University of New South Wales - School of Psychology

Research Areas: Autobiographical memory, source monitoring errors, forensic applications of memory distortions.

Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005- , University of New South Wales
Research Associate, 2004, University of New South Wales
PhD, 2003, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Fellowships:

Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship

Selected Publications:

Sharman, S. J., Manning, C., & Garry, M. (2005). Explain this: Explaining childhood events inflates confidence for those events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 67-74.
Barnier, A. J., Sharman, S. J., McKay, L., & Sporer, S. L. (2005). Discriminating adults’ genuine, imagined, and deceptive accounts of positive and negative childhood events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 985-1001.
Sharman, S. J., Garry, M., & Hunt, M. (2005). Using source cues and familiarity cues to resist imagination inflation. Acta Psychologica, 120, 227-242.
Sporer, S. L., & Sharman, S. J. (2006). Should I believe this? Reality monitoring of accounts of self-experienced and invented recent and distant autobiographical events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 837-854.
Wade, K. A., Sharman, S. J., Garry, M., Memon, A., Mazzoni, G., Merkelbach, H., & Loftus, E. F. (2007). False claims about false memory research. Consciousness & Cognition, 16, 18-28.

Contact Details:

Office: Mathews, Room 1121
Telephone: (61-2) 9385-3047
Fax: (61-2) 9385-3641
Email: s.sharman@unsw.edu.au