MARYANNE GARRY

Maryanne Garry received her PhD in 1993 from the University of Connecticut, and did postdoctoral work at the University of Washington. In 1996 she moved to Victoria University of Wellington, where she worked for 20 years before taking up a joint appointment in 2016 at the University of Waikato, as a Professor of Psychology and a Professor in the New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science (one of only two in the world) at The University of Waikato.

She studies a puzzle of memory: how is that otherwise intelligent, rational people can remember or believe things that aren’t true? Over the years, she has amassed a solid body of theoretically-grounded applied research that helps us shed light on the causes and consequences of these false memories and beliefs. Her work has been funded by granting agencies in excess of $3.5million from the US, Japan, and in New Zealand, where she has been awarded several Marsden grants from the Royal Society.

Although Garry's research is widely cited both in her own discipline and in the allied disciplines of law, history, and mental health. Because her work is considered foundational to psychological science, it features in myriad undergraduate textbooks. But it is also accessible enough to feature in popular books written for an educated lay audience, and on numerous television and radio documentaries. She frequently provides expert assistance to the Court.

Garry has received university awards for excellence in research, and for excellence in teaching. She received a Neag Distinguished Alumni research award from the University of Connecticut.  She was elected to the Governing Board of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition for four consecutive terms, and served two terms as its president. She also served an elected term on the Board of Directors of the Association of Psychological Science (APS), a nonprofit organization of more than 30,000 members dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation worldwide. Garry is a Fellow of the Psychonomics Society, and of APS, and was the founding chair of the APS Open Science Committee. Garry’s PhD students have gone to become highly-respected accomplished scientists in their own right, at many outstanding institutions around the world.

SPEAKING IN SESSION:

"Fast Fact - You can't trust your memory in the boardroom" - Day two, 1:45PM