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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