Angie Birt

Dr. Angie Birt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Mount Saint Vincent University. Her research focuses on human memory, particularly how emotion influences memory encoding and recall in distressing or traumatic events, with applications in forensic contexts such as eyewitness testimony. She also investigates forgiveness's impact on memory, memory processes across aging, and deception detection.

Education:

• M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of British Columbia
• B.A. Honours in Psychology, University of Prince Edward Island

Research Interests:

Dr. Birt employs emotionally evocative stimuli (e.g., videos, photographs) in lab experiments and examines subjective vs. physiological measures of emotional experience. She explores mechanisms behind emotion-memory interactions and real-world implications, such as legal scenarios involving trauma victims. Additional interests include false memory, prospective memory, implicit/explicit memory dynamics, memory decline in aging/dementia, and criminal behavior analysis (e.g., psychopathology, sexual violence).

Teaching & Mentorship:

She supervises Honours students, directs independent studies, and offers research assistantships (paid and volunteer). Her lab provides students hands-on experience in experimental design, data collection, and analysis across cognitive and forensic psychology domains.

Contact:

Office: Evaristus 423 | Phone: (902) 457-6667 | Email: angela.birt@msvu.ca