Brent Snook, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research

Read how they describe their research on their Memorial University of Newfoundland profile.

Latest papers

Quality vs. quantity: the effect of relationship and number of corroborators on alibi assessments.
Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2020
An Evaluation of Interrater Reliability Measures on Binary Tasks Using d-Prime.
Applied psychological measurement · 2017 · senior author
The effect of listenability factors on the comprehension of police cautions.
Law and Human Behavior · 2011 · senior author

All 5 publications

Latest funding

Bizzaro World: The Effect of the Big Lie on Perceptions of Facts
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
$64,308
Using Science-Based Interviewing Techniques to Generate Accurate and Believable Alibis from Innocent Suspects
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
$85,460
Safeguarding youth interrogation rights: testing assumptions about youth understanding and interrogator abilities
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$113,383

All 7 grants and awards

5 publications.

01

Quality vs. quantity: the effect of relationship and number of corroborators on alibi assessments.

Eastwood J, Lively CJ, Snook B, Snow MD

Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law202010 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2020.1754956 PMID: 34104068

02

An Evaluation of Interrater Reliability Measures on Binary Tasks Using d-Prime.

Grant MJ, Button CM, Snook B

Applied psychological measurement2017Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0146621616684584 PMID: 29881092

03

The effect of listenability factors on the comprehension of police cautions.

Joseph Eastwood, Brent Snook

Law and Human Behavior201116 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1007/s10979-011-9275-3 PMID: 22667807

04

Simply criminal: Predicting burglars’ occupancy decisions with a simple heuristic.

Law and Human Behavior201045 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1007/s10979-010-9238-0 PMID: W2009274161

05

Comprehending Canadian police cautions: are the rights to silence and legal counsel understandable?

Joseph Eastwood, Brent Snook

Behavioral Sciences & the Law200929 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1002/bsl.898 PMID: 19882632

Bizzaro World: The Effect of the Big Lie on Perceptions of Facts

Principal investigatorSSHRC2026Insight Development Grants

Principal investigators: Snook, Brent

$64,308

Using Science-Based Interviewing Techniques to Generate Accurate and Believable Alibis from Innocent Suspects

Co-investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Eastwood, Joseph D.

Keywords: alibis; investigative interviewing; justice; evidence-based policing; wrongful convictions

$85,460

Safeguarding youth interrogation rights: testing assumptions about youth understanding and interrogator abilities

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Snook, Brent S.

Keywords: vulnerable population; legal rights; youth; interrogation; law

$113,383

Improving the Alibi Assessment Process within Police Investigations

Co-investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Eastwood, Joseph

Keywords: Alibis; Wrongful Convictions; Police Interviewing; Administration of Justice

$64,803

Improving the comprehension of Canadian police cautions

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Snook, Brent S.

Keywords: charter rights; policing; caution comprehension; interrogations; social justice; linguistic complexity

$60,876

Bounded Rationality and Law Lab (BRLL).

Principal investigatorCFI2006John R. Evans Leaders Fund: John R. Evans Leaders Fund – Funding for research infrastructure

Principal investigators: Snook, Brent

Keywords: Bounded Rationality, Forensic Psychology, Social Cognition, Decision-Making, Judgments, Criminal Justice, Heuristics, Social Rationality, Ecological Rationality, Evaluation

$152,993

What cognitive strategies do people use to make consequential, real-world decisions

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Snook, Brent

$50,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

Frequent collaborators

Joseph Eastwood

Faculty

3 shared papers, latest 2020

Christopher Lively

Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2020

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Snook, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Quality vs. quantity: the effect of relationship and number of corroborators on alibi assessments." (2020), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Bizzaro World: The Effect of the Big Lie on Perceptions of Facts" (2026), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]