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Helen Paterson

Lecturer

Research Areas: Social cognition and social influence. The effects of discussion on memory.

Academic Career:

BA, 2000, University of British Columbia
PhD, 2005, University of New South Wales

Selected Publications:

  • Paterson, H. & Kemp, R. (2006). Comparing methods of encountering postevent Information: The power of co-witness suggestion. Applied Cognitive Psychology.
  • Paterson, H. (2006). Co-witnesses and the effects of discussion on eyewitness memory (abstr). The International Journal of Speech, Language, and the Law.
  • Paterson, H. M. & Kemp, R. I. (2006). Co-witnesses talk: A survey of eyewitness discussion. Psychology, Crime & Law, 12, 181-191.
  • Paterson, H. & Kemp, R. (2005). Co-witness discussion: A survey of police officers’ attitudes, knowledge, and behaviour. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 12, 424-434.
  • Suedfeld, P., Paterson, H., & Krell, R. (2005). Holocaust survivors and the world of work. Journal of Genocide Research, 7, 243-254.
  • Suedfeld, P., Soriano, E., McMurtry, D.L., Paterson, H., Weiszbeck, T.L., & Krell, R. (2005). Erikson's "Components of a healthy personality" among Holocaust survivors immediately and forty years after the war. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 60, 229-248.
  • Suedfeld, P., Paterson, H., Soriano, E., & Zuvic, S. (2002). Lethal stereotypes: Hair and eye color as survival characteristics during the Holocaust. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 32, 2368-2376.
Courses:

PSYC1001: Psychology 1A
PSYC2061: Social and Developmental Psychology
PSYC3121: Social Psychology
PSYC3301: Psychology and Law

Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 503B
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-1643
Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641
Email: H.Paterson@unsw.edu.au