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David C. Rubin

Juanita M. Kreps Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
240 Reuben--Cooke Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Event Memory versus Knowledge: The Dichotomy Underlying Episodic and Semantic Memory. · September 1, 2012 Lecture Invited talk. Aarhus, Denmark
The role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder · June 1, 2012 Lecture Invited keynote address. Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory conference, Aarhus, Denmark
Measuring the severity of negative events. · June 1, 2012 Lecture Paper Presentation. 7th Autobiographical Memory & Psychopathology Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark.
Autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder · May 1, 2012 Lecture Invited talk. Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway
Autobiographical memory retrieval in healthy older adults · February 1, 2012 Lecture Paper presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Chapel Hill
Event Memory versus Knowledge: The Dichotomy Underlying Episodic and Semantic Memory. · September 1, 2012 Lecture Invited talk. Aarhus, Denmark
The role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder · June 1, 2012 Lecture Invited keynote address. Clinical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory conference, Aarhus, Denmark
Measuring the severity of negative events. · June 1, 2012 Lecture Paper Presentation. 7th Autobiographical Memory & Psychopathology Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark.
Autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder · May 1, 2012 Lecture Invited talk. Norwegian Center for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway
Autobiographical memory retrieval in healthy older adults · February 1, 2012 Lecture Paper presented at the North Carolina Cognition Conference, Chapel Hill
Issues in mental time travel · October 1, 2011 Lecture Discussion for the meeting of the Emory Cognition Project Conference on Mental time travel? Bringing the past into the present, Emory University, Atlanta.
Involuntary memories in posttraumatic stress disorder. In the symposium on Involuntary autobiographical memories · August 1, 2011 Lecture 5th International Conference on Memory, University of York, England.
Autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder. In the symposium on Autobiographical memory: From order to disorder · August 1, 2011 Lecture 5th International Conference on Memory, University of York, England.
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in Danish soldiers before, during and after deployment in Afghanistan. In the symposium on Autobiographical memory: From order to disorder. · August 1, 2011 Lecture 5th International Conference on Memory, University of York, England.
Cultural life scripts and autobiographical memory · August 1, 2011 Lecture Discussant for symposium. 5th International Conference on Memory, University of York, England.
Involuntary memories in posttraumatic stress disorder. In the symposium on Involuntary autobiographical memories · August 1, 2011 Lecture 5th International Conference on Memory, University of York, England.
Autobiographical Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder · July 1, 2011 Lecture Invited presentation. Symposium on Emotion, trauma, and autobiographical memory. 12th European Congress of Psychology. Istanbul, Turkey
How memory for stressful events affects identity · February 1, 2011 Lecture Invited Speaker. Conference on Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Studies Possible? New School for Social Research, New York.
Emotionally negative and positive events play different roles for life story and identity · November 1, 2010 Lecture Paper presentation. 51st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis.
The basic systems theory of autobiographical memory · June 1, 2010 Lecture Invited keynote address. Conference on Theoretical Perspectives on Autobiographical Memory, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
The temporal dynamics of social-emotional memories retrieval within the medial temporal lobe · June 1, 2010 Lecture 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization of the Human Brain Mapping. Barcelona, Spain
Components of belief. Response to Barbara Herrnstein Smith’s Deep reading: Science, religion, and the incoherence of belief · November 1, 2009 Lecture Darwin Across the Disciplines Symposium. Duke University, Durham.
Counter to our theories, involuntary memories for an event are as frequent as voluntary memories · November 1, 2009 Lecture Poster presented. 50th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston.
Temporal vs. spatial source memory for autobiographical events: An fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm. · October 1, 2009 Lecture Paper presentation. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Chicago
Emotional memories for Duke-UNC Basketball · September 1, 2009 Lecture Paper presentation. Annual Meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society. Duke University, Durham
Age effects in life scripts · July 1, 2009 Lecture Paper presentation. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Kyoto
The plausibility of forgotten childhood traumas · March 1, 2009 Lecture Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Cognition Group, Duke University, Durham, NC
The basic systems of autobiographical memory, Changes in autobiographical memory with posttraumatic stress disorder: A basic systems approach, and Narrative search in autobiographical memory: The role of life scripts and negative, non-scripted events. · March 1, 2009 Lecture Annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series: University of Alberta, Edmonton
How cultural life scripts organize autobiographical memory · December 1, 2008 Lecture Invited talk. Marial Center Conference on Culture, Family and Communicative Memory, Emory University, Atlanta.
The role of autobiographical memory in understanding posttraumatic stress disorder · December 1, 2008 Lecture Invited Seminar. Emory University, Atlanta

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Trauma and Timing · August 2013 - May 2014 Projects & Field Work flag United States of America

Service to the Profession


Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition · November 28, 2012 Event/Organization Administration