Prof Maryanne Garry

Professor

Course Coordinator

• PSYC 101 Popular Psychology
• PSYC 322 Memory
• PSYC 421 False Memories

Areas of Interest

Real-life memory distortions, especially as they apply to legal settings

I am interested in how we can come to believe we saw or did something that we never did, and how we decide whether our memories are true or false. I have testified in court and consulted with defence attorneys on the legal implications for these issues (for instance, the accuracy of eyewitness testimony and "recovered" memories of childhood sexual abuse).

Selected Publications

Berkowitz, S.R., Laney, C., Morris, E.K., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F. (in press). Pluto behaving badly: False beliefs and their consequences. American Journal of Psychology.

Sharman, S.J., Garry, M., Ditto, P.H., Loftus, E.F., & Jacobson, J.A. (in press). False memories for end-of-life decisions. Health Psychology.

Takarangi, M. K. T., Polaschek, D. L. L. Garry, M. & Loftus, E. F. (in press). Psychological science, victim advocates, and the problem of recovered memories. International Review of Victimology.

Loftus, E.F., Garry, M. & Hayne, H. (to appear 2007). Repressed and recovered memory. To appear in E. Borgida and S.T. Fiske (eds.), Psychological Science in Court: Beyond Common Knowledge. Blackwell.

Strange, D. & Garry, M. (2007). On cognition and the media. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 1-2.

Garry, M., Strange, D., Bernstein, D.N., & Kinzett, T. (2007). Photographs can distort memory for the news. Applied Cognitive Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/acp.1362; published online 21 May 2007. Download uncorrected proof here

Garry, M., French, L., Kinzett, T., & Mori, K. (2007). The MORI technique produces memory conformity in western subjects. Applied Cognitive Psychology. First published online 9 August 2007, DOI: 10.1002/acp.1376

Wade, K.A., Sharman, S.J., Garry, M., Memon, A., Mazzoni, G., Merckelbach, H. & Loftus, E.F. (2007). False claims about false memory research. Consciousness & Cognition, 16, 18-28.

Clifasefi, S.L., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F. (2007). Setting the record (or video camera) straight on memory: the video camera model of memory and other memory myths. In Della Sala (Ed.) Tall tales about the mind and brain: Separating fact from fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 60-65.

Sutherland, R., Strange, D., & Garry, M.. (2007). We've got the whole child witness thing figured out — or have we? In Della Sala (Ed.) Tall tales about the mind and brain: Separating fact from fiction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 91-102.

Clifasefi, S.L., Garry, M., Harper, D.N., Sharman, S.J., & Sutherland, R. (2007). Psychotropic placebos create resistance to the misinformation effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 14, 112-117.

Gerrie, M.P. & Garry, M. (2007). Individual differences i30 September, 2009pects of events. Memory. 15, 561 – 571.

Takarangi, M.K.T., Polaschek, D.L.L., Hignett, A., & Garry, M. (2007). Chronic and temporary aggression causes hostile false memories for ambiguous information. Applied Cognitive Psychology. First published online 26 Jan 2007; 10.1002/acp.1327 Download copy here

Takarangi, M. K. T., Garry, M. & Loftus, E. F. (2006). Dear diary, is plastic better than paper? I can't remember. Psychological Methods, 11, 119-122.

Gerrie, M.P., Belcher, L., & Garry, M. (2006). Systematic eyewitness false memories occur in the absence of external suggestion. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 689-696.

Takarangi, M. K. T., Parker, S., & Garry, M. (2006). Modernizing the misinformation effect. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 583-590.

French, L., Sutherland, R., & Garry, M. (2006). Discussion affects memory for true and false childhood events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 671-680. Download copy here

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