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Dr Rachel Anne Searston

Honorary Senior Lecturer
School of Psychology
r.searston@uq.edu.au

Publications

Journal Articles (11)
Theses (2)

Journal Articles

Vokey, John R., Jamieson, Randall K., Tangen, Jason M., Searston, Rachel A. and Allen, Scott W. (2018). A visual familiarity account of evidence for orthographic processing in pigeons (Columbia livia): a reply to Scarf, Corballis, Güntürkün, and Colombo (2017). Animal Cognition, 21 (3), 425-431. doi: 10.1007/s10071-018-1166-2
Searston, Rachel A. and Tangen, Jason M. (2017). The Emergence of Perceptual Expertise with Fingerprints Over Time. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6 (4), 442-451. doi: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.08.006
Searston, Rachel A. and Tangen, Jason M. (2017). Expertise with unfamiliar objects is flexible to changes in task but not changes in class. Plos One, 12 (6) e0178403, e0178403. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178403
Searston, Rachel A. and Tangen, Jason M. (2017). Training perceptual experts: feedback, labels, and contrasts. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71 (1), 32-39. doi: 10.1037/cep0000124
Searston, Rachel A. and Tangen, Jason M. (2016). The style of a stranger: identification expertise generalizes to coarser level categories. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (4), 1-6. doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1211-6
Edmond, Gary, Towler, Alice, Growns, Bethany, Ribeiro, Gianni, Found, Bryan, White, David, Ballantyne, Kaye, Searston, Rachel A., Thompson, Matthew B., Tangen, Jason M., Kemp, Richard I. and Martire, Kristy (2016). Thinking forensics: cognitive science for forensic practitioners. London, United Kingdom, 57 (2), 144-154. doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2016.11.005
Edmond, Gary, Found, Bryan, Martire, Kristy, Ballantyne, Kaye, Hamer, David, Searston, Rachel, Thompson, Matthew, Cunliffe, Emma, Kemp, Richard, San Roque, Mehera, Tangen, Jason, Dioso-Villa, Rachel, Ligertwood, Andrew, Hibbert, David, White, David, Ribeiro, Gianni, Porter, Glenn, Towler, Alice and Roberts, Andrew (2016). Model forensic science. Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 48 (5), 496-537. doi: 10.1080/00450618.2015.1128969
Searston, Rachel A., Tangen, Jason M. and Eva, Kevin W. (2016). Putting bias into context: the role of familiarity in identification. Law and Human Behavior, 40 (1), 50-64. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000154
Thompson, Matthew B., Tangen, Jason M. and Searston, Rachel A. (2014). Understanding expertise and non-analytic cognition in fingerprint discriminations made by humans. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 737.1-737.3. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00737
Edmond, Gary, Martire, Kristy, Kemp, Richard, Hamer, David, Hibbert, Brynn, Ligertwood, Andrew, Porter, Glenn, San Roque, Mehara, Searston, Rachel, Tangen, Jason, Thompson, Matthew and White, David (2014). How to cross-examine forensic scientists: A guide for lawyers. Australian Bar Review, 39 (174)
Edmond, Gary, Tangen, Jason M., Searston, Rachel A. and Dror, Itiel E. (2014). Contextual bias and cross-contamination in the forensic sciences: The corrosive implications for investigations, plea bargains, trials and appeals. Law, Probability and Risk, 14 (1) mgu018, 1-25. doi: 10.1093/lpr/mgu018

Theses

Searston, Rachel (2016). The emergence of expertise with novel objects. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2016.299
Searston, Rachel (2012). Guilty by association: an investigation of bias in fingerprint identification. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.
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