ProfessorCiara Greene

Ciara Greene is a Professor in the School of Psychology, UCD where she also heads up the Attention and Memory Laboratory (www.ucdattentionmemory.com).

Ciara graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2005 with a BA (Hons.) in Psychology and then completed a PhD in Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin in 2008. She gained postdoctoral experience at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge and at Imperial College London before taking up a lecturing post at University College Cork in 2012. She moved to UCD in 2014.

Ciara's research focuses on 1) human memory, with a particular focus on memory reconstruction and false memories, and 2) misinformation and disinformation, focussing on factors affecting accpetance of misinforation and its downstream behavioural implications.