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Stephen Lindsay
D. Stephen Lindsay is a cognitive psychologist in the field of memory, and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Victoria. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1985.

Lindsay's research is focused on human memory performance, the factors and processes that may lead to changes, errors and distortions in memory, and the application of these processes to other fields, such as eyewitness memory.

Early career
Lindsay graduated from Reed College in 1981 with a B.A in psychology After a brief period working  as a construction labourer in Anchorage, he began postgraduate study at Princeton in 1983, supervised by well-known memory researcher Marcia Johnson. In his dissertation he initially set out to investigate the impact of imagining contrary-to-truth hiding places on children’s memory for the actual spatial location of objects. He became interested in Johnson's ongoing work on reality monitoring (the process of distinguishing between memories of external, physically experienced events versus those originating from internal sources such as imagination and thought). This led to work on the broader issues of source monitoring - how people decide where a given memory comes from, whether from own experience, a television broadcast, a story told by a friend etc. His final dissertation focused on source similarity - how alike two potential sources of a memory are - as a factor in increasing the likelihood of a source monitoring error.