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Ira Hyman

Psychology

#3571

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#4022

Historical Rank

#1362

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Cognitive Psychology

#663

World Rank

#696

Historical Rank

#167

USA Rank

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Ira Hyman's Degrees

PhD Psychology University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Ira Hyman is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. His research is focused on human memory including traumatic memories, false childhood memories, autobiographical memory, memory in social context, and memory for phobia onset. Some of his most influential studies are: "Did you see the unicycling clown? Inattentional blindness while walking and talking on a cell phone", "Errors in autobiographical memories", "Individual differences and the creation of false childhood memories", "The role of mental imagery in the creation of false childhood memories" and "False memories of childhood experiences".

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Ira Hyman's Published Works

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False memories of childhood experiences. (1995) (437)
The Role of Mental Imagery in the Creation of False Childhood Memories (1996) (411)
Did you see the unicycling clown? Inattentional blindness while walking and talking on a cell phone (2009) (376)
Individual differences and the creation of false childhood memories. (1998) (306)
Texting everywhere for everything: Gender and age differences in cell phone etiquette and use (2014) (152)
Errors in autobiographical memory. (1998) (144)
Conversational remembering: story recall with a peer versus for an experimenter (1994) (131)
Comparisons of memories for traumatic events and other experiences (2001) (114)
A mega-analysis of memory reports from eight peer-reviewed false memory implantation studies (2017) (107)
The Functions of Autobiographical Memory (1992) (104)
Manipulating remember and know judgements of autobiographical memories: an investigation of false memory creation (1998) (69)
Individual differences related to two types of memory errors: word lists may not generalize to autobiographical memory (1998) (65)
Going Gaga: Investigating, Creating, and Manipulating the Song Stuck in My Head (2013) (62)
Flashbulb memories? The effects of when the initial memory report was obtained (2000) (61)
Children's Memory for Trauma and Positive Experiences (2003) (60)
Narrative intentions: Listening to life stories in Alzheimer's Disease (1998) (59)
Failure to see money on a tree: inattentional blindness for objects that guided behavior (2014) (49)
Memorabeatlia: A naturalistic study of long-term memory (1990) (45)
False childhood memories: Research, theory, and applications. (1999) (44)
The Role of the Self in Recollections of a Seminar (1992) (41)
Involuntary to Intrusive: Using Involuntary Musical Imagery to Explore Individual Differences and the Nature of Intrusive Thoughts (2015) (39)
The Effect of Humor on Memory: Constrained by the Pun (2010) (35)
Multiple causes of collaborative inhibition in memory for categorised word lists (2013) (30)
Fluidity in autobiographical memories: Relationship memories sampled on two occasions (2014) (24)
Recall and Validation of Phobia Origins as a Function of a Structured Interview Versus the Phobia Origins Questionnaire (1999) (15)
False Childhood Memories and Eyewitness Memory Errors (2001) (15)
Collaboration inflation: Egocentric source monitoring errors following collaborative remembering (2014) (12)
Individual Differences and the C reation of False C hildhood M emories (1998) (10)
Unaware Observers: The Impact of Inattentional Blindness on Walkers, Drivers, and Eyewitnesses ☆ (2016) (10)
Crime Blindness: How Selective Attention and Inattentional Blindness Can Disrupt Eyewitness Awareness and Memory (2018) (10)
Misinformation and worldviews in the post-truth information age: Commentary on Lewandowsky, Ecker, and Cook. (2017) (9)
INVESTIGATING ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTS OF VERIDICAL AND NON-VERIDICAL MEMORIES OF TRAUMA (1997) (9)
Understanding the Overlap Between Positive and Negative Involuntary Cognitions Using Instrumental Earworms (2018) (8)
The Role of the Self in False Memory Creation (2001) (8)
Chapter 4 Imagery, Reconstructive Memory, and Discovery (1993) (5)
POSTER SESSION ABSTRACTS (1996) (5)
Stealing and sharing memories: Source monitoring biases following collaborative remembering (2021) (5)
Prenatal child abuse risk assessment: a preliminary validation study. (2003) (4)
Commentary on Brewin and Andrews (2017) (3)
Crime Blindness: The Impact of Inattentional Blindness on Eyewitness Awareness, Memory, and Identification (2021) (2)
The Problem of a Hammer: Eyewitness Identification Research Relies on the Wrong Comparisons (2021) (2)
Critical issues in memory for trauma: the intersection of clinical psychology and cognitive science. (1998) (2)
The effect of pre-event instructions on eyewitness identification (2021) (1)
Investigating features that contribute to evaluations of intrusiveness for thoughts and memories (2023) (0)
Task Nature and Cognitive Engagement Affect the Return of Intrusive Thoughts: (502412013-290) (2012) (0)
Frequency of Involuntary Thoughts Scale (2015) (0)
Stimuli for Experiments 1 and 2 (2020) (0)
Playing to the Crowd: Conversation Partner Determines Temporal Distance of Past and Future Autobiographical Events: (528942014-945) (2014) (0)
The Monster Follows You after the Credits: Intrusive Thoughts and Irrational Behaviors from Watching Horror Films (2018) (0)
Early Memories Study (2018) (0)
Validation of prenatal screening procedure for risk of child abuse (1998) (0)

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