Publications

Patihis, L., & Pendergrast, M. H. (in press). Reports of recovered memories in therapy, informed consent, and generalizability: Response to commentaries. Clinical Psychological Science. doi:10.1177/2167702618804206

Patihis, L., Cloud*, P., & Nguyen*, K. (in press). Lessons for future research: Two experiments failed to reproduce a relationship between achievement motivation and autobiographical memory distortion. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2018.1532960

Patihis, L., Ho*, L. Y., Loftus, E. F., & Herrera*, M. E. (in press). Memory experts' beliefs about repressed memory. Memory. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2018.1532521

Patihis, L., Herrera*, M. E., Huff, M. J., & Arnau, R. C. (in press). Memory of Love towards Parents Questionnaire: Development and psychometric evaluation. Psychological Reports.

Patihis, L. (in press). The benefits of considering individual differences in cognitive psychology, with the example of superior memory: Commentary on Logie (2018). Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Merckelbach, H., & Patihis, L. (in press). Why "Trauma-Related Dissociation" is a Misnomer in Courts: A Critical Analysis of Brand et al. (2017a, b). Psychological Injury & Law. (link)

Patihis, L., & Pendergrast, M. H. (in press). Reports of recovered memories of abuse in therapy in a large age-representative U.S. national sample: Therapy type and decade comparisons. Clinical Psychological Science. First Published Online May 31, 2018 (link)

Patihis, L., Jackson*, C. E., Diaz*, J. C., Stepanova, E. V., & Herrera*, M. E. (in press). Black American college students report higher memory of love for mothers in childhood than White students. Psychological Reports. Article first published online: April 26, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294118772549 (link to article)

Patihis, L., Cruz*, C. S., & McNally, R. J. (in press). Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Personality & Individual Differences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. (link to pdf)

Patihis, L. (2018). The historical significance of the discovery of long term potentiation: An overview and evaluation for non-experts. American Journal of Psychology, 131, 369–380. doi:10.5406/amerjpsyc.131.3.0369 (link to preprint; link to journal)

Herrera*, M. E., & Patihis, L. (in press). Psychology’s unhealed wound. [Review of the book Memory Warp: How the Myth of Repressed Memory Arose and Refuses to Die, by M. Pendergrast]. Skeptic Magazine. (link to preprint)

Patihis, L. (in press). Why there is no false memory trait and why everyone is susceptible to memory distortions: The Dual Encoding Interference hypothesis. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000143

Patihis, L., & Place*, P. J. (2018). Weak evidence for increased motivated forgetting of trauma-related words in dissociated or traumatized individuals in a directed forgetting experiment. Memory, 26, 619-633. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2017.1387666 (link to preprint)

Place*, P. J., Ling*, S., & Patihis, L. (2018). Full statistical mediation of the relationship between trauma and depressive symptoms. International Journal of Psychology, 53, 142–149. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12279. (link to article)

Patihis, L., & Lynn, S. J. (2017). Psychometric comparison of Dissociative Experiences Scales II and C: A weak trauma-dissociation link. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 392–402. (link to preprint)

Patihis, L., & Loftus, E. F. (2016). Crashing memory 2.0: False memories in adults for an upsetting childhood event. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 41–50. (link to article)

Patihis, L. (2016). Individual differences and correlates of highly superior autobiographical memory. Memory, 24, 961–978. (link to article)

Patihis, L., & Younes Burton*, H. J. (2015). False memories in therapy and hypnosis before 1980. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 2, 153–169. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cns0000044 (link to article)

Patihis, L. (2015). Let's be skeptical about reconsolidation and emotion arousal in therapy: Commentary on Lane et al. (2015). Brain & Behavioral Sciences, 38, 38–38. (link to article)

Petersen, N., Patihis, L., & Nielsen, S. E. (2015). Decreased susceptibility to false memories from misinformation in hormonal contraception users. Memory, 23, 1029–1038. (link to article)

Patihis, L., Oh, J. S., & Mogilner, T. (2015). Phoneme discrimination of an unrelated language: Evidence for a narrow transfer but not a broad-based bilingual advantage. International Journal of Bilingualism, 19, 3–16. doi:10.1177/1367006913476768 (link to article)

Patihis, L., Lilienfeld, S. O., Ho*, L. Y., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Unconscious repressed memory is scientifically questionable. Psychological Science, 25, 1967–1968. doi:10.1177/0956797614547365 (link to article)

Frenda, S. J., Patihis, L., Loftus, E. F., Lewis, H. C., & Fenn, K. M. (2014). Sleep deprivation and false memories of event details. Psychological Science, 25, 1671–1684. doi:10.1177/0956797614534694 (link to article)

Patihis, L., Ho*, L. Y., Tingen, I. W., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Are the “memory wars” over? A scientist-practitioner gap in beliefs about repressed memory. Psychological Science, 25, 519–530. doi:10.1177/0956797613510718 (link to article)

Patihis, L., Frenda, S. J., LePort, A. K. R., Petersen, N., Nichols, R. M., Stark, C. E. L., McGaugh, J. L., & Loftus, E. F. (2013). False memories in highly superior autobiographical memory individuals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 110, 20947–20952. doi:10.1073/pnas.1314373110 (link to article)

Wylie, L. E., Patihis, L., McCuller, L. L., Davis, D., Brank, E. M., Loftus, E. F., & Bornstein, B. H. (2014). Misinformation effects in older versus younger adults: A meta-analysis and review. In M. P. Toglia, D. F. Ross, J. Pozzulo, & E. Pica (Eds) The Elderly Eyewitness in Court, (pp. 38–66). UK: Taylor & Francis. (link to article)

First two authors contributed equally.

Patihis, L., Davis, D., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Memory. In T. R. Levine (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Deception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (link to article)

Patihis, L., Davis, D., & Loftus, E. F. (2014). Repressed memory. In T. R. Levine (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Deception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (link to article)

Tingen, I. W., Patihis, L. & Dunbar, A. J. (2014). Source credibility. In T. R. Levine (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Deception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (link to article)

Cochran, K. J., Patihis, L., Frenda, S. J., & Mogilner, T. (2014). Photographs (Altered). In T. R. Levine (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Deception. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (link to article)

Patihis, L., Tingen, I. W., & Loftus, E. F. (2013). Memory myths. Catalyst: Secondary Science Review, 23(3), 6–8. (link to article)

*students mentored

Research Talks

Patihis, L. (2019). Converging evidence that the memory wars are not over. Talk presented at the Society of Applied Memory and Cognition (SARMAC) conference, Cape Cod, MA. (pdf of talk)