William Hirst

Malcolm B. Smith Professor and Co-Chair of Psychology

Email:

hirst@newschool.edu

Profile:

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).