Miko M. Wilford is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Iowa State University whose research focuses on eyewitness identification, learning and memory, and legal decision-making. She is the Principal Investigator of the Psycho-Legal Experiments and Applications lab and has served as a trial consultant for cases concerning eyewitness misidentification and false guilty pleas.
Biography.
Before graduating from the doctoral program at Iowa State University, Wilford received her master's and bachelor's degrees at the same university. She graduated "magna cum laude" with honors with a bachelor of science degree in Psychology and a bachelor of arts degree in Political Science with a minor in Applied Statistics. Wilford received her Ph.D. from Iowa State University under the advisement of Gary L. Wells and Jason C.K. Chan. Her graduate research was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and an American Psychology–Law Society Dissertation Award. 
Prior to joining the faculty at Iowa State, Wilford was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts–Lowell. 
Research.
Wilford conducts research on false guilty pleas, eyewitness misidentification, plea bargains, and learning and memory. She completed a multi-phase project that helped examine factors that lead to the acceptance of plea bargains from adults and juveniles. This project involved creating computer simulation software to study plea decision-making.
Awards.
Wilford has received numerous awards including an National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Association of Psychological Science Rising Star, Lloyd Avant Scholars Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Psychology, American Psychology–Law Society Student Section "Legal Research" Award, Graduate College Research Excellence Award, Exceptional Undergraduate Mentoring Award. 
External links.
Miko M. Wilford publications indexed by Google Scholar