Patrick Cronin

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Patrick Cronin
Division of Psychology School of Health and
Social Sciences University of Abertay Dundee Bell
St Dundee DD1 1HG
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Previous work

• Main interests involve the modelling of police
  decision making at senior and junior levels.
• This work has involved looking at events such as
  the Notting Hill Carnival, Eid, Vaisakhi and the
  Carnival against Capitalism.

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Decision making under uncertainty

• Work has concentrated upon how police decision
  making in conditions of uncertainty is affected
  by the patterning of internal and external
  factors.
• This work has been used to develop new policies,
  procedures and training at senior and junior
  levels of the police.

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References

• Cronin, P.D.J. Reicher, S. (2002). Report and
  recommendations into the policing of the May Day
  protests 2001. London Metropolitan Police.
• Reicher, S. Cronin, PD.J. A new approach to
  crowd psychology and public order policing (in
  press, Police Journal)

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Lloyd Carson
Division of Psychology School of Health and
Social Sciences University of Abertay Dundee Bell
St Dundee DD1 1HG
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Dr L Carson, Psychology Division, University of
Abertay, Dundee

• Current research Social perception in
  particular, the consequences of stereotyping
• Recent publications include stereotyping research
• in education Carson, L. (2001) Gender issues in
  higher education exploring lecturers
  perceptions of student evaluations of teaching.
  Research Reports in Education 16337-358.
• in health Carson, L., Drummond, J.R. Newton,
  J.P. (In press, 2004) Social perception in the
  clinical dental encounter the matched-guise
  technique revisited. Psychology and Health.
• in the forensic domain Carson, L. (In
  preparation) Gender and expert evidence the
  sexual stereotyping of expert witnesses.

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Ken Scott-Brown

• Current research Aspects of human information
  processing
• Recent publications Investigating the cognitive
  factors influencing change detection especially
  those beyond the (relatively) simple constraints
  of memory

Division of Psychology School of Health and
Social Sciences University of Abertay Dundee DD1
1HG
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Change Blindness the surprising inability to
detect changes to an object or scene

• Shown to occur under a wide variety of
  conditions
• Flickering Scenes Rensink et al. (1997)
• Live Action Scenarios e.g. Simons Levin
  (1998)
• For even the simplest of stimuli Scott-Brown and
  Orbach (1998) for adjacent comparisons
  Scott-Brown et al. (2000)

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References Rensink, R. A., J. K. O'Regan, et
al. (1997). To See or Not to See The Need for
Attention to Perceive Changes in Scenes.
Psychological Science 8 368-373. Scott-Brown,
K. C. and H. S. Orbach (1998). Contrast
discrimination, non-uniform patterns and change
blindness. Proc R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 265(1411)
2159-66. Scott-Brown, K. C., M. R. Baker, et al.
(2000). Comparison blindness. Visual Cognition
7(1-3) 253-267. Simons, D. J. and D. T. Levin
(1998). Failure to detect changes to people
during a real-world interaction. Psychonomic
Bulletin Review 5 644-649.