Rate My Professor Michelle Meade

Michelle Meade is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Montana State University, where she joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2006. She directs the Memory & Aging Lab, which investigates mechanisms underlying memory distortion and enhancement. Her research examines the impact of source confusion on memory distortion, social factors on memory improvement, and individual differences predicting memory performance in young and older adults using behavioral methods, subjective judgments, and neuropsychological assessments. Meade's academic interests include social contagion of memory, collaborative memory, false memory, memory in older adults, and expertise in collaborative problem solving. She earned a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1996, an M.A. in 1999, and a Ph.D. in 2003 from Washington University. Prior to her faculty position, she served as a Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow from 2004 to 2006.

Meade has received the Fulbright U.S. Scholar award for the 2013-14 cycle to collaborate with cognition experts at Macquarie University in Australia on memory research. She was also a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow and received student nominations for Montana State University's President’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Her influential publications include "Social contagion of memory" (Roediger, H. L., III, Meade, M. L., & Bergman, E. T., 2001, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review), "Explorations in the social contagion of memory" (Meade, M. L., & Roediger, H. L., III, 2002, Memory & Cognition), "Learning facts from fiction" (Marsh, E. J., Meade, M. L., & Roediger, H. L., III, 2003, Journal of Memory and Language), "Expertise promotes facilitation on a collaborative memory task" (Meade, M. L., Nokes, T. J., & Morrow, D. G., 2009, Memory), and the edited volume "Collaborative Remembering: Theories, Research, and Applications" (Meade, M. L., Harris, C. B., Van Bergen, P., Sutton, J., & Barnier, A. J., 2018, Oxford University Press). Meade has presented invited talks at the International Conference on Memory (2011) and the American Psychological Association annual meeting (2010).