Dr. John C. (Jack) Brigham is a Social Psychologist who has specialized in research on factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness memory. He did his undergraduate work at Duke University, graduating in 1964, and received his Masters degree and Ph. D. degree from the University of Colorado. After receiving his Ph. D. in 1969 he joined the faculty at Florida State University, where he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Psychology and Psychology and Law, until he retired from teaching and became an Emeritus Professor of Psychology in 2005.

Since 1975, Dr. Brigham’s research has focused on eyewitness memory and the factors that affect it. He has published over 55 research articles and book chapters on this topic and has received multi-year research grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice to support his research. He has served as a faculty member for six years at the Florida College of Advanced Judicial Studies, giving workshops to judges on eyewitness memory and related issues. He has also made invited presentations before several county bar associations in Florida, at the Florida Public Defenders’ 2003 “Life Over Death” conference, at the Florida Circuit Court Judges’ conference in 2000, and at the 2002 California Judges’ Conference on Race and Ethnic Bias in the Courts. He has made numerous presentations on eyewitness memory at professional conferences in the U. S., Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, and Australia.

Dr. Brigham was elected President of the American Psychology-Law Society in 1997 and is a Fellow of 3 divisions of the American Psychological Association. He has testified as an expert witness on eyewitness memory in over 75 court proceedings, in Florida, in other state courts, and in federal court.