PSYCHOLOGY

Professor Edie Greene (B.A., Stanford University; M.A., University of Colorado; Ph.D., University of Washington) joined the faculty at UCCS in 1986. From 1994-1995, she served as Fellow in Law and Psychology at Harvard Law School. Professor Greene received the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences Award for Research and Creative Works in 1999 and the campus-wide Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in 2001. She is the co-author of three books, including a widely-used textbook in psychology and law, Psychology and the Legal System (Wadsworth, 2007), and Determining damages: The psychology of jury awards (American Psychological Association, 2003).

Dr. Greene's primary research interests are in psychology and law, specifically in the areas of legal decision making,eyewitness memory, and psychological issues in elder law. She has written extensively on jury decision making in civil and criminal cases, jury damage awards, jury reasoning in death penalty cases, expert testimony, the factors that influence the reliability of eyewitness memory and legal decisions concerning older adults Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, American Bar Association, National Institute of Justice, American Psychology-Law Society, Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Borchard Foundation Center on Law and Aging. She consults with judges and attorneys and, on occasion, testifies in court as an expert witness on jury decision-making and eyewitness memory.


Research areas: Applied Cognitive and Applied Social Psychology; Psychology and Law; Legal Decision-making; Heuristical Reasoning, Eyewitness Memory.

Representative publications:

Hope, L., Greene, E., Memon, A., Gavisk, M., & Houston, K. (2008).  A third verdict option:  Exploring the impact of the Not Proven verdict on mock juror decision making.  Law and Human Behavior.

Gavisk, M., & Greene, E. (2007).  Guardianship determinations by judges, attorneys, and guardians.  Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 25, 339-353.

Greene, E., & Ellis, L. (2007).  Decision making in criminal justice.  In D. Carson, B. Milne, F. Pakes, K. Shalev, & A. Shawyer (eds.)  Applying Psychology to Criminal Justice (pp. 183-200).  Chichester:  Wiley.

Winter, R. & Greene, E. (2007). Cognition and juror decision making. In F. Durso, R., Nickerson, S., Dumais, S., Lewandowsky & T. Perferct (eds.) Handbook of Applied Cognition. Chicester: Wiley.

Greene, E., Heilbrun, K., Fortune, W., & Nietzel, M. (2007). Wrightsman's Psychology and the legal system. (6th edition). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Smith, A., & Greene, E. (2005). Conduct and its consequences: Attempts at debiasing jury judgments. Law and Human Behavior, 29, 505-526.