Maryanne Garry

Professor, University of Waikato. Maryanne Garry received her Ph.D. 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 about themselves, or about others, that just aren’t true? Her work has been funded by granting agencies in the U.S., Japan, and the New Zealand Government through the Marsden Fund, administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand on behalf of the Marsden Fund Council.