PhD Candidate

Robyn Lehmann is a PhD Candidate at Griffith University and Centre for Investigative Interviewing, where her research focuses on repeated event memory and the confidence–accuracy relationship.

Before commencing her PhD in Criminology, Robyn earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology, followed by two master’s degrees: Legal Psychology and Clinical Psychology. During her clinical psychology studies, she mentored undergraduate students in their thesis research and published a paper on memory suppression. Between her master’s programs, she also worked as a high school psychology teacher in Belgium.

Throughout her PhD, Robyn has presented her research at an international conference, spent six months in Sydney conducting part of her research, mentoring an Honours student at the University of Sydney, and tutored first-year psychology students at the same institution.

Research Topic

Memory for Repeated Events: The Confidence-Accuracy Relationship

Supervisors

Professor Martine Powell

Dr Sonja Brubacher

Associate Professor Helen Paterson

Dr Francisco Garcia

Areas of interest

Memory and metacognition

Confidence–accuracy relationship

Repeated event memory

Legal and investigative psychology

Violence and victimisation (domestic, sexual, and family violence)

Publications

Wessel, I., Lehmann, R., & Wiechert, S. (2024). Two replications of Wiechert et al.’s (2023) online Think/No-Think study in undergraduate students. Memory, 33(1), 134–144.

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