Kaila Bruer

Assistant Professor (Luther College) (on leave)
Ph.D (University of Regina)
Office: LC 223
E-mail: Kaila.Bruer@uregina.ca
Website: https://uregina.ca/~bruer20k/
Research interests
- children as witnesses
- children’s honesty
- recognition and recall memory
- eyewitness identification
- reliability of witness testimony
Price, H. L., Bruer, K. C., Adkins, M. (2020). Using an interactive simultaneous lineup procedure can identify looking behaviour that predicts accuracy in children and adult eyewitnesses. Law and Human Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000364
Bruer, K. C., Zanette, S., Ding, X., Lyon, T. D., & Lee, K. (2019). Identifying Liars Through Automatic Decoding of Children's Facial Expressions. Forthcoming in Child Development; doi: 10.1111/cdev.13336; USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS19-30; USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 19-30. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3449383
Bruer, K. C., Price, H. L., Harvey, M.*, & Adams, A*. (2017). Judicial discussion of eyewitness identification evidence. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 49(4), 209-220. doi: 10.1037/cbs0000084
Bruer, K. C., Fitzgerald, R. J., Price, H. L., & Sauer, J. D. (2017). How sure are you that this is the man you saw? Using confidence judgments to identify a target with child eyewitnesses. Law and Human Behavior, 41(6), 541-555. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000260
Bruer, K. C. & Price, H. L. (2017). A repeated forced-choice lineup procedure provides suspect bias information with no cost to accuracy for older children and adults. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31(5), 448-466. doi: 10.1002/acp.3342
Bruer, K. C, Price, H. L. & Dahl, L. C. (2017). When an alibi is not enough: An exploration of evidence needed for mock investigators to lay charges in a robbery case. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 32(2), 94-104. doi: 10.1007/s11896-016-9209-6
Bruer, K. C., Price, H. L., & Phenix, T. L. (2016). The “magical” effect of integration on autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(4), 591-599. doi: 10.1002/acp.3232
Bruer, K., Fitzgerald, R. J., Therrien, N. M., & Price, H. L. (2015). Lineup member similarity influences the effectiveness of a salient rejection option for eyewitnesses. Psychiatry Psychology, & Law, 22, 124-133. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2014.919688
Bruer, K., & Pozzulo, J. D. (2014a). Familiarity and recall memory for environments: A comparison of children and adults. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 35(4), 318-325. doi:10.1016/j.appdev.2014.05.002
Bruer, K., & Pozzulo, J. D. (2014b). Does speed indicate lineup identification accuracy? Examining Children's and Adults' Reaction Time. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 32, 1-20.
Bruer, K., & Pozzulo, J. D. (2014c). Influence of eyewitness age and recall error on juror decision making. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 19(2), 332-348. doi: 10.1111/lcrp.12001
Pozzulo, J. D., Pettalia, J. L., Bruer, K., & Javaid, S*. (2014). Eyewitness age and familiarity with the defendant: Influential factors in mock jurors' assessment of guilt. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 32, 39-51.
Pozzulo, J. D., Dempsey, J., Bruer, K., & Sheahan, C. (2012). The culprit in target-absent lineups: Understanding young children’s false positive responding. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 27(1), 55-62. doi: 10.1007/s11896-011-9089-8.
Current Collaborators
Dr. Heather L. Price – Thomson Rivers University, Department of Psychology
http://child-law-research.sites.tru.ca/
Dr. Angela D. Evans – Brock University, Department of Psychology
Dr. Kang Lee – University of Toronto, Dr. Erick Jackman Institute for Child Studies
Dr. Thomas D. Lyon – University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
https://gould.usc.edu/faculty/?id=232
Dr. Xiaopan Ding – National University of Singapore, Department of Psychology
http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/psy/staff/profile.html#ding_xiao_pan
Dr. Emily Pica – Austin Peay State University
https://www.apsu.edu/psychology/faculty.php
Dr. Tom Phenix – Campion College, University of Regina
http://campioncollege.ca/contact-us/faculty-listing/dr-tom-phenix
Current Student Collaborators
Sarah Zanette, M.A. – University of Toronto
Miao Qian, M.Sc. – University of Toronto – https://miaoqian.wixsite.com/miaoqian/news-media
Alyssa Adams, B.A. – University of Regina
Madison B. Harvey, B.A. – Simon Fraser University
Darshan Panesar, B.A. – University of Toronto