Nancy Steblay
Professor
steblay@augsburg.edu

Nancy Steblay joined the Augsburg College faculty in 1988. She said the faculty are committed to helping students succeed and that the psychology curriculum provides a solid foundation of knowledge and skills, but also distinctive experiential components afforded by the College's location in the city and by the expertise of the faculty.

"The department's mission and curriculum have been influenced by three important components: guidelines of the American Psychological Association as to the content and skills required to prepare students for the professional community; recommendations of Project Kaleidoscope and the National Science Foundation regarding the means to achieve exemplary science education through a research-rich learning environment; and the mission and rich tradition of Augsburg College as a College of the Lutheran Church in the city."

The College has orchestrated its distinctive quality by joining these national standards of best practices in science education to our unique departmental and institutional resources.

"The combination of high quality teaching, the enormous resources of the city, and an expectation that each of us can make a difference in the world affords a powerful educational experience."

News and Research

- "Commentary on 'Studying eyewitness investigations in the field: A look forward." (2008) Law and Human Behavior, 32:11-15. (email for a copy: steblay@augsburg.edu )

- "A little advice and much encouragement for future field lineup studies." (2007) Promoting Effective Homicide Investigations. Police Executive Research Forum: Washington D.C.

- "Double-blind sequential police lineup procedures: Toward an integrated laboratory and field practice perspective." (2007) Final report to the National Institute of Justice, Grant #2004-IJ-CX-0044.

- Memory Distortion in Eyewitnesses: A Meta-Analysis of the Post- Identification Feedback Effect. Douglass and Steblay, Applied Cognitive Psychology 2006. (email for a copy: steblay@augsburg.edu)

- The Impact on Juror Verdicts of Judicial Instruction to Disregard Inadmissible Evidence: A Meta-Analysis. Steblay, Hosch, Culhane, and McWethy, Law and Human Behavior 2006. (email for a copy: steblay@augsburg.edu)

- The Effects of Pretrial Publicity on Juror Verdicts: A Meta-Analytic Review. Steblay, Besirevic, Fulero, & Jimenez-Lorente 1999.

- Observations on the Illinois Lineup Data

- Eyewitness Accuracy Rates in Police Showup and Lineup Presentations: A Meta-Analytic Comparison

- Eyewitness Accuracy Rates in Sequential and Simultaneous Lineup Presentations: A Meta-Analytic Comparison

- Social Influence in Eyewitness Recall: A Meta-Analytic Review of Lineup Instruction Effects

- A Meta-Analytic Review of the Weapon Focus Effect

- Improving Eyewitness Identifications: Hennepin County's Blind Sequential Lineup Pilot Project

- Reforming Eyewitness Identification: Cautionary Lineup Instructions; Weighing The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Show-Ups Versus Lineups