Research Overview
My research involves investigations of autobiographical remembering and forgetting, drawing on concepts and approaches from hypnosis and posthypnotic amnesia and from experimental and clinical work on memory. My current work examines how and why people forget some, but not other, memories from their past. I have collaborated with John Sutton and an interdisciplinary team of cognitive psychologists, philosophers and neuropsychologists at Macquarie and beyond in an investigation of collective memory - how groups of people, not just individual group members, share and remember events from their collective past. I am currently investigating the costs and benefits of remembering alone vs. together and focusing on when and how remembering with a long-term partner helps memory, especially as we age.
I also maintain a strong interest and experimental research program in hypnosis: how it works and how it can be used to understand everyday and clinical distortions of perception, memory, action and belief, such as delusions. I have co-authored a guide to hypnotically induced testimony published in the definitive legal work on expert evidence in the English-speaking world.
Finally, I am very interested in communicating the results of my research and of psychology, memory, and hypnosis in general to the broader community. I have participated in educational programs for primary and secondary school students, and I have contributed to science communication programs on television, radio, in print, online and via guest lectures.
Find out more about my research and where it takes place ....
Collective Cognition Team
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Memory Projects
Hypnosis Projects
Research Collaborators
Recent Research Activities of Note
My research involves investigations of autobiographical remembering and forgetting, drawing on concepts and approaches from hypnosis and posthypnotic amnesia and from experimental and clinical work on memory. My current work examines how and why people forget some, but not other, memories from their past. I have collaborated with John Sutton and an interdisciplinary team of cognitive psychologists, philosophers and neuropsychologists at Macquarie and beyond in an investigation of collective memory - how groups of people, not just individual group members, share and remember events from their collective past. I am currently investigating the costs and benefits of remembering alone vs. together and focusing on when and how remembering with a long-term partner helps memory, especially as we age.
I also maintain a strong interest and experimental research program in hypnosis: how it works and how it can be used to understand everyday and clinical distortions of perception, memory, action and belief, such as delusions. I have co-authored a guide to hypnotically induced testimony published in the definitive legal work on expert evidence in the English-speaking world.
Finally, I am very interested in communicating the results of my research and of psychology, memory, and hypnosis in general to the broader community. I have participated in educational programs for primary and secondary school students, and I have contributed to science communication programs on television, radio, in print, online and via guest lectures.
Find out more about my research and where it takes place ....
Collective Cognition Team
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Memory Projects
Hypnosis Projects
Research Collaborators
Recent Research Activities of Note