Maryanne Garry


Maryanne Connell-Covello Garry is a New Zealand educational psychology academic. As of mid-2018, she is a full professor at the University of Waikato. Garry is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.

Academic career

After a PhD titled 'Susceptibility to memory distortions as a function of skill' at the University of Connecticut, she worked at Victoria University of Wellington then moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.
Garry's work involves using 'rigorous experimental methods' to investigate memories, some of which has been widely reported on

Awards and honours

Garry is a fellow or the Association for Psychological Science, an honour granted for "sustained outstanding contributions to the science of psychology in the areas of research, teaching, service and/or application".

Selected works