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Kenny, D. A., & Rubin, D. C.  (1977).  Estimating chance reproducibility in Guttman scaling.  Social Science Research, 6, 188-196.

Rubin, D. C.  (1979).  On measuring fuzziness: A comment on “A fuzzy set approach to modifiers and vagueness in natural language.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 108, 486-489.

Rubin, D. C., & Corbett, S.  (1982).  Adaptation-level theory and the free recall of mixed-frequency lists.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 20, 27-29.

Rubin, D. C.  (1983).  Associative asymmetry, availability, and retrieval.  Memory and Cognition, 11, 83-92.

Rubin, D. C.  (1985).  Memorability as a measure of processing: A unit analysis of prose and list learning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 213-238.

Rubin, D. C., & Wallace, W. T.  (1989).  Rhyme and reason: Analyses of dual retrieval cues.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 15, 698-709.

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. & Wenzel, A. E. (1996).  One hundred years of forgetting: A quantitative description of retention.  Psychological Review, 103, 734-760. 

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. (2005).  A basic-systems approach to autobiographical memory.  Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 79-83. 

Rubin, D. C.  (2006).  The basic-systems model of episodic memory.  Perspectives on Psychological Science, 1, 277-311.

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

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. (2009).  Oral traditions as collective memories: Implications for a general theory of individual and collective memory.  In P. Boyer & J. Wertsch (Eds.). Memory in mind and culture (pp. 273-287).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

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. 

Rubin, D. C. (2012).  The basic system model of autobiographical memory.  In D. Berntsen  & D. C. Rubin. (Eds.).  Understanding autobiographical memory

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. & Umanath, S. (2015).  Event memory: A theory of memory for laboratory, autobiographical, and fictional events.  Psychological Review, 122, 1-23. PMC4295926

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

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., Deffler, S, & Umanath, S (2019).  Scenes enable a sense of reliving: Implications for autobiographical memory.  Cognition, 183, 44-56.  PMC6322930 (under embargo)

Rubin, D. C. (in prep).  A dimensional model of the organization of memory: A proposed update of Squire’s memory taxonomy after 30 years.