Kara Moore

Kara Moore is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Utah's College of Social and Behavioral Science, specializing in Cognition and Neural Science. She directs the CALM Lab, researching attention and memory errors in high-stakes contexts such as legal settings.

Research focuses on two primary domains: (1) The role of memory and attention in person searches (e.g., missing persons investigations), where she has identified attentional failures as primary causes of search failures; and (2) Meta-cognitive strategies for preventing false memories and erroneous identifications, examining how erroneous meta-cognitive beliefs contribute to eyewitness fallibility.

Education includes a Ph.D. from University of Arkansas (2017) and B.A. from University of Texas at Arlington (2012). Current graduate students are Chenxin Yu and Dara Zwemer. Her work has been funded by the American Psychology and Law Society and National Science Foundation.