Background
John C. Yuille was born December 1, 1941 in Montreal, Quebec.
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He attended the University of Western Ontario, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1964, his master"s in 1965, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1967.
Career
He was a teaching assistant and postdoctoral fellow at McGill University from 1967 to 1968. He was an assistant professor (1968–1973), then an associate professor (1973–1986), and eventually a full professor at the University of British Columbia (1986–2006). He was a visiting professor at the University of Salzburg in Austria from 1974 to 1975.
He served as a visiting lecturer at the British Columbia Police College from 1976 to 1991.
He was also a visiting consultant at the Family Life Development Division at Cornell University from 1990 to 1991. Yuille is best known for his work with eyewitness research from the 1980s and beyond.
Yuille"s research focuses on studying eyewitnesses as they exist in the real world, not just as they appear to work in simulated situations in laboratories Yuille emphasizes that this type of work is especially important because while there are plenty of hypothetical, lab-constructed studies of eyewitness memory, "..The variances and covariances among variables that infiltrate actual eyewitness cases are controlled or "randomized out" in experimental research in ways that can make generalization from experiments to actual cases a risky endeavour under certain circumstances." Yuille has also done other notable studies on law enforcement training, the use of expert witnesses in court to determine credibility of eyewitness accounts, and assessment of children"s testimony in court.
