since then, I have completed postdoctoral fellowships at Royal Holloway (2017-2018), the University of Birmingham (2018-2019), and Duke University (2019-2021). I then joined the School of Psychology at the 51cg as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2021. My research throughout this time has covered several areas of cognition such as decision-making, memory, and language. Broadly speaking, my research seeks to advance our theoretical understanding of human memory so that memory can be more reliable in applied and forensic settings. One line of my research aims to improve eyewitness identification procedures. I make use of signal-detection theory to guide my thinking and often incorporate machine-learning techniques to test competing research hypotheses.

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Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships: Member of Ethics Committee (2021 - Present)

Member of Impact Committee (2022 - Present)
External Memberships: Associate Digital Content Editor for Psychonomic Society (2020 - 2021)

Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports (2023 - Present)

Latest Publications

Why Does Eyewitness Verbal Confidence Add Diagnostic Value? A Metacognitive Noise Account
2026 - Published
Grabman, J. H., Seale-Carlisle, T., Dodson, C. S.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition
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The Effects of Instructions on Performance in Lineups and Showups
2026 - E-pub ahead of print
Seale-Carlisle, T., Wilson, B. M., Yilmaz, A., Wixted, J. T., Semmler, C., Mickes, L.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
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New insights on expert opinion about eyewitness memory research
2025 - Published
Seale-Carlisle, T., Quigley-McBride, A., Teitcher, J., Crozier, W., Dodson, C., Garrett, B.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 903 - 924
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A comparison between numeric confidence ratings and verbal confidence statements
2025 - Published
Seale-Carlisle, T., Grabman, J. H., Dobolyi, D. G., Dodson, C. S.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 12-39
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Persistence of verbal overshadowing and weapon focus effects on lineup identification performance
2025 - Published
Dodson, C. S., Seale-Carlisle, T., Garrett, B. L., Kafadar, K., Yaffe, J.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 416-427
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