Since 1987 Dr. Cutler has held faculty and academic administrative positions at Florida International University, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Ontario Tech University, and Fielding Graduate University, where he is presently Professor and Media Psychology Program Director.
Since 1983, Dr. Cutler has conducted research on various forensic and social psychology topics. He has active research programs on eyewitness memory and interrogations. Dr. Cutler has held research grants from the National Science Foundation of the United States and Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Dr. Cutler’s publications include Editor or Author of The APA Handbook of Forensic Psychology, the Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, Reform of Eyewitness Identification Procedures, Conviction of the Innocent: Lessons from Psychological Research, and five other books. He is also an author of more than 30 book chapters, 70 peer-reviewed articles, and 30 articles in professional newsletters. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Law and Human Behavior, the journal of the American Psychology-Law Society and Past President of the American Psychology-Law Society.
In 1989, Dr. Cutler began serving as a consultant and expert witness in cases involving risk factors for mistaken eyewitness identifications and mistaken eyewitness memories and has to date consulted in about 300 cases. In 2013, Dr. Cutler began serving as a consultant and expert witness in cases involving the risk factors for false accusations and false confessions, and to date has consulted in about 80 cases. Dr. Cutler has consulted and testified in criminal (juvenile and adult) and civil cases (human rights and accident cases), depositions, hearings regarding admissibility of expert testimony, motions to suppress eyewitness identifications and confessions, ineffectiveness of counsel hearings, post-conviction appeals, bench trials, and jury trials.
In 2021 Dr. Cutler was honored with the Jane Bieber Abramson Award from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law for his consultation and expert testimony in wrongful conviction cases. Dr. Cutler is Distinguished Member of the American Psychology-Law Society, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and a Member of the Society for Media Psychology and Technology, and the International Association of Interviewers.
As a professor, Dr. Cutler has taught classes on a wide range of psychology courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods, Social Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Eyewitness Science, Expert Psychological Testimony, Aggression, Social Influence, Classic Readings in Social Psychology, Interpersonal Relationships and Group Processes, Professional Development, and Writing for the Social Sciences. He has also supervised numerous master’s theses and doctoral dissertations and served as a mentor to other faculty members.
Published Work
Dr. Cutler has authored and edited books on forensic psychology topics, often in partnership with distinguished colleagues. He has also authored and co-authored articles for peer-reviewed journals, law reviews, and trial advocacy publications. His objectives have included contributing to the scholarly knowledge about forensic psychology and facilitating translation of this knowledge into legal practice and policy.
