Timothy John Brennen

Tim Brennen, Sverre Blandhol, & Svein Magnussen (2026). Witnesses and their testimony: A model of credibility, reliability, and the factual truth. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/law0000498

Tim Brennen & Sverre Blandhol (2025). Rettspsykologi [Legal psychology]. Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 414 sider

Tim Brennen & Svein Magnussen (2023). Lie detection: What works? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32, 395-401. DOI: 10.1177/09637214231173095

• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2026). Hukommelse i et rettspsykologisk perspektiv – en oppsummering av kunnskap og anbefalinger anno 2025. Tidsskrift for strafferett. ISSN 1502-685X. 26(1), p. 3–21. doi: 10.18261/strafferett.26.1.1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Vitneforklaringer er viktige i mange straffesaker, men hva kan vi forvente at vitner husker? Artikkelen gir en innføring i hukommelse for trivielle og dramatiske erfaringer i et korttids- og langtidsperspektiv, og faktorer som kan bevirke feil hukommelse og falsk hukommelse. Minner om hverdagslige hendelser og personer møtt én gang er skjøre og forsvinner raskt, mens dramatiske/traumatiske erfaringer huskes godt, og det er ingen evidens for fortrengning av slike minner. Minner endrer seg gradvis, vi er suggestible, og det hender at vi «husker» episoder som ikke har skjedd. I et rettssikkerhetsperspektiv er det viktig at manglende eller feil hukommelse ikke blir tolket som løgn, og at usannsynlig presise hukommelsesprestasjoner blir møtt med skepsis.

• Brennen, Tim; Blandhol, Sverre & Magnussen, Svein (2026). Witnesses and their testimony: A model of credibility, reliability, and the factual truth. Psychology, public policy and law. ISSN 1076-8971. doi: 10.1037/law0000498. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Legal systems use divergent and contradictory definitions of credibility, illustrated by recent examples from the apex courts of the United States, Canada, and Norway. Combining concepts from legal analysis and legal psychology presents a way forward. First, it is noted that psychology has largely studied intuitive initial judgments of credibility, whereas legal evaluations of credibility are generally deliberative and considered. Combining both approaches with the theoretical distinction in legal psychology between the credibility of a person and the reliability of their testimony, a preliminary model is proposed that describes the ways in which a reliability assessment can diverge from a credibility assessment. Because reliability also consists of an assessment, it is therefore subject to the weaknesses of human reasoning and can be mistaken, or, in the model’s terms, not in accordance with the factual truth. The model links thinking about credibility and reliability with the relevant literature from legal psychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)

• Rustad, Eira & Brennen, Tim (2026). Castles in the Sky? Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as a Forensic Lie Detector. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080. 40(1). doi: 10.1002/acp.70176. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Many studies have over the past 20 years investigated the detection of lies by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). This review evaluates the ability of the method to distinguish truth-telling from lies with an eye to applying the method in the forensic context. In addition to issues of the reliability of fMRI as a method, there is the challenge of using results at the group level to pronounce on a specific lie from a specific individual, and also the ease with which countermeasures can successfully be employed by a noncompliant participant. Such difficulties when combined with the current accuracy of the method mean that it is not suited for use as a lie detector.

• Rustand, Andrea Nordvoll; Brennen, Tim; Wentzel-Larsen, Tore; Solberg, Øivind & Blix, Ines (2025). Autobiographical Memory for Emotional Events: A Test of the ‘Warning Signal’ Hypothesis. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080. 39(4). doi: 10.1002/acp.70106. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2024). Er vitnepsykologien kulturfri? Lov og Rett. ISSN 0024-6980. 63, p. 519–532. doi: 10.18261/lor.63.8.3. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2024). The perils of methods that detect lies 70% of the time: A reply to Ben-Shakhar and Verschuere (2024). Legal and Criminological Psychology. ISSN 1355-3259. 29, p. 128–131. doi: 10.1111/lcrp.12266. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Ben-Shakhar and Verschuere (2024) commented on Brennen and Magnussen's (2023) review of the literature on lie detection. They argued that the review's conclusion that such methods are not ready for forensic use is too pessimistic and that they already are in use worldwide. While we agree that many jurisdictions do in fact use such methods, we see this as cause for alarm rather than confirmation of their utility. It is documented that several lie detection methods distinguish to a statistically significant degree between deceitful and truthful statements, but they also have substantial error rates. This means that applying them at the level of the individual statement will frequently be misleading, making them unsuited to guiding police investigations.

• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2023). Lie Detection: What Works? Current Directions in Psychological Science. ISSN 0963-7214. 32, p. 395–401. doi: 10.1177/09637214231173095. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A reliable lie-detection method would be extremely useful in many situations but especially in forensic contexts. This review describes and evaluates the range of methods that have been studied. Humans are barely able to pick up lies on the basis of nonverbal cues; they do so more successfully with systematic methodologies that analyze verbal cues and with physiological and neuroscientific methods. However, the rates at which people are able to detect lies are still well below the legal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt.” This means that the utmost caution must be exercised when such methods are employed. In investigations where independent evidence exists, there is emerging evidence that interviews based on a free account followed by the gradual introduction of the evidence by investigators can reveal inconsistencies in a guilty interviewee’s account. Automated machine-learning methods also hold some promise.

• Stridbeck, Ulf Johan & Brennen, Tim (2023). Miscarriages of justice in Norway. In Robins, Jon (Eds.), Murder, Wrongful Conviction and the Law. An International Comparative Analysis. Routledge. ISSN 9781003251484. p. 65–86. doi: 10.4324/9781003251484-5. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2022). Memory. In Tierney, Robert J.; Rizvi, Fazal & Erkican, Kadriye (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education (4th Edition). Elsevier. ISSN 9780128186299. p. 219–228. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.14017-5. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2022). The Science of Lie Detection by Verbal Cues: What Are the Prospects for Its Practical Applicability? Frontiers in Psychology. 13. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.835285. Full text in Research Archive
• Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2021). Norske dommeres kunnskap om påliteligheten av øyevitneforklaringer – 12 år senere. Lov og Rett. ISSN 0024-6980. 60, p. 521–532. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3061-2021-09-03. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Blix, Ines; Nissen, Alexander; Holmes, Emily A.; Skumlien, Martine & Solberg, Øivind (2021). Investigating the frequency of intrusive memories after 24 hours using a visuospatial interference intervention: a follow-up and extension. European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 12(1), p. 1–12. doi: 10.1080/20008198.2021.1953788. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background There is a need for effective, low-cost, readily available measures for reducing trauma symptoms so that people exposed to potentially traumatic events can receive help more quickly. A previous study reported that performing an intervention including a visuospatial task shortly after a reminder of a series of unpleasant film clips seen 24 hours earlier reduced the number of intrusive memories over the following week. Objective This study reports a follow-up and extension of the earlier promising finding. The prediction was that participants performing the visuospatial task immediately after the reminder would report fewer intrusions compared to three other groups who 1) performed no task, and novel conditions who 2) performed the task before the reminder, and 3) performed the task 90 minutes after the reminder. Method A trauma-analogue method was used, where students (N = 200) watched a series of short films with unpleasant material. Over the following week, they were asked to write down any intrusive memories they experienced in a diary. On the second day they returned to the lab and saw static reminders of the films. They were then randomly allocated to condition, recorded intrusive memories over the following days and returned to the lab for final testing on Day 8. Results A total of 49 participants did not report any intrusions and were excluded from the analyses. Two more participants were excluded as outliers, leaving a final sample of n = 149. Despite using largely the same materials as the original study there were no significant differences in the number of intrusive memories between the four groups post intervention. Conclusions Possible explanations include the effect not being as robust as expected, a low number of intrusions across groups, baseline differences in attention, and minor but potentially important differences in procedure between this and the original study.

• Brennen, Tim (2021). Is cognition seasonal? New Ideas in Psychology. ISSN 0732-118X. 61. doi: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2021.100852. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The idea that our mental life is more sluggish in winter is apparently seductive. This article reviews the evidence for the claim that there is a seasonal cycle in human cognition. Several methodologies have been used with participants such as over-wintering scientists in Antarctica, residents of polar regions, and patients with seasonal psychopathology and there is no clear tendency for cognition to be impaired in winter. Some large-scale public health studies report seasonality of cognition but are inconsistent regarding when in the year there is a peak and trough. Claims that human cognition has an annual cycle should be regarded as speculative and the burden of proof must be borne by anyone inclined to claim that such a cycle exists. An analysis of the influence of some key studies shows that their results are misleadingly cited and that there is resistance to the null conclusion.

• Sumampouw, Nathanael; Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; Magnussen, Svein; Otgaar, Henry & Brennen, Tim (2021). Knowledge about eyewitness testimony: a survey of Indonesian police officers and psychologists. Psychology, Crime and Law. ISSN 1068-316X. 28, p. 763–777. doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2021.1962868. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Faulty eyewitness testimony can be a notorious source of mistakes in the legal system potentially leading to wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice. The current study examined the knowledge of a sample of police officers (n = 270) and psychologists (n = 63) in Indonesia regarding factors known to influence the validity of eyewitness testimony given by adults and children. Previous studies have documented that police and psychologists in Western countries have less-than-optimal knowledge about the psychology of eyewitness testimony. Similarly, our non-Western sample also demonstrated a lack of knowledge that may be damaging in the legal context such as the belief that recall of minor details indicates accuracy of memory. For both adult and child eyewitnesses, the psychologists performed significantly better than the police but at the item level these differences were small in size. Intriguingly, we also found that psychologists were more likely than the police officers to endorse the item about repression of memories. The findings show the need for teaching on the psychology of eyewitness testimony for professional groups involved in the legal arena.

• Melinder, Annika Maria D; Brennen, Timothy John; Husby, Mikael Falkhaugen & Vassend, Olav (2020). Personality, confirmation bias, and forensic interviewing performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080. doi: 10.1002/acp.3674. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Confirmation bias is a universal characteristic of human cognition, with consequences for information processing and reasoning in everyday situations as well as in professional work such as forensic interviewing. Cognitive measures such as general intelligence are also related to personality traits, but there is a lack of research on personality and confirmation bias specifically. This study focuses, firstly, on the relationship between Big Five personality traits and confirmation bias as measured by the Wason selection task, and secondly, how these dispositions are related to observed performance in real forensic interviews of child victims. In a sample of police interviewers, Openness (i.e., the facets Ideas and Fantasy) and Neuroticism (i.e., the facets Anxiety and Vulnerability) were independently associated with confirmation bias (N = 72). Scores on the selection task, the Openness facet Values, and the Extraversion facets Assertiveness and Activity were consistently related to interview performance (N = 46). Implications of these findings are discussed for the empirical and conceptual relations of cognitive ability to personality and for the selection and training of police interviewers and their professional development.

• Bjørndal, Ludvig Daae; McGill, Lucy; Magnussen, Svein J; Richardson, Stéphanie; Saraiva, Renan & Stadel, Marie [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2020). Norwegian judges' knowledge of factors affecting eyewitness testimony: A 12-year follow-up. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. ISSN 1321-8719. 28(5), p. 665–682. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2020.1837028. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Eyewitness evidence often plays a critical role in decisions made in the criminal justice system. To evaluate eyewitness testimony accurately, judges must be aware of factors that can contaminate this type of evidence. In 2008, a survey of judges in Norway revealed a lack of awareness of several factors that affect eyewitness testimony. In the current study, a survey was administered to Norwegian judges (N=98) to evaluate their knowledge of factors that affect eyewitness testimony. Results showed that judges’ overall knowledge scores were similar to those reported in 2008, but substantial increases and decreases in knowledge were observed for specific factors. Additional analyses indicated that increased uncertainty regarding some eyewitness factors led to a decline in accuracy when compared to responses observed in 2008. The current study provides an updated assessment of judges’ knowledge of eyewitness factors and highlights the need for more comprehensive training for judges regarding these factors.

• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2020). Research on non-verbal signs of lies and deceit: A blind alley. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.613410. Full text in Research Archive
• Siqveland, Johan; Hauff, Edvard; Ruud, Torleif & Brennen, Timothy John (2018). Posttraumatic stress and autobiographical memory in chronic pain patients. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. ISSN 1877-8860. doi: 10.1515/sjpain-2018-0044. Full text in Research Archive
• Skule, Anne Cecilie; Ulleberg, Pål; Lending, Hilde Dallavara; Berge, Torkil; Egeland, Jens & Brennen, Tim [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2014). Depressive Symptoms in People with and without Alcohol Abuse: Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) Across Groups. PLOS ONE. 9(2). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088321. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study explored differences in the factor structure of depressive symptoms in patients with and without alcohol abuse, and differences in the severity of depressive symptoms between the two groups. In a sample of 358 patients without alcohol problems and 167 patients with comorbid alcohol problems, confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the same factor structures, Beck et al.’s two-factor Somatic Affective-Cognitive (SA-C) model, and Buckley et al.’s three-factor Cognitive-Affective- Somatic (C-A-S) model, demonstrated the best fit to the data in both groups. The SA-C model was preferred due to its more parsimonious nature. Evidence for strict measurement invariance across the two groups for the SA-C model was found. MIMIC (multiple-indicator-multiple-cause) modeling showed that the level of depressive symptoms was found to be highest on both factors in the group with comorbid alcohol problems. The magnitude of the differences in latent mean scores suggested a moderate difference in the level of depressive symptoms between the two groups. It is argued that patients with comorbid depression and alcohol abuse should be offered parallel and adequate treatment for both conditions.

• Hofsten, Olov von; Hofsten, Claes von; Sulutvedt, Unni; Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2014). Simulating newborn face perception. Journal of Vision. 14:16(13). doi: 10.1167/14.13.16. Full text in Research Archive
• Thimm, Jens; Holte, Arne; Brennen, Tim & Wang, Catharina E. (2013). Hope and expectancies for future events in depression. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00470. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The present study investigated prospective cognition with the Hope scale (Snyder et al., 1991) and the Unrealistic Optimism Scale (Weinstein, 1980) in clinically depressed (CD; n = 61), previously depressed (PD; n = 42), and never depressed controls (ND; n = 46). In line with previous research, significant negative correlations between hope and symptoms of depression were found. Previously depressed reported lower levels of hope than NDs, but were more hopeful than CDs. In addition, relationships between depressive symptoms, dysfunctional attitudes, and expectations for the future were examined. As hypothesized, the CDs estimated their probability of experiencing positive events in the future as lower and their probability of experiencing negative events as higher than the two other groups. The PDs differed not from the NDs in their probability estimates. Implications of the findings are discussed.

• Blix, Ines & Brennen, Tim (2012). Retrieval-induced forgetting after trauma: A study with victims of sexual assault. Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 26(2), p. 321–331. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.570312. Full text in Research Archive
• Ihrke, Matthias & Brennen, Tim (2011). Sharing one biographical detail elicits priming between famous names: Empirical and computational approaches. Frontiers in Psychology. 2. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00075. Full text in Research Archive
• Blix, Ines & Brennen, Tim (2011). Intentional forgetting of emotional words after trauma: A study with victims of sexual assault. Frontiers in Psychology. 2. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00235. Full text in Research Archive
• Blix, Ines & Brennen, Tim (2011). Mental time travel after trauma: The specificity and temporal distribution of autobiographical memories and future-directed thoughts. Memory. ISSN 0965-8211. 19(8), p. 956–967. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2011.618500. Full text in Research Archive
• Magnussen, Svein & Brennen, Tim (2011). Memory, Learning and cognition in education. Elsevier. ISSN 9780123814388. p. 85–91. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  "Artikler opprinnelig utgitt i 3.utg. av The International encyclopedia of education, 2010 - Forordet." (Kommentar i BIBSYS-posten)/tøf

• Brennen, Tim; Hasanovic, M; Zotovic, M; Blix, Ines; Skar, Ane-Marthe Solheim & Prelic, NK [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2010). Trauma Exposure in Childhood Impairs the Ability to Recall Specific Autobiographical Memories in Late Adolescence. Journal of Traumatic Stress. ISSN 0894-9867. 23(2), p. 240–247. doi: 10.1002/jts.20513. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2010). Reflections on collaboration with Tuzla in the field of psychology and war: Past, present and future. Acta Medica Saliniana. ISSN 0350-364X. 39, p. 43–45. Full text in Research Archive
• Dehli, Lars & Brennen, Tim (2009). Does retrieval-induced forgetting occur for emotional stimuli? Cognition & Emotion. ISSN 0269-9931. 23, p. 1056–1068. doi: 10.1080/02699930802285221. Full text in Research Archive
• Sæther, Line; Belle, Werner Van; Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Øvervoll, Morten (2009). Anchoring gaze when categorizing faces' sex: Evidence from eye-tracking data. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989. 49(23), p. 2870–2880. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.001. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Previous research has shown that during recognition of frontal views of faces, the preferred landing positions of eye fixations are either on the nose or the eye region. Can these findings generalize to other facial views and a simpler perceptual task? An eye-tracking experiment investigated categorization of the sex of faces seen in four views. The results revealed a strategy, preferred in all views, which consisted of focusing gaze within an ‘infraorbital region’ of the face. This region was fixated more in the first than in subsequent fixations. Males anchored gaze lower and more centrally than females.

• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Kapidzic, Almasa (2007). Trauma-related and neutral false memories in war-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Consciousness and Cognition. ISSN 1053-8100. 16, p. 877–885. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2006.06.012. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, T; Elden, Åke; Paulsen, Helle; Banerjee, A & Lipton, R (2007). Latitude-of-birth and season-of-birth effects on human color vision in the Arctic. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989. 47. doi: 10.1016/j/visres.2007.03.011. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Vikan, Anne & Dybdahl, Ragnhild (2007). Are tip-of-the-tongue states universal? Evidence from the speakers of an unwritten language. Memory. ISSN 0965-8211. 15(2), p. 167–176. doi: 10.1080/09658210601164743. Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Catharina; Brennen, Tim & Holte, Arne (2006). Automatic and effortful processing of self-statements in depression. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. ISSN 1650-6073. 35(2), p. 117–124. doi: 10.1080/16506070500466865. Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Catharina E.; Brennen, Tim & Holte, Arne (2006). Decreased approach motivation in depression. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. ISSN 0036-5564. 47(6), p. 505–511. Full text in Research Archive
• Geraerts, Elke & Brennen, Tim (2006). Investigating cognitive abnormalities in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. In Roy, Michael (Eds.), Novel Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. IOS Press. ISSN 9781586035907. p. 31–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Hall, Catherine; Verplanken, Bas & Nunn, Julia (2005). Predictors of ideas about seasonal psychological fluctuations. Environment and Behavior. ISSN 0013-9165. 37. Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Catharina E.; Brennen, Tim & Holte, Arne (2005). Mechanisms of recurrent depression: A cognitive battle model and some preliminary results. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. ISSN 1063-3995. 12, p. 427–442. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Låg, Torstein & Brennen, Tim (2005). Reduced Stroop interference for opponent colors may be due to input factors: Evidence from individual differences and a neural network simulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. ISSN 0096-1523. 31(3), p. 438–452. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Låg, Torstein & Brennen, Tim (2005). Reduced Stroop interference for opponent colors may be due to input factors: Evidence from individual differences and a neural network simulation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. ISSN 0096-1523. 31, p. 438–52. Full text in Research Archive
• Brédart, Serge; Brennen, Tim; Delchambre, Marie; McNeill, Allan & Burton, Mike (2005). Naming very familiar people: When retrieving names is faster than retrieving semantic biographical information. British Journal of Psychology. ISSN 0007-1269. 96. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim; Dahl, Tove Irene; Låg, Torstein; Sagvolden, Terje & Svartdal, Frode [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2004). The northernmost cognitive science laboratory. Cognitive Processing. ISSN 1612-4782. 5, p. 57–62. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno & Brennen, Tim (2003). Of frames and mirrors: reflections on neglect. A reply to McCarthy (2002). Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. 39, p. 541–553. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim; Johannessen, Kristin; Holmen, Kirsti & Elvestad, Rolf (2002). MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES IN NEGLECT? AN INVESTIGATION OF THE OBJECT-CENTRED FRAME AND THE DISSOCIATION BETWEEN “NEAR” AND “FAR” FROM THE BODY BY USE OF A MIRROR. Cortex. ISSN 0010-9452. 38, p. 511–528. Full text in Research Archive
• Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Espeseth, Thomas (2002). Fast responses to neglected targets in visual search reflect pre-attentive processes: An exploration of response times in visual neglect. Neuropsychologia. ISSN 0028-3932. 40(1622). Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2000). On the meaning of personal names for identity: A view from cognitive psychology. Names: A Journal of Onomastics. ISSN 0027-7738. 48, p. 139–146. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (1999). Face naming in dementia: a reply to Hodges and Greene (1998). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology... ISSN 0033-555X. 52, p. 535–541. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Martinussen, Monica; Hjemdal, Odin & Hansen, Bernt O (1999). Arctic cognition: A study of cognitive performance in summer and winter at 69 degrees N. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080. 13, p. 561–580. Full text in Research Archive
• Brédart, Serge; Brennen, Tim & Valentine, Tim (1997). Dissociations between the Processing of Proper and Common Names. Cognitive Neuropsychology. ISSN 0264-3294. 14, p. 209–217. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; David, Danielle; Fluchaire, Isabelle & Pellat, Jacques (1996). Naming Faces and Objects Without Comprehension - A Case Study. Cognitive Neuropsychology. ISSN 0264-3294. 13, p. 93–110. Full text in Research Archive
• Moreaud, Olivier; Pellat, Jacques; Charnallet, Annik; Carbonnel, Serge & Brennen, Tim (1995). Déficit de la production et de l'apprentissage des noms propres après lésion ischæmique tubérothalamique gauche. Revue neurologique (Paris). ISSN 0035-3787. 151, p. 93–99. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (1993). The difficulty with recalling people's names: The plausible phonology hypothesis. Memory. ISSN 0965-8211. 1, p. 409–431. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Bruce, Vicki (1991). Context effects in the processing of familiar faces. Psychological Research. ISSN 0340-0727. 53, p. 296–304. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Vicki, Bruce; Baguley, Thom & Bright, Jim (1990). Resolving Semantically-induced Tip-of-the-Tongue States for Proper Nouns. Memory & Cognition. ISSN 0090-502X. 18, p. 339–347. Full text in Research Archive

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• Brennen, Tim & Blandhol, Sverre (2025). Rettspsykologi. Cappelen Damm Akademisk. ISBN 9788202774356. 414 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Gerrig, Richard; Zimbardo, Philip G.; Svartdal, Frode; Brennen, Tim; Donaldson, Roger & Archer, Trevor (2012). Psychology and life. Pearson. ISBN 9780273720027. 650 p. Full text in Research Archive
• Valentine, Tim; Brennen, Tim & Brédart, Serge (1996). The Cognitive Psychology of Proper Names: The Importance of Being Ernest. Routledge. ISBN 9780415135450. 212 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Brennen, Tim & Blandhol, Sverre (2025). Vitner og deres forklaringer: Troverdighet, pålitelighet og korrekthet. Lov og Rett. ISSN 0024-6980. 64(6), p. 425–439. doi: 10.18261/lor.64.6.5. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I mange rettssaker fremkommer det motsigende, gjensidig utelukkende forklaringer slik at et grunnleggende, krevende og sammensatt spørsmål for retten blir hvem man skal tro på. Psykologien har lenge skilt mellom troverdighet som en helhetlig vurdering av en person, og pålitelighet som går på hvorvidt forklaringen til personen faktisk stemmer. Denne artikkelen argumenterer for at det er nyttig å skille disse fra korrekthet, og presenterer en visuell modell av forholdet mellom disse begrepene. Denne modellen viser på hvilke måter et inntrykk man har av en persons troverdighet, likevel kan være feil. Den kobler begrepene troverdighet, pålitelighet og korrekthet til løgndeteksjon og hukommelsessvikt, samtidig som den viser at tilståelser kan forstås innenfor den samme modellen som andre forklaringer.

• Brennen, Tim (2024). Vurdering av vitnebevis – hvilken betydning har det at vitnet deltar digitalt? Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2024). Applying legal psychology in the justice system: Reflections on the Norwegian experience. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Magnussen, Svein (2023). Here is the truth about how to spot when someone is lying. Psyche. Full text in Research Archive
• Rustand, Andrea Nordvoll; Blix, Ines & Brennen, Tim (2023). Autobiographical Memory for Emotional Events: A Test of the 'Warning Signal' Hypothesis. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2021). Vitnepsykologi. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2021). What happens to our cognition in the darkest depths of winter? Psyche. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2019). Expert psychological witnesses – how miscarriages of justice arise from their evidence - a view from Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2019). Vitnepsykologi. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2018). Intervju om fargepersepsjon, og livsvitenskapssatsingen ved Universitetet i Oslo. [TV]. Østlandssendingen. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2018). Vitnepsykologi og sakkyndighet. Full text in Research Archive
• Blix, Ines; Brennen, Timothy John & Solberg, Øivind (2018). Forskningsformidling er viktig, også før vi har to streker under svaret. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2018). Vitnepsykologi. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2017). You Better Believe it! What Cognitive Psychology Tells us About Fake News. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2017). Expecting the impossible? Humans in the forensic context. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John (2017). Fake news! Tro det eller ei? Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Timothy John & Sumampouw, Nael (2017). Being an expert psychological witness in court. Full text in Research Archive
• Solberg, Øivind & Brennen, Timothy John (2017). "Stress and your memory...". Full text in Research Archive
• Magnussen, Svein & Brennen, Tim (2010). Memory. In Peterson, Penelope; Baker, Eva & McGaw, Barry (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Third edition, Volume 5. Elsevier. ISSN 9780080448930. p. 197–203. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2007). Norsk Psykologforenings syn på psykologi og psykologer. 44, p. 794–795. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Solberg, Øivind (2007). Retrieval-induced forgetting in war-induced PTSD. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Solberg, Øivind (2007). Retrieval-induced forgetting in war-induced PTSD. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Solberg, Øivind (2007). Intentional and unintentional forgetting in war-induced Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Full text in Research Archive
• Blix, Ines; Brennen, Tim; Skar, Ane-Marthe Solheim; Hasanovic, Mevludin; Kravic, Nera & Memehdovic, Indira [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2007). The specificity of autobiographical memory in adolescents exposed to war in childhood. Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Catharina E.; Brennen, Tim & Holte, Arne (2006). Decreased approach motivation in depression. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2006). Palabras y alfabetización i Cobán. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Solberg, Øivind (2006). False recognition of trauma-related words in war-induced PTSD. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim & Geraerts, Elke (2005). Investigating cognitive abnormalities in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild; Jukic, Jasna & Kapidzic, Almasa (2005). War-related false memories in Bosnian PTSD patients and controls. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild & Kapidzic, Almasa (2005). Trauma-related false memories in war-induced Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Full text in Research Archive
• McNeill, Allan; Burton, Mike; Brédart, Serge; Brennen, Tim & Delchambre, Marie (2004). Naming of faces occurs more quickly than semantic categorisation for very familiar people. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild; Jukic, Jasna & Kapidzic, Almasa (2003). Evidence of a specific impairment of inhibition for trauma-related material in patients with PTSD. Full text in Research Archive
• Sæther, Line; Laeng, Bruno; Brennen, Tim & Rudi, Erik (2003). The Relevance Of The Nose For Sex. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim (2003). Å skille mellom Alzheimers demens og depresjon: Har psykologien noe å bidra med? Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild; Jukic, Jasna & Kapidzic, Almasa (2003). Directed forgetting of trauma-related material in patients with PTSD and controls. Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Dybdahl, Ragnhild; Vikan, Anne & Hernandez, Mirna Lem (2003). The role of literacy in the awareness of words and tip-of-the-tongue states. Full text in Research Archive
• Wang, Catharina E.; Brennen, Tim & Holte, Arne (2002). Positivity bias or avoidant coping strategies in previously depressed individuals? Full text in Research Archive
• Brennen, Tim; Færevaag, Fredrik Svartdal & Braaten, Linn Astrid Shin (2020). Psykologiforbundets karriereundersøkelse 2020. Psykologiforbundet. Full text in Research Archive

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