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Maryanne Garry is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand and works primarily within the fields of psychology and neuroscience. Their research spans a range of subfields including cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, social psychology, and clinical psychology. The thematic focus of their work involves memory processes and influences, identity, memory and therapy, misinformation and its impacts, deception detection and forensic psychology, COVID-19 digital contact tracing, cognitive functions and memory, as well as posttraumatic stress disorder research.

Their recent published papers demonstrate a consistent engagement with topics at the intersection of memory and cognition, as well as the societal implications of these functions. Selected recent articles include:

  • "Contact Tracing: A Memory Task With Consequences for Public Health," 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Disfluent difficulties are not desirable difficulties: the (lack of) effect of Sans Forgetica on memory," 2020, Memory
  • "Large language models (LLMs) and the institutionalization of misinformation," 2024, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Negative memories serve functions in both adaptive and maladaptive ways," 2020, Memory
  • "Collective remembering and future forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries," 2022, Memory & Cognition

The frequent co-authors working alongside Maryanne Garry include:

  • Rachel Zajac
  • Andrea S. Taylor
  • Ryan Burnell
  • Melanie K. T. Takarangi
  • Jeffrey L. Foster

Maryanne Garry's work has been widely presented in recurring publication venues, which offer insight into their disciplinary networks and audience. These venues include:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (8 publications)
  • Memory (5 publications)
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science (2 publications)
  • Memory & Cognition (2 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (2 publications)

Their research interests consistently emphasize memory processes and the various factors that influence them in both individual and societal contexts. This includes examining how memory functions during public health crises, the role of misinformation especially related to emerging technologies like large language models, and the psychological underpinnings of memory-related therapeutic practices. The blend of cognitive neuroscience with social and clinical psychological dimensions marks the interdisciplinary approach characteristic of their scholarship.

Best Publications

  • Imagination Inflation: Imagining a Childhood Event Inflates Confidence That It Occurred

    Maryanne Garry;Charles G. Manning;Elizabeth F. Loftus;Steven J. Sherman

  • A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories

    Kimberley A. Wade;Maryanne Garry;J. Don Read;D. Stephen Lindsay

  • True Photographs and False Memories

    D. Stephen Lindsay;Lisa Hagen;J. Don Read;Kimberley A. Wade

  • Nonprobative photographs (or words) inflate truthiness

    Eryn J. Newman;Maryanne Garry;Daniel M. Bernstein;Justin Kantner

  • Imagination and Memory

    Maryanne Garry;Devon L.L. Polaschek

  • Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

    V. K. Alogna;M. K. Attaya;P. Aucoin;Š. Bahník

  • The trauma model of dissociation: inconvenient truths and stubborn fictions. Comment on Dalenberg et al. (2012).

    Steven Jay Lynn;Scott O. Lilienfeld;Harald Merckelbach;Timo Giesbrecht

  • Actually, a picture is worth less than 45 words : Narratives produce more false memories than photographs do

    Maryanne Garry;Kimberley A. Wade

  • You say tomato? Collaborative remembering leads to more false memories for intimate couples than for strangers

    Lauren French;Maryanne Garry;Kazuo Mori

  • When Photographs Create False Memories

    Maryanne Garry;Matthew P. Gerrie

  • Forgetting Sexual Trauma: What Does It Mean When 38% Forget?.

    Elizabeth F. Loftus;Maryanne Garry;Julie Feldman

  • NESB and ESB students' attitudes and perceptions of plagiarism

    Stephen Marshall;Maryanne Garry

  • Suggestion, Cognition, and Behavior:

    Robert B. Michael;Maryanne Garry;Irving Kirsch;Irving Kirsch

  • On the (non) persuasive power of a brain image.

    Robert B. Michael;Eryn J. Newman;Matti Vuorre;Geoff Cumming

  • False claims about false memory research.

    Kimberley A. Wade;Stefanie J. Sharman;Maryanne Garry;Amina Memon

  • Absolut® Memory Distortions: Alcohol Placebos Influence the Misinformation Effect

    Seema L. Assefi;Maryanne Garry

  • Modernising the misinformation effect: the development of a new stimulus set

    Melanie K.T. Takarangi;Sophie Parker;Maryanne Garry

  • Relative – not absolute – judgments of credibility affect susceptibility to misinformation conveyed during discussion

    Lauren French;Maryanne Garry;Kazuo Mori

  • Repetition, not number of sources, increases both susceptibility to misinformation and confidence in the accuracy of eyewitnesses

    Jeffrey L. Foster;Thomas Huthwaite;Julia A. Yesberg;Maryanne Garry

  • Eyewitness memory following discussion: using the MORI technique with a Western sample

    Maryanne Garry;Lauren French;Toni Kinzett;Kazuo Mori

  • Memory: A River Runs through It

    Maryanne Garry;Elizabeth F. Loftus;Scott W. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth F. Loftus
Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine
Harlene Hayne
Harlene Hayne Curtin University
Daniel M. Bernstein
Daniel M. Bernstein Kwantlen Polytechnic University
D. Stephen Lindsay
D. Stephen Lindsay University of Victoria
J. Don Read
J. Don Read University of East London
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Maggie Bruck
Maggie Bruck Johns Hopkins University
Richard J. McNally
Richard J. McNally Harvard University
Irving Kirsch
Irving Kirsch Harvard University
Steven Jay Lynn
Steven Jay Lynn Binghamton University

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