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Elizabeth J. Marsh

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
228 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Correcting student misconceptions: Linking the laboratory and the classroom · November 1, 2013 Lecture McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
Cognition in the Classroom: _x000B_Connecting Cognitive Psychology with Educational Practice · October 1, 2013 Lecture Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Acquiring Misconceptions: The role of Knowledge neglect · October 1, 2013 Lecture Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Acquiring Misconceptions: The role of Knowledge Neglect · June 1, 2013 Lecture SARMAC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology · May 1, 2013 Lecture APS, Washington, DC
Illusions of Knowledge · April 1, 2013 Lecture Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NT
A Discussion of Age Differences_x000B_ in Suggestibility · March 1, 2013 Lecture Duke developmental brownbag
Aging and Reduced Suggestibility: The Role of Prior Knowledge · November 1, 2012 Lecture Talk at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN
Retrieval Variability Promotes Superior Transfer of Learning · November 1, 2012 Lecture Poster at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN
Accessibility of Prior Knowledge and Susceptibility to Semantic Illusions · November 1, 2012 Lecture Poster at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN
Prior Knowledge Must Be Evaluated to Protect Against Illusory Truth Effects · November 1, 2012 Lecture Poster at the Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN
Learning from Multiple-choice Tests · September 27, 2012 Lecture Washington University, St Louis, MO
Correcting Student Errors · March 1, 2012 Lecture The University of California, San Diego
Don't I Know You? Exploring How Context Affects the Perceived Familiarity of Strangers · November 4, 2011 Lecture Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA
Inferring Facts From Fiction: Reading Correct and Incorrect Information Affects Memory for Related Information. · November 4, 2011 Lecture Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA
Retelling Versus Recalling: The Effects of Rehearsal On Qualitative Aspects of Autobiographical Memory · November 4, 2011 Lecture Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA
Creating Illusions of Knowledge: Learning Errors that Contradict Prior Knowledge · November 4, 2011 Lecture Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA
Learning From Fiction: Error Detection in Younger and Older Adults · November 4, 2011 Lecture Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA
Using Feedback To Correct Students’ Misconceptions · May 28, 2011 Lecture Annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Illusions of Knowledge · December 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
The effects of multiple-choice tseting and feedback on school-aged children · November 19, 2010 Lecture St Louis, MO
The hypercorrection effect persists over a week, but high confidence errors return · November 18, 2010 Lecture St Louis, MO
Ironic effects of drawing attention to story facts · November 18, 2010 Lecture
Illusions of Knowledge · November 1, 2010 Lecture Davidson College
Cognition in the classroom: Applying Cognitive Psychology to education · November 1, 2010 Lecture Davidson College
Increasing the complexity of the feedback message promotes superior transfer of learning · March 1, 2010 Lecture
Knowledge Neglect · March 1, 2010 Lecture University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Memorial consequences of failures to monitor and control access to prior knowledge · January 1, 2010 Lecture Duke University
Error prevalence affects detection in the moses illusion paradigm · November 21, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA
Persistence of the hypercorrection effect · November 20, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA
Prior knowledge does not protect against illusory truth effects · November 20, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA
Illusions of Knowledge · October 28, 2009 Lecture University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Memorial consequences of multiple-choice testing in school-aged children · October 17, 2009 Lecture Biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Antonio, TX
Teaching readers to read critically · May 23, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA
Knowledge neglect: Memorial consequences of failures to detect contradictions with stored knowledge · May 22, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA
Illusions of Knowledge · February 28, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of Southeastern Workers in Memory (SWIM), New Orleans, LA
Detecting Contradictions with Stored Knowledge · February 7, 2009 Lecture Presentation at the annual meeting for the JSMF collaborative activity award, Tucson, AZ
Illusions of knowledge in children and adults · January 28, 2009 Lecture Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ironic Effects Of Story Reading · November 15, 2008 Lecture Chicago, IL
Using Feedback to Correct Mistakes Made on a Multiple-Choice Test · November 14, 2008 Lecture Chicago, IL
Multiple Choice Tests Improve Access to Marginal Knowledge · November 14, 2008 Lecture Chicago, IL
Memorial Consequences of Multiple-choice testing · April 18, 2008 Lecture St Louis, MO
Illusions of Knowledge · February 29, 2008 Lecture University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Aging and Heuristics: Do Older Adults Use Different Cues to Evaluate Information? · July 2015 - May 2016 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Aging and Reliance on Memory-based Heuristics · August 2014 - May 2015 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


Participant - Faculty Short Course on Improving Departmental Climate · August 2, 2021 - August 5, 2021 Professional Development Duke Office of Faculty Advancement & Duke Office of Institutional Equity,
Consulting Editor : Educational Psychology Review · 2013 Other
Reviewer : National Science Foundation, Cyberlearning · December 18, 2012 Other
Reviewer : National Science Foundation, REESE · December 18, 2012 Other
Consulting Editor : Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2011 Editorial Activities
Associate Editor : Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition · 2011 Editorial Activities
Editorial Board : Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition · 2010 - 2011 Editorial Activities
President : Southeastern Workers in Memory (SWIM) · 2009 Other