Dr. Steve Dewhurst

Contact Details

Teaching

Module 31044 - Forensic Psychology

Module 31159 - Memory in the Real World

Module 31035 - Research Project

Research interests

My main research interests focus on the structure, processes, and conscious experience of human memory. Specific topics I am currently researching include false memories and memory illusions, the subjective experience associated with different components of recognition memory, autobiographical memory, and visuo-spatial working memory.

If you'd like to take part in psychology research at Hull please follow this link: http://psynet.hull.ac.uk/RPS/

Recent publications

Dewhurst, S.A., Anderson, R.J., Cotter, G., Crust, L., & Clough, P.J. (in press). Identifying the cognitive basis of mental toughness: Evidence from the directed forgetting paradigm. Personality & Individual Differences.

Swannell, E.R., & Dewhurst, S.A. (in press). Effects of presentation format and list length on children’s false memories. Journal of Cognition & Development.

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.

Dewhurst, S.A., Anderson, R.J., & Knott, L.M. (2012). A gender difference in the false recall of emotional words: Women DRM more than men. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 65-74.

Dewhurst, S.A., Howe, M.L., Berry, D.M., & Knott, L.M. (2012). Test-induced priming increases false recognition in older but not younger children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 101-107.

Knott, L.M., Dewhurst, S.A., & Howe, M.L. (2012). What factors underlie associative and categorical memory illusions? The roles of backward associative strength and inter-item connectivity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 38, 229-239.

Swannell, E.R., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2012). Phonological false memories in children and adults: Evidence for a developmental reversal. Journal of Memory & Language, 66, 376-383.

Dewhurst, S.A., Knott, L.M., & Howe, M.L. (2011). Test-induced priming impairs source monitoring accuracy in the DRM procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 37, 1001-1007.

Dewhurst, S.A., Thorley, C., Hammond, E.R., & Ormerod, T.C. (2011). Convergent, but not divergent, thinking predicts susceptibility to associative memory illusions. Personality & Individual Differences, 51, 73-76.

Knott, L.M., Howe, M.L., Wimmer, M.C., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2011). The development of automatic and controlled inhibitory retrieval processes in true and false recall. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 91-108.

Dewhurst, S.A., & Knott, L.M. (2010). Investigating the encoding-retrieval match in recognition memory: Effects of experimental design, specificity, and retention interval Memory & Cognition, 38, 1101-1109.

Howe, M. L., Garner, S. R., Dewhurst, S. A., & Ball, L. J. (2010). Can false memories prime problem solutions? Cognition, 117, 176-181.

Anderson, R.J., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2009). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Differences in event specificity of spontaneously generated thought. Memory, 17, 367-373.

Dewhurst, S.A., Bould, E., Knott, L.M., & Thorley, C. (2009). The roles of encoding and retrieval processes in associative and categorical memory illusions. Journal of Memory & Language, 60, 154-164.

Dewhurst, S.A., Conway, M.A., & Brandt, K.R. (2009). Tracking the R-to-K shift: Changes in memory awareness across repeated tests. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23. 849-858.

Knott, L.M., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2009). Investigating the attentional demands of recognition memory: Manipulating depth of encoding at study and level of attention at test. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 1045-1071.

Thorley, C., & Dewhurst, S.A. (2009). False and veridical collaborative recognition. Memory, 17, 17-25.

Link to full list of publications

Recent grants

2007-2008 - Investigating the reinstatement effect in recognition memory (ESRC, £80,828).

2006-2008 - Identifying the origin of false memories: A comparison of DRM and categorised lists (ESRC, £73,376).

2003-2006 - The structure of visuo-spatial short-term memory (ESRC, £136,230).