Memory serves critical functions in everyday life, but it is also vulnerable to error and illusion.
Two decades ago, I proposed that memory errors could be classified into seven basic …

In a complex world, we are constantly faced with environmental stimuli that shape our
moment‐to‐moment experiences. But just as rich and complex as the external world is the …

An integrative psychological concept that bridges the sciences and humanities, narrative
identity is the internalized and evolving story a person invents to explain how he or she has …

Questions concerning the relation between memory and imagination have occupied a
prominent place in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience during the past several …

The autobiographical interview has been used in more than 200 studies to assess the
content of autobiographical memories. In a typical experiment, participants recall memories …

Martin Conway's influential theorising about the self-memory system (Conway, MA, &
Pleydell-Pearce, CW (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self …

Prospection, or thinking about the future, is currently a topic of significant interdisciplinary
research interest. Episodic foresight is considered a complex form of prospection that …

Exposure therapy is the recommended treatment for anxiety disorders, but many anxious
individuals are unwilling to expose themselves to feared situations. Episodic simulation of …

Work on future thinking suggests that people use what they know about the world (eg,
contents of memory) to make predictions about events to come, which reflects an adaptive …

In this article I discuss some of the major questions, findings, and ideas that have driven my
research program, which has examined various aspects of human memory using a …