RESEARCH BLOG.

Twenty-two-year-old Gabby Petito was reported missing on September 11th, 2021, while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Her remains were identified ten days later, on September 21st, 2021, with her cause of death being reported as strangulation. She was killed by her fiancé, who then later disappeared and was found with a self-inflicted gun wound around a month after Gabby was reported missing. Stemming from this case were considerable public discu

Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash One way societies recover missing people is by recruiting citizens to search for them. Authorities and organizations use news alerts, posters, text message notifications, and more to ask the public to help be on the lookout for missing people. These person searches are typically prospective person memory tasks ( Lampinen et al., 2008 ), wherein the searcher has to remember to look for the missing person. Unfortunately, recoveri