Our Publications
2024
Thompson, D., Coman, A., Hirst, W., Luminet, O., Pillemer, D., & Fivush, R. (under review). Vicarious and collective memory ground allobiographical narrative identity and sociality. Nature Psychology Reviews.
Pinus, M., Halperin, E., Cao, Y., Coman, A., Gross, J. J., & Goldenberg, A. (under review). Emotion regulation contagion: The spread of emotional regulation among Israelis in online group interaction. Nature Communications. [OSF Preprint] [PDF]
Valsceanu, M., Dyckovsky, A. M., & Coman, A. (2024). A network approach to investigate the dynamics of individual and collective beliefs: Advances and applications of the BENDING model. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(2), 444-453. [PDF]
2023
Walsh, J., Vaida, N., Coman, A., & Fiske, S. (2023). Stories in action: A new perspective on using narratives in the public interest. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 23(3), 99-141. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M., McMahon, C. E., Van Bavel, J. J., & Coman, A. (2023). Political and nonpolitical belief change elicits behavioral change. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(3), 467-476. [PDF]
Wu, S., & Coman, A. (2023). Altering the past to shape the future: Using mnemonic accessibility to influence case-based reasoning. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 104, 104407. [PDF]
2022
Coman, A. (2022). Psychological insights into information processing during times of crisis. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 11(3), 338-345. [PDF]
Vlasceanu M, & Coman A. (2022). The impact of information sources on COVID-19 knowledge accumulation and vaccination intention. International Journal of Data and Science Analytics, 13(4), 287-298. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M. & Coman, A. (2022). The effect of accuracy instructions on Coronavirus-related belief change following conversational interactions. Applied Cognitive Psychology 36(4), 1-10. [PDF]
Frederick, T., & Coman, A. (2022). Reception of great patriotic war narratives: A psychological approach to studying collective memory in Russia. In: McGlynn, J., Jones, O.T. (eds) Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Coman, A. (2022). Towards a dynamical - in the field - approach to collective memory. In “National memory in a time of populism” (Eds. Roediger & Wertsch). Oxford University Press.
2021
Vlasceanu, M., & Coman, A. (2021). The impact of social norms on health-related belief update. Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing, 14(2), 453-464. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M., Morais, M., & Coman, A. (2021). Network structure impacts the synchronization of collective beliefs. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21, 431–448. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M, Morais, M., & Coman, A. (2021). The effect of prediction error on belief update across the political spectrum. Psychological Science, 32(6), 916-933. [PDF] Featured in: PsyPost
2020
Vlasceanu, M., Goebel, J., & Coman, A. (2020). The emotion-induced belief amplification effect. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M., Tachihara, K., Goldberg, A., & Coman, A. (2020). Lexical associations in a native and non-native language affect retrieval induced forgetting. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference. [PDF]
Suarez, G., …, Coman, A., et al. (2020). A generic arboviral model framework for exploring trade-offs between vector control and environmental concerns. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 490, 110161. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M., Morais, M., Duker, A., Coman, A. (2020). The synchronization of collective beliefs: From dyadic interactions to network convergence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 453-464. [PDF] Featured in: Princeton Insights
Kashima, Y., Coman, A., Pauketat, J., & Yzerbyt, V. (2020). Emotion in cultural dynamics. Emotion Review, 12(2), 48-64. [PDF]
2019
Geana, A., Duker, A., & Coman, A. (2019). An experimental study of the formation of collective memories in social networks. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 84, 103813. [PDF]
Momennejad, I., Duker, A., & Coman, A. (2019). Bridge ties bind collective memories. Nature Communications, 10, 1578-1586. [PDF] Featured in: Parsing Science
Coman, A. (2019). Predicting the decay of collective memory. Nature Human Behavior: News and Views, 3, 18–19. [PDF]
2018
Vlasceanu, M, Drach, R., & Coman, A. (2018). Suppressing my memories by listening to yours: The effect of socially-triggered context-based prediction error on memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(6), 2373-2379. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, M., Enz, K., & Coman, A. (2018). Cognition in a social context: A social-interactionist approach to emergent phenomena. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27(5), 369-377. [PDF]
Vlasceanu, A., & Coman, A. (2018). Mnemonic accessibility affects statement believability: The effect of listening to others selectively practicing beliefs. Cognition, 180, 238-245. [PDF] Featured in: Science Daily
Drost-Lopez, J., & Coman, A. (2018). Forgetting in social chains: The impact of cognition on information propagation. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 18(3-4), 390-409. [PDF]
Hirst, W., Yamashiro, J., & Coman, A. (2018). Collective memory from a psychological perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(5), 438-451. [PDF]
Hirst, W., & Coman, A. (2018). Building a collective memory: The case for collective forgetting. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 88-92. [PDF]
2017
Graeupner, D., & Coman, A. (2017). The dark side of meaning-making: How social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218-222. [PDF] Featured in: Esquire, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Scientific American: Mind, Forbes, Yahoo News, The Washington Post
Graeupner, D., & Coman, A. (2023). Corrigendum to “The dark side of meaning-making: How social exclusion leads to superstitious thinking” [Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 218–222]. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104459. [PDF]
Coman, A. (2017). Episodic memory is as much about communicating as it is about relating to others. (Commentary on Mahr, J.B., & Csibra, G.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol.41, e322.
2016
Coman, A., Momennejad, I., Geana, A., & Drach, D. R. (2016). Mnemonic convergence in social networks: The emergent properties of cognition at a collective level. Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 113(29), 8171-8176. [PDF] Featured in: Nature News & Views, Science Daily
2015
Coman, A., & Berry, J. (2015). Infectious cognition: Risk perception affects socially-shared retrieval induced forgetting of medical information. Psychological Science, 26, 1965-1971. [PDF] Featured in: The Atlantic, Science Daily
Coman, A., & Hirst, W. (2015). Social identity and socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting: The effects of group membership. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 717-722.
Coman, A. (2015). The psychology of collective memory. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd Ed.), pp. 188–193. Vol. 4, Oxford: Elsevier.
2014
Alizadeh, M., Coman, A., Lewis, M., & Cioffi-Revilla, C. (2014). Intergroup conflict escalation leads to more extremism. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 17(4), 1-17. [PDF]
Coman, A., Stone, C., Castano, E., & Hirst, W. (2014). Justifying atrocities: the effect of moral-disengagement strategies on socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting. Psychological Science, 25, 1281-1285. [PDF] Featured in: Time Magazine, Yahoo News
Semnani-Azad, Z., Coman, A., Sycara, K., & Lewis, M. (2014). Perception formation in global negotiations: The role of culture and sacred value. In Proceedings of the International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 260-268, IEEE. [PDF]
Hirst, W., Coman, A., & Coman, D. (2013). Putting the social back into human memory. In Perfect, T. and Lindsay, S. (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of Applied Memory. (pp.273-295). London, Sage Publications. [PDF]
2013
Hirst, W., Coman, D., & Coman, A. (2013). A social turn for the Internet. (Commentary on Sparrow, B. & Chatman, L.). Psychological Inquiry, 24(4), 310-313. [PDF]
Koppel, J, Brown, A., Stone, C., Coman, A., & Hirst, W. (2013). Remembering President Barack Obama’s inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: A comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory. Memory, 21(7), 798-806. [PDF]
Coman, D., Coman, A., & Hirst, W. (2013). Memory accessibility and medical decision-making for significant others: The role of socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(72), 1-9. [PDF]
2012
Coman, A., Kolling, A., Lewis, M., & Hirst, W. (2012). Mnemonic convergence: From empirical data to simulations. Social Computing, Behavioral - Cultural Modeling and Prediction. SBP 2012. 7227, 256-265.
Hirst, W., Coman, A., & Stone, C. (2012). Memory and jury deliberations: The benefits and costs of collective remembering. In Nadel, L. and Sinnott-Armstrong, W.P. (Eds.). Memory and Law (pp.132-154). UK, Oxford University Press.
Coman, A., & Hirst, W. (2012). Cognition through a social network. The propagation of induced forgetting and practice effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(2), 321-336. [PDF]
Sheikh, H., Ginges, J., Coman, A., & Atran, S. (2012). Religion, group threat, and sacred values. Judgment and Decision Making, 7(2), 110-118. [PDF]
Stone, C., Coman, A., Brown, A. D., Koppel, J., & Hirst, W. (2012). Toward a science of silence: The consequences of leaving a memory unsaid. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 7(1), 39-53. [PDF]
2009
Coman, A., Manier, D., & Hirst, W. (2009). Forgetting the unforgettable through conversation: Socially shared retrieval induced forgetting of 9/11 memories. Psychological Science, 20(5), 627-633. [PDF] Featured in: Scientific American, BBC
Coman, A., Brown, A.D., Koppel, J., & Hirst, W. (2009). Collective memory from a psychological perspective. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 22(2), 125-141. [PDF]
Brown, A.D., Gutman, Y., Sodaro, A., Freeman, L., & Coman, A. (2009). Is an interdisciplinary field of memory studies possible? International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 22(2), 117-124. [PDF]
Brown, A.D., Coman, A., & Hirst, W. (2009). The role of expertise and narratorship in social remembering. A model of the social construction of memory. Social Psychology, 40(3), 119-129. [PDF]