Career
Though originally working in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University for eight years, Clancy now works at INCAE, where she is Associate Professor in Consumer Behavior and Research Director of INCAE's Center for Women's Leadership.
Clancy is a prominent researcher in the field of memory. Her research mainly focuses on the impacts of trauma on memory and individual susceptibility to false memory creation. She initially conducted her research on people with supposed 'recovered memories' of childhood abuse as she believed that at least some of these memories may be false. However, although she was sure that many of these memories were false, she could not accurately determine whether the subjects had or had not been abused in childhood. To rectify this problem, Clancy then shifted her attention to recovered memories of events that almost certainly never happened- those of alien abductions. This allowed her to investigate possible individual differences that may make one more likely to develop false memories.
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