Faculty

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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.

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Degrees Held

PhD 1976, Cornell University

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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).

 

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Current Courses

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology (Spring 2020)

Collective Memory

Fund of Cognitive Psych

Fund of Cognitive Psych (Spring 2020)

Independent Study

Independent Study (Spring 2020)

Into to Memory Studies

Senior Work Project

Senior Work Project (Spring 2020)