Cognitive Psychology Faculty

Research in human memory, particularly factors that create the subjective experience of remembering, including illusions of memory, aging and memory, and memory effects on judgment. Other research interests include metacognition and eyewitness memory.

One line of research is focused on understanding when people are vulnerable to misleading sources of familiarity. We are particularly interested in whether there are age-related changes in this process. A second line of research tests a new theory of the phenomenon of directed forgetting. A third line of research is on the effects of social influence on memory in younger and older adults.

M.G. Rhodes & C. M. Kelley (2005). Executive processes, memory accuracy, and memory monitoring: An aging and individual difference analysis. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 578-594.

Rhodes, M. G. & Kelley, C. M. (2003). The ring of familiarity: False familiarity due to rhyming primes in item and associative information. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 581-595.

Kelley, C.M. & Sahakyan, L. (2003). Memory, monitoring and control in the attainment of memory accuracy. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 704-721.

Kelley, C.M., & Rhodes, M. G. (2002). Making sense and nonsense of experience: Attributions in memory and judgment. In B. H. Ross (Ed.) Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Theory and Research Vol. 41, 293-320.

Sahakyan, L. & Kelley, C.M. (2002) A contextual change account of the directed forgetting effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 1064-1072