Our lab's research focuses on (but is not limited to) understanding how autobiographical, collective memories and individuals’ confidence in said memories are shaped through social influences.
Below is a list of projects we are currently working on:
-An examination of race, dehumanization and criminals
-The mnemonic consequences of lying for both the speaker and listener
-An examination of the causes and consequences of amnesia or "amnesia" in violent offenders
-An examination of how social memory paradigms may illuminate the ways in which jury decision making is influenced by their deliberation
-How and in what ways does the generation who lived through 9/11 pass it on to their children
-To what extent the confidence individuals have in their own autobiographical memories is shaped by the presence of others (social cognition)
-How selective retrieval in the course of a conversation can shape the extent to which individuals are confident in their own autobiographical memories
-How the selective retrieval of co-witnesses shapes the memory of other witnesses and whether this effect is moderated in terms of intentional or incidental learning
-The dynamic interplay between internal (i.e., brain/hippocampus) and external (e.g., iphones, etc.) memory (an examination of the Extended Mind Hypothesis)
-The mnemonic consequences of attending to a public speech
-How WWII memories are transmitted to the youngest generation in Belgian families
-A cross-cultural examination of collective mnemic neglect. Mnemic neglect is when individuals tend to remember more positive memories in order to protect the self. We're currently examining whether this extends to collective memories as well.
-The role RIF plays in reading comprehension and the consolidation of novel words in long-term memory
Below is a list of projects we are currently working on:
-An examination of race, dehumanization and criminals
-The mnemonic consequences of lying for both the speaker and listener
-An examination of the causes and consequences of amnesia or "amnesia" in violent offenders
-An examination of how social memory paradigms may illuminate the ways in which jury decision making is influenced by their deliberation
-How and in what ways does the generation who lived through 9/11 pass it on to their children
-To what extent the confidence individuals have in their own autobiographical memories is shaped by the presence of others (social cognition)
-How selective retrieval in the course of a conversation can shape the extent to which individuals are confident in their own autobiographical memories
-How the selective retrieval of co-witnesses shapes the memory of other witnesses and whether this effect is moderated in terms of intentional or incidental learning
-The dynamic interplay between internal (i.e., brain/hippocampus) and external (e.g., iphones, etc.) memory (an examination of the Extended Mind Hypothesis)
-The mnemonic consequences of attending to a public speech
-How WWII memories are transmitted to the youngest generation in Belgian families
-A cross-cultural examination of collective mnemic neglect. Mnemic neglect is when individuals tend to remember more positive memories in order to protect the self. We're currently examining whether this extends to collective memories as well.
-The role RIF plays in reading comprehension and the consolidation of novel words in long-term memory