Erin Harrington, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Cognition/ Cognitive Development

 **Dr. Harrington is currently accepting graduate students

Postdoctoral Training, Pennsylvania State University
Ph.D., Oklahoma State State University, 2021
M.S., Oklahoma State University, 2017
B.S., Valparaiso University, 2015

erin.harrington@uwyo.edu; Biological Science Building 123

Research Interests

• Prospective Memory
• Cognitive Aging
• Memory Strategy Use
• Gender differences

Cognitive Aging & Memory Perceptions (CAMP) Lab

Academic Positions

Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming, 2023-Present

Teaching

Cognitive Psychology

Representative Publications

Harrington, E. E., Graham-Engeland, J. E., Sliwinski, M. J., Van Bogart, K., Mogle, J. A., Katz, M. J., Lipton, R. B., & Engeland, C. G. (in press). Older adults’ self-reported prospective memory lapses in everyday life: Connections to inflammation and gender. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2023.111489

Turner, R. L., Reese-Melancon, C., Harrington, E. E., & Andreo, M. (in press). Caregiving during the COVID-19 pandemic: Factors associated with caregiver preparedness. Journal of Applied Gerontology. doi:10.1177/073346482311822

Harrington. E. E., Reese-Melancon, C., & Bock, J. E. (2023). Sometimes they show, sometimes they don’t: Appointment attendance as a naturalistic prospective memory task. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 590-599. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4066

Harrington, E. E., & Reese-Melancon, C. (2022). Who is Responsible for Remembering? Everyday Prospective Memory Demands in Parenthood. Sex Roles, 86, 189-207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-021-01264-z 

Harrington, E. E., Bishop, A. J., Do, H. M., & Sheng, W. (2021). Perceptions of socially assistive robots: A pilot study exploring older adults’ concerns. Current Psychology, 42, 2145–2156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01627-5 

Reese-Melancon, C., Cherry, K., & Harrington, E. E. (2021). The Knowledge and Memory Aging Questionnaire: Factor structure and correlates in a lifespan sample. In Assessments, Treatments, and Modeling in Aging and Neurological Disease (pp. 329-339). Academic Press.

Do, H. M., Sheng, W., Harrington, E. E., & Bishop, A. (2020). Clinical screening interview using a social robot for geriatric care. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2020.2999203

Reese-Melancon, C., Harrington, E. E., & Kytola, K. (2019). How did I remember to do that? Self-reported strategy use for laboratory prospective memory tasks. Memory, 27, 1224-1235. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1645180