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Bacon, E., & Rubin, D. C. (1983). Story recall by mentally retarded children. Psychological Reports, 53, 791-796.
Schultz, K. A., Schmitt, F. A., Logue, P. E., & Rubin, D. C. (1986). Unit analysis of prose memory in clinical and elderly populations. Developmental Neuropsychology, 2, 77-87.
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.
Wenzel, A., Pinna, K., & Rubin, D. C. (2004). Autobiographical memories of anxiety-related experiences. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 42, 329-341.
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. (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
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.
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
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
Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2009). Most people who think that they are likely to enter psychotherapy also think it is plausible that they could have forgotten their own memories of childhood sexual abuse. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 170-173. PMC2752902
Talarico, J. M., Berntsen, D, & Rubin, D. C. (2009). Positive emotions enhance recall of peripheral details. Cognition and Emotion, 23, 380-398. PMC3044328
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
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
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
Rubin, D. C. (2011). The coherence of memories for trauma: Evidence from posttraumatic stress disorder. Consciousness and Cognition, 20, 857-865. PMC2928852
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
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.
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.
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)
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2014). Changes in neuroticism following trauma exposure. Journal of Personality, 82, 92-102. PMC3926905.
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2014). Cumulative exposure to traumatic events in older adults. Aging and Mental Health, 18, 316-325. PMC3944195.
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2014). The impact of the developmental timing of trauma exposure on PTSD symptoms and psychosocial functioning among older adults. Developmental Psychology, 49, 2191-2200. PMC3806884
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
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
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D. C. (2015). Pretraumatic stress reactions in soldiers deployed to Afghanistan. Clinical Psychological Science, 3, 663-674. PMC4564108.
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2015). The relation between insecure attachment and posttraumatic stress: Early life versus adulthood traumas. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 7, 324-332. PMC4493437
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
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2016) Accounting for posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity with pre- and post-trauma measures: A longitudinal study of older adults. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 272-286. PMC4798242.
Rubin, D. C, Deffler, S. A., Ogle, C. M., Dowell, N., Graesser, A. C., & Beckham, J. C. (2016). Participant, rater, and computer measures of coherence in posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 11-25. PMC4701605.
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
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2016). Maladaptive trauma appraisals mediate the relation between attachment anxiety and PTSD. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 8, 301–309. PMC4844797
Ogle, C. M., Rubin, D. C., & Siegler, I. C. (2017). Pre- and post-trauma predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity: Reply to van der Velden and van der Knaap (2017). Clinical Psychological Science, 5, 146-151. PMC5384108
Ogle, C. M., Siegler, I. C., Beckham, J. C., & Rubin, D. C. (2017). Neuroticism increases PTSD symptom severity by amplifying the emotionality, rehearsal, and centrality of trauma memories. Journal of Personality, 85, 702-715. PMC6196079
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., & Berntsen, D., Hoyle, R., & Rubin, D. C., (2018). Psychological and Clinical Correlates of the Centrality of Events Scale: A Systematic Review. Clinical Psychology Review, 65, 57-80. PMC6291852 (under embargo)
