McCollum, M. W., ^Zhang, M., Coane, J. H., & Umanath, S. (2026). Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication.
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Does the Past Seem Set in Stone Today? Anticipation of Future Changes in Collective Remembering of Nationally Important Historical Events Is Affected by One’s Lifetime→
/Umanath, S., ^Farry, E. E., ^Wu, D., Corning, A., & Abel, M. (2026). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 15, 312-329.
Read MoreWhat Are We Most Curious About When Memory Fails? Using the Phenomenology of Retrieval Failures to Understand Curiosity→
/^Lee, A. A., ^Zhang, M., Coane, J. H., & Umanath, S. (2026). Acta Psychologica, 264, 106508.
Read MoreCollective Memories and National Identity in Japan→
/Fukushima, Y., Cate, J., Taylor, A., Umanath, S., & Garry, M. (2026). Memory, 34, 544-555.
Read MoreThe Memrise Prize, an International Research Competition: A Pragmatic Trial to Compare Methods for Learning Foreign Language Vocabulary→
/Potts, R., van den Broek, G. S. E., Albers, A. M., Balaguer, J., Berkers, R., de Jonge, M., Dhanani, A., Gerke, P. K., Jivani, A., Konrad, B., Kuepper-Tetzel, C. E., McDaniel, M. A., Miyatsu, T., Müller, N. C. J., Reilly, W., Summerfield, C., Tickle, H., Umanath, S., van Kesteren, M., Cooke, E., Whately, B., Bjork, R.A., Weinstein-Jones, J., & Shanks, D. R. (in press). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Read MorePsychology and Aging at 40: Continuity and Growth→
/Zacher, H., Henry, J. D., Hill, P. L., Hülür, G., Naveh-Benjamin, M., Spaniol, J., Umanath, S., Weiss, D., & Zhan, Y. (2026). Psychology and Aging, 41(1), 1-11.
Read MoreSuggestibility to Additive Versus Contradictory Misinformation: Effects of Visual and Auditory Post-Event Information→
/Mazela, M.A., Huff, M.J., & Umanath, S. (2025). Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 37, 308-322.
Read MoreUsing the Phenomenology of Knowledge-Based Retrieval Failures in Younger and Older Adults to Characterize Proximity to Retrieval Success and Identify a Zone of Proximal Retrieval→
/Umanath, S., Coane, J. H., ^Renaker, J. T., Whitman, K., ^Lee, A. A., & ^Kim, S. (2025). Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104582.
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You Don’t Understand Me! But, I Do! Awareness of Cross-Generational Differences in Collective Remembering of National Historic Events→
/^Hou, C., Umanath, S., Corning, A., & Abel, M. (2025). Memory, 33, 45-58.
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Flashbulb and First-Hand Memories for Campus Closings Due to COVID-19: Consistency and Change →
/^Xuan, Y., ^Greenberg, M., Umanath, S., & Coane, J.H. (2025). Memory, 33, 84-99.
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Associative Memory in Older Adults: Making Sense of Associative Memory Deficits and Hyperbinding Effects→
/^Hwang, J., Whitman, K., & Umanath, S. (2024). Psychology and Aging, 39, 871-883.
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Cognition and Aging
/^Whitman, K., ^Barrett T. E., Coane J. H., Umanath, S. (2024). In B. Yochim and E. Woodhead (Eds.). Psychology of Aging: A Biopsychosocial Perspective. New York, New York. Springer Publishing Company.
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Things Have Changed But Now They’ll Stay the Same: Generational Differences and Mental Time Travel for Collective Remembering of National Historic Events→
/Umanath, S., ^Hou, C., Corning, A., & Abel, M. (2024). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 13, 450-463.
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The Influence of General Knowledge Test Performance on Self-Ratings of and Perceived Relationships Between Intelligence, Knowledge, and Memory→
/Coane, J.H., ^Cipollini, J., ^Beaulieu, C., ^Song, J., & Umanath, S. (2023). Scientific Reports, 13, 15723.
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Older Adults Recover More Marginal Knowledge and Use Feedback More Effectively Than Younger Adults: Evidence Using “I Don’t Know” Versus “I Don’t Remember” for Difficult General Knowledge Questions→
/Umanath, S., ^Barrett, T.E., ^Kim, S., ^Walsh, C.A., & Coane, J.H. (2023). Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1145278.
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Lay Definitions of Intelligence, Knowledge, and Memory: Inter- and Independence of Constructs→
/Coane, J.H., ^Cipollini J., ^Barrett, T., Kavaler, P.J., & Umanath, S. (2023). Journal of Intelligence, 11, 84-96.
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Ecological Validity of Don’t Remember and Don’t Know for Distinguishing Accessibility- Versus Availability-Based Retrieval Failures in Older and Younger Adults: Knowledge for News Events (PDF)→
/*Umanath, S., Coane, J.H., Huff, M.J., Cimenian, T.^, & Chang, K.^ (2023). Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 8, 1-17.
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Collective Memories Serve Similar Functions to Autobiographical Memories (PDF)→
/Burnell, R., Umanath, S., & Garry, M. (2023). Memory, 31, 316-327.
Read MoreChanging the Public’s Crime Control Theater Attitudes (PDF)→
/Krauss, D.A., Cook, G.I., Umanath, S., & ^Song, E. (2022). Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 28, 595-615.
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United States and Germany’s Collective Memories of Pride and Shame for American and German History
/Umanath, S. & Abel, M. (2022). In H.L. Roediger III and J.V. Wertsch (Eds.) National Memories: Constructing Identities in Populist Times. Oxford University Press.
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