Nash, R. A., & Ost, J. (Eds.) (2017). False and distorted memories. Abingdon, UK: Psychology Press.
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Nash, R. A. (in press). Universities’ policies on feedback speed do not meaningfully predict students’ satisfaction with assessment and feedback. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education.
Zhang, Y., Otgaar, H., Nash, R. A., & Li, C. (Stage 2 registered report accepted). The effects of false feedback on state memory distrust toward commission and omission, and recognition memory errors. Peer Community in Registered Reports.
Winstone, N. E., & Nash, R. A. (2024). An exploratory field study of students' memory for written feedback comments. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 31, 189-203. [OPEN ACCESS]
Zhang, Y., Qi., F., Otgaar, H., Nash, R. A., & Jelicic, M. (2024). A tale of two distrusts: Memory distrust towards commission and omission errors in the Chinese context. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 13, 424-437.
Alexander, N., Kelly, C., Wang, H., Nash, R., Beebe, S., Brookes, M., & Kessler, K. (2024). Oscillatory neural correlates of police firearms decision making in virtual reality. eNeuro, 11, ENEURO.0112-24.2024. [OPEN ACCESS]
Zhang, Y., Otgaar, H., Nash, R. A., & Rosar, L. (2024). Time and memory distrust shape the dynamics of recollection and belief-in-occurrence. Memory, 32, 484-501. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., & Thomas, J. M. (2024). Searching students’ reflective writing for linguistic correlates of their tendency to ignore instructors’ feedback. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 31, 75-90. [OPEN ACCESS]
Delivett, C. P., Thomas, J. M., Farrow, C. V., & Nash, R. A. (2023). Effects of cueing multiple memories of eating on people’s judgments about their diet. Memory, 31, 1269-1281. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., Saraiva, R. B., & Hope, L. (2023). Who doesn’t believe their memories? Development and validation of a new Memory Distrust Scale. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 12, 401-411.
Winstone, N. E., & Nash, R. A. (2023). Toward a cohesive psychological science of effective feedback. Educational Psychologist, 58, 111-129. [OPEN ACCESS]
Zhang, Y., Nash, R. A., & Otgaar, H. (2023). Preference for cheap-and-easy memory verification strategies is strongest among people with high memory distrust. Memory, 31, 978-988. [OPEN ACCESS]
Burnell, R., Nash, R. A., Umanath, S., & Garry, M. (2022). Memories people no longer believe in can still affect them in helpful and harmful ways. Memory & Cognition, 50, 1319-1335. [OPEN ACCESS]
Blank, H., Nash, R. A., Otgaar, H., Patihis, L., & Rubínová, E. (2022). False remembering in real life: James Ost’s contributions to memory psychology. Memory, 30, 661-668. [OPEN ACCESS]
Delivett, C. P., Farrow, C. V., Thomas, J. M., & Nash, R. A. (2022). Front-of-pack health imagery on both ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods leads people to misremember seeing health claims: Two memory experiments. Appetite, 174, 106013.
Richardson, B. H., & Nash, R. A. (2022). ‘Rapport myopia’ in investigative interviews: Evidence from linguistic and subjective indicators of rapport. Legal & Criminological Psychology, 27, 32-47. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., Winstone, N. E., & Gregory, S. E. A. (2021). Selective memory searching does not explain the poor recall of future-oriented feedback. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition, 10, 467-478.
Winstone, N. E., Hepper, E. G., & Nash, R. A. (2021). Individual differences in self-reported use of assessment feedback: The mediating role of feedback beliefs. Educational Psychology, 41, 844-862.
Greene, C. M., Nash, R. A., & Murphy, G. (2021). Misremembering Brexit: Partisan bias and individual predictors of false memories for fake news stories among Brexit voters. Memory, 29, 587-604.
Winstone, N. E., Pitt, E., & Nash, R. A. (2021). Educators’ perceptions of responsibility-sharing in feedback processes. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 46, 118-131.
Nash, A., Ridout, N., & Nash, R. A. (2020). Facing away from the interviewer: Evidence of little benefit to eyewitnesses’ memory performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1310-1322. [OPEN ACCESS]
Delivett, C. P., Klepacz, N. A., Farrow, C. V., Thomas, J. M., Raats, M. M., & Nash, R. A. (2020). Front-of-pack images can boost the perceived health benefits of dietary products. Appetite, 155, 104831.
Gregory, S. E. A., Winstone, N. E., Ridout, N., & Nash, R. A. (2020). Weak memory for future-oriented feedback: Investigating the roles of attention and improvement focus. Memory, 28, 216-236.
Winstone, N. E., Mathlin, G., & Nash, R. A. (2019). Building feedback literacy: Students’ perceptions of the Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit. Frontiers in Education, 4, 39. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., Winstone, N. E., Gregory, S. E. A., & Papps, E. (2018). A memory advantage for past-oriented over future-oriented performance feedback. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 44, 1864-1879. [OPEN ACCESS]
Wade, K. A., Nash, R. A., & Lindsay, D. S. (2018). Reasons to doubt the reliability of eyewitness memory: Commentary on Wixted, Mickes, & Fisher (2018). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 339-342.
Nash, R. A. (2018). Changing beliefs about past public events with believable and unbelievable doctored photographs. Memory, 26, 439-450.
Nash, R. A. (2018). False memories, nonbelieved memories, and the unresolved primacy of communication. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, e25.
Winstone, N. E., Nash, R. A., Rowntree, J., & Parker, M. (2017). 'It’d be useful, but I wouldn’t use it': Barriers to university students’ feedback seeking and recipience. Studies in Higher Education, 42, 2026-2041. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., & Winstone, N. E. (2017). Responsibility-sharing in the giving and receiving of assessment feedback. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1519. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., Wade, K. A., Garry, M., & Adelman, J. S. (2017). A robust preference for cheap-and-easy strategies over reliable strategies when verifying personal memories. Memory, 25, 890-899.
Scoboria, A., Nash, R. A., & Mazzoni, G. (2017). Sub-types of nonbelieved memories reveal differential outcomes of challenges to memories. Memory, 25, 876-889.
Nash, R. A., Wade, K. A., Garry, M., Loftus, E. F., & Ost, J. (2017). Misrepresentations and flawed logic about the prevalence of false memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 31, 31-33. [OPEN ACCESS]
Winstone, N. E., Nash, R. A., Parker, M., & Rowntree, J. (2017). Supporting learners’ agentic engagement with feedback: A systematic review and a taxonomy of recipience processes. Educational Psychologist, 52, 17-37. [OPEN ACCESS; Winner of the American Psychological Association, Division 15’s “Outstanding Article Award” for 2017]
Nash, R. A., Berkowitz, S. R., & Roche, S. (2016). Public attitudes on the ethics of deceptively planting false memories to motivate healthy behavior. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30, 885-897. [OPEN ACCESS]
Winstone, N. E., Nash, R. A., Rowntree, J., & Menezes, R. (2016). What do students want most from written feedback information? Exploring necessities and luxuries using a budgeting methodology. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 41, 1237-1253.
Klepacz, N. A., Nash, R. A., Egan, M. B., Hodgkins, C. E., & Raats, M. M. (2016). When is an image a health claim? A false-recollection method to detect implicit inferences about products' health benefits. Health Psychology, 35, 898-907. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., Nash, A., Morris, A., & Smith, S. L. (2016). Does rapport-building boost the eyewitness eyeclosure effect in closed questioning? Legal & Criminological Psychology, 21, 305-318.
Newman, E. J., Garry, M., Unkelbach, C., Bernstein, D. M., Lindsay, D. S., & Nash, R. A. (2015). Truthiness and falsiness of trivia claims depend on judgmental contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 41, 1337-1348.
Wright, D. S., Nash, R. A., & Wade, K. A. (2015). Encouraging eyewitnesses to falsely corroborate accusations: Effects of rapport-building and incriminating evidence. Psychology, Crime & Law, 21, 648-660.
Nash, R. A., Wheeler, R. L., & Hope, L. (2015). On the persuadability of memory: Is changing people's memories no more than changing their minds? British Journal of Psychology, 106, 308-326.
Perera-Delcourt, R., Nash, R. A., & Thorpe, S. J. (2014). Priming moral self-ambivalence heightens deliberative behaviour in self-ambivalent individuals. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 42, 682-692.
Nash, R. A., Houston, K. A., Ryan, K., & Woodger, N. (2014). Remembering remotely: Would video-mediation impair witnesses' memory reports? Psychology, Crime & Law, 20, 756-768.
Kuivaniemi-Smith, H. J., Nash, R. A., Brodie, E. R., Mahoney, G., & Rynn, C. (2014). Producing facial composite sketches in remote Cognitive Interviews: A preliminary investigation. Psychology, Crime & Law, 20, 389-406.
Wade, K. A., Nash, R. A., & Garry, M. (2014). People consider reliability and cost when verifying their autobiographical memories. Acta Psychologica, 146, 28-34.
Mazzoni, G., Clark, A., & Nash, R. A. (2014). Disowned recollections: Denying true experiences undermines belief in occurrence but not judgments of remembering. Acta Psychologica, 145, 139-146.
Weinstein, Y., & Nash, R. A. (2013). False recognition of objects in visual scenes: Findings from a combined direct and indirect memory test. Memory & Cognition, 41, 60-68. [OPEN ACCESS]
Clark, A., Nash, R. A., Fincham, G., & Mazzoni, G. (2012). Creating non-believed memories for recent autobiographical events. PLoS ONE, 7, e32998. [OPEN ACCESS]
Anderson, R. J., Dewhurst, S. A., & Nash, R. A. (2012). Shared cognitive processes underlying past and future thinking: The impact of imagery and concurrent task demands on event specificity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 38, 356-365.
Nash, R. A., & Takarangi, M. K. T. (2011). Reconstructing alcohol-induced memory blackouts. Memory, 19, 566-573.
Wade, K. A., Green, S. L., & Nash, R. A. (2010). Can fabricated evidence induce false eyewitness testimony? Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24, 899-908. [OPEN ACCESS]
- This article was reprinted in (2011) Special Issue: Celebrating 25 years of Applied Cognitive Psychology. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, S272-S282.
Nash, R. A., Bryer, O. M., & Schlaghecken, F. (2010). Look who’s talking! Facial appearance can bias source monitoring. Memory, 18, 451-457.
Wade, K. A., Garry, M., Nash, R. A., & Harper, D. N. (2010). Anchoring effects in the development of false childhood memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 66-72. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., Wade, K. A., & Brewer, R. J. (2009). Why do doctored images distort memory? Consciousness & Cognition, 18, 773-780.
Nash, R. A., Wade, K. A., & Lindsay, D. S. (2009). Digitally manipulating memory: Effects of doctored videos and imagination in distorting beliefs and memories. Memory & Cognition, 37, 414-424. [OPEN ACCESS]
Nash, R. A., & Wade, K. A. (2009). Innocent but proven guilty: Eliciting internalized false confessions using doctored-video evidence. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 624-637.
Moore, R., Nash, R. A., Hudson, G., & Lymperis, L. (2024). Inducting new colleagues into the complexity of teaching and learning. In J. Facer (Ed.), The researchED guide to professional development: An evidence-informed guide for teachers (pp. 59-70). John Catt Educational Ltd.
Wade, K. A., Nash, R. A., & Erner, L. C. (in press). The malleability of memory. In L. Mickes (Ed.), Learning and memory: A comprehensive reference, 3rd edition: Vol. VI. Memory and cognition. Elsevier.
Henkel, L. A., Nash, R. A., & Paton, J. A. (2021). "Say cheese!" How taking and viewing photos can shape memory and cognition. In S. Lane & P. Atchley (Eds.), Human capacity in the attention economy (pp. 103-133). American Psychological Association.
Winstone, N. E., & Nash, R. A. (2019). Developing students’ proactive engagement with feedback. In C. Bryan & K. Clegg (Eds.), Innovative assessment in higher education: A handbook for practitioners (2nd edition) (pp. 129-138). Routledge.
Winstone, N. E., & Nash, R. A. (2017). The “Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit (DEFT)”: Integrating assessment literacy into course design. In S. Elkington & C. Evans (Eds.), Transforming assessment in higher education: A case study series (pp. 48-52). Higher Education Academy.
Nash, R. A. (2017). Comparing witnesses’ memory performance in remote vs. face-to-face investigative interviews. In K. Niven, S. Lewis, & C. Kagan (Eds.), Making a difference with psychology (pp. 97-104). Richard Benjamin Trust.
Nash, R. A., & Ost, J. (2017). Introduction: False and distorted memories. In R. A. Nash & J. Ost (Eds.), False and distorted memories (pp.1-8). Psychology Press.
Ost, J., & Nash, R. A. (2017). Concluding remarks: Malleable knowledge about malleable memories. In R. A. Nash & J. Ost (Eds.), False and distorted memories (pp. 156-160). Psychology Press.
Winstone, N. E., & Nash, R. A. (2016). The Developing Engagement with Feedback Toolkit (DEFT). Higher Education Academy.
McDowall, A., Quinton, P., Brown, D., Carr, I., Glorney, E., Russell, S., Bharj, N., Nash, R., & Coyle, A. (2015). Promoting ethical behaviour and preventing wrongdoing in organisations: A rapid evidence assessment. College of Policing.
Nash, R. A., Hanczakowski, M., & Mazzoni, G. (2015). Eyewitness testimony. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences (2nd ed.) (Vol. 8, pp. 642-649). Elsevier.
Nash, R. A., & Balloo, K., (2024, Jan 17). As students become more 'distant', can feedback still hit the mark? Times Higher Education.
Nash, R. A. (2024, June 26). What teachers think about feedback: A new survey reveals the key barriers that stand in the way of feedback leading to improvement. Schools Week.
Nash, R. A. (2018, December 17). Are memories reliable? Expert explains how they change more than we realise. The Conversation.
Nash, R. A. (2018, Spring). In the misinformation age, remember that your memories might be fake news. CREST Security Review, 8, 14-15.
Nash, R. A., & Winstone, N. E. (2018, March 14). When feedback is forgettable. Learning Scientists blog.
Nash, R. A., & Winstone, N. E. (2017, March 9). Why even the best feedback can bring out the worst in us. BBC Future.
Nash, R. A. (2017, February 14). How authentic are photographic memories? The Conversation.
Nash, R. A. (2016, October 6). Would it be ethical to implant false memories in therapy? BBC Future.
Winstone, N. E., & Nash, R. A. (2016, October 6). Route mastery: Can we turn student feedback into a two-way street? Times Higher Education, 2275, 26-27.
Nash, R. A., & Winstone, N. E. (2016, September 27). Is your feedback carefully used, or barely perused? Learning Scientists blog.
Nash, R. A. (2016, March 16). Remember: A bad memory is actually good for you. The Conversation.