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Sarah J. BarberPostdoctoral Fellow |
I completed my Ph.D. in Cognitive/Experimental Psychology at Stony Brook University in 2010. Since then, I have worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California. Here, I have received multidisciplinary training in how aging affects cognition, physiological change, and mental health. In my own research I examine human memory, with a specific interest in understanding how social factors influence memory processes across the lifespan. In my graduate research I examined how collaboration affects encoding and retrieval, the underlying mechanisms of the collaborative inhibition effect, and the social influences on source monitoring. My current post-doctoral research examines socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting and stereotype threat effects in older adults. My research has been funded by the American Psychological Association and the National Institute on Aging.
Fazio, L. K., Barber, S. J., Rajaram, S., Ornstein, P. A., & Marsh, E. J. (in press). Creating illusions of knowledge: Learning errors that contradict prior knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. PDF
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (in press). Forgetting in context: The effects of age, emotion, and social factors on retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition. PDF
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (in press). Stereotype threat in older adults: When and why does it occur, and who is most affected? To appear in P. Verhaeghen & C. Hertzog (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Everyday Problem Solving During Adulthood.
Barber, S. J., Rajaram, S., & Fox, E. B. (2012). Learning and remembering with others: The key role of retrieval in shaping group recall and collective memory. Social Cognition, 30, 121-132. PDF
Barber, S. J., & Rajaram, S.(2011). Exploring the relationship between retrieval disruption from collaboration and recall. Memory, 19, 462-469. PDF
Barber, S. J., & Rajaram, S.(2011). Collaborative memory and part-set cueing impairments: The role of executive depletion in modulating retrieval disruption. Memory, 19, 378-397. PDF
Barber, S. J., Rajaram, S., & Aron, A. (2010). When two is too many: Collaborative encoding impairs memory. Memory & Cognition, 38, 255-264. PDF
Barber, S. J., Franklin, N., Naka, M., & Yoshimura, H. (2010). Higher social intelligence can impair source memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 545- 551. PDF
Barber, S. J., Gordon, R., & Franklin, N. (2009). Self-relevance and wishful thinking: Facilitation and distortion in source monitoring. Memory & Cognition, 37, 434-446. PDF
Barber, S. J., Rajaram, S., & Marsh, E. J. (2008). Fact learning: How information accuracy, delay, and repeated testing change retention and retrieval experience. Memory, 16, 934-946. PDF
Rajaram, S., & Barber, S. J. (2008). Retrieval processes in memory. In H. L., Roediger, III (Ed.), Cognitive psychology of memory. Vol. 2 of Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 4 vols. (pp. 261-283). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. PDF
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2012). Stereotype threat in older adults: The key role of regulatory fit. Manuscript under review (invitation to revise & resubmit).
Barber, S. J., Rajaram, S., & Paneerselvam, B. (2012). The collaborative encoding deficit is attenuated with specific warnings. Manuscript under revision (invitation to revise & resubmit).
Rajaram, S., Barber, S. J., & Harris, C. (2012). Collaborative inhibition of unshared memories: Evidence for multiple mechanisms. Manuscript in preparation.
Barber, S. J., & Mather, M. (2012). How retellings shape memory in younger and older adults. Manuscript in preparation.