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William Hirst

Malcolm B. Smith Professor of Psychology

Email
hirst@newschool.edu

Office Location
G - 80 Fifth Avenue

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William Hirst is Malcolm B. Smith Chair & Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research.

Concentrations: Cognitive science; social aspects of cognition and memory.

Degrees Held

PhD 1976, Cornell University

Recent Publications

Selected publications include:

“A Ten-Year Follow-Up of a Study of Memory for the Attack of September 11, 2001: Flashbulb Memories and Memories for Flashbulb Events,” Journal of Experimental Psychology (2015)

“Social Identity and Socially Shared Retrieval-Induced Forgetting: The Effects of Group Membership,” Journal of Experimental Psychology (2015)

“Memory in the Circumstances in Which One Learned of a Death from AIDS: The Effects of Repeated Exposure,” Memory and Cognition (2003)

“Social Influences on Remembering,” in D. Rubin (ed.), Autobiographical Memory (coauthor, 1996)

“Cognitive Aspects of Consciousness,” in M. Gazzaniga (ed.), Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience (1995).

 

Current Courses

Cognitive Psychology

Collective Memory

Fund of Cognitive Psych

Independent Study

Independent Study (Fall 2019)

Senior Work Project

Senior Work Project (Fall 2019)