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
Taylor, R. & Garry, M. (2019). People infuse their passwords with autobiographical information, Memory, 10.1080/09658211.2018.1539499
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/10.1177/2F2167702619827018
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