Erin M. Harley

Dr. Erin M. Harley Ph.D.is a Senior Managing Scientist in Exponent's Human Factors practice from Bellevue, WA.Dr. Harley focuses on the perceptual, cognitive, and performance issues relating to human behavior and applies her expertise to analyses of accidents and injuries. She investigates visibility, lighting, reaction time, eyewitness memory, hindsight bias, driver behavior, perceptions and reactions of skiers and snowboarders, and warning design and compliance. She applies her expertise in perception, bias, and memory to issues surrounding the reliability of eyewitness testimony. She has been Certified by English XL Tribometrist (CXLT). Dr. Harley completed her B.A. in Psychology from Boston University. She earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at the University of Washington and worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.She further pursued her Fellowship for participation in the McDonnell Foundation's Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College and from University of Washington Social Sciences Dissertation. She is a Member of Vision Sciences Society and Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. She has few publications to her credit.