Introduction
Action is informed by memory, and so it is often critical to get the details of a memory right. Nevertheless, people often get the details wrong, and in predictable ways. My primary areas of research concern false memory, source monitoring,and influences on memory by emotional factors or by the presence of other individuals. My students and I study how people use different memory cues, or are systematically influenced by external factors, in order to make decisions about the reliability of their own memories.