RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• Howie, P., Markham, R., & Kleitman, S. (in press). The development of imagery scales for children in three modalities. Journal of Mental Imagery.
• Roebers, C., von der Linden, N. & Howie, P. (in press). Favourable and unfavourable conditions for children’s confidence judments. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
• Dixon, A., Howie, P & Starling, J (2005). Trauma exposure, posttraumatic stress and psychiatric comorbidity in female juvenile offenders. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 44, 798-806.
• Howie, P., Sheehan, M., Mojarrad, T. & Wrzesinska, M. (2004). “Undesirable” and “desirable” shifts in children’s responses to repeated questions: Age differences in the effect of providing a rationale for repetition. Applied Cognitive Psychology.18, 1161-1180.
• Roebers, C.M., Howie, P., & Beuscher, E. (2004). Can private reports enhance children’s event recall, lower their suggestibility and foster their metacognitive monitoring compared to face-to-face interviews? Computers in Human Behavior.
• Matthey, S., Kavanagh, D.J., Howie, P., Barnett, B. & Charles, M. (2004). Prevention of postnatal distress or depression: an evaluation of an intervention at preparation for parenthood classes, Journal of Affective Disorders, 79, 113-126
• Dixon, A., Howie, P. & Starling, J. (2004) Psychopathology in female juvenile offenders. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 1150-1158.
• Roebers, C. & Howie, P. (2003) Metacognitive processes in event recall: Developmental progression in the impact of contextual factors. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 85, 352-371.
• Bowen, C. & Howie. P. (2002) Context and cue cards in young children’s testimony: A comparison of brief narrative elaboration and context reinstatement. Journal of Applied Psychology. 87, 1077-1085.
• Erskine, A., Markham, R., and Howie, P. (2002) Children’s script based inferences: Implications for eyewitness testimony. Cognitiv Development, 16, 871-887.
• Tannenbaum, M & Howie, P. (2002) The Association between Language Maintenance and Family Relations: Chinese Immigrant Children in Australia, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 23, 408-424.
• Matthey, S., Morgan, M., Healey, L., Barnett, B., Kavanagh, D, and Howie, P. (2002) Postpartum issues for expectant mothers and fathers. Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecological and Neonatal Nursing, 31, 428-435.
• White, F. A., Howie, P., & Perz, J. (2000). Predictors of moral thought in two contrasting samples of school aged adolescents. Ethics and Behaviour, 10(3), 199-214.
• Seidler, K. M. & Howie, P. M. (1999). Motivational factors in children’s reporting of events: the influence of age and expected reinforcement contingency. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 20, 101-118.
• Markham, R., Howie, P. & Hlavacek, S. (1999). Reality monitoring in auditory and visual modalities: Developmental trends and effects of cross modal imagery. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 72, 51-70.

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Howie, P. , Bowman, A., and Marsh, A. (2006). Children’s inferences when adults repeat questions: A vignette study. In Symposium: “Serving Justice: Obtaining reliable child witness testimony and accurate juror judgments.” XIXth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Melbourne, July 2006
• Howie, P. , & Nash, L. (2006). Inconsistency in child eyewitnesses: Testing competing explanations. In Symposium: “Factors affecting eyewitness memory”. Fourth International Congress on Memory, Sydney, July, 2006.
• Howie, P. Board, C., Chow, C, Singh, A. & Aguierre, C. (2006). Inconsistency in preschoolers’ memory reports: The role of instructions, style of repeated questions, and individual differences. Fourth International Conference on Memory, Sydney, July 2006
• Howie, P. (2005) Shifting to repeated questions in children: The impact of social cognition. International Workshop on Children’s Eyewitness memory and suggestibility: Effects of Social, Cognitive and Metacognitive factors on memory reports. University of Wuerzburg, Germany, July, 2005.
• Rosewell, L. & Howie, P. (2005) Testing a new question format: The influence of question format, question type and age on children’s event recall. Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Melbourne, September 2005. Abstract published Australian Journal of Psychology, 51 (suppl.), 35-36 .
• Howie, P. (2005) Repeated questions in children’s event recall: The role of age, question format and perceived reason for repetition. Conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Wellington, NZ, January 2005
• Howie, P. & Roebers, C. (2004) Calibration as new approach for the study of developmental progression in metacognitive monitoring processes during event recall. In Symposium: “Developmental changes in metacognitive processes involved in false memory and false suggestion rejection”. XVIIIth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development, Ghent, Belgium, July 2004
• Howie, P. & Johnson, R. (2004) Drawing during children's eyewitness recall following misinformation: Does the modality of misinformation delivery matter? XIVth Annual Conference of the European Association for Psychology and Law, Cracow, Poland, July, 2004
• Howie. P. How sure am I about that? The effects of prompting young children to monitor their certainty. In Symposium: “Metacognitive issues in memory and testimony”, Conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Aberdeen, Scotland, July, 2003.
• Roebers, C. M. & Howie, P. (2003) Social and metacognitive processes in children’s suggestibility: Is there evidence for a general overconfidence effect? In Symposium:“Questioning children", Conference of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Aberdeen, Scotland, July, 2003.
• Howie, P., Craft, T. and Evans, E. (2003). Exploring the potential of narrative elaboration procedures: The effect of brief narrative elaboration training after long and short delays. In Symposium: “Interviewing children”, at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychology and Law, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 2003.
• Perry, L., & Howie, P. (2003) Drawing as a facilitator of children’s event recall: Exploring the role of cues. Eleventh European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Milan, Italy, August 2003
• Hufton, K. & Howie, P. (2002) An examination of the efficacy of mental context reinstatement for enhancing the event reports of child witnesses after delays. Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Queensland, Australia, September 2002. Abstract published Australian Journal of Psychology, 51 (suppl.), 35-36.
• Howie, P., Barbouttis, F., Schmidhofer, K., Bjelosovic, D., and McInnes, K (2002) "Draw me what happened!”:The effects of drawing and social support on young children's memory for past events. Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society: Queensland, Australia, September, 2002. Abstract published Australian Journal of Psychology, 51 (suppl.), 35.