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Brown, L., Heymann, S., Preskill, B., Rubin, D. C., & Wuletich, T. (1977). Leading questions and the eyewitness report of a live and a described incident. Psychological Reports, 40, 1041-1042.
Rubin, D. C. (1982). On the retention function for autobiographical memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 21-38.
Rubin, D. C., Groth, L., & Goldsmith, D. (1984). Olfactory cuing of autobiographical memory. American Journal of Psychology, 97, 493-507.
Rubin, D. C., & Kozin, M. (1984). Vivid memories. Cognition, 16, 81-95.
Rubin, D. C. (1985, September). The subtle deceiver: Recalling our past. Psychology Today, pp. 38-46. Translated and reprinted as (1986, March-April) Sottili inganni: I ricordi del nostra passato. Psicologia Contemporanea, pp. 18-25.
Rubin, D. C. (1988). Practical aspects of autobiographical memory. In M. M. Gruenberg, P. E. Morris, & R. N. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory: Current research and issues: Vol. 1. Memory in everyday life (pp. 253-256). New York: Wiley. Rubin, D. C., Wetzler, S. E., & Nebes, R. D. (1986). Autobiographical memory across the lifespan. In D. C. Rubin (Ed.), Autobiographical memory (pp. 202-221). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rubin, D. C., & Baddeley, A. D. (1989). Telescoping is not time compression: A model of the dating of autobiographical events. Memory and Cognition, 17, 653-661.
Rubin, D. C. (1992). Definitions of autobiographical memory. In M. A. Conway, D. C. Rubin, H. Spinnler, & W. A. Wagenaar (Eds.). Theoretical perspectives on autobiographical memory (pp. 495-499). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Conway, M. A., & Rubin, D. C. (1993). The structure of autobiographical memory. In A. E. Collins, S. E. Gathercole, M. A. Conway, & P. E. Morris (Eds.), Theories of memory (pp. 103-137). Hove, Sussex: Erlbaum.
Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997). Distribution of important and word-cued autobiographical memories in 20-, 35-, and 70-year-old adults. Psychology and Aging, 12, 524-535.
Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997). Properties of word cues for autobiographical memory. Psychological Reports, 81, 47-50.
Rubin, D. C. & Schulkind, M. D. (1997). The distribution of autobiographical memories across the lifespan. Memory & Cognition, 25, 859-866.
Rubin, D. C. (1998). Beginnings of a theory of autobiographical remembering. In C. P. Thompson, D. J. Herrmann, D. Bruce, J. D. Reed, D. G. Payne, and M. P. Toglia (Eds.), Autobiographical memory: Theoretical and applied perspectives (pp. 47-67). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Rubin, D. C. (1998). Knowledge and judgments about events that occurred prior to birth: The measurement of the persistence of information. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 397-400.
Rubin, D. C. & Greenberg, D. L. (1998). Visual memory-deficit amnesia: A distinct amnesic presentation and etiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95, 5413-5416. PMC20275
Rubin, D. C., Rahhal, T. A., & Poon, L. W. (1998). Things learned in early adulthood are remembered best. Memory & Cognition, 26, 3-19.
Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (1998). Bilingual autobiographical memory in older adult immigrants: A test of cognitive explanations of the reminiscence bump and the linguistic encoding of memories. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 437-457.
Rubin, D. C. (1999). Autobiographical memory and aging: Distributions of memories across the life-span and their implications for survey research. In N. Schwartz, D. C. Park, B. Knauper, & S. Sudman (Eds.) Cognition, aging, and self-reports (pp. 163-183). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Rubin, D. C., Schulkind, M. D., & Rahhal, T. A. (1999). A study of gender differences in autobiographical memory: Broken down by age and sex. Journal of Adult Development, 6, 61-72.
Schulkind, M. D., Hennis, L. K., & Rubin, D. C (1999). Music, emotion and autobiographical memory: They’re playing your song. Memory & Cognition, 27, 948-955.
Rubin, D. C. (2000). Autobiographical memory and aging. In D. Park & N. Schwartz (Eds.) Cognitive aging: A primer (pp. 131-149). Philadelphia: Psychology Press. (Translated into Japanese and Spanish.)
Rubin, D. C. (2000). The distribution of early childhood memories. Memory, 8, 265-269.
Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2000). Internal languages of retrieval: The bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past. Memory & Cognition, 28, 616-623.
Gülgöz, S. & Rubin, D. C. (2001). Kişisel Anilarin Hatirlanmasi: Bir Betimleme Çalişmasi. [Retrieval of personal memory: A descriptive study.] Türk Psikoloji Dergisi, 16, 37 –55.
Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2001). Effects of voluntary immigration on the distribution of autobiographical memory over the lifespan. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 15, S75-S88.
Sheen, M., Kemp, S., & Rubin, D. C. (2001). Twins dispute memory ownership: a new false memory phenomenon. Memory & Cognition, 29, 779-788. (reprinted in Robinson-Riegler, M. B., & Robinson-Riegler, G. L., (Eds). (2004). Readings in Cognitive Psychology: Applications, Connections, and Individual Differences (pp. 120-130). Boston: Allyn & Bacon).
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2002). Emotionally charged autobiographical memories across the life span: The recall of happy, sad, traumatic, and involuntary memories. Psychology and Aging, 17, 636-652.
Larsen, S. F., Schrauf, R. W., Fromholt, P., & Rubin, D. C. (2002). Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: A Polish-Danish cross-cultural study. Memory, 10, 45-54.
Rubin, D. C. (2002). Autobiographical memory across the lifespan. In P. Graf & N. Ohta (Eds.), Lifespan development of human memory (pp. 159-184). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Berntsen, D., Willert, M., & Rubin, D. C. (2003). Splintered memories or vivid landmarks? Qualities and organization of traumatic memories with and without PTSD. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17, 675-693.
Fromholt, P., Mortensen, D., Torpdahl, P., Bender, L., Larsen, P., & Rubin, D. C. (2003). Life-narrative and word-cued autobiographical memories in centenarians: Comparisons with 80-year old control, depressed, and dementia groups. Memory, 11, 81-88.
Greenberg, D. L. & Rubin, D. C. (2003). The neuropsychology of autobiographical memory. Cortex, 39, 687-728. (reprinted in J. K. Foster (Ed.), Memory: Anatomical regions, physiological networks, and cognitive interactions (pp. 687-728). Milan, Italy: Masson.
Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2003). Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, events. Memory & Cognition, 31, 1-14.
Rubin, D. C., Burt, C. D. B., & Fifield, S. J. (2003). Experimental manipulations of the phenomenology of memory. Memory & Cognition, 31, 877-886.
Rubin, D. C., Feldman, M. E., & Beckham, J. C. (2003). Reliving, emotions, and fragmentation in the autobiographical memories of veterans diagnosed with PTSD. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 17-35.
Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W. Greenberg D. L. (2003). Belief and recollection of autobiographical memories. Memory & Cognition, 31, 887-901.
Schulkind, M. D., Posner, R. I., & Rubin, D. C (2003). Musical features that facilitate melody identification: How do you know it’s “your” song when they finally play it? Music Perception, 21, 217-249.
Talarico, J. M. & Rubin, D. C. (2003). Confidence, not consistency, characterizes flashbulb memories. Psychological Science, 14, 455-461.
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2004). Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memory. Memory & Cognition, 32, 427-442.
Cabeza, R., Prince, S. E., Daselaar, S. M., Greenberg, D. L., Budde, M., Dolcos, F., LaBar, K. S., & Rubin, D. C. (2004). Brain activity during episodic retrieval of autobiographical and laboratory events: An fMRI study using a novel photo paradigm. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1583-1594.
Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W., & Greenberg D. L. (2004). Stability in autobiographical memories. Memory, 12, 715-721.
Rubin, D. C. & Siegler. I. C. (2004). Facets of personality and the phenomenology of autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 18, 913-930.
Schrauf, R. W. & Rubin, D. C. (2004). The ‘language’ and ‘feel’ of bilingual memory: Mnemonic traces. Estudios de Sociolingüística, 5, 21-39.
Talarico, J. M., LaBar K. S., & Rubin, D. C. (2004). Emotional intensity predicts autobiographical memory experience, Memory & Cognition, 32, 1118-1132.
Wenzel, A., Pinna, K., & Rubin, D. C. (2004). Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiences. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42, 329-341.
Bluck, S. Alea, N., Habermas, T. &. Rubin, D. C. (2005). A TALE of three functions: The self-reported uses of autobiographical memory. Social Cognition, 23, 91-117.
Greenberg, D. L., Eacott, M. J., Brechin, D., & Rubin, D. C. (2005). Visual memory loss and autobiographical amnesia: A case study. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1493-1502.
Greenberg, D. L., Rice, H. J., Cooper, J. J., Cabeza, R., Rubin, D. C., & LaBar, K. S. (2005). Co-activation of the amygdala, hippocampus and inferior frontal gyrus during autobiographical memory retrieval. Neuropsychologia, 43, 659-674.
Rubin, D. C. (2005). A basic-systems approach to autobiographical memory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 79-83.
Rubin, D. C. (2005). Autobiographical memory tasks in cognitive research. In A. Wenzel & D. C. Rubin (Eds.). Cognitive methods and their application to clinical research (pp. 219-241). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
Rubin, D. C. & Wenzel, A. (2005). Autobiographical memory tasks: Six common methods. In A. Wenzel & D. C. Rubin (Eds.). Cognitive methods and their application to clinical research (pp. 215-217). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2006). Emotion and vantage point in autobiographical memory. Cognition and Emotion, 20, 1193-1215.
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2006). Flashbulb memories and posttraumatic stress reactions across the life-span: Age-related effects of the German occupation of Denmark during WWII. Psychology and Aging, 21, 127-139. PMC3981546
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2006). The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one’s identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44, 219–231. PMC3974102
Rubin, D. C. (2006). The basic-systems model of episodic memory. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 277-311.
Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2006). People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: Subjective age across the life span. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 776-780. PMC3969748.
Sheen, M., Kemp, S., & Rubin, D. C. (2006). Disputes over memory ownership: What memories are disputed? . Genes, Brain and Behavior, 5, 9-13.
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2007). When a trauma becomes a key to identity: Enhanced integration of trauma memories predicts posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 417-431.
Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2007). People believe it is plausible to have forgotten memories of childhood sexual abuse. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review,14, 776-778. PMC3044601
Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W., Gulgoz, S. & Naka, M. (2007). On the cross-cultural variability of component processes in autobiographical remembering: Japan, Turkey, and the U.S.A. Memory, 15, 536-547. PMC3972493
Talarico, J. M. & Rubin, D. C. (2007). Flashbulb memories are special after all; in phenomenology, not accuracy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 557-558.
Berntsen, D., Rubin, D. C., & Bohni, M. K. (2008). Contrasting models of posttraumatic stress disorder: Reply to Monroe and Mineka (2008). Psychological Review, 115, 1099-1106. PMC2929830
Berntsen, D., Rubin, D. C., & Bohni, M. J. (2008). Postscript: Evidence and counterevidence. Psychological Review, 1006-1107.
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2008). The reappearance hypothesis revisited: Recurrent involuntary memories after traumatic events and in everyday life. Memory & Cognition, 36, 449-460. PMC3044895
Boals, A., Rubin, D. C., & Klein, K. (2008). Memory and coping with stress: The relationship between cognitive-emotional distinctiveness, memory valence, and distress. Memory, 16, 637-657. PMC3076307
Daselaar, S. M., Rice, H. J., Greenberg, D. L., Cabeza, R. LaBar, K. S., & Rubin, D. C. (2008). The spatiotemporal dynamics of autobiographical memory: Neural correlates of recall, emotional intensity, and reliving. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 217-229.
Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D., & Bohni, M. K. (2008). A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: Evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis. Psychological Review,115, 985-1011. PMC2762652
Rubin, D.C., Boals, A., & Berntsen, D. (2008). Memory in posttraumatic stress disorder: Properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137, 591-614. PMC2597428
St. Jacques, P. L., Rubin, D. C., LaBar, K. & Cabeza, R. (2008). The short and long of it: Neural correlates of temporal-order memory for autobiographical events. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20, 1327-1341. PMC2677213
Rice, H. J. & Rubin, D. C. (2009). I can see it both ways: First- and third-person visual perspectives at retrieval. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 877-890. PMC2784183
Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D., & Hutson, M. (2009). The normative and the personal life: Individual differences in life scripts and life stories among U.S.A. and Danish undergraduates. Memory, 17, 54-68. PMC3042895
Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2009). The frequency of voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories across the lifespan. Memory & Cognition, 37, 679-688. PMC3044938
Rubin, D. C. & Talarico, J. M. (2009). A comparison of dimensional models of emotion: Evidence from emotions, prototypical events, autobiographical memories, and words. Memory, 17, 802-808. PMC2784275
Talarico, J. M., Berntsen, D, & Rubin, D. C. (2009). Positive emotions enhance recall of peripheral details. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 380-398. PMC3044328
Botzung, A., LaBar, K., Kragel, P., Miles, A., & Rubin, D. C. (2010). Component neural systems for the creation of emotional memories during free viewing of a complex, real-world event. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, article 34, 1-10. PMC2876881
Botzung, A., Rubin, D. C., Miles, A., Cabeza, R., & LaBar, K. S. (2010). Mental hoop diaries: Emotional memories of a college basketball game in rival fans. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30, 2130 –2137. PMC3319676
Rubin, D. C., Boals, A., & Klein, K. (2010). Autobiographical memories for very negative events: The effects of thinking about and rating memories, Cognitive Therapy and Research, 34, 35–48. PMC3058540
Rubin, D. C. (2010). Emotion and autobiographical memory: Considerations from posttraumatic stress disorder. Physics of Life Reviews, 7, 132-133.
Rubin, D. C. & Boals, A. (2010). People who expect to enter psychotherapy are prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse. Memory, 18, 556-562. PMC2904647
Berntsen, D., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I.C. (2011). Two versions of life: Emotionally negative and positive life events have different roles in the organization of life story and identity. Emotion, 11, 1190–1201. PMC3260653
Boals, A., Hathaway, L. M., & Rubin, D. C. (2011). The therapeutic effects of completing autobiographical memory questionnaires for positive and negative events: An experimental approach. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 35, 544–549.
Boals, A. & Rubin, D. C. (2011). The integration of emotions in traumatic memories: Cognitive-emotional distinctiveness and posttraumatic stress disorder. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 811–816. PMC3577054
Janssen, S. M. J. & Rubin, D. C. (2011). Age effects in cultural life scripts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 291–298. PMC3972131.
Janssen, S. M. J., Rubin, D. C. & St. Jacques, P. L. (2011). The temporal distribution of autobiographical memory: Changes in reliving and vividness over the lifespan do not explain the reminiscence bump. Memory & Cognition, 39, 1-11. PMC3034034
Rice, H. J. & Rubin, D. C. (2011). Remembering from any angle: The flexibility of visual perspective during retrieval. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 568-577. PMC3085051
Rubin, D. C., Dennis, M. F., & Beckham. J. C. (2011). Autobiographical memory for stressful events: The role of autobiographical memory in posttraumatic stress disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 840-856. PMC3137718
Rubin, D. C. (2011). The coherence of memories for trauma: Evidence from posttraumatic stress disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 857-865. PMC2928852
St. Jacques, P. L., Kragel, P. A., & Rubin, D. C. (2011). Dynamic neural networks supporting memory retrieval. NeuroImage, 57, 608-616. PMC3114167.
St. Jacques, P. L., Botzung, A., Miles, A., & Rubin, D. C. (2011). Functional neuroimaging of emotionally intense autobiographical memories in post-traumatic stress disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 45, 630-637. PMC3081954
Berntsen, D., Johannessen, K. B., Thomsen, Y. D., Bertelsen, M., Hoyle, R. H., & Rubin, D. C. (2012) Peace and war: Trajectories of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms before, during and after military deployment in Afghanistan. Psychological Science, 23, 1557-1565. PMC3893698.
Janssen, S. M. J., Rubin, D. C., & Conway, M. A. (2012). The reminiscence bump in the temporal distribution of the best football players of all time: Pelé, Cruijff or Maradona? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 165-178.
St. Jacques, P. L., Rubin, D. C., & Cabeza, R. (2012). Age-related effects on the neural correlates of autobiographical memory retrieval: An elaboration deficit underlies reductions in episodic richness. Neurobiology of Aging, 33, 1298–1310. PMC3084340
Rubin, D. C. (2012). The basic system model of autobiographical memory. In D. Berntsen & D. C. Rubin. (Eds.). Understanding autobiographical memory: Theories and approaches (pp. 11-32). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D., & Siegler, I. C. (2013). The frequency and impact of exposure to potentially traumatic events over the life course. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 426-434. PMC3958943
Rubin, D. C. & Feeling, N. (2013). Measuring the severity of negative and traumatic events. Clinical Psychological Science, 1, 375-389. PMC4189805.
St. Jacques, P. L., Kragel, P. A., & Rubin, D. C. (2013). Neural networks supporting autobiographical memory retrieval in post-traumatic stress disorder. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 554–566. PMC3720739.
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2014). Involuntary memories and dissociative amnesia: Assessing key assumptions in Posttraumatic stress disorder research. Clinical Psychological Science, 2, 174–186. (PMC4189812)
Ford, J. H., Rubin, D. C., & Giovanello, K. S. (2014). Effects of task instruction on autobiographical memory specificity in young and older adults. Memory, 22, 722-736.
Rubin, D. C., Boals, A., & Hoyle, R. H. (2014). Narrative centrality and negative affectivity: Independent and interactive contributors to stress reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1159–1170. PMC4038657
Rubin, D. C. (2014). Schema driven construction of future autobiographical traumatic events: The future is much more troubling than the past. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, No. 2, 612–630. PMC3778053
Hall, S. A., Rubin, D. C., Miles, A., Davis, S. W., Wing, E. A., Cabeza, R., & Berntsen, D. (2014). The neural basis of involuntary episodic memories. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26, 2385-2399. PMC4149828
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2015). Pretraumatic stress reactions in soldiers deployed to Afghanistan. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 663-674. PMC4564108.
Berntsen, D., Rubin, D. C., & Salgado, S. (2015). The frequency of involuntary autobiographical memories and future thoughts in relation to daydreaming, emotional distress, and age. Consciousness & Cognition, 36, 352-372. PMC4552601
Rubin, D. C. (2015). A basic systems account of trauma memories in PTSD: is more needed? In L. A. Watson & D. Berntsen & D. C. Rubin. (Eds.). Clinical perspective on autobiographical memory: Theories and approaches (pp. 41-64). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rubin, D. C. (2015). One bump, two bumps, three bumps, four? Using retrieval cues to divide one autobiographical memory reminiscence bump into many. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4, 87-89.
Rubin, D. C. & Umanath, S. (2015). Event memory: A theory of memory for laboratory, autobiographical, and fictional events. Psychological Review, 122, 1-23. PMC4295926
Butler, A. C., Rice, H. J., Wooldridge, C. L. & Rubin, D. C. (2016). Visual imagery in autobiographical memory: The role of repeated retrieval in shifting perspective. Consciousness & Cognition, 42, 327-253. PMC4910630.
Ford, J.H., Rubin, D.C., & Giovanello, K.S. (2016). The effects of song familiarity and age on phenomenological characteristics and neural recruitment during autobiographical memory retrieval. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 26, 199–210. [does not thank grant]
Koppel, J. & Rubin, D. C. (2016). Recent advances in understanding the reminiscence bump: The importance of cues in guiding recall from autobiographical memory. Current Directions, 25, 135-140. PMC4850910.
Rubin, D. C, Berntsen, D., Ogle, C. M., Deffler, S. A., & Beckham, J. C. (2016). Scientific evidence versus outdated beliefs: A response to Brewin (2016). Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 1018-1021. PMC5063074
Hall, S. A., Brodar, K, LaBar, K. S., Berntsen, D, & Rubin, D. C. (2018). Neural responses to emotional involuntary memories in posttraumatic stress disorder: Differences in timing and activity. NeuroImage: Clinical, 19, 793-804. PMC6024199
Gehrt, T. B., Rubin, D. C., & Berntsen (2018). Psychological and Clinical Correlates of the Centrality of Events Scale: A Systematic Review. Clinical Psychology Review, 65, 57-80. PMC6291852 (under embargo)
Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D, Deffler, S, & Brodar, K (2019). Self-narrative focus in autobiographical events: The effect of time, emotion and individual differences. Memory & Cognition, 47, 63-75. PMC6353681 (under embargo).
Rubin, D. C., Deffler, S, & Umanath, S (2019). Scenes enable a sense of reliving: Implications for autobiographical memory. Cognition, 183, 44-56. PMC6322930 (under embargo)
Berntsen, D, Hoyle, R. H., Rubin, D. C. (2019, accepted). The Autobiographical Recollection Test (ART). A Measure of Individual Differences in Autobiographical Memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. (needs to be submitted to PubMed)
