Martin A. Safer

Ordinary Professor, Applied-Experimental Psychology

email: safer@cua.edu 

301 O'Boyle Hall  (202) 319-5754

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My current research investigates situational and personality factors that affect how individuals remember past feelings of emotion, such as how widows and widowers remember past grief, how terminating psychotherapy clients remember pre-therapy distress, and how students remember pre-exam anxiety. I am also interested in factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. The three papers below represent each of these research interests. 

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Education

Ph.D., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978

M.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974.

B.S., Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1968.

 

Publications

Safer, M. A., & Keuler, D.J. (2002). Individual differences in misremembering pre-psychotherapy distress: Personality and memory distortion. Emotion, 2, 162-178.  

Levine, L. J., & Safer, M. A. (2002). Sources of bias in memory for emotions. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 169-173.

Wise, R.A., & Safer, M. A.(2004). What U.S. judges know and believe about eyewitness testimony. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 427-443.

 

Courses Taught

Graduate:

Statistics

Emotions

Memory

Supervises the research of masters and doctoral students in Applied-Experimental and Clinical

 

Undergraduate:

Social Psychology

Psychology.