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Carole Peterson

ResearcherPsychologyMemorial University of Newfoundland

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Carole Peterson

Researcher

Psychology

Social Sciences and Humanities

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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1 publication in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (7 NSERC, 3 SSHRC), most recently in 2024.

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Research

child eyewitness memory child forensic interviews child interviewing parent-child forensic interviews interview coaching childhood amnesia early memories infantile amnesia

Latest papers

Does priming lead to earlier memories, or just earlier dating of memories?
Memory (Hove, England) · 2026 · first author
What is your earliest memory? It depends.
Memory (Hove, England) · 2021 · first author
Highly emotional vicarious memories.
Memory (Hove, England) · 2020 · senior author

All 20 publications

Latest funding

Impact of information inconsistencies on the credibility of children's accounts
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$41,722
Childhood amnesia and early memories in children and adults
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$141,000
Co-constructing the Past: The Role of Mother- and Father-Child Reminiscing in Children's Socio-Emotional Development
SSHRC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$109,462

All 13 grants and awards

20 publications.

Does priming lead to earlier memories, or just earlier dating of memories?

Peterson C, Murphy A, Hallett D, Roberts PD

Memory (Hove, England)2026First author

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2026.2633432 PMID: 41712671

What is your earliest memory? It depends.

Peterson C

Memory (Hove, England)2021First author

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2021.1918174 PMID: 33957851

Highly emotional vicarious memories.

Pond E, Peterson C

Memory (Hove, England)2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1812663 PMID: 32870125

Encouraging more open-ended recall in child interviews.

Canning HS, Peterson C

Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2019.1687045 PMID: 32284781

Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories.

Wang Q, Peterson C, Khuu A, Reid CP, Maxwell KL, Vincent JM

Memory (Hove, England)2019

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1414268 PMID: 29233056

Children who are coached to lie: does linguistic analysis help in understanding why these children are so believable?

Warren KL, Peterson C, Gillingham CC

Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law2018

DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2018.1478336 PMID: 31984053

Childhood remembered: Reports of both unique and repeated events.

Peterson C, Baker-Ward L, Grovenstein TN

Memory (Hove, England)2016First author

DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.1001991 PMID: 25647252

The Fate of Childhood Memories: Children Postdated Their Earliest Memories as They Grew Older.

Wang Q, Peterson C

Frontiers in psychology2015Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02038 PMID: 26793149

Adults' Detection of Deception in Children: Effect of Coaching and Age for Children's True and Fabricated Reports of Injuries.

Warren KL, Bakhtiar A, Mulrooney B, Raynor G, Dodd E, Peterson C

Behavioral sciences & the law2015Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2210 PMID: 26549017

Exploring parent-child discussions of crime and their influence on children's memory.

Warren KL, Peterson C

Behavioral sciences & the law2014Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2144 PMID: 25393638

Impact of information inconsistencies on the credibility of children's accounts

Principal investigatorSSHRC2024Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

Keywords: child eyewitness memory; information inconsistencies; credibility judgments; child forensic interviews

$41,722

Childhood amnesia and early memories in children and adults

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

Keywords: memory; childhood amnesia; infantile amnesia; early memories

$141,000

Co-constructing the Past: The Role of Mother- and Father-Child Reminiscing in Children's Socio-Emotional Development

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Noel, Melanie E.

Keywords: parent-child narratives; pain; socio-emotional development; empathy; emotion-regulation; reminiscing; memory; prosocial behaviour

$109,462

Co-constructing the Past: The Role of Mother- and Father-Child Reminiscing in Children's Socio-Emotional Development

Co-investigatorSSHRC2020Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Noel, Melanie E.

Keywords: parent-child narratives; pain; socio-emotional development; empathy; emotion-regulation; reminiscing; memory; prosocial behaviour

$46,948

Assessing interviews and recall in children

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

Keywords: child eyewitness memory; child interviewing; child forensic interviews; parent-child forensic interviews; interview coaching

$303,804

Fostering open-ended recall in young children

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

Keywords: child eyewitness memory; child interviewing; child forensic interviews

$126,549

Autobiographical memory for prior events by children and adults

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

$155,000

Eyewitness memory and infantile amnesia in children

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

$183,725

Eyewitness memory, infantile amnesia, & narration in children

Principal investigatorNSERC2002Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Peterson, Carole

$200,000

Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network/Réseau canadien de recherche sur le langage et l'alphabétisation

Co-investigatorNSERC2000Networks of Centres of Excellence

Principal investigators: Jamieson, Donald

$8,795,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Carole Peterson

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Does priming lead to earlier memories, or just earlier dating of memories?

What is your earliest memory? It depends.

Highly emotional vicarious memories.

Encouraging more open-ended recall in child interviews.

Looking at the past through a telescope: adults postdated their earliest childhood memories.

Children who are coached to lie: does linguistic analysis help in understanding why these children are so believable?

Childhood remembered: Reports of both unique and repeated events.

The Fate of Childhood Memories: Children Postdated Their Earliest Memories as They Grew Older.

Adults' Detection of Deception in Children: Effect of Coaching and Age for Children's True and Fabricated Reports of Injuries.

Exploring parent-child discussions of crime and their influence on children's memory.

Impact of information inconsistencies on the credibility of children's accounts

Childhood amnesia and early memories in children and adults

Co-constructing the Past: The Role of Mother- and Father-Child Reminiscing in Children's Socio-Emotional Development

Co-constructing the Past: The Role of Mother- and Father-Child Reminiscing in Children's Socio-Emotional Development

Assessing interviews and recall in children

Fostering open-ended recall in young children

Autobiographical memory for prior events by children and adults

Eyewitness memory and infantile amnesia in children

Eyewitness memory, infantile amnesia, & narration in children

Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network/Réseau canadien de recherche sur le langage et l'alphabétisation

Frequent collaborators

Darcy Hallett