Prof. M.E. Lamb
University of Cambridge
H-index: 153
Europe-United Kingdom
Description
Prof. M.E. Lamb, With an exceptional h-index of 153 and a recent h-index of 66 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Cambridge, specializes in the field of Psychology, Law.
His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:
Interviewing young offenders about child-on-child sexual abuse
10 The Promise and Problems of Policy-Minded Developmental Research: Recognizing Our Implicit Value Judgments and the Limits of Our Research
Nonverbal emotions while disclosing child abuse: The role of interviewer support
Do stimulation and support in the early childhood home environment and best friendship quality in adolescence predict adult personality?
Attachment goes to court: Child protection and child custody issues
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews
La prise en compte des liens d’attachement au tribunal: protection de l’enfance et décisions de résidence des enfants dans les situations de séparation parentale
Towards an AI-driven talking avatar in virtual reality for investigative interviews of children
Professor Information
University | University of Cambridge |
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Position | Professor of Psychology |
Citations(all) | 91368 |
Citations(since 2020) | 19507 |
Cited By | 72455 |
hIndex(all) | 153 |
hIndex(since 2020) | 66 |
i10Index(all) | 570 |
i10Index(since 2020) | 323 |
University Profile Page | University of Cambridge |
Research & Interests List
Psychology
Law
Top articles of Prof. M.E. Lamb
Interviewing young offenders about child-on-child sexual abuse
This study compared two versions of the NICHD Protocol for interviewing young suspected sexual offenders: the Revised Suspect Protocol (RSP) and the Standard Suspect Protocol (SSP). The RSP incorporated relevant evidence-based practices informed by research on the value of (a) effectively explaining the suspects’ rights, (b) rapport building and support, and (c) appropriate questioning strategies. Interviewers using the RSP communicated the children’s rights more effectively (reading them more often, checking, verifying, and correcting understanding) and provided more support. In the substantive phase, they remained supportive while recall prompts dominated the questioning. Compared to children in the SSP group, children in the RSP condition understood their rights better, were more responsive during rapport-building, and reacted to interviewer support in the substantive phase with increased …
Authors
Irit Hershkowitz,Michael E Lamb
Journal
Development and psychopathology
Published Date
2024/4/12
10 The Promise and Problems of Policy-Minded Developmental Research: Recognizing Our Implicit Value Judgments and the Limits of Our Research
Children come into contact with the legal system for myriad reasons, including as suspected victims of maltreatment, in divorce cases when custody is at issue, as unaccompanied minors in immigration hearings, or as suspected offenders of crime. Considerable scientific research has been devoted to identifying how this involvement may adversely affect children and how the system might be altered to reduce those effects. In order to maximize the value of this research, it is imperative that scientists recognize both the value judgments that sometimes underlie their work and how their work’s focus on outcomes often clashes with a legal focus on rights. This recognition, along with a clear articulation of the limitations of the direct policy implications of the work, will lead to stronger legal-oriented research with children..
Authors
Thomas D Lyon,Michael E Lamb
Published Date
2023/12/15
Nonverbal emotions while disclosing child abuse: The role of interviewer support
Statements by alleged victims are important when child abuse is prosecuted; triers-of-fact often attend to nonverbal emotional expressions when evaluating those statements. This study examined the associations among interviewer supportiveness, children’s nonverbal emotions, and informativeness during 100 forensic interviews with alleged victims of child abuse. Raters coded the silent videotapes for children’s nonverbal emotional expressions while other raters coded the transcripts for interviewer support, children’s verbal emotions, and informativeness. Results showed that children’s nonverbal signals were more common than and preceded the verbal signs. Interviewer support was associated with children’s expressivity. When children expressed more nonverbal emotions, they were more responsive during the pre-substantive phases and more informative about the abuse. Nonverbal emotions partially …
Authors
Yael Karni-Visel,Irit Hershkowitz,Michael E Lamb,Uri Blasbalg
Journal
Child maltreatment
Published Date
2023/2
Do stimulation and support in the early childhood home environment and best friendship quality in adolescence predict adult personality?
BACKGROUNDThe aim of this study was to determine whether stimulation and support in early childhood and best friendship quality in adolescence predict adult personality.
Authors
Maria Wängqvist,Mathias Allemand,Ann Frisén,Michael E Lamb,C Philip Hwang
Journal
Current Issues in Personality Psychology
Published Date
2023
Attachment goes to court: Child protection and child custody issues
Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family courts, but misunderstandings are widespread and sometimes result in misapplications. The aim of this consensus statement is, therefore, to enhance understanding, counter misinformation, and steer family-court utilization of attachment theory in a supportive, evidence-based direction, especially with regard to child protection and child custody decision-making. The article is divided into two parts. In the first, we address problems related to the use of attachment theory and research in family courts, and discuss reasons for these problems. To this end, we examine family court applications of attachment theory in the current context of the best-interest-of-the-child standard, discuss misunderstandings regarding attachment theory, and identify factors that have hindered accurate implementation. In the second part, we provide …
Authors
Tommie Forslund,Pehr Granqvist,Mårten Hammarlund,Marinus H van IJzendoorn,Avi Sagi-Schwartz,Danya Glaser,Miriam Steele,Howard Steele,Phillip R Shaver,Carlo Schuengel,Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg,Ulrike Lux,John Simmonds,Deborah Jacobvitz,Ashley M Groh,Kristin Bernard,Chantal Cyr,Nancy L Hazen,Sarah Foster,Elia Psouni,Philip A Cowan,Carolyn Pape Cowan,Anne Rifkin-Graboi,David Wilkins,Blaise Pierrehumbert,George M Tarabulsy,Rodrigo A Cárcamo,Zhengyan Wang,Xi Liang,Maria Kaźmierczak,Paulina Pawlicka,Lilian Ayiro,Tamara Chansa,Francis Sichimba,Haatembo Mooya,Loyola McLean,Manuela Veríssimo,Sonia Gojman-de-Millán,Marlene M Moretti,Fabien Bacro,Mikko J Peltola,Megan Galbally,Kiyomi Kondo-Ikemura,Kazuko Y Behrens,Stephen Scott,Andrés Fresno Rodriguez,Rosario Spencer,Germán Posada,Rosalinda Cassibba,Neus Barrantes-Vidal,Jesús Palacios,Lavinia Barone,Sheri Madigan,Karen Jones-Mason,Femmie Juffer,Richard Pasco Fearon,Annie Bernier,Dante Cicchetti,Glenn I Roisman,Jude Cassidy,Heinz Kindler,Peter Zimmermann,Ruth Feldman,Gottfried Spangler,Charles H Zeanah,Mary Dozier,Jay Belsky,Michael E Lamb,Sophie Reijman,Robbie Duschinsky
Journal
Devenir
Published Date
2022
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews
BackgroundEmotions can powerfully affect memory retrieval although this effect has seldom been studied in everyday contexts.ObjectiveThis study aimed to explore the association between children's verbal emotional expressions and the type of information reported during forensic interviews.Participants and settingThe sample included 198 interviews with 4- to 14-year-old (M = 9.36, SD = 2.37) alleged victims of repeated physical abuse perpetrated by family members conducted using the Revised NICHD Protocol which emphasizes a supportive interviewing style.MethodsInterview videos were transcribed and each conversational turn was coded to reflect the amount and type of children's verbal emotional expressions, forensic information provided, interviewers' demeanor, and type of question asked.ResultsThe verbal expression of negative emotions was positively associated with the production of more central …
Authors
Yael Karni-Visel,Irit Hershkowitz,Michael E Lamb,Uri Blasbalg
Journal
Child Abuse & Neglect
Published Date
2022/7/1
La prise en compte des liens d’attachement au tribunal: protection de l’enfance et décisions de résidence des enfants dans les situations de séparation parentale
La théorie et les recherches sur l’attachement sont utilisées dans de nombreux cadres d’application, y compris dans les tribunaux compétents en matière familiale1, mais les incompréhensions sont fréquentes et sources d’erreurs lorsqu’il s’agit de les mettre en pratique. L’objectif de cet article de consensus est donc d’accroître la compréhension, de lutter contre la désinformation et d’améliorer l’utilisation de la théorie de l’attachement dans les tribunaux compétents en matière familiale sur la base des données probantes, en particulier concernant la protection de l’enfance et les décisions relatives au mode de résidence des enfants de parents séparés. L’article est divisé en deux parties. Dans la première, nous abordons les problèmes liés à l’utilisation de la théorie et de la recherche sur l’attachement dans les tribunaux compétents en matière familiale, et nous évoquons les raisons qui en sont à l’origine. Pour …
Authors
Tommie Forslund,Pehr Granqvist,Mårten Hammarlund,Marinus H van IJzendoorn,Avi Sagi-Schwartz,Danya Glaser,Miriam Steele,Howard Steele,Phillip R Shaver,Carlo Schuengel,Marian J Bakermans-Kranenburg,Ulrike Lux,John Simmonds,Deborah Jacobvitz,Ashley M Groh,Kristin Bernard,Chantal Cyr,Nancy L Hazen,Sarah Foster,Elia Psouni,Philip A Cowan,Carolyn Pape Cowan,Anne Rifkin-Graboi,David Wilkins,Blaise Pierrehumbert,George M Tarabulsy,Rodrigo A Cárcamo,Zhengyan Wang,Xi Liang,Maria Kaźmierczak,Paulina Pawlicka,Lilian Ayiro,Tamara Chansa,Francis Sichimba,Haatembo Mooya,Loyola McLean,Manuela Veríssimo,Sonia Gojman-de-Millán,Marlene M Moretti,Fabien Bacro,Mikko J Peltola,Megan Galbally,Kiyomi Kondo-Ikemura,Kazuko Y Behrens,Stephen Scott,Andrés Fresno Rodriguez,Rosario Spencer,Germán Posada,Rosalinda Cassibba,Neus Barrantes-Vidal,Jesús Palacios,Lavinia Barone,Sheri Madigan,Karen Jones-Mason,Femmie Juffer,Richard Pasco Fearon,Annie Bernier,Dante Cicchetti,Glenn I Roisman,Jude Cassidy,Heinz Kindler,Peter Zimmermann,Ruth Feldman,Gottfried Spangler,Charles H Zeanah,Mary Dozier,Jay Belsky,Michael E Lamb,Sophie Reijman,Robbie Duschinsky
Journal
Devenir
Published Date
2022
Towards an AI-driven talking avatar in virtual reality for investigative interviews of children
Artificial intelligence (AI) and gaming systems have advanced to the stage where the current models and technologies can be used to address real-world problems. The development of such systems comes with different challenges, e.g., most of them related to system performance, complexity and user testing. Using a virtual reality (VR) environment, we have designed and developed a game-like system aiming to mimic an abused child that can help to assist police and child protection service (CPS) personnel in interview training of maltreated children. Current research in this area points to the poor quality of conducted interviews, and emphasises the need for better training methods. Information obtained in these interviews is the core piece of evidence in the prosecution process. We utilised advanced dialogue models, talking visual avatars, and VR to build a virtual child avatar that can interact with users. We …
Authors
Syed Zohaib Hassan,Pegah Salehi,Ragnhild Klingenberg Røed,Pål Halvorsen,Gunn Astrid Baugerud,Miriam Sinkerud Johnson,Pierre Lison,Michael Riegler,Michael E Lamb,Carsten Griwodz,Saeed Shafiee Sabet
Published Date
2022/6/14
Professor FAQs
What is Prof. M.E. Lamb's h-index at University of Cambridge?
The h-index of Prof. M.E. Lamb has been 66 since 2020 and 153 in total.
What are Prof. M.E. Lamb's top articles?
The articles with the titles of
Interviewing young offenders about child-on-child sexual abuse
10 The Promise and Problems of Policy-Minded Developmental Research: Recognizing Our Implicit Value Judgments and the Limits of Our Research
Nonverbal emotions while disclosing child abuse: The role of interviewer support
Do stimulation and support in the early childhood home environment and best friendship quality in adolescence predict adult personality?
Attachment goes to court: Child protection and child custody issues
Emotional valence and the types of information provided by children in forensic interviews
La prise en compte des liens d’attachement au tribunal: protection de l’enfance et décisions de résidence des enfants dans les situations de séparation parentale
Towards an AI-driven talking avatar in virtual reality for investigative interviews of children
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are the top articles of Prof. M.E. Lamb at University of Cambridge.
What are Prof. M.E. Lamb's research interests?
The research interests of Prof. M.E. Lamb are: Psychology, Law
What is Prof. M.E. Lamb's total number of citations?
Prof. M.E. Lamb has 91,368 citations in total.
What are the co-authors of Prof. M.E. Lamb?
The co-authors of Prof. M.E. Lamb are Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Eric L. Charnov, Jason Rentfrow, Natasha J. Cabrera, Charlie Lewis.