David C. Rubin
Juanita M. Kreps Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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My main research interest has been in long-term memory, especially for complex (or "real-world") stimuli. This work includes the study of autobiographical memory and oral traditions, as well as prose. I have also studied memory as it is more commonly done in experimental psychology laboratories using lists. In addition to this purely behavioral research, which I plan to continue, I work on memory in clinical populations with the aid of a National Institute of Mental Health grant to study PTSD and on the underlying neural basis of memory the aid of a National Institute of Aging grant to study autobiographical memory using fMRI.
Selected Grants
Behavior and Physiology in Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 2015 to 2025
Training Autobiographical Memory Retrieval in Healthy Older Adults Using Novel Lifelogging Technology awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co Investigator). 2018 to 2022
A Model of Autobiographical Memory & Its Changes in PTSD awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2002 to 2016
Behavior And Physiology In Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Mentor). 1999 to 2015
Investigating the Effect of Repeated Retrieval on the Content and Phenomenological Characteristics of Autobiographical Memories awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2015
Neural Correlates of Autobiographical Memory awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (Principal Investigator). 2004 to 2010
The Relationship Between Memory, Stress, and Health awarded by National Institute of Mental Health (Principal Investigator). 2002 to 2005
Memory, Language, Culture awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1999 to 2005
Neuroimaging of Autobiographical Memory awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2003 to 2004
Cultural Effects on Retention in Autobiographical Memory awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 1995 to 1999
Pages
Bernsten, D., and D. C. Rubin, editors. Understanding autobiographical memory: Theories and approaches. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Wenzel, A., and D. C. Rubin, editors. Cognitive Methods and Their Application to Clinical Research. American Psychological Association Press, 2005.
Rubin, D. C., editor. Remembering Our Past: Studies in Autobiographical Memory. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Rubin, D. C. Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Conway, M. A., et al., editors. Theoretical perspectives on autobiographical memory. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
Poon, L., et al., editors. Everyday Cognition in Adulthood and Late Life. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Rubin, D. C., editor. Autobiographical Memory. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Rubin, David. Placing autobiographical memory in a general memory organization. Oxford University Press., 2019. Open Access Copy
Rubin, David, and J. M. Talarico. Ordinary memory processes shape flashbulb memories of extraordinary events: A review of 40 years of research. Psychology Press., 2017. Open Access Copy
Rubin, D. C. A basic systems account of trauma memories in PTSD: is more needed? Cambridge University Press, 2015. Open Access Copy
Rubin, D. C. “The basic system model of autobiographical memory.” Understanding Autobiographical Memory: Theories and Approaches, edited by D. Berntsen and D. C. Rubin, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 11–32.
Rubin, D. C. Oral traditions as collective memories: Implications for a general theory of individual and collective memory. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Dspace, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511626999.017. Full Text Open Access Copy
Talarico, J. M., and D. C. Rubin. “Flashbulb memories result from ordinary memory processes and extraordinary event characteristics.” Flashbulb Memories: New Issues and New Perspectives, 2008, pp. 79–97. Scopus, doi:10.4324/9780203889930. Full Text
Rubin, D. C., and D. Berntsen. How Memory for Stressful Events affects Identity. Kaneko Shobo, 2008. Open Access Copy
Davis, M., et al. Forgetting. Oxford University Press, 2007. Dspace, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310443.003.0015. Full Text Open Access Copy
Rubin, D. C. Autobiographical memory tasks in cognitive research. American Psychological Association Press, 2005. Open Access Copy
Rubin, D. C., and A. Wenzel. Autobiographical memory tasks: Six common methods. American Psychological Association Press, 2005. Open Access Copy
Pages
Rubin, David C. “A conceptual space for episodic and semantic memory.” Memory & Cognition, vol. 50, no. 3, Apr. 2022, pp. 464–77. Epmc, doi:10.3758/s13421-021-01148-3. Full Text
Rubin, David C. “Properties of autobiographical memories are reliable and stable individual differences.” Cognition, vol. 210, May 2021, p. 104583. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104583. Full Text
Gehrt, T. B., et al. “Individual Differences in Autobiographical Memory: The Autobiographical Recollection Test Predicts Ratings of Specific Memories Across Cueing Conditions.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Jan. 2021. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.07.004. Full Text
Rubin, D. C. “Self-Concept Focus: A Tendency to Perceive Autobiographical Events as Central to Identity.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 9, no. 4, Dec. 2020, pp. 576–86. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.06.001. Full Text
Rubin, David C. “The ability to recall scenes is a stable individual difference: Evidence from autobiographical remembering.” Cognition, vol. 197, Apr. 2020, p. 104164. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104164. Full Text
Berntsen, D., and D. C. Rubin. “Academic Forgetting.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 9, no. 1, Mar. 2020, pp. 52–57. Scopus, doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.12.003. Full Text
Berntsen, Dorthe, et al. “The Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART): A Measure of Individual Differences in Autobiographical Memory.” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, vol. 8, no. 3, Sept. 2019, pp. 305–18. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.06.005. Full Text
Rubin, David C., et al. Scenes enable a sense of reliving: Implications for autobiographical memory. Elsevier BV, Feb. 2019. Dspace, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.024. Full Text Open Access Copy
Rubin, David C., et al. Self-narrative focus in autobiographical events: The effect of time, emotion, and individual differences. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Jan. 2019. Dspace, doi:10.3758/s13421-018-0850-4. Full Text Open Access Copy
Gehrt, Tine B., et al. Psychological and clinical correlates of the Centrality of Event Scale: A systematic review. Elsevier BV, Nov. 2018. Dspace, doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2018.07.006. Full Text Open Access Copy