Maryanne Garry

Maryanne Garry

Maryanne Garry appears on this site as first author of the 1996 Psychonomic Bulletin & Review paper on imagination inflation.

Who they are

The work of Maryanne Garry reaches this site through the paper listed below. On this site the name is tied to Imagination Inflation.

Key papers

Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208-214. What it reports: Participants rated how confident they were that childhood events had happened to them, imagined some of those events, and rated them again. Imagining an event inflated confidence that it had occurred, for every target event.

Key ideas

Imagination Inflation: Imagining an event raises confidence that it happened.

Sources

  1. Garry, M., Manning, C. G., Loftus, E. F., & Sherman, S. J. (1996). Imagination inflation: Imagining a childhood event inflates confidence that it occurred. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 3(2), 208-214.