Publications

Journal Articles

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2023 / in press

• Zhang, Y., Qi., F., Otgaar, H., Nash, R. A., & Jelicic, M. (in press). A tale of two distrusts: Memory distrust towards commission and omission errors in the Chinese context. Journal of Applied Research in Memory & Cognition.

• 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]

2022

• 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]

2021

• 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.

2020

• 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.

2019

• 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]

2018

• 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.

2017

• 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]

2016

• 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.

2015

• 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.

2014

• 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.

2013

• 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]

2012

• 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.

2011

• Nash, R. A., & Takarangi, M. K. T. (2011). Reconstructing alcohol-induced memory blackouts. Memory, 19, 566-573.

2010

• 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]

2009

• 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.