Samantha A. Deffler, Ph.D.

Education

• B.S., Bucknell University
• M.A., Duke University
• Ph.D., Duke University

Courses

• Cognitive Psychology
• Theories of Learning
• Design and Analysis 1 (Methods)
• Design and Analysis 2 (Statistics)
• General Psychology

Research Interests

• Autobiographical Memory
• Self and identity
• Narrative
• Memory errors

Recent Publications

• Yang, B. W., Deffler, S. A., & Marsh, E. J. (2021). A comparison of memories of fiction and autobiographical memories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Deffler, S. A., Shedlosky-Shoemaker, R., Curlik, D., & Druen, P. (2021). Letting Go of Strict Deadlines: Increasing Flexibility to Level the Playing Field. In H. Scherschel & D. S. Rudmann (Eds.) Teaching tips: A compendium of conference presentations on teaching, 2020-21. (pp. 75-77). Society for the Teaching of Psychology. http://teachpsych.org/ebooks/teachingtips6
• Rubin, D. C., Deffler, S. A., & Umanath, S. (2019). Scenes enable a sense of reliving: Implications for autobiographical memory. Cognition, 183, 44-56.
• Rubin, D. C., Berntsen, D., Deffler, S. A., & Brodar, K. (2019). Self-narrative focus in autobiographical events: The effect of time, emotion, and individual differences. Memory & Cognition, 47, 63-75.
• Leary, M. R., Diebels, K. J., Davisson, E. K., Isherwood, J. C., Jongman-Sereno, K. P., Raimi, K. T., Deffler, S. A., & Hoyle, R. H. (2017). Cognitive and interpersonal features of intellectual humility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 793-813.

Recent Presentations

• Deffler, S. A., Itagaki, M., Valdez, M., & Umanath, S. (2021). The Role of Spatial Information in Dating Autobiographical Events: Memory of Where Predicts Confidence in When. In the Visual Imagery and Autobiographical Memory Symposium, Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition virtual meeting.
• Deffler, S. A. (2021) Post-hoc Analysis of Grade Distributions: Controlling for a Crisis after Work is Completed. In the Pandemic Pivots: Strategies for Vulnerable Students That We Should Keep After the Crisis Symposium, Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2) programming for the virtual meeting of American Psychological Association.
• Deffler, S. A., Shedlosky-Shoemaker, R., Curlik, D., & Druen, P. (2021). Letting Go of Strict Deadlines: Increasing Flexibility to Level the Playing Field. In the Pandemic Pivots: Strategies for Vulnerable Students That We Should Keep After the Crisis Symposium, Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2) programming for the virtual meeting of American Psychological Association.
• Deffler, S. A., Itagaki, M., & Umanath, S. (2020). Confidence in Knowing When a Remembered Event Occurred is Related to Knowing Where it Occurred. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Virtual.
• Deffler, S. A., Druen, P. B., & Shedlosky-Shoemaker, R. (2018). Memory for Opposing Viewpoints After Self-Selected Versus Assigned Exposure. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana.