Credit: Alexander Münch
Dr. Daria Ford (she/her)
Academic Staff Member
Supervision of theses is generally possible and conducted in English. Please note the application process for thesis submissions.
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 414
68161 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 414
68161 Mannheim
Professional and Academic Career
Professional Career
since 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer, University of Mannheim 2024 – 2025 Research Assistant on the project “True, false or uncertain? Determinants of memory for truth-value feedback”, University of Mannheim 2022 – 2023 Research & Teaching Assistant, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyńsk University in Warsaw 2023 Erasmus+ Teaching Program, University of Lisbon 2019 – 2021 Research Fellow on the project “Dual-recollection theory as a new approach in research on episodic memory: Specificity of perceptual and semantic features processing”, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw Academic Career
2019 – 2024 Ph.D. Student, Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw 2022 PROM Program, University of Marburg 2011 – 2016 M.A. (Hons), Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw 2014 – 2015 Semester abroad, University of Mannheim Publications and Conference Contributions
Publications
- Ford, D. and Nadarevic, L. (2025). Revisiting the plausibility effect in remembering truth and falsity: An analysis of underlying memory and guessing processes. Journal of Cognition (forthcoming).
- Ford, D. and Nieznański, M. (2024). The effect of value on context and target recollection in memory for truth and falsity. Memory & Cognition, 52, 1451-1462.
- Nieznański, M., Obidziński, M. and Ford, D. (2024). Does context recollection depend on the base-rate of contextual features? Cognitive Processing, 25, 9–35.
- Ford, D. and Nieznański, M. (2023). Cognitive load reduces context recollection for true sentences. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35, 663–676.
- Nieznański, M., Ford, D. and Obidziński, M. (2023). Representation of shared surface information and false memory for abstract versus concrete pictures in the conjoint recognition paradigm. Psychological Research, 1–24 (forthcoming).
- Niedziałkowska, D. and Nieznański, M. (2021). Recollection of “true” feedback is better than “false” feedback independently of a priori beliefs: an investigation from the perspective of dual-recollection theory. Memory, 29, 1186-1196.
- Ford, D. and Nieznański, M. (2025). Is truth important by default? Enhanced joint retrieval memory for “true” and “important” feedback. TeaP 2025, 67. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innenen, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Ford, D. and Nadarevic, L. (2024). Correct me if I'm false: does corrective „false” feedback improve memory for falsity? Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
- Ford, D. and Nadarevic, L. (2024). „Correct me if I am false” – does corrected „false” feedback reduce the asymmetry in memory between „true” and „false” feedback? TeaP 2024, 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Regensburg, Germany.
- Niedziałkowska, D. and Nieznański, M. (2023). How does cognitive load influence recollection of true/
false information? TeaP 2023, 65. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innenen, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Trier, Germany. - Niedziałkowska, D. and Nieznański, M. (2022). Value-directed memory effects on context and target recollection. ESCOP 2022, 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Lille, France.
- Niedziałkowska, D., Obidziński, M. and Nieznański, M. (2022). False memory for abstract vs. concrete pictorial stimuli depending on their shared perceptual features. TeaP 2022, 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Köln, Germany, Online.
- Niedziałkowska, D. and Nieznański, M. (2021). Memory for „true” and „false” feedback and a priori beliefs: An investigation from the perspective of dual-recollection theory. TeaP 2021, 63. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Conference of Experimantal Psychologists, Ulm, Germany.
Research Interests
- memory for truth and falsity
- value-driven memory
- false memory
- recollection and familiarity processes
- language processing
- executive functions
Teaching
Since 2025
University of Mannheim
- Experimental Seminar: Memory for Truth and Falsity
2023
Erasmus+, University of Lisbon
- one week teaching classes: Memory for truth and falsity
2022 – 2023
Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw
- Courses: Statistics (SPSS), Research Methods in Psychology
- Supervision of a student project: Hindsight bias and construal levels