Dr. Lindsay C. Malloy

Lab Director

Dr. Lindsay C. Malloy earned her Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behaviour from the University of California, Irvine, in 2008 and completed postdoctoral training in Applied Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge, U.K. Before joining Ontario Tech University as an Associate Professor in 2017, she was a faculty member at Florida International University in Miami, Florida (2011–2017).

Dr. Malloy’s research examines children’s and adolescents’ disclosure of negative and traumatic experiences, cognitive and social influences on memory and narratives, investigative interviewing and interrogation practices, and the application of developmental science to the legal system. Her work is widely cited in both developmental and forensic psychology and has been cited in amicus briefs submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court.

She is co-editor of two volumes: Children’s Testimony: A Handbook of Psychological Research and Forensic Practice (Wiley, 2011) and Confession and Guilty Pleas of Youth: Developmental Science and Practical Implications (American Psychological Association, 2026). Her research has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Malloy has received numerous awards for her contributions to psychology and law, including the Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence in Psychology and Law from the American Psychology-Law Society, the Diane J. Willis Early Career Award from the Society for Child and Family Policy and Practice, the Junior Academic Award for Early Career Contributions from the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group, and the Mid-Career Award from the American Psychology-Law Society. She has served as Secretary and Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of the American Psychology-Law Society and is on the Editorial Boards for Law and Human Behavior and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Dr. Malloy was selected to participate in Ontario’s Science Meets Parliament program (2026), helping foster connections between research and policy communities.

Dr. Malloy is committed to disseminating research beyond academia and regularly provides expert testimony and consultation related to interrogations, confessions, and children’s and adolescents’ testimony. Her TED talk on police interrogations with juvenile suspects has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.

For a full CV, email lindsay.malloy@uoit.ca.

Current Graduate Students

Sara Caro Arroyave

Sara completed her B.A. in Forensic Psychology at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in 2017. She is a Master’s student at UOIT under the supervision of Dr. Lindsay Malloy. Her research interests include children’s disclosure of peer and adult wrongdoing, children’s disclosure recipients, and investigative interviewing techniques. She will be studying children’s decisions to disclose peer wrongdoing, and children’s tendency to disclose both peer and adult wrongdoing to peer disclosure recipients during the summer of 2019.

Lillian Rodriguez-Steen

Lillian completed her B.A. in Psychology with a focus in Developmental Forensic Psychology at the University of Toledo in 2016. She is a Ph.D student in the Direct Entry Doctoral program here at UOIT working with Dr. Lindsay Malloy. Lillian’s research is focused on the intersection of developmental and forensic psychology, child witnesses, and investigative interviewing. Currently, she is investigating methods through which children’s appropriate “I don’t understand” responses can be encouraged in investigative interviews. She hopes to use her research to inform policy makers and all those who question or work with children (e.g., researchers, teachers, doctors) on best practice guidelines for interviewing children.

Affiliated Graduate Students

Mark Snow

Mark is a first year Forensic Psychology PhD student at UOIT. He received a BSc (Hons.) in Psychology from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2016, and a MSc in Forensic Psychology from UOIT in 2018. Mark is currently working in the Applied Law Enforcement and Training (ALERT) Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Joseph Eastwood (https://www.alertlab.ca/). As a research affiliate of the DCC Lab, Mark is actively involved in research examining law enforcement interactions with both seniors and juveniles. More broadly, Mark’s research interests include police interviewing procedures, perceptions of witness credibility (particularly within an alibi assessment context), and emotional memory.

Lab Alumni

Andrea Arndorfer

Former doctoral student
Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno, CA

Allison P. Mugno

Former doctoral student
Assistant Professor at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL

Daniella Villalba

Former doctoral student

Jessica E. Sutherland, Ph.D

Former postdoctoral scholar
Assistant Professor, York University