Calif-legal.com: California Expert Witness, Ralph Haber, Ph.D., Lyn Haber, Ph.D., Accident Prevention, Safety, ADA, Audio/Video, Comprehension, Child Witness, Criminalistics, Eyewitness Identification, Fingerprints/Fingerprinting, Human Factors, Identification, Labels & Warnings, Language/Language Assessment, Linguistics, Memory, Slips, Trips & Falls, Sexual and Verbal Harassment Expert Witness

Specialty Areas:

Human Factors Consultants specializes in providing legal expertise, consultation and testimony on eyewitness identification, including issues of perception, memory, line-up procedures, recovered memory; the factors that affect the accuracy of fingerprint comparisons; language, including comprehension, verbal and nonverbal harassment, children's understanding, memory and testimony; and safety failures, including human factors analyses of product design, warning, and training, and of accidents.

Ralph Haber, Ph.D., and Lyn Haber, Ph.D., are the two partners in Human Factors Consultants. We are scientists who provide testimony about the factors identified in scientific research that are relevant to the facts of a specific case. We have assisted clients in ten states and six Federal court districts. We have been retained by both plaintiffs and defendants in over 75 civil cases, and by both prosecution and defense in over 75 criminal cases.

Summary of Experience:

Ralph Haber received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Stanford University, his BA and MA from the University of Michigan and Wesleyan University, respectively, and post-graduate training in Cambridge, England in human factors from the Medical Research Council. He has held full time teaching and research appointments at Stanford University, Yale University, University of Rochester, and the University of Illinois, has been chairman of the psychology department at the University of Rochester, has held a full time research appointment with the United States Air Force, and has held visiting appointments at many other universities.

He has 48 years of teaching, research and applied professional experience in psychology, with specialization in visual perception, memory, thinking, decision making, human error, human factors, training and evaluation, and forensic identification. he has received 25 grants and contracts from the United States government and the United States Military. He has published 7 books and 250 professional scientific papers, and given over 100 conference and convention presentations.

Lyn Haber received her Ph.D. and MA in experimental linguistics from the University of Berkeley. Her BA is from Brandeis University. She also has a degree in German from the University of Vienna, a master's degree in Education from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and national certification as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She has held full-time teaching and research positions at Temple University, University of Rochester, University of Illinois at Chicago and Arizona State University at Tempe. She has designed training programs and then trained teachers/nurses/locomotive engineers and evaluated the results in a number of contexts, including an English-as-a-Second-Language program for Russians living in Italy, VA staff caring for language-impaired veterans, teachers of both deaf and blind students; and training and certification programs for freight railway locomotive engineers.

Her specialties include analysis and diagnosis of language ability in children and adults, the design and evaluation of training programs, how questioning influences memory and recall accuracy, verbal and nonverbal harassment, and the science of fingerprint comparisons. She has received 7 grants and contracts from the United States Government, published 7 books, 60 scientific research articles, and given over 100 conference and convention presentations.