Patricia Coburn

BA (Hons) (KPU), MA (SFU), PhD (SFU)
P Coburn PSYC
Surrey Office: Surrey Main 2881-13
Richmond Office: R 2402
Langley Office: L 2015

When I am not working or writing I enjoy hanging out with my children and pets.

Please note: Dr. Coburn is also the Psychology Degree Coordinator. Please feel free to contact her for any Psychology degree questions at the contact coordinates above.

 

Courses taught

  • PSYC 1100 - Introduction to Psychology: Basic Processes
  • PSYC 2400 – Experimental Psychology: Research Methodology
  • PSYC 2385 – Cognition
  • PSYC 3451 – Psychology and Law

Areas of Interest

I am completing my graduate work at SFU in the Psychology and Law program. I conduct experiments and archival data analysis of legal cases to examine factors that affect individuals’ ability to provide evidence in legal situations, as well as factors that are related to verdict and sentencing outcomes in legal cases. I am interested in supervising Honours students.

I am interested in supervising honours students.

 

Scholarly Work

  • Connolly, D. A., & Coburn, P. I. (in press). Child victims and the law. In R. Roesch (Volume Ed.), Psychology and law, a volume of Routledge encyclopedia of psychology in the real world. New York: Routledge. Ref.: Ms. No. REPRW-D-19-00072R1
  • Coburn, P. I., Harvey, M. B., Anderson, S. F., Price, H. L., Chong, K., & Connolly, D. A. (2019). Boys abused in a community setting: an analysis of gender, relationship, and delayed prosecutions in cases of child sexual abuse. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 1-22.
  • MacLean, C. L., Coburn, P. I., Chong, K., & Connolly, D. A. (2018). Breaking script: Deviations and post-event information in adult memory for a repeated event. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32(4), 474-486.
  • Giroux, M. E., Chong, K., Coburn, P. I., & Connolly, D. A. (2018). Differences in child sexual abuse cases involving child versus adolescent complainants. Child Abuse & Neglect, 79, 224-233.
  • Vargen, M. L., Weinsheimer, C. C., Coburn, P. I., & Chong, K., & Connolly, D. A. (2018). The effects of age at court on legal outcomes. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24, 248 - 257.
  • Coburn, P. I., Chong, K., & Connolly, D. A. (2017). The effect of case severity on sentence length in cases of child sexual assault in Canada. Child Sexual Abuse, 26, 319-333.
  • Connolly, D. A., Coburn, P. I., & Chong, K. (2017). Twenty-six years prosecuting historic child sexual abuse: has anything changed? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 23, 166 -177.
  • Giroux, M. E., Coburn, P. I., Connolly, D. A., Bernstein, D. M. (2017). Perspective taking abilities across the lifespan: A review of hindsight bias and theory of mind. In M. Toplak & J. Weller (Eds.) Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision Making from a Developmental Context (pp. 147 - 165). New York, NY: Psychology Press.
  • Weinsheimer, C. C., Woiwod, D. M., Coburn, P. I., Chong, K., & Connolly, D. A. (2017). The unusual suspects: Female versus male accused in child sexual abuse cases. Child Abuse and Neglect, 72, 446 - 455.
  • Weinsheimer, C. C., Coburn, P. I., Chong, K., MacLean, C., & Connolly, D. A. (2017). Perceptions of credibility for a memory of a single versus repeated event. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31,414 - 423.
  • Giroux, M. E., Coburn, P. I., Harley, E. M., Connolly, D. A., Bernstein, D. M. (2016). Hindsight bias and law. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 224(3), 190 - 203.
  • Coburn, P. I., Connolly, D. A., & Roesch, R. (2015). Cyberbullying: Is federal criminal legislation the solution? Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 57(4), 566-579.
  • Connolly, D. A., Chong, K., Coburn, P. I., & Lutgens, D. (2015). Factors associated with delays of days to decades to criminal prosecutions of child sexual abuse. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 33(4), 546-560.
  • Connolly, D. A., & Coburn, P. I. (2015). Legal theory and the relationship between psychology and law. Learning Forensic Assessment: Research and Practice, 32.
  • Coburn, P. I., Bernstein, D. M., & Begeer, S. (2014). A new paper and pencil task reveals adult false belief reasoning bias. Psychological Research 79(5), 739-749.
  • Connolly, D. A., Coburn, P. I., & Yiu, A. (2014). Potential motive to fabricate and the assessment of child witnesses in sexual assault cases. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 30(2), 63-70.
  • Pedersen, C., Lymburner, J., Ali, J. I., & Coburn, P. I. (2013). Organizing an undergraduate psychology conference: the successes and challenges of employing a student-led approach. Journal of Psychology Learning & Teaching, 12, (1), 83-91.