Recognition Memory Response Bias Is Conservative for Paintings and We Don’t Know Why

I became a Jacobean under the influence of Colleen M. Kelley, who had just returned to Williams College from a year’s sabbatical with Larry (at McMaster) when I started at Williams in 1987. Colleen and I immediately began collaborating on research inspired by the ideas so beautifully articulated in Jacoby, Kelley, and Dywan’s (1989) chapter on an attribution-making approach to the subjective experience of remembering. Subsequently, I followed in Colleen’s footsteps and spent an extraordinary year in Larry’s lab (1990–91, essentially a delayed postdoc). It was an intense and transformative experience. Larry was generous with me in every way, giving me lots of his time, feeding me research lines, offering me co-authorships, and writing very kind letters on my behalf that doubtless played a huge role in me landing the job at the University of Victoria that I continue to enjoy today. I am very greatly in Larry’s debt.