Dr. Mackenzie Riggenbach

Assistant Professor of Psychological Science

Phone:765-285-8591

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Room:NQ 104

Education:

• University of Oklahoma: M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognitive and Quantitative Psychology
• Ohio Northern University: B.A. in Psychology
  

  
  Research Interests:

  Dr. Riggenbach’s research background is in human cognition, with a particular emphasis on memory. As a cognitive psychologist, she focuses on the formation of false memories, with an applied emphasis on interviewing eyewitnesses. She is specifically interested in the different ways memory can be impacted when exposed to information following a witnessed event, how a witness is interviewed, and the impact this can have on the amount of information reported and how accurate that information is. Dr. Riggenbach also uses mathematical modeling techniques to explain the formation of false memories. She uses these techniques to examine the hypotheses proposed to explain false memory formation. Here, she focuses on disentangling the effects of misleading post-event information to subsequently explain and predict false memory formation