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Maryanne Garry

Researcher at University of Waikato

Publications -  109
Citations -  4244

Maryanne Garry is an academic researcher from University of Waikato. The author has contributed to research in topics: False memory & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 100 publications receiving 3848 citations. Previous affiliations of Maryanne Garry include Victoria University of Wellington & University of Washington.

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

TL;DR: This experiment asks if imagining events from one’s past can affect memory for childhood events, drawing on the social psychology literature showing that imagining a future event increases the subjective likelihood that the event will occur.
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A picture is worth a thousand lies: Using false photographs to create false childhood memories

TL;DR: Twenty subjects were exposed to a false childhood event via a fake photograph and imagery instructions and tried to recall the event by using guided-imagery exercises, creating complete or partial false memories.
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True Photographs and False Memories

TL;DR: This study asked 45 undergraduates to work at remembering three school-related childhood events and found the rate of false-memory reports in the photo condition was substantially higher than the rate in any previously published study.
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Registered Replication Report: Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990)

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TL;DR: This article found that participants who described the robber were 25% worse at identifying the robber in a lineup than were participants who instead listed U.S. states and capitals, which has been termed the verbal overshadowing effect.
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Imagination and Memory

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that imagining a counter-factual event can make subjects more confident that it actually occurred than real-world events, and that imagination inflation can occur even when there is no overt social pressure and when hypothetical events are imagined only briefly.