Miko M. Wilford

@iastate.edu

Associate Professor of Psychology
Iowa State University



                       

https://researchid.co/mwilford

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Applied Psychology

991

Scholar Citations

16

Scholar h-index

20

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Commonalities in false guilty plea cases
    AD Redlich, MM Wilford, M DiPano, N Berger
    Psychology, Crime & Law 31 (1), 64-82 2025

  • Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence
    RJ DiFava, T Bettens, MM Wilford, AD Redlich
    Journal of Experimental Criminology 20 (4), 1253-1267 2024

  • “ give me a lawyer, dawg”: recognizing youthful pleas for advice and support
    MM Wilford, A Frazier
    Frontiers in Psychology 15, 1414305 2024

  • 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 20 (2), 457-483 2024

  • 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

  • “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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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, 554-575 2021

  • Can feedback correct the overconfidence exhibited by the fluent lecturer?
    N Kurpad, M Karaca, MM Wilford
    OSF 2021

  • Too much of a good thing: frequent retrieval can impair immediate new learning
    M Karaca, N Kurpad, MM Wilford, SD Davis
    Memory 28 (10), 1181-1190 2020

  • Lecturer fluency can impact students' judgments of learning and actual learning performance
    MM Wilford, N Kurpad, M Platt, Y Weinstein‐Jones
    Applied Cognitive Psychology 34 (6), 1444-1456 2020

  • The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Simulated Plea Decisions
    D Zimmerman, S Yan, MM Wilford, KT Sutherland
    OSF 2020

  • EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
    MM Wilford, N Kurpad, M Platt, Y Weinstein-Jones
     2020

  • Task-switching-Delay
    N Kurpad, MM Wilford, M Karaca
    OSF 2019

  • 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

  • Innocence and plea bargaining
    MM Wilford, A Khairalla
    A system of pleas: Social sciences contributions to the real legal system 2019

  • Plea bargaining
    MM Wilford, A Shestak, GL Wells
    Psychological science and the law, 266-292 2019

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, 1350-1356 2013
    Citations: 212

  • Understanding guilty pleas through the lens of social science.
    AD Redlich, MM Wilford, S Bushway
    Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 23 (4), 458 2017
    Citations: 94

  • 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
    Citations: 80

  • 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
    Citations: 60

  • 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
    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
    Citations: 59

  • 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
    Citations: 51

  • 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
    Citations: 48

  • Eyewitness system variables.
    MM Wilford, GL Wells
    American Psychological Association 2013
    Citations: 42

  • 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, 554-575 2021
    Citations: 41

  • Bluffed by the dealer: Distinguishing false pleas from false confessions.
    MM Wilford, GL Wells
    Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 24 (2), 158 2018
    Citations: 39

  • 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
    Citations: 35

  • 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
    Citations: 28

  • Innocence and plea bargaining
    MM Wilford, A Khairalla
    A system of pleas: Social sciences contributions to the real legal system 2019
    Citations: 22

  • Plea bargaining
    MM Wilford, A Shestak, GL Wells
    Psychological science and the law, 266-292 2019
    Citations: 22

  • 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
    Citations: 16

  • 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
    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
    Citations: 11

  • Commonalities in false guilty plea cases
    AD Redlich, MM Wilford, M DiPano, N Berger
    Psychology, Crime & Law 31 (1), 64-82 2025
    Citations: 10

  • When a plea is no bargain at all: Comparing sentencing outcomes for Massachusetts defendants in non-sexual and sexual crimes
    A Frazier, K Shockley, JM Keenan, MM Wilford, JE Gonzales
    Alb. L. Rev. 82, 775 2018
    Citations: 10