Maryanne Garry Explained

Maryanne Connell-Covello Garry
Fields:	Educational psychology
Alma Mater:	University of Connecticut
Thesis1 Title:	Susceptibility to memory distortions as a function of skill
Thesis1 Url:	https://primo-pmtna01.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01UCT_ALMA21359628530002432&context=L&vid=01UCT&search_scope=EVERYTHING&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US
Thesis1 Year:	1993

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.

Academic career

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

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

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maryanne Garry - Staff Profiles: University of Waikato. www.waikato.ac.nz.
2. Web site: Maryanne Garry - Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington - School of Psychology. ResearchGate.
3. Web site: Maryanne Garry – MENZ Issues. menz.org.nz.
4. Web site: Royal Society Te Apārangi - The secret life of traumatic memories. royalsociety.org.nz.
5. Web site: The reminiscence bump: why America's greatest year was probably when you were young. Matthew. Warren. 31 October 2017. The Guardian.
6. Web site: Overexposed Camera Phones Could Be Washing Out Our Memories.
7. Web site: Selfies and the Corrosion of Human Memory. Jason . Thomas.
8. Web site: How Not to Be the Next Brian Williams. Christopher. Chabris. Daniel. Simons. 10 February 2015. Slate.
9. Web site: Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows. www.psychologicalscience.org. en-US. 2018-09-05.