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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ...
