Kathleen McDermott (psychologist)

Kathleen McDermott
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame
Rice University
OccupationProfessor
EmployerWashington University in St. Louis

Kathleen McDermott is Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. She is known for her research on how human memory is encoded and retrieved, with a specific interest in how false memories develop. In collaboration with Henry L. (Roddy) Roediger III, she developed the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm used to study the phenomenon of memory illusions.[1] McDermott received the 2004-2005 F.J. McGuigan Young Investigator Prize for research on memory from the American Psychological Foundation and the American Psychological Association's Science Directorate.[2] She was recognized by the Association for Psychological Science as a Rising Star in 2007.[3] McDermott is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society and was honored with a 2019 Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award.[4]

  1. ^ Roediger, Henry L.; McDermott, Kathleen B. (1995). "Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 21 (4): 803–814. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.495.353. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.21.4.803.
  2. ^ Stambor, Zak. "Exploring mistaken memories". American Psychological Association. Archived from the original on 2017-12-08. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  3. ^ "Rising Stars, Part II". APS Observer. 20 (10). 1 November 2007. Archived from the original on 8 December 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2007.
  4. ^ "Psychonomic Society Mid-Career Award - Psychonomic Society". www.psychonomic.org. Archived from the original on 2018-01-09. Retrieved 2019-06-22.