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David C. Rubin is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields, notably Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics addressed in their research include Identity, Memory, and Therapy; Memory Processes and Influences; Family Support in Illness; Memory and Neural Mechanisms; Psychological and Educational Research Studies; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research; and Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations.

David C. Rubin has contributed extensively to academic literature, with a significant presence in journals such as Memory, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, and Memory & Cognition.

Some of their recent papers include:

  • A conceptual space for episodic and semantic memory, 2021, Memory & Cognition
  • Properties of autobiographical memories are reliable and stable individual differences, 2021, Cognition
  • The ability to recall scenes is a stable individual difference: Evidence from autobiographical remembering, 2020, Cognition
  • Individual differences in autobiographical memory: The autobiographical recollection test predicts ratings of specific memories across cueing conditions, 2022, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • Self-Concept Focus: A Tendency to Perceive Autobiographical Events as Central to Identity, 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Frequent co-authors in David C. Rubin's research include:

  • Dorthe Berntsen
  • Rick H. Hoyle
  • Tine Bennedsen Gehrt
  • Niels Peter Nielsen
  • Carolyn F. Bell

Their body of work reflects a focus on autobiographical memory, cognitive processes related to identity formation, and memory stability across individuals. The integration of experimental methods and cognitive theory is evident in their contributions.

Best Publications

  • Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes

    David C. Rubin

  • One hundred years of forgetting: A quantitative description of retention

    David C. Rubin;Amy E. Wenzel

  • The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Confidence, Not Consistency, Characterizes Flashbulb Memories

    Jennifer M. Talarico;David C. Rubin

  • A Tale of Three Functions: The Self-Reported Uses of Autobiographical Memory.

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea;Tilmann Habermas;David C. Rubin

  • Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory.

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Belief and recollection of autobiographical memories

    David C. Rubin;Robert W. Schrauf;Daniel L. Greenberg

  • Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience.

    Jennifer M. Talarico;Kevin S. LaBar;David C. Rubin

  • Emotionally Charged Autobiographical Memories Across the Life Span: The Recall of Happy, Sad, Traumatic, and Involuntary Memories

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis.

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen;Malene Klindt Bohni

  • The structure of autobiographical memory

    Martin A. Conway;David C. Rubin

  • Things learned in early adulthood are remembered best.

    David C. Rubin;Tamara A. Rahhal;Leonard W. Poon

  • When a trauma becomes a key to identity: Enhanced integration of trauma memories predicts posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms

    Dorthe Berntsen;David C. Rubin

  • Remembering our past : studies in autobiographical memory

    David C. Rubin

  • The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory.

    David C. Rubin

  • Autobiographical memory across the lifespan.

    David C. Rubin;Scott E. Wetzler;Robert D. Nebes

  • Brain Activity during Episodic Retrieval of Autobiographical and Laboratory Events: An fMRI Study using a Novel Photo Paradigm

    Roberto Cabeza;Steve E. Prince;Sander M. Daselaar;Daniel L. Greenberg

  • Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events.

    David C. Rubin;Dorthe Berntsen

  • Activation in mesolimbic and visuospatial neural circuits elicited by smoking cues: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging

    Deborah L. Due;Scott A. Huettel;Warren G. Hall;David C. Rubin

  • Theoretical perspectives on autobiographical memory

    Martin A. Conway;David C. Rubin;Hans Spinnler;Willem A. Wagenaar

  • Autobiographical memory: Autobiographical Memory

    David C. Rubin

Frequent Co-Authors

Dorthe Berntsen
Dorthe Berntsen Aarhus University
Ilene C. Siegler
Ilene C. Siegler Duke University
Jean C. Beckham
Jean C. Beckham Duke University
Kevin S. LaBar
Kevin S. LaBar Duke University
Adriel Boals
Adriel Boals University of North Texas
Roberto Cabeza
Roberto Cabeza Duke University
Rick H. Hoyle
Rick H. Hoyle Duke University
Leonard W. Poon
Leonard W. Poon University of Georgia
Barbara A. Wilson
Barbara A. Wilson St George's, University of London
Sander M. Daselaar
Sander M. Daselaar Radboud University

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