Professor M Garry
Qualifications: PhD Connecticut
Expertise
Human Behaviour; Psychology
Research Interests
Memory, memory distortions, false memories, traumatic memories, (the myth of) repression, memory and its overlap with the law.
Recent Publications
for more information, head over to garrylab.com
Jordan, K., Zajac, R, Bernstein, D, Joshi, C. & Garry, M.(2022). Trivially informative semantic context inflates peoples confidence they can perform a highly complex skill. Royal Society Open Science, 10.1098/rsos.211977
Rasmussen, A. S., Burton-Wood, C. G., Burnell, R., & Garry, M. (2022). The Memories that People Would Save or Erase Differ from their most Positive and Negative Memories on Function, Emotion, and Correspondence with the Life Script. Memory, 10.1080/09658211.2022.2069821
Burnell, R., Nash, R. A., Umanath, S., & Garry, M. (2022). Memories people no longer believe in can still affect them in helpful and harmful ways, Memory & Cognition, 0.3758/s13421-022-01328-9
Garry, M., Hope, L., Zajac, R. Verrall, A.J., & Robertson, J.M. (2021). Contact Tracing: A Memory Task with Consequences for Public Health, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1745691620978205.
Burnell, R., & Garry, M. (2021). People draw on the consequences of others’ negative experiences to make unwarranted appraisals about those experiences. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.03.002
Taylor, A., Zajac, R, Takarangi, M.K.T., & Garry, M.(2021). Evidence From the Trauma Film Paradigm That Traumatic and Non-Traumatic Memories are Statistically Equivalent on Coherence. Clinical Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211053312
Taylor, A., Jordan, K., Zajac, R, Takarangi, M.K.T., & Garry, M.(2020). Judgments of memory coherence depend on how fluently a memory is retrieved, regardless of reported PTSD Symptoms. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition.
Burnell, R., Garry, M., & Rasmussen, A. S. (2020). Negative Memories Serve Functions in Both Adaptive and Maladaptive Ways. Memory, 28, 494-505, 10.1080/09658211.2020.1737133
Taylor, A., Sanson, M., Burnell, R., Wade, K.A., & Garry, M. (2020). Disfluent Difficulties Are Not Desirable Difficulties: The (Lack of) Effect of Sans Forgetica on Memory. Memory, doi:10.1080/09658211.2020.1758726
Taylor, R. & Garry, M. (2019). People infuse their passwords with autobiographical information, Memory, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1539499
Undorf, M., Mah, E. Y., McDonald, D. L., Hamzagic, Z. I., Burnell, R., Garry, M., & Bernstein, D. M. (2019). People who cheat on tests accurately predict their performance on future tests. Journal of Learning and Instruction.
Sanson, M., Strange, D., & Garry, M. (2019). “Trigger warnings” are trivially helpful at reducing negative affect, intrusive thoughts, and avoidance, Clinical Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702619827018
Sanson, M., Cardwell, B.A., Rasmussen, A.S., & Garry, M. (2019) Evidence that “voluntary” versus “involuntary” retrieval is a fluency-based attribution. Psychological Reports, https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294119854180
Michael, R. B., & Garry, M. (2019). How do ordered questions bias eyewitnesses? Memory, 27, 904-915. doi:10.1080/09658211.2019.1607388
Garry, M. (2019). Title IX: the Big Mess on Campus comment on Meissner and Lyles. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition.
Quigley-McBride, A., Franco, G., McLaren, D.B., Mantonakis, A., and Garry, M. (2018). In the real world, people prefer the last whisky when tasting options in a long sequence. PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone. 0202732
Wade, K.A., Garry, M., & Pezdek, K. (2018). De-constructing Rich False Memories of Committing Crime. Psychological Science, 29, 471-476, http:// journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797617703667
Sanson, M., Newman, E. J., & Garry, M. (2017). The characteristics of imagined future experiences and memories that serve a directive function. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ cns0000136
Taylor, R., Burton-Wood, C., & Garry, M. (2017). America was great when nationally relevant events occurred and when Americans were young. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.05.003
Cardwell, B.A., Lindsay, D.S., Garry, M. & Förster, K. (2017). Uninformative Photos Can Increase People’s Perceived Knowledge of Complicated Processes. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.05.002
Cardwell, B.A., Newman, E.J., Garry, M., Mantonakis, A., & Beckett, R. (2017). Photos that increase feelings of learning promote positive evaluations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 10.1037/xlm0000358
Cardwell, B. A., Henkel, L. A., Garry, M., Newman, E. J., & Foster, J. L. (2016). Nonprobative photos rapidly lead people to believe claims about their own (and other people’s) pasts. Memory & Cognition, 44, 883-89610.3758/s13421-016-0603-1
Nash, R. A., Wade, K. A., Garry, M., Loftus, E. F., & Ost, J. (2016). Misrepresentations and flawed logic about the prevalence of false memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 10.1002/acp.3265
Nash, R.A, Wade, K.A., Garry, M. & Adelman, J.S. (2016). A robust preference for cheap-and-easy strategies over reliable strategies when verifying personal memories. Memory, 10.1080/09658211.2016.1214280
Newman, E.J., Azad, T., Lindsay, D.S. & Garry, M. (2016). Evidence that photos promote rosiness in predictions about the future. Memory & Cognition, 10.3758/s13421-016-0652-5
Newman, E.J., Garry, M., Unkelbach, C., Bernstein, D.M., Lindsay, D.S., & Nash, R. (2015). Truthiness and falsiness of trivia claims depend on judgmental contexts, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 41, dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000099
Michael, R.B., & Garry, M. (2015). Ordered questions bias eyewitnesses and jurors. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0933-1
Lynn, S.J., Lilienfeld, S.O., Merckelbach, H., Giesbrecht, T., McNally, R.J., Loftus, E.F., Bruck, M., Garry, M. & Malaktaris, A. (2014). The trauma model of dissociation: Inconvenient truths and stubborn fictions: Reply to Dalenberg et al., Psychological Bulletin.
Wade, K.A., Nash, R.A, & Garry, M. (2014). People consider reliability and cost when verifying their autobiographical memories. Acta Psychologica, 146, 28–34.
Newman, E.J., Sanson, M, Miller, E.K., Quigley-McBride A., Foster, J.L., Bernstein, D.B & Garry, M. (2014). People with Easier to Pronounce Names Promote Truthiness of Claims. PLOS ONE, 10.1371/journal.pone.0088671
Michael, R.B., Braniff, G., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F. (2014). Thinking about regret: Number of memories, not ease of retrieval, influences judgments about regret, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. doi.org/10.1037/cns0000030
Hewitt, L. Y., Kane, R., & Garry, M. (2013). Speaking Order Predicts Memory Conformity After Accounting for Exposure to Misinformation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10.3758/s13423-013-0377-4
Michael, R. B., Newman, E. J., Vuorre, M., Cumming, G., & Garry, M. (2013). On the (non)persuasive power of a brain image. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10.3758/s13423-013-0391-6
Zajac, R., Garry, M., London, K., Goodyear-Smith, F., & Hayne, H. (2013). Misconceptions about childhood sexual abuse and child witnesses: Implications for psychological experts in the courtroom. Memory, doi:10.1080/09658211.2013.778287
Fenn, E., Newman, E.J., Pezdek, K., & Garry, M. (2013). The Effect of Nonprobative Photographs on Truthiness Judgments Persists Over Time. Acta Psychologica, doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.06.004
Wade, C., Tavris, C. & Garry, M. (2013). Psychology, 11th edition. New York: Pearson.
Foster, J.L., Garry, M., Huthwaite, T., Yesberg, J. & Loftus, E.F. (2012). Repetition, Not Number of Sources, Increases both Susceptibility to Misinformation and Confidence in the Accuracy of Eyewitnesses. Acta Psychologica, 320-326. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.12.004
Foster, J.L & Garry, M. (2012). Building False Memories without Suggestions. American Journal of Psychology. 25, 225-232. doi:10.5406/amerjpsyc.125.2.0225
Michael, R. B., Garry, M., & Kirsch, I. (2012). Suggestion, cognition, and behavior, 21, 151-156. Current Directions in Psychological Science 10.1177/0963721412446369
Newman, E.J., Garry, M., Bernstein, D.M., Kantner, J. & Lindsay, D.S. (2012). Non-Probative Photographs (or Words) Inflate Truthiness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10.3758/s13423-012-0292-0