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Dr Melanie Takarangi

Phone: +61 8 82015405
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Location: Social Sciences North (387)
Postal address: GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Qualifications

B.A., B.Sc (Hons)., Ph.D. (VUW, New Zealand)

Teaching

Topic Lecturer:

  • PSYC3008  Applied Cognitive Psychology

Research and consultancy

Research interests

My main research interests are in understanding crime-related cognition (particularly in relation to aggression and violence), and autobiographical and traumatic memory. I am also interested in attitudes towards wrongful conviction, expectancy effects, the relationship between alcohol, crime and memory, and other legal implications of memory distortion.

Postgraduate research supervision

Potential PhD Projects:

(1) investigating memory distortion for traumatic experiences
(2) memory for violence and aggression

Publications

Refereed journal articles

Nash, R.A. & Takarangi, M., 2011. Reconstructing alcohol-induced memory blackouts. Memory, 19(6), 566-573.

Polaschek, D.L., Bell, R., Calvert, S.W., & Takarangi, M., 2010. Cognitive-behavioural rehabilitation of high-risk violent offenders: Investigating treatment change with explicit and implicit measures of cognition. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24(3), 437-449.

Takarangi, M., Polaschek, D.L., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F., 2008. Psychological science, victim advocates, and the problem of recovered memories. International Review of Victimology, 15(2), 147-163.

Clifasefi, S.L., Takarangi, M., & Bergman, J.S., 2006. Blind drunk: the effects of alcohol on inattentional blindness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(5), 697-704.

Takarangi, M., Parker, S., & Garry, M., 2006. Modernising the misinformation effect: The development of a new stimulus set. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20(5), 583-590.

Journal articles

Takarangi, M., Garry, M., & Loftus, E.F., 2006. Dear diary, is plastic better than paper? I can't remember: Comment on Green, Rafaeli, Bolger, Shrout, and Reis (2006). PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS, 11(1), 119-122.

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