Dr. Brian Cutler was a Special Guest on the True Crime Podcast Cleveland County Valentine

Cleveland County Valentine: True Advocate explores the 24-year-old disappearance of Asha Degree.

In the latest episode, “Memory & Mystery,” Marilyn Ward, executive director of Houston-based National Missing Children’s Center, said, “The longer a child is missing, the greater the chances are that false rumors will get started. This can torment family members and frustrate law enforcement.” Fielding’s Program Director of the Media Psychology program, psychologist Dr. Brian Cutler, discussed the psychology of eyewitness memory, factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness memory, and how these factors apply in missing children investigations.

About Dr. Brian Cutler

Brian Cutler, Ph.D.

Professor Cutler’s experience includes more than 30 years of faculty experience and 19 years of academic administration at three US and one Canadian university. Trained in social and forensic psychology, his media psychology-related research has examined pretrial publicity, recorded criminal interrogations, and person recognition from surveillance photos and videos. He has been the author or co-author of research grants, books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles, and articles in professional associations. At his previous universities, he taught a wide range of psychology courses at the undergraduate and graduate level and supervised numerous master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.