Rate My Professor Georgia Cowan

Georgia Cowan is a Wellbeing Clinical Psychologist in the Mental Health and Wellbeing team at University of Otago Student Health. She joined the team in 2022 and supports students through services including initial assessments, crisis resolution, brief interventions, and referrals.

Prior to her current role, Georgia Cowan completed a Master of Science degree at the University of Otago in 2019 within the Department of Psychology. Her thesis, supervised by Harlene Hayne, examined 'The Effect of Mood on Eyewitness Memory'. Elements of this research contributed to a peer-reviewed publication co-authored by Cowan in 2021 titled 'Emotional content of the event but not mood influences false memory', published in Applied Cognitive Psychology (35, 6, 1418-1426). The collaborators included Weiwei Zhang, Marea Colombo, Julien Gross, and Harlene Hayne, all from the Department of Psychology, University of Otago. The study investigated the influence of event emotionality on false memories, finding that emotional content but not mood affected false memory rates.