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Research
Latest papers
Toward a more positive outlook for the collective future: The role of tangible experiences and identity.
Memory & cognition · 2026 · first author
Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations.
Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025
The flashbulb-like nature of memory for the first COVID-19 case and the impact of the emergency. A cross-national survey.
Memory (Hove, England) · 2024
Latest funding
- $63,934
How Collective Knowledge Shapes Personal Understanding of Life Transitions
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $74,968
Aging and prosociality: Understanding the role of cognitive, motivational, and resource-related factors
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $42,236
Age-related differences in thinking about the future of society
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Toward a more positive outlook for the collective future: The role of tangible experiences and identity.
Szpunar K, Haksever NÖ
Episodic details are better remembered in plausible relative to implausible counterfactual simulations.
Morales-Torres R, Miceli K, Huang S, Szpunar K, De Brigard F
The flashbulb-like nature of memory for the first COVID-19 case and the impact of the emergency. A cross-national survey.
Lanciano T, Alfeo F, Curci A, Marin C, D'Uggento AM, Decarolis D, Öner S, Anthony K, Barzykowski K, Bascón M, Benavides A, Cabildo A, de la Mata-Benítez ML, Ergen İ, Filip K, Gofman A, Janssen SMJ, Kai-Bin Z, Markostamou I, Matías-García JA, Nourkova V, Oleksiak S, Santamaría A, Szpunar K, Taylor A, Watson LA, Zheng J
Collective remembering and future forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries.
Öner S, Watson LA, Adıgüzel Z, Ergen İ, Bilgin E, Curci A, Cole S, de la Mata ML, Janssen SMJ, Lanciano T, Markostamou I, Nourkova V, Santamaría A, Taylor A, Barzykowski K, Bascón M, Bermeitinger C, Cubero-Pérez R, Dessenberger S, Garry M, Gülgöz S, Hackländer R, Heux L, Jin Z, Lojo M, Matías-García JA, Roediger HL, Szpunar K, Tekin E, Uner O
Age-related changes in repetition suppression of neural activity during emotional future simulation.
Devitt AL, Thakral PP, Szpunar K, Addis DR, Schacter DL
How Collective Knowledge Shapes Personal Understanding of Life Transitions
Principal investigators: Addis, Donna Rose
Keywords: life transitions; collective knowledge; autobiographical memory; future thinking; narrative; natural language processing; psychosocial adjustment
Aging and prosociality: Understanding the role of cognitive, motivational, and resource-related factors
Principal investigators: Spaniol, Julia
Keywords: aging; prosociality; future thinking; longitudinal
Age-related differences in thinking about the future of society
Principal investigators: Szpunar, Karl
Keywords: Future thinking; Aging; Personal future; Collective future
Toward an understanding of why retrieval practice supports the construction of integrated memory representations
Principal investigators: Szpunar, Karl
Keywords: human memory; learning; knowledge integration; retrieval practice; study-phase retrieval; functional magnetic resonance imaging
Toward an understanding of why retrieval practice supports the construction of integrated memory representations
Principal investigators: Szpunar, Karl
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