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Professor, Psychology, New School for Social Research in New York
William Hirst is a psychology professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. He teaches cognitive psychology, research methods in cognition and communication, and collective and autobiographical memory and their contribution to identity. His Ph.D. is from Cornell University. His bachelor's degree is from Carnegie-Mellon University. His research interests are cognitive science; cognitive neuroscience (especially memory and attention); and social remembering. His recent publications include "Long-term retention of the terrorist attack of 9/11," Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2009); "Silence is not golden: A case for socially-shared retrieval-induced forgetting," in Psychological Science (2007); and "Towards a psychology of collective memory," in Memory (2008).
