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Our research was featured in this imaginative and exciting interdisciplinary project, transforming science into art on stage (October 30, 2023)

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Celebrations

My heartfelt thanks to my psychonome friends for joining in the celebration of my Keynote (Psychonomics 2025, November 21, Denver, CO) that Dr. Sarah Barber, Dr. Lauren Richmond, and Dr. Tori Peña organized. I was deeply touched!

Celebrating Dr. Tori Peña’s PRODiG+ Fellow appointment! – With Profs Bonita London and Lauren Richmond (September 2025)

Celebrating Dr. Nick Pepe’s tenure-track faculty appointment! At SBU’s own Simons Cafe, With Drs. Tori Peña and Lauren Richmond (April 2025)

Rajaram Lab at 2024 Psychonomics, NYC (with our collaborators Melissa Chen (second from left) and Dr. Lauren Richmond (extreme right.)

Celebrating Dr. Garrett Greeley ‘s successful Ph.D. defense in Manhattan! In front of the magnificant New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue (May 2024)

Rajaram Lab (with some guests) at 2023 SARMAC in Japan!

Rajaram Lab and some of our collaborators (Katie Burnett and Ariana Popoviciu from Prof. Richmond’s lab) dining at Oyamel – APS 2023 Washington DC

Upcoming Presentations

Rajaram, S. (May 29, 2026). Invited research presentation in the Integrative Symposium, Reciprocal Dynamics of Individual and Collective Cognition, at the 2026 APS Annual Convention, Barcelona, Spain.

Recent Presentations

(With my host Professor Josefa Pandeirada)

Rajaram, S. (July 7, 2025). Individual and Collective Memory: Social Influences and Cognitive Underpinnings. Invited Public Lecture at the William James Center and Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

Rajaram, S. (June 30-July 2, 2025). Social Remembering and Collective Memory: Perspectives from in-lab, small-group experiments. Invited Presentation. Collective Learning Network Workshop, at the Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria.

Rajaram, S. (May 22-25, 2025). How Cognition Shapes Collective Memory. Invited Talk in the APS Presidential Plenary Symposium on Collective Cognition. At the 37th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., USA.

Rajaram, S. (April 9-12, 2025). How Social Influences Shape Individual and Collective Memory. Invited SWIM Conference Keynote at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychology Association (SEPA). Atlanta, GA, USA.

Rajaram, S. (December 13-15, 2024). Social remembering; A cognitive perspective. Invited Keynote at the 11th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS 2024), Held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IITB), India.

After my colloquium at the University of Granada, Spain – with my host Professor Teresa Bajo, Professors Sandra Marful and Maria Maraver, postdocs and students (November 2024)

Greeley, G. D.*, & Rajaram, S. (2024, November). Integration of false information in the organization of individual and Collective Memory: Putting Together the puzzle pieces of true and false memory. Poster presentation at the 65th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in New York, NY.

Peña, T.*, & Rajaram, S. (2024, November). Do emotional and social primers change the pessimism in collective future thinking?: Testing the robustness of the collective negativity bias. Talk at the 65th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in New York, NY.

Peña, T.*, London, B., & Rajaram, S. (2024, November). Negativity bias in collective mental time travel: Evidence from a racially diverse U.S. sample. Poster presentation at the 65th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in New York, NY.

Chen, M.**, Richmond, L., & Rajaram, S. (2024, November). Testing the microblog memory advantage in healthy older adults: Does message consistency matter? Poster presentation at the 65th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in New York, NY.

Rajaram, S. (2024, November). Social Contagion of Memory from People, Robots, and Microblogs. Presentation in T.M. Curley (Organizer), Understanding and Combating Misinformation Spread: The Role of Individual Differences, Sociocognitive Correlates, and Artificial Intelligence, Symposium at the 65th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in New York City, NY.

Psychonomics 2025

Rajaram, S.(November 20, 2025). Conference Keynote. At the 66th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Denver, CO, USA.

Peña, T., Rajaram, S. (2025, November). Persistent pessimism for the collective future: Testing the influence of emotional primers on collective future thinking. Poster presented at the 66th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in Denver, CO.

Peña, T., Pepe, N.W., Rajaram, S. (2025, November). How social is social memory?: Isolating the influences of social and nonsocial cues on recall. Talk delivered by Tori Peña at the 66th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in Denver, CO.

Chen, M., Rajaram, S., & Storm, B.C. (2025, November). Can Social Remembering Overcome Retrieval-induced Forgetting? Talk delivered by Melissa Chen – who won the Yates Award for this submission – at the 66th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting in Denver, Colorado.