Publications

This is a list of all publications by Dr Josh P Davis and our team at Super Recognisers Greenwich

2021

Davis, J. P., Dray, C., Petrov, N., & Belanova, E. (2021). Low prevalence match and mismatch detection in simultaneous face matching: Influence of face recognition ability and feature focus guidance. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, online first 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02348-4 (download author's free open access link here: https://rdcu.be/ctXOc).

Belanova, E., Davis, J. P., & Thompson, T. (2021). The Part-Whole Effect in super-recognisers and typical-range ability controls. Vision Research, 187, 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.06.004 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/3ACO5P1)

Jenkins, R., Robertson, D. J., & Davis, J. P. (2021). Super-recognisers: Some people excel at both face and voice recognition. Policing Insight, https://policinginsight.com/features/innovation/super-recognisers-some-people-excel-at-both-face-and-voice-recognition/

Jenkins, R., Robertson, D. J., & Davis, J. P. (2021). Ils excellent dans la reconnaissance des visages et des voix. Ce sont les “super-reconnaisseurs”. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/ils-excellent-dans-la-reconnaissance-des-visages-et-des-voix-ce-sont-les-super-reconnaisseurs-157955

Smith, H. M. J., Andrews, S., Baguley, T., Colloff, M. F., Davis, J. P., White, D., Rockey, J. C., & Flowe, H. D. (2021). Performance of typical and superior face recognisers on a novel interactive face matching procedure. British Journal of Psychology DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12499

Noyes, E., Davis, J. P., Petrov, P., Gray, K. L. H., Ritchie, K. (2021). The effect of face masks and sunglasses on identity and expression recognition with super-recognizers and typical observers. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 201169. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201169

Jenkins, R., Robertson, D. J., & Davis, J. P. (2021). Super-recognisers: some people excel at both face and voice recognition. The Conversation, 156817. https://theconversation.com/super-recognisers-some-people-excel-at-both-face-and-voice-recognition-156817

Jenkins, R., Tsermentseli, S., Monks, C. P., Robertson, D. J., Stevenage, S. V., Symons, A. E., & Davis, J. P. (2021). Are super‐face‐recognisers also super‐voice‐recognisers? Evidence from cross‐modal identification tasks. Applied Cognitive Psychology DOI:10.1002/acp.3813

Jenkins, R., Davis, J. P., Monks, C. P., Tsermentseli, S. (2021). Individual differences in face and voice recognition. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin; Journal of the British Psychological Society: Cognitive Section, 6, 60-62. https://shop.bps.org.uk/the-cognitive-psychology-bulletin-issue-6-spring-2021 (pre-print here)

Correll, J., Ma., D. S., & Davis, J. P. (2021). Perceptual tuning through contact? Contact interacts with perceptual (not memory-based) face-processing ability to predict cross-race recognition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 92, 104058, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104058

Osborn, K., Davis, J. P., Button, S., & Foster, J. (2021). Juror decision making in acquaintance and marital rape: The influence of clothing, alcohol and pre-existing stereotypical attitudes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(5-6), NP2675-NP2696. DOI: 10.1177/0886260518768566 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/odbf2018)

2020

Davis, J. P. (2020). CCTV and the super-recognisers. In C. Stott, B. Bradford, M. Radburn, and L. Savigar-Shaw (Eds.), Making an Impact on Policing and Crime: Psychological Research, Policy and Practice (pp 34-67). London: Routledge. ISBN 9780815353577. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429326592 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/34Phwjm)

Mcintosh, S., & Davis, J. P. (2020). The ‘casting couch’ scenario: Impact of perceived employment benefit, reporting delay, complainant gender, and participant gender on juror decision-making in rape cases. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, DOI: 10.1177/0886260520966679, Download pre-print here: http://bit.ly/McintoshJPD

Jansari, A., Green, E., Innocenti, F., Nardi, D., Belanova, E., & Davis, J. P. (2020, August 31). The Goldsmiths Unfamiliar Face Memory and Before They Were Adult Tests. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/cfgz9

Davis, J. P., Bretfelean, D., Belanova, E., & Thompson, T. (2020). Super-recognisers: face recognition performance after variable delay intervals. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(6), 1350-1368. DOI:10.1002/acp.3712 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/3slkg0m)

Robertson, D., Black, J., Chamberlain, B., Megreya, A. M., & Davis, J. P. (2020). Super-recognisers show an advantage for other race face identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(1), 205-216. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3608 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/rbcmd2020)

Robertson, D., Megreya, A. M., & Davis, J. P. (2020). Facial recognition: research reveals new abilities of ‘super-recognisers’. The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-research-reveals-new-abilities-of-super-recognisers-128414

Davis, J. P., & Robertson, D. (2020). Capitalizing on the super-recognition advantage: A powerful, but underutilized, tool for policing and national security agencies. Journal of the Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Centre, 7(1), 20-25. https://www.hdiac.org/journal-issue/operational-energy-powering-military-operations-to-achieve-national-defense-strategy-objectives/

Smith, H. M. J., Roeser, J., Pautz, N., Davis, J. P., Robson, J., Wright, D., Braber, N., & Stacey, P. (2020, July 27). Evaluating earwitness identification procedures: The effect of pre-parade instructions. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nxr3e

Dunn, J., Summersby, S., Towler, A., Davis, J. P., & White, D. (2020). UNSW Face Test: A screening tool for super-recognizers. PLoS ONE 15(11), e0241747.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241747

Jenkins, R., Tsermentseli, S., Monks, C. P., Robertson, D. J., Stevenage, S. V., Symons, A. E., & Davis, J. P. (2020, January 3). I remember you: Super-recognisers of faces display superior cross-modal skills with voices. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7xdp3

Smith, H. M. J., Andrews, S., Baguley, T., Colloff, M. F., Davis, J. P., White, D., & Flowe, H. D. (2020, August 3). Performance of typical and superior face recognisers on a novel interactive face matching procedure. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kbm2g

2019

Mcintosh, S., & Davis, J. P. (2019, August 19). The ‘casting couch’ scenario: Impact of perceived employment benefit, reporting delay, complainant gender, and participant gender on juror decision-making in rape cases. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2uhc3
Smith, C., Davis, J. P., & Roberts, A. (2019, August 19). Probative or prejudicial: Biasing effects of background information in police body-worn video evidence on mock-juror decisions in victim-depressed domestic abuse cases. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/72xwh
Davis, J. P., Maigut, A., & Forrest, C. L. D. (2019). The wisdom of the crowd: A case of post- to ante-mortem face matching by police super-recognisers. Forensic Science International, DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2019.109910. (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dmfb2019)

Davis, J. P. (2019). The worldwide impact of identifying super-recognisers in police and business. The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin; Journal of the British Psychological Society: Cognitive Section, 4, 17-22. ISSN: 2397-2653. https://shop.bps.org.uk/the-cognitive-psychology-bulletin-issue-4-spring-2019 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/davisjp2019)

Satchell, L., Davis, J. P., Julle-Danière, E., Tupper, N., & Marshman, P. (2019). Recognising faces but not traits: Accurate personality judgment from faces is unrelated to superior face memory. Journal of Research in Personality, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2019.02.002 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/sdjdtm2019)

2018

Belanova, E., Davis, J. P., & Thompson, T. (2018). Cognitive and neural markers of super-recognisers' face processing superiority and enhanced cross-age effect. Cortex, 98, 91-101.DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.008 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/bdtb2018)

Osborn. K., Davis, J. P., Button, S., & Foster, J. (2018). Juror decision making in acquaintance and marital rape: The influence of clothing, alcohol and pre-existing stereotypical attitudes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. DOI: 10.1177/0886260518768566 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/odbf2018)

Davis, J. P., Treml. F., Forrest, C., & Jansari, A (2018). Identification from CCTV: Assessing police super recognisers ability to spot faces in a crowd and susceptibility to change blindness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32(3), 337-353. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3405 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/3dtfj2018)

2017

Davis, J. P., Gibson, S., & Solomon, C. (2017). Holistic facial composite systems: Implementation and evaluation, in M. Bindemann and A. M. Megreya (Eds.), Face Processing: Systems, Disorders and Cultural Differences. Nova Science Publishers. (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dgsb2017)

Durova, M. D., Dimou, A., Litos, G., Daras, P., & Davis, J. P. (2017). TooManyEyes: Super-recogniser directed identification of target individuals on CCTV. Proceedings of the 8th IET International Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP-17), IET Digital Library, 43-48.
DOI.org/10.5281/zenodo.1071986 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/ddldd2017)

Davis, J. P., & Tamonytė, D. (2017). Masters of disguise: Super-recognisers’ superior memory for concealed unfamiliar faces. Proceedings of the 2017 Seventh International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (EST), 6-8 September 2017, Canterbury, UK. DOI: 10.1109/EST.2017.8090397 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dtb2017)

2016

Davis, J. P., Lander, K., Evans, R., & Jansari, A. (2016). Investigating predictors of superior face recognition ability in police super-recognisers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(6), 827–840. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3260 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dlej2016)

Davis, J. P., Thorniley, S., Gibson, S., & Solomon, C. (2016). Holistic facial composite construction and subsequent lineup identification accuracy: Comparing adults and children. Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 150(1), 102-118. doi: 10.1080/00223980.2015.1009867 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dtgs2016)

2015

Valentine, T., & Davis, J. P. (2015). Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-46957-6. DOI: 10.1002/9781118469538
Valentine, T., & Davis, J. P. (2015). Forensic facial identification: A practical guide to best practice. In T. Valentine and J. P. Davis (Eds.), Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV (pp. 323-347). Chichester: WileyBlackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118469538.ch13 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/vdjp2015)

Davis, J. P., & Valentine, T. (2015). Human verification of identity from photographic images. In T. Valentine and J. P. Davis (Eds.), Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV (pp. 211-238). Chichester: WileyBlackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118469538.ch9 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/djpv2015)

Valentine, T., & Davis, J. P. (2015). Eyewitness identification and surveillance of facial images: progress and problems. In T. Valentine and J. P. Davis (Eds.), Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV (pp. 3-14). Chichester: WileyBlackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118469538.ch1 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/vdjpb2015)

Edmond, G., Davis, J. P., & Valentine, T. (2015). Expert analysis: Facial image comparison. In T. Valentine and J. P. Davis (Eds.), Forensic Facial Identification: Theory and Practice of Identification from Eyewitnesses, Composites and CCTV (pp. 239-262). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118469538.ch10 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/edv2015)

Davis, J. P., Maigut, A. C., Jolliffe, D., Gibson, S., & Solomon, C. (2015). Holistic facial composite creation
and subsequent video line-up eyewitness identification paradigm. Journal of Visualized Experiments,106, e53298. DOI:10.3791/53298 (read here - open access)
Davis, J. P., Simmons, S., Sulley, L., Solomon, C. J., & Gibson, S. J. (2015). An evaluation of postproduction facial composite enhancement techniques. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 1-12. DOI: 10.1108/JFP-08-2015-0042 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dsssg2015)

Davis, J. P., Valentine, T., Memon, A., & Roberts, A. J. (2015). Identification on the street: a field comparison of police street identifications and video line-ups in England. Psychology, Crime and Law, 1, 9-27. DOI.org/10.1080/1068316X.2014.915322 (Download pre-print here)

2014

Davis, J. P., Gibson, S, & Solomon, C. (2014). The positive influence of creating a holistic facial composite on video lineup identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28, 634–639. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3045 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dgs2014)

Roberts, A. J., Davis, J. P., Valentine, T., & Memon, A. (2014). Should we be concerned about street identifications? Criminal Law Review, 9, 633-653. (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/rdvm2014)

2013

Davis, J. P., Lander, K., & Jansari, A. (2013). I never forget a face. The Psychologist, 26(10), 726-729. (read here - open access)
Davis, J. P. (2013). Super-recognisers in the Metropolitan Police. IFSEC Global, 15 October 2013 (download pre-print here)

2012

Davis, J. P. (2012). Image comparison, facial, photographic. In A. Jamiesson and A. Moenssens (Eds.), Wiley Encyclopaedia of Forensic Science. Wiley: UK. DOI: 10.1002/9780470061589.fsa1066 (read here)
Davis, J. P., Valentine, T., & Wilkinson, C. (2012). Facial image comparison. In C. Wilkinson and C. Rynn (Eds.), Craniofacial Identification (pp. 136-153). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI.org/10.1017/CBO9781139049566.012 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dvw2012)

Valentine, T., Davis, J. P., Memon, A., & Roberts, A. (2012). Live showups and their influence on a subsequent video lineup. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 26(1), 1-23. DOI: 10.1002/acp.1796 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/vdmr2012)

2010

Davis, J. P., Valentine, T., & Davis, R. E. (2010). Computer assisted facial comparison of photographic images taken from full-face and profile viewpoints. Forensic Science International, 200, 165-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.04.012 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dvdb2010) (download software here)

Valentine, T., Davis, J. P., Thorner, K., Solomon, C., & Gibson, S. (2010). Evolving and combining facial composites: Between-witness and within-witness morphs compared. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16(1), 72-86. DOI: 10.1037/a0018801 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/vdtsg2010)

Davis, J. P., Sulley, L. Solomon, C., & Gibson, S. (2010). A comparison of individual and morphed facial composites created using different systems. In G. Howells, K. Sirlantzis, A. Stoica, T. Huntsberger and A.T. Arslan (Eds.), 2010 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (pp. 56–60). Canterbury: IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/EST.2010.29 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dssg2010)

2009

Davis, J. P., & Valentine, T. (2009). CCTV on trial: Matching video images with the defendant in the dock. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 482-505. DOI: 10.1002/acp.1490 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/dv2009)

Scott, S. K., Rosen, S., Beaman, C. P., Davis, J. P., & Wise, R. J. S. (2009). The neural processing of masked speech: Evidence for different mechanisms in the left and right temporal lobes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 1737-1743. DOI: 10.1121/1.3050255 (Download pre-print here: https://bit.ly/srbdw2009)

2000

Wilding, J., Cook, S., & Davis, J. P. (2000). Sound familiar? The Psychologist, 13(11), 558-562. (read here - open access)