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Barber, S.J. & Tan, S.C. (in press). Ageism affects older adults' future time perspective. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry.
Tan, S.C. & Barber, S.J. (in press). Confucian values as a buffer against age-based stereotype threat for Chinese older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Barber S.J., Seliger, J., Yeh, N., & Tan, S.C. (in press). Stereotype threat reduces the positivity of older adults' recall. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Durbin, K.A., Barber, S.J., Brown, M., & Mather, M. (in press). Optimism for the future in younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Barber, S.J., Castrellon, J., Opitz, P., & Mather, M. (2017). Younger and older adults collaborative recall of shared and unshared emotional pictures. Memory & Cognition, 45, 716-730.
Smith, A.M., Gallo, D.A., Barber, S.J., Maddox, K.B., & Thomas, A.K. (2017). Stereotypes, warnings, and identity-related variables influence older adults' susceptibility to associative false memory errors. The Gerontologist, 57, S206-S215.
Mehta, A., Young, G., Wicker, A., Barber, S.J., & Suri, G. (2017). Emotion regulation choice: Differences in U.S. and Indian populations. The International Journal of Indian Psychology, Vol. 4, Issue 2, No. 94, ISSN: 2348-5396(e).
Barber, S.J. (2017). An examination of age-based stereotype threat about cognitive decline: Implications for stereotype threat research and theory development. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 62-90.
Mazerolle, M., Régner, I., Barber, S.J., Paccalin, M., Miazola, A. -C., Huguet, P., & Rigalleau, F. (2016). Negative aging stereotypes impair performance on brief cognitive tests used to screen for predementia. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, gbw083.
Barber, S.J., Opitz, P.C., Martins, B., Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2016) Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults' recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory. Memory & Cognition, 44, 869-882. Supplemental materials available here.
Mello, Z. R., Zhang, J. W., Barber, S. J., Paoloni, V. C., Howell, R. T., & Worrell, F. C. (2016). Psychometric properties of time attitudes scores in young, middle, and older adult samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 57-61.
Barber. S.J., & Lee, S.R. (2015). Stereotype threat lowers older adults' self-reported hearing abilities. Gerontology, 62, 81-85.
Barber, S.J. (2015). Memory for childhood sexual abuse can be shaped by social conversations: A commentary on Fagin, Cyr, and Hirst. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 820-822.
Nielsen, S.E., Barber, S.J., Chai, A., Clewett, D.V., & Mather, M. (2015). Sympathetic arousal increases a negative memory bias in young women with low sex hormone levels. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 96-106.
Barber, S.J., Mather, M., & Gatz, M. (2015). How stereotype threat affects healthy older adults' performance on clinical assessments of cognitive decline: The key role of regulatory fit. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 70, 891-900.
Barber, S.J., Harris, C., & Rajaram, S. (2015). Why two heads apart are better than two heads together: Multiple mechanisms underlie the collaborative inhibition effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 41, 559-566.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2014). How retellings shape younger and older adults’ memories. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 263-279.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2014). Stereotype threat in older adults: When and why does it occur, and who is most affected? In P. Verhaeghen & C. Hertzog (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood (pp. 302-320). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stereotype threat can both enhance and impair older adults’ memory. Psychological Science, 24, 2522-2529.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stereotype threat can reduce older adults’ memory errors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1888-1895.
Fazio, L.K., Barber, S.J., Rajaram, S., Ornstein, P.A., & Marsh, E.J. (2013). Creating illusions of knowledge: Learning errors that contradict prior knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 1-5.
Barber, S.J., Rajaram, S., & Paneerselvam, B. (2012). The collaborative encoding deficit is attenuated with specific warnings. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 929-941.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2012). Forgetting in context: The effects of age, emotion, and social factors on retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 40, 874-888.
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.
Barber, S.J., & Rajaram, S. (2011). Exploring the relationship between retrieval disruption from collaboration and recall. Memory, 19, 462-469.
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.
Barber, S.J., Rajaram, S. & Aron, A. (2010). When two is too many: Collaborative encoding impairs memory. Memory & Cognition, 38, 255-264.
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.
Barber, S.J., Gordon, R., & Franklin, N. (2009). Self-relevance and wishful thinking: Facilitation and distortion in source monitoring. Memory & Cognition, 37, 434-446.
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.
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.
Barber, S.J. & Tan, S.C. (in press). Ageism affects older adults' future time perspective. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry.
Tan, S.C. & Barber, S.J. (in press). Confucian values as a buffer against age-based stereotype threat for Chinese older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Barber S.J., Seliger, J., Yeh, N., & Tan, S.C. (in press). Stereotype threat reduces the positivity of older adults' recall. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Durbin, K.A., Barber, S.J., Brown, M., & Mather, M. (in press). Optimism for the future in younger and older adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Barber, S.J., Castrellon, J., Opitz, P., & Mather, M. (2017). Younger and older adults collaborative recall of shared and unshared emotional pictures. Memory & Cognition, 45, 716-730.
Smith, A.M., Gallo, D.A., Barber, S.J., Maddox, K.B., & Thomas, A.K. (2017). Stereotypes, warnings, and identity-related variables influence older adults' susceptibility to associative false memory errors. The Gerontologist, 57, S206-S215.
Mehta, A., Young, G., Wicker, A., Barber, S.J., & Suri, G. (2017). Emotion regulation choice: Differences in U.S. and Indian populations. The International Journal of Indian Psychology, Vol. 4, Issue 2, No. 94, ISSN: 2348-5396(e).
Barber, S.J. (2017). An examination of age-based stereotype threat about cognitive decline: Implications for stereotype threat research and theory development. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 62-90.
Mazerolle, M., Régner, I., Barber, S.J., Paccalin, M., Miazola, A. -C., Huguet, P., & Rigalleau, F. (2016). Negative aging stereotypes impair performance on brief cognitive tests used to screen for predementia. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, gbw083.
Barber, S.J., Opitz, P.C., Martins, B., Sakaki, M., & Mather, M. (2016) Thinking about a limited future enhances the positivity of younger and older adults' recall: Support for socioemotional selectivity theory. Memory & Cognition, 44, 869-882. Supplemental materials available here.
Mello, Z. R., Zhang, J. W., Barber, S. J., Paoloni, V. C., Howell, R. T., & Worrell, F. C. (2016). Psychometric properties of time attitudes scores in young, middle, and older adult samples. Personality and Individual Differences, 101, 57-61.
Barber. S.J., & Lee, S.R. (2015). Stereotype threat lowers older adults' self-reported hearing abilities. Gerontology, 62, 81-85.
Barber, S.J. (2015). Memory for childhood sexual abuse can be shaped by social conversations: A commentary on Fagin, Cyr, and Hirst. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29, 820-822.
Nielsen, S.E., Barber, S.J., Chai, A., Clewett, D.V., & Mather, M. (2015). Sympathetic arousal increases a negative memory bias in young women with low sex hormone levels. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 62, 96-106.
Barber, S.J., Mather, M., & Gatz, M. (2015). How stereotype threat affects healthy older adults' performance on clinical assessments of cognitive decline: The key role of regulatory fit. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 70, 891-900.
Barber, S.J., Harris, C., & Rajaram, S. (2015). Why two heads apart are better than two heads together: Multiple mechanisms underlie the collaborative inhibition effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 41, 559-566.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2014). How retellings shape younger and older adults’ memories. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 26, 263-279.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2014). Stereotype threat in older adults: When and why does it occur, and who is most affected? In P. Verhaeghen & C. Hertzog (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Emotion, Social Cognition, and Problem Solving in Adulthood (pp. 302-320). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stereotype threat can both enhance and impair older adults’ memory. Psychological Science, 24, 2522-2529.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2013). Stereotype threat can reduce older adults’ memory errors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1888-1895.
Fazio, L.K., Barber, S.J., Rajaram, S., Ornstein, P.A., & Marsh, E.J. (2013). Creating illusions of knowledge: Learning errors that contradict prior knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 1-5.
Barber, S.J., Rajaram, S., & Paneerselvam, B. (2012). The collaborative encoding deficit is attenuated with specific warnings. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 24, 929-941.
Barber, S.J., & Mather, M. (2012). Forgetting in context: The effects of age, emotion, and social factors on retrieval-induced forgetting. Memory & Cognition, 40, 874-888.
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.
Barber, S.J., & Rajaram, S. (2011). Exploring the relationship between retrieval disruption from collaboration and recall. Memory, 19, 462-469.
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.
Barber, S.J., Rajaram, S. & Aron, A. (2010). When two is too many: Collaborative encoding impairs memory. Memory & Cognition, 38, 255-264.
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.
Barber, S.J., Gordon, R., & Franklin, N. (2009). Self-relevance and wishful thinking: Facilitation and distortion in source monitoring. Memory & Cognition, 37, 434-446.
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.
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.
