Rui Paulo

Associate Professor in Psychology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: Rui.paulo@bcu.ac.uk

Rui Paulo is an Associate Professor in Psychology with over 10 years of research dedicated to working with law enforcement, practitioner psychologists and governmental agencies to improve evidence-based policing and produce fairer judicial outcomes.

His research is focused on cognition and memory (particularly eyewitness memory) and investigative interviewing of crime witnesses, victims, and suspects. This work impacted international policy, practice, and training, namely with the methods he created to interview witnesses and victims being adopted by international police forces and included in the training curriculum of Law Enforcement Agencies. His research also resulted in frequent publications in quality international peer-reviewed journals, media coverage, and invitations to write chapters for renowned handbooks. He is actively engaged with the research community namely as an editor, reviewer, and author of several articles in peer-reviewed journals, handbooks, and books.

Rui Paulo created and led undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Forensic Psychology in the UK and abroad and supervises postdoctoral researchers, postgraduate students (PhD and MSc) and undergraduate students. Further, he coordinated several research groups, themes, and clusters in the field of Forensic Psychology and is the Principal Investigator in externally funded interdisciplinary research collaborations with national and international universities, research centres, and law enforcement/ governmental agencies.

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Publications in Peer-reviewed Journals

Tejeiro, R., McIlroy, D., Palace, M., & Paulo, R. M. (2024). The top tier of the Big Five does not predict police decisions in ambiguous and high-pressure situations. Cogent Social Sciences, 10, 1-10.

Gomes, J. P., Fernandes, D., Paulo, R. M., & Albuquerque, P. B. (2024). The effect of response modality on witness statements when using the self-administered interview. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 0, 1-17.

Shahvaroughi, A., Ehsan, H., Hatami, J., Shahvaroughi, M. A., Monajem, A., & Paulo, R. M. (2022). The Cognitive Interview: Comparing face-to-face and video-mediated interviews. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 12, 74-89.

Shahvaroughi, A., Ehsan, H., Hatami, J., Shahvaroughi, M. A., Monajem, A., & Paulo, R. M. (2022). The effectiveness of interview tools in memory consolidation for long-term access. Journal of Applied Psychological Research. 12, 23-46.

Shahvaroughi, A., Ehsan, H., Hatami, J., Monajem, A., & Paulo, R. M. (2021). Testing a modified cognitive interview with category clustering recall in Iran. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 148-159.

Paulo, R. M., Jones, E., & Mendes, R. (2021). Testing two retrieval strategies to enhance eyewitness memory: Category and location clustering recall. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 27, 140-149.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2019). Witnesses’ verbal evaluation of certainty and uncertainty and its relationship with cognitive interview report accuracy. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 34, 1-10.

Paulo, R. M., & Albuquerque, P. B. (2019). Detecting memory performance validity with DETECTS: A computerized Performance Validity Test. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 26, 1-10.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., Vitorino, F., & Bull, R. (2017). Enhancing the cognitive interview with an alternative procedure to witness-compatible questioning: Category clustering recall. Psychology, Crime & Law, 23, 967-982.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2016). Improving the enhanced cognitive interview with a new interview strategy: Category clustering recall. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 775-784.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2016). The enhanced cognitive interview: Expressions of uncertainty, motivation, and its relation with report accuracy. Psychology, Crime & Law, 22, 366-381.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., Saraiva, M., & Bull, R. (2015). The enhanced cognitive interview: Testing appropriateness perception, memory capacity and error estimate relation with report quality. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 536-543.

Ribeiro, I., Dias, O., Oliveira, I., Miranda, P., Ferreira, G., Saraiva, M., Paulo, R., & Cadime, I. (2015). Adaptation and validation of the reading strategy use scale for the Portuguese population. Revista Iberoamericana de Diagnóstico y Evaluación e Avaliação Psicológica, 40, 25-36.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B, & Bull, R. (2015). Interviewing children and adolescents in police interviews: A developmental perspective. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 28, 623-631.

Paulo, R. M., Luna, K., & Albuquerque, P. B. (2014). The Cognitive Interview: How to interview witnesses. Ciencia Cognitiva, 8, 12-14.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2014). The enhanced cognitive interview: Theoretical assumptions, research, and applications. Psicologia, 18, 21-30.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2013). The enhanced cognitive interview: Towards a better use and understanding of this procedure. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 15, 190-199.

Books

Paulo, R. (2014). DETECTS: A memory performance validity test. Saarbrücken: Novas Edições Acadêmicas

Book Chapters

Paulo, R. M. (2023). Eyewitness memory. In C. Allsop, & S. Pike (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Investigation. Oxford: Routledge.

Bull, R., Paulo, R. M., & Albuquerque, P. B. (2019). The impact of the cognitive interview in the UK and recent research in Portugal. In J. Dickinson, N. S. Compo, R. Carol, M. McCauley, & B. Schwarts (Eds.), Evidence-Based Investigative Interviewing. Oxford: Routledge.

Paulo, R. M. (2019). Lie detection. In L. Nunes, C. Fonte, S. Alves, A. Sani, R. Estrada, & S. Caridade (Eds.), Dicionário Enciclopédico Comportamento e Saúde Mental. Lisboa: Pactor.

Paulo, R. M. (2019). Malingering. In L. Nunes, C. Fonte, S. Alves, A. Sani, R. Estrada, & S. Caridade (Eds.), Dicionário Enciclopédico Comportamento e Saúde Mental. Lisboa: Pactor.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2018). Interviewing children and adolescents in forensic contexts. In M. Oliveira, & P. Pinto (Eds.), Da Infância à Terceira Idade: Intervenção em Contextos de Violência e Crime. Guia Prático para Estudantes e Profissionais. Porto: Mais Leituras.

Paulo, R. M., Albuquerque, P. B., & Bull, R. (2016). Is it possible to obtain better testimony? Research with a Portuguese sample. In L. Nunes, A. Sani, & S. Caridade (Eds.), Crime Justiça e Sociedade: Visões Interdisciplinares (pp. 159-179). Porto: Edições CRIAP.

Paulo, R. (2016). Investigative Interviews. In R. Maia, L. Nunes, S. Caridade, A. Sani, R. Estrada, C. Nogueira, H. Fernandes, & L. Afonso (Eds.), Dicionário Crime Justiça e Sociedade. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.

Paulo, R. (2016). Lies. In R. Maia, L. Nunes, S. Caridade, A. Sani, R. Estrada, C. Nogueira, H. Fernandes, & L. Afonso (Eds.), Dicionário Crime Justiça e Sociedade. Lisboa: Edições Sílabo.