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Lisa Cromer, Mentor
Psychology

Angela Binder, McNair Scholar

Lisa DeMarni Cromer is a PhD candidate in the UO Clinical Psychology program. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia and owned and operated a chain of retail stores before returning to graduate school in 2000 to pursue research in traumatic stress studies. Cromer’s research explores such issues as believability biases for memories of abuse, event plausibility versus possibility and their impact on memories for abuse, attachment to pets and objects, and the development of dissociation. At the annual meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in November 2004, she presented research about believability biases for abuse and co-presented with Angela Binder on participant reactions to trauma history questions.