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Miko Wilford | |
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Occupation | Associate Professor of Psychology |
Known for | Research on plea decision making |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Iowa State University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Psychology and Law |
Institutions | Iowa State University |
Website | https://mikowilford.wixsite.com/website-1 |
Miko M. Wilford is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University known for her research on eyewitness identification,learning and memory,plea bargaining,and other aspects of legal decision-making. [1]
Wilford was named a Rising Star by the Association of Psychological Science in 2020. [2] In 2024,she was named a Fellow of the American Psychology–Law Society (American Psychological Association,Division 41) [3] and received the Saleem Shah Early Career Award [4] [5] from the American Psychology–Law Society in recognition of her early career excellence and contributions to psychology and law. [6]
Wilford attended Iowa State University,where she graduated magna cum laude with honors with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Applied Statistics in 2009. She continued her education at Iowa State University,completing a Master's of Science degree in Psychology in 2012 and Ph.D in Psychology in 2014,supervised by Gary L. Wells and Jason C.K. Chan. [7] Wilford's doctoral research was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP),awarded in 2011 [8] and an American Psychology–Law Society Dissertation Award. [9]
Wilford is the Principal Investigator of the Psycho-Legal Experiments and Applications lab at Iowa State where her team conducts research on false confessions,eyewitness misidentification,plea bargains,and learning and memory. [1] [10] [11] Wilford aims to understand factors that lead to the acceptance of plea bargains from adults and juveniles. [12] Her research using role-playing simulation to test plea decision models was funded through an National Science Foundation CAREER Award. [13] [14] [15] More recently,her research program has been extended to incorporate virtual reality in the study of plea decision making. [5]
Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa State,Wilford was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell. [16] In addition to her research career,Wilford has served as a trial consultant for cases concerning eyewitness misidentification and false guilty pleas. [16]
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