Suparna Rajaram
Biographic Data
| ID | 166339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suparna Rajaram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suparna |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajaram |
| SIGNATURE | RAJARAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stony Brook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8947-1022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do emotional and social primers change the pessimism in collective future thinking? Testing the robustness of the collective negativity bias
The Founding and Growth of Women in Cognitive Science: An Enduring Legacy of Judith Kroll
Judith Kroll, together with Suparna Rajaram and Randi Martin, founded the Women in Cognitive Science organization, dedicated to advancing the status of women in the field, with its inaugural meeting in 2001. This article outlines the historical context in which the organization was formed (both internationally and in terms of the founders’ personal experience), the early years of the organization and its structure, its growth in membership and pr…
Cultural Variations in Memory Disruption: The Part-List Cuing Impairment in Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States
This research examines the cultural generalizability of a well-established memory phenomenon, the part-list cuing impairment, in which people who receive a subset of a studied list as hints recall fewer items than those who do not. Extensive research conducted in North America and Europe has documented this impairment. Our investigation focused on competing hypotheses about possible cultural differences in this impairment. The first hypothesis wa…
Deceitful Hints: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Part-List Cuing Impairment in Recall
Consideration of culture in cognition: How we can enrich methodology and theory
Unavoidable social contagion of false memory from robots to humans
Many of us interact with voice- or text-based conversational agents daily, but these conversational agents may unintentionally retrieve misinformation from human knowledge databases, confabulate responses on their own, or purposefully spread disinformation for political purposes. Does such misinformation or disinformation become part of our memory to further misguide our decisions? If so, can we prevent humans from suffering such social contagion…
Persistence of false memories and emergence of collective false memory: Collaborative recall of DRM word lists
Information and misinformation are proliferating on social media. A rapid rise in the use of these platforms makes it important to identify psychological mechanisms that underlie the production, propagation, and convergence of false memories in groups. Websites and social media platforms vary in the extent of restrictions placed on interactive communication (e.g., group chats, threaded or disabled comments, direct messaging), prompting questions …
Episodic Memory Performance Modifies the Strength of the Age–Brain Structure Relationship
The bivariate relationships between brain structure, age, and episodic memory performance are well understood. Advancing age and poorer episodic memory performance are each associated with smaller brain volumes and lower cortical thickness measures, respectively. Advancing age is also known to be associated with poorer episodic memory task scores on average. However, the simultaneous interrelationship between all three factors-brain structure, ag…
Social remembering in the digital age: Implications for virtual study, work, and social engagement
Technology has transformed how people interact with one another. According to two recent Pew Research Center surveys (2021a; 2021b), 97 per cent of United States adults have a cell phone, 85 per cent have a smartphone, 93 per cent use the Internet, and 77 per cent have broadband Internet access at home. The Internet has opened countless doors by providing unprecedented access to information and connecting people. While we know from laboratory res…
When social influences reduce false recognition memory: A case of categorically related information
Memory Transmission in Small Groups and Large Networks: An Agent-Based Model
The spread of social influence in large social networks has long been an interest of social scientists. In the domain of memory, collaborative memory experiments have illuminated cognitive mechanisms that allow information to be transmitted between interacting individuals, but these experiments have focused on small-scale social contexts. In the current study, we took a computational approach, circumventing the practical constraints of laboratory…
Memory for partner-related stimuli: Free recall and frequency estimation
The role of partner schema in memory for laboratory-presented stimuli was examined to evaluate the existence of memory bias associated with partner sentiment. Highly dissatisfied (n = 30) or satisfied (n = 35) dating individuals rated, recalled, and estimated the frequency of positive and negative partner trait-relevant words. Word applicability ratings were consistent with relationship schema for all participants. Recall for positive partner-rel…
Remembering and knowing: Two means of access to the personal past
Memory Transmission in Small Groups and Large Networks: An Agent-Based Model
The spread of social influence in large social networks has long been an interest of social scientists. In the domain of memory, collaborative memory experiments have illuminated cognitive mechanisms that allow information to be transmitted between interacting individuals, but these experiments have focused on small-scale social contexts. In the current study, we took a computational approach, circumventing the practical constraints of laboratory…
Memory for partner-related stimuli: Free recall and frequency estimation
The role of partner schema in memory for laboratory-presented stimuli was examined to evaluate the existence of memory bias associated with partner sentiment. Highly dissatisfied (n = 30) or satisfied (n = 35) dating individuals rated, recalled, and estimated the frequency of positive and negative partner trait-relevant words. Word applicability ratings were consistent with relationship schema for all participants. Recall for positive partner-rel…
Unavoidable social contagion of false memory from robots to humans
Many of us interact with voice- or text-based conversational agents daily, but these conversational agents may unintentionally retrieve misinformation from human knowledge databases, confabulate responses on their own, or purposefully spread disinformation for political purposes. Does such misinformation or disinformation become part of our memory to further misguide our decisions? If so, can we prevent humans from suffering such social contagion…
Remembering and knowing: Two means of access to the personal past
Memory for partner-related stimuli: Free recall and frequency estimation
The role of partner schema in memory for laboratory-presented stimuli was examined to evaluate the existence of memory bias associated with partner sentiment. Highly dissatisfied (n = 30) or satisfied (n = 35) dating individuals rated, recalled, and estimated the frequency of positive and negative partner trait-relevant words. Word applicability ratings were consistent with relationship schema for all participants. Recall for positive partner-rel…
Memory Transmission in Small Groups and Large Networks: An Agent-Based Model
The spread of social influence in large social networks has long been an interest of social scientists. In the domain of memory, collaborative memory experiments have illuminated cognitive mechanisms that allow information to be transmitted between interacting individuals, but these experiments have focused on small-scale social contexts. In the current study, we took a computational approach, circumventing the practical constraints of laboratory…
When social influences reduce false recognition memory: A case of categorically related information
Persistence of false memories and emergence of collective false memory: Collaborative recall of DRM word lists
Information and misinformation are proliferating on social media. A rapid rise in the use of these platforms makes it important to identify psychological mechanisms that underlie the production, propagation, and convergence of false memories in groups. Websites and social media platforms vary in the extent of restrictions placed on interactive communication (e.g., group chats, threaded or disabled comments, direct messaging), prompting questions …
Episodic Memory Performance Modifies the Strength of the Age–Brain Structure Relationship
The bivariate relationships between brain structure, age, and episodic memory performance are well understood. Advancing age and poorer episodic memory performance are each associated with smaller brain volumes and lower cortical thickness measures, respectively. Advancing age is also known to be associated with poorer episodic memory task scores on average. However, the simultaneous interrelationship between all three factors-brain structure, ag…
Social remembering in the digital age: Implications for virtual study, work, and social engagement
Technology has transformed how people interact with one another. According to two recent Pew Research Center surveys (2021a; 2021b), 97 per cent of United States adults have a cell phone, 85 per cent have a smartphone, 93 per cent use the Internet, and 77 per cent have broadband Internet access at home. The Internet has opened countless doors by providing unprecedented access to information and connecting people. While we know from laboratory res…
Deceitful Hints: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Part-List Cuing Impairment in Recall
Consideration of culture in cognition: How we can enrich methodology and theory
Unavoidable social contagion of false memory from robots to humans
Many of us interact with voice- or text-based conversational agents daily, but these conversational agents may unintentionally retrieve misinformation from human knowledge databases, confabulate responses on their own, or purposefully spread disinformation for political purposes. Does such misinformation or disinformation become part of our memory to further misguide our decisions? If so, can we prevent humans from suffering such social contagion…
The Founding and Growth of Women in Cognitive Science: An Enduring Legacy of Judith Kroll
Judith Kroll, together with Suparna Rajaram and Randi Martin, founded the Women in Cognitive Science organization, dedicated to advancing the status of women in the field, with its inaugural meeting in 2001. This article outlines the historical context in which the organization was formed (both internationally and in terms of the founders’ personal experience), the early years of the organization and its structure, its growth in membership and pr…
Cultural Variations in Memory Disruption: The Part-List Cuing Impairment in Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States
This research examines the cultural generalizability of a well-established memory phenomenon, the part-list cuing impairment, in which people who receive a subset of a studied list as hints recall fewer items than those who do not. Extensive research conducted in North America and Europe has documented this impairment. Our investigation focused on competing hypotheses about possible cultural differences in this impairment. The first hypothesis wa…
Do emotional and social primers change the pessimism in collective future thinking? Testing the robustness of the collective negativity bias
Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (11 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Recall (7 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)