Browsing by Supervisor "Garry, Maryanne"
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A little birdie told me: People will consider ambiguous utterances from parrots when making judgements of guilt.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)How much would you trust a parrot as an eyewitness? The question is not hypothetical: lawyers have tried to use “testimony” from animals. We asked two questions: First, had a court allowed a parrot’s utterance to be entered ... -
Empirical support for the adaptive and maladaptive functions of autobiographical memory
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Autobiographical memories are hypothesised to serve at least three functions: they direct people’s behaviour, inform their identity, and facilitate social bonding. But most of the research on these three functions has ... -
How do people assess the truth of partially-familiar claims, relative to both familiar and unfamiliar claims?
(The University of Waikato, 2023)People rate familiar claims as more true than unfamiliar claims, possibly because familiarity makes these claims feel easier to process. But little is known about how people assess the truth of claims that consist of a ... -
Medium of mass misinformation: Repetition increases people's rating of truth for real and satirical headlines
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Many people have adopted harmful behaviors in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, to the detriment of public health and personal safety of others and themselves. While adoption of these behaviors is often attributed to ... -
Semantic context produces overconfidence in one’s ability to perform highly specialised skills
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Some research suggests people are overconfident because of their personality characteristics, a lack of insight, or because overconfidence is beneficial in its own right (Dunning et al., 2003; Johnson & Fowler, 2011; Paulhus ... -
The coherence of traumatic and non-traumatic memories: A tale of equivalence
(The University of Waikato, 2023)There is contention in the scientific literature about the mechanisms by which our memories for traumatic events operate. In one view, the extremely negative nature of traumatic events results in incomplete encoding, leaving ... -
"Trigger warnings" are trivially effective at reducing distress
(The University of Waikato, 2018)University students are requesting, and many of their professors are issuing, “trigger warnings.” Trigger warnings are a kind of content warning; they give a précis of the material to follow and caution that it may cause ...
