Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology
1230
Scholar Citations
19
Scholar h-index
23
Scholar i10-index
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Guilty pleas: History, research, and current directions. MM Wilford, A Frazier American Psychological Association , 2026 2026
Who minds their pleas and queues? Quick and slow misdemeanor pleas pose similar risk of incarceration RR Dunlea, MM Wilford Criminal Justice and Behavior, 00938548251415014 , 2026 2026 Citations: 1
Understanding Attorneys’ Plea Advice: The Role of Defendant Guilt and Trial Penalties JL Burke, MM Wilford, Y Yang Behavioral Sciences 15 (11), 1465 , 2025 2025
Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas (vol. 20, pg. 457, 2024) S Yan, MM Wilford, PA Ferreira JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY , 2025 2025
Correction: Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas S Yan, MM Wilford, PA Ferreira Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-2 , 2025 2025
Urgent issues and prospects in guilty plea research and practice AD Redlich, L Becker, LE Dervan, MP Donnelly, A Frazier, M Gallen, ... Legal and Criminological Psychology 30 (2), 193-211 , 2025 2025 Citations: 4
Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in the US Criminal Justice System RB Ibrahim, IA Nasirudeen, B Stickle, JA Plank, S Christensen, T Gerry, ... SIU Press , 2025 2025
7. Plea Bargaining Later in the Pandemic: COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies and False Guilty Pleas JW Forston, S Yan, MM Wilford, RJ DiFava Crime, Corrections, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses and Adaptations in … , 2025 2025
Quick and dirty: An evaluation of plea colloquy validity in the virtual courtroom. MM Wilford, A Frazier, A Lowe, P Newsome, HV Strong Law and human behavior 49 (3), 311 , 2025 2025 Citations: 6
The psychological allure of Alford: Does wanting to appear innocent put innocents at risk? J Hellgren, A Khairalla, MM Wilford, RJ DiFava, SM Kassin Law and Human Behavior , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
Commonalities in false guilty plea cases AD Redlich, MM Wilford, M DiPano, N Berger Psychology, Crime & Law 31 (1), 64-82 , 2025 2025 Citations: 23
Demystifying the plea process: Investigating attorney communications and client misconceptions MM Wilford, RJ DiFava, KS Henderson Russ. J. Econ. & L. 19, 924 , 2025 2025 Citations: 3
“… give me a lawyer, dawg”: recognizing youthful pleas for advice and support MM Wilford, A Frazier Frontiers in Psychology 15, 1414305 , 2024 2024 Citations: 1
Terms and conditions apply: the effect of probation length and obligation disclosure on true and false guilty pleas: Probation length and obligation disclosure on guilty pleas S Yan, MM Wilford, PA Ferreira Journal of Experimental Criminology 20 (2), 457-483 , 2024 2024 Citations: 9
When pleas precede evidence: Using Bayesian analyses to establish the importance of a reasonable standard for evidence prior to plea offers MM Wilford, JE Gonzales, A Khairalla The Wrongful Conviction Law Review 5 (1), 126-145 , 2024 2024 Citations: 6
Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence DiFava, Rachele j.; Bettens, Talley; Wilford, Miko M.; Redlich, Allison D. J. Experimental Criminology 20, 1253 , 2024 2024 Citations: 12
CAREER: A system of pleas: Using a role-playing simulation to test plea decision models MM Wilford NSF Award 23 (2348375), 48375 , 2023 2023
“Reject the offer”: The asymmetric impact of defense attorneys’ plea recommendations KS Henderson, KT Sutherland, MM Wilford Criminal Justice and Behavior 50 (9), 1321-1340 , 2023 2023 Citations: 13
The disappearing trial: How social scientists can help save the jury from extinction MM Wilford, BH Bornstein Psychology, Crime & Law 29 (1), 1-24 , 2023 2023 Citations: 21
Identifying patterns across the six canonical factors underlying wrongful convictions R Berube, MM Wilford, AD Redlich, Y Wang The Wrongful Conviction Law Review 3 (3), 166-195 , 2022 2022 Citations: 21
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Appearances can be deceiving: Instructor fluency increases perceptions of learning without increasing actual learning SK Carpenter, MM Wilford, N Kornell, KM Mullaney Psychonomic bulletin & review 20 (6), 1350-1356 , 2013 2013 Citations: 236
Understanding guilty pleas through the lens of social science. AD Redlich, MM Wilford, S Bushway Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 23 (4), 458 , 2017 2017 Citations: 117
Retrieval enhances eyewitness suggestibility to misinformation in free and cued recall. MM Wilford, JCK Chan, SJ Tuhn Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 20 (1), 81 , 2014 2014 Citations: 86
Mistaken eyewitness identification rates increase when either witnessing or testing conditions get worse. AM Smith, MM Wilford, A Quigley-McBride, GL Wells Law and Human Behavior 43 (4), 358 , 2019 2019 Citations: 72
Retrieval can increase or decrease suggestibility depending on how memory is tested: The importance of source complexity JCK Chan, MM Wilford, KL Hughes Journal of Memory and Language 67 (1), 78-85 , 2012 2012 Citations: 67
Plea-bargaining law: The impact of innocence, trial penalty, and conviction probability on plea outcomes MM Wilford, GL Wells, A Frazier American Journal of Criminal Justice 46 (3), 554-575 , 2021 2021 Citations: 60
Misleading suggestions can alter later memory reports even following a cognitive interview JA LaPaglia, MM Wilford, JR Rivard, JCK Chan, RP Fisher Applied Cognitive Psychology 28 (1), 1-9 , 2014 2014 Citations: 60
Does facial processing prioritize change detection? Change blindness illustrates costs and benefits of holistic processing MM Wilford, GL Wells Psychological science 21 (11), 1611-1615 , 2010 2010 Citations: 54
Forensic science testing: The forensic filler-control method for controlling contextual bias, estimating error rates, and calibrating analysts' reports. GL Wells, MM Wilford, L Smalarz Elsevier Science 2 (1), 53 , 2013 2013 Citations: 52
Bluffed by the dealer: Distinguishing false pleas from false confessions. MM Wilford, GL Wells Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 24 (2), 158 , 2018 2018 Citations: 50
Guilt status influences plea outcomes beyond the shadow-of-the-trial in an interactive simulation of legal procedures. MM Wilford, KT Sutherland, JE Gonzales, M Rabinovich Law and Human Behavior 45 (4), 271 , 2021 2021 Citations: 48
Eyewitness system variables. MM Wilford, GL Wells American Psychological Association , 2013 2013 Citations: 46
The dark side of interpolated testing: Frequent switching between retrieval and encoding impairs new learning SD Davis, JCK Chan, MM Wilford Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 6 (4), 434-441 , 2017 2017 Citations: 35
Innocence in the shadow of COVID-19: Plea decision making during a pandemic. MM Wilford, DM Zimmerman, S Yan, KT Sutherland Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 27 (4), 739 , 2021 2021 Citations: 29
Innocence and plea bargaining MM Wilford, A Khairalla A system of pleas: Social sciences contributions to the real legal system … , 2019 2019 Citations: 29
Plea bargaining MM Wilford, A Shestak, GL Wells Psychological science and the law, 266-292 , 2019 2019 Citations: 28
Commonalities in false guilty plea cases AD Redlich, MM Wilford, M DiPano, N Berger Psychology, Crime & Law 31 (1), 64-82 , 2025 2025 Citations: 23
The disappearing trial: How social scientists can help save the jury from extinction MM Wilford, BH Bornstein Psychology, Crime & Law 29 (1), 1-24 , 2023 2023 Citations: 21
Identifying patterns across the six canonical factors underlying wrongful convictions R Berube, MM Wilford, AD Redlich, Y Wang The Wrongful Conviction Law Review 3 (3), 166-195 , 2022 2022 Citations: 21
“Reject the offer”: The asymmetric impact of defense attorneys’ plea recommendations KS Henderson, KT Sutherland, MM Wilford Criminal Justice and Behavior 50 (9), 1321-1340 , 2023 2023 Citations: 13
