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Udry, J., & Barber, S. J. (in press). Semantic coherence is necessary to explain repetition-based illusory truth effects. Cognition.
Udry, J., Becerra, J., Kim, H., & Barber, S. J. (in press). Age and gender differences in the borrowing of personal stories. Experimental Aging Research.
Barber, S. J., Kausar, H., & Udry, J. (2023). Age differences in affective forecasting accuracy. Psychology and Aging, 38, 357-373.
Gradone, A. M., Champion, G., McGregor, K. M., Nocera, J., Barber, S. J., Krishnamrthy, L. C., & Dotson, V. (2023). Rostral anterior cingulate connectivity in older adults with subthreshold depressive symptoms. Aging Brain, 3, 100059.
Minto, L. R., Ellis, R., Cherry, K. E., Wood, R. H., Barber, S. J., Carter, S., & Dotson, V. M. (2023). Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the relationships of physical activity with mood and cognitive function in a diverse sample. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 30, 654-667.
Kim, H. & Barber, S. J. (2022). The age-related positivity effect in cognition: A review of key findings across different cognitive domains. Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Cognitive Aging, 77, 125-164.
Udry, J., White, S. K., & Barber, S. J. (2022). The effects of repetition spacing on the illusory truth effect. Cognition, 225, 105157.
Schepens Niemiec, S. L., Wagas, R., Vigen, C. L. P., Blanchard, J., Barber, S. J., & Schoenhals, A. (2022). Preliminary user evaluation of a physical activity smartphone app for older adults. Health Policy and Technology, 100639.
Barber, S. J., Schoeke, A., & Mather, M. (2022). Ambiguous faces look less negative to older adults than to younger adults, regardless of spatial frequency. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 29, 720-732.
Mello, Z. R., Barber, S. J., Vasilenko, S. A., Chandler, J., & Howell, R. (2022). Thinking about the past, present, and future: Time perspective and self-esteem in adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40, 92-111.
Hassan, A., & Barber, S. J. (2021). The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, 1-12.
Swift, H., Barber, S. J., Lamont, R. A., Weiss, D., & Chasteen, A. L. (2021). Introduction to and insights from a special collection on age-based stereotype threat. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 773615.
Barber, S. J., & Kim, H. (2021). The positivity effect: A review of theories and recent findings. In G. Sedek, T. Hess, & D. Touron, D. (Eds.), Multiple pathways of cognitive aging: Motivational and contextual influences (pp. 84-104). Oxford University Press.
Barber, S.J., & Kim, H. (2021). COVID-19 worries and behavior changes in younger and older men and women. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76, e17-e23.
Barber, S.J., & Lui, K. (2020). Stereotype threat and the cognitive performance of older adults. In A. Thomas & A. Gutchess (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective, Cambridge University Press.
Barber, S.J. (2020). The applied implications of age-based stereotype threat for older adults. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9, 274-285.
Barber, S.J., Lopez, N., Cadambi, K., & Alferez, S. (2020). The limited roles of cognitive capabilities and future time perspective in contributing to positivity effects. Cognition, 200, 104278.
Barber, S.J., Kireeva, D., Seliger, J., & Jayawickreme, E. (2020). Wisdom once gained is not easily lost: Implicit theories about wisdom and age-related cognitive declines. Innovation in Aging, 4, igaa010.
Barber, S.J., Hamel, K., Ketcham, K., Lui, K., & Taylor-Ketcham, N. (2020). The effects of stereotype threat on older adults' walking performance as a function of task difficulty and resource evaluations. Psychology and Aging, 35, 250-266.
Tan, S.C. & Barber, S.J. (2020). Confucian values as a buffer against age-based stereotype threat for Chinese older adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75, 504-512.
Yeh, N., Barber, S.J., Suri, G., & Opitz, P. (2020). The role of reappraisal success in emotional and memory outcomes. Emotion, 939-950.
Barber, S.J., Lee, H., Becerra, J., & Tate, C. C. (2019). Emotional expressions affect perceptions of younger and older adults' everyday competence. Psychology and Aging, 34, 991-1004.
Barber, S.J., & Strickland-Hughes, C.M. (2019). The relationship between future time perspective and memory control beliefs in older adults. Research in Human Development, 16, 156-174.
Barber S.J., Seliger, J., Yeh, N., & Tan, S.C. (2019). Stereotype threat reduces the positivity of older adults' recall. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 585-594.
Durbin, K.A., Barber, S.J., Brown, M., & Mather, M. (2019). Optimism for the future in younger and older adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 565-574.
Barber, S.J., & Tan, S. C. (2018). Ageism affects older adults' future time perspective. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 31(3), 115-126.
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. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72, 932-936.
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. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social 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.
Udry, J., & Barber, S. J. (in press). Semantic coherence is necessary to explain repetition-based illusory truth effects. Cognition.
Udry, J., Becerra, J., Kim, H., & Barber, S. J. (in press). Age and gender differences in the borrowing of personal stories. Experimental Aging Research.
Barber, S. J., Kausar, H., & Udry, J. (2023). Age differences in affective forecasting accuracy. Psychology and Aging, 38, 357-373.
Gradone, A. M., Champion, G., McGregor, K. M., Nocera, J., Barber, S. J., Krishnamrthy, L. C., & Dotson, V. (2023). Rostral anterior cingulate connectivity in older adults with subthreshold depressive symptoms. Aging Brain, 3, 100059.
Minto, L. R., Ellis, R., Cherry, K. E., Wood, R. H., Barber, S. J., Carter, S., & Dotson, V. M. (2023). Impact of cardiovascular risk factors on the relationships of physical activity with mood and cognitive function in a diverse sample. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 30, 654-667.
Kim, H. & Barber, S. J. (2022). The age-related positivity effect in cognition: A review of key findings across different cognitive domains. Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Cognitive Aging, 77, 125-164.
Udry, J., White, S. K., & Barber, S. J. (2022). The effects of repetition spacing on the illusory truth effect. Cognition, 225, 105157.
Schepens Niemiec, S. L., Wagas, R., Vigen, C. L. P., Blanchard, J., Barber, S. J., & Schoenhals, A. (2022). Preliminary user evaluation of a physical activity smartphone app for older adults. Health Policy and Technology, 100639.
Barber, S. J., Schoeke, A., & Mather, M. (2022). Ambiguous faces look less negative to older adults than to younger adults, regardless of spatial frequency. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 29, 720-732.
Mello, Z. R., Barber, S. J., Vasilenko, S. A., Chandler, J., & Howell, R. (2022). Thinking about the past, present, and future: Time perspective and self-esteem in adolescents, young adults, middle-aged adults, and older adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 40, 92-111.
Hassan, A., & Barber, S. J. (2021). The effects of repetition frequency on the illusory truth effect. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, 1-12.
Swift, H., Barber, S. J., Lamont, R. A., Weiss, D., & Chasteen, A. L. (2021). Introduction to and insights from a special collection on age-based stereotype threat. Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 773615.
Barber, S. J., & Kim, H. (2021). The positivity effect: A review of theories and recent findings. In G. Sedek, T. Hess, & D. Touron, D. (Eds.), Multiple pathways of cognitive aging: Motivational and contextual influences (pp. 84-104). Oxford University Press.
Barber, S.J., & Kim, H. (2021). COVID-19 worries and behavior changes in younger and older men and women. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 76, e17-e23.
Barber, S.J., & Lui, K. (2020). Stereotype threat and the cognitive performance of older adults. In A. Thomas & A. Gutchess (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective, Cambridge University Press.
Barber, S.J. (2020). The applied implications of age-based stereotype threat for older adults. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9, 274-285.
Barber, S.J., Lopez, N., Cadambi, K., & Alferez, S. (2020). The limited roles of cognitive capabilities and future time perspective in contributing to positivity effects. Cognition, 200, 104278.
Barber, S.J., Kireeva, D., Seliger, J., & Jayawickreme, E. (2020). Wisdom once gained is not easily lost: Implicit theories about wisdom and age-related cognitive declines. Innovation in Aging, 4, igaa010.
Barber, S.J., Hamel, K., Ketcham, K., Lui, K., & Taylor-Ketcham, N. (2020). The effects of stereotype threat on older adults' walking performance as a function of task difficulty and resource evaluations. Psychology and Aging, 35, 250-266.
Tan, S.C. & Barber, S.J. (2020). Confucian values as a buffer against age-based stereotype threat for Chinese older adults. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75, 504-512.
Yeh, N., Barber, S.J., Suri, G., & Opitz, P. (2020). The role of reappraisal success in emotional and memory outcomes. Emotion, 939-950.
Barber, S.J., Lee, H., Becerra, J., & Tate, C. C. (2019). Emotional expressions affect perceptions of younger and older adults' everyday competence. Psychology and Aging, 34, 991-1004.
Barber, S.J., & Strickland-Hughes, C.M. (2019). The relationship between future time perspective and memory control beliefs in older adults. Research in Human Development, 16, 156-174.
Barber S.J., Seliger, J., Yeh, N., & Tan, S.C. (2019). Stereotype threat reduces the positivity of older adults' recall. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 585-594.
Durbin, K.A., Barber, S.J., Brown, M., & Mather, M. (2019). Optimism for the future in younger and older adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 565-574.
Barber, S.J., & Tan, S. C. (2018). Ageism affects older adults' future time perspective. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 31(3), 115-126.
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. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72, 932-936.
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. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social 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.