Maryanne Garry

Summary

Maryanne Connell-Covello Garry is a New Zealand educational psychology academic. As of mid-2018, she is a full professor at the University of Waikato.[1] Garry is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Maryanne Connell-Covello Garry
Alma materUniversity of Connecticut
Scientific career
FieldsEducational psychology
Thesis
  • Susceptibility to memory distortions as a function of skill  (1993)

Academic career edit

After a PhD titled 'Susceptibility to memory distortions as a function of skill' at the University of Connecticut, she worked at Victoria University of Wellington[2][3] then moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.[1]

Garry's work involves using 'rigorous experimental methods' to investigate memories,[4] some of which has been widely reported on[5][6][7][8]

Awards and honours edit

Garry is a fellow or the Association for Psychological Science, an honour granted for "sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application".[9]

Selected works edit

  • Garry, Maryanne, Charles G. Manning, Elizabeth F. Loftus, and Steven J. Sherman. "Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 3, no. 2 (1996): 208–214.
  • Wade, Kimberley A., Maryanne Garry, J. Don Read, and D. Stephen Lindsay. "A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 9, no. 3 (2002): 597–603.
  • Lindsay, D. Stephen, Lisa Hagen, J. Don Read, Kimberley A. Wade, and Maryanne Garry. "True photographs and false memories." Psychological Science 15, no. 3 (2004): 149–154.
  • Loftus, Elizabeth F., Maryanne Garry, and Julie Feldman. "Forgetting sexual trauma: What does it mean when 38% forget?." (1994): 1177.
  • Garry, Maryanne, and Devon LL Polaschek. "Imagination and memory." Current Directions in Psychological Science 9, no. 1 (2000): 6–10.
  • Garry, Maryanne, Lorraine Hope, Rachel Zajac, Ayesha J. Verrall and Jamie M. Robertson. "Contact tracing: A memory task with consequences for Public Health." Perspectives on Psychological Science 16, no. 1 (10 December 2020): 175–187.

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Maryanne Garry - Staff Profiles: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz.
  2. ^ "Maryanne Garry - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington - School of Psychology". ResearchGate.
  3. ^ "Maryanne Garry – MENZ Issues". menz.org.nz.
  4. ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi - The secret life of traumatic memories". royalsociety.org.nz.
  5. ^ Warren, Matthew (31 October 2017). "The reminiscence bump: why America's greatest year was probably when you were young". The Guardian.
  6. ^ "Overexposed Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories".
  7. ^ Thomas, Jason. "Selfies and the Corrosion of Human Memory".
  8. ^ Chabris, Christopher; Simons, Daniel (10 February 2015). "How Not to Be the Next Brian Williams" – via Slate.
  9. ^ "Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows". www.psychologicalscience.org. Retrieved 5 September 2018.

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