Psychology Department Chairperson
Associate Professor 

Research Interests
My current research concerns memory for autobiographical events and personal information that are encoded in naturalistic situations.  Specifically, my recent research is focused on distortions and forgetting of personal autobiographical memory. 

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 405-3245
• Fax: (718) 405-3249
• e-mail:   stephanie.berger@mountsaintvincent.edu

Selected presentations

        Berger, S. A. (2006, April).  Memory for Everyday Lies: Where did you say you were last night?  Invited Speaker, Long Island Psychology Conference, Hofstra University, Hempstead, L.I.

        Berger, S. A.., Lucas, C. M. & Budhu, K. (2006, March).  Accuracy of Autobiographical Memory: Recall of Lies.  Presented to the 77^th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Baltimore, MD.

        Berger, S. A. (2005, November).  Verifiable Autobiographical Memory: Recall of Lies.  Presented to the 46^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

        Berger, S. A. (1999, November).  Accuracy and systematic distortion in autobiographical memory.  Presented to the 40^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Los Angeles, CA.

        Berger, S.A.  (1997, November).  Accuracy and distortion in memory for individual and team basketball scores.  Presented to the 38^th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Philadelphia, PA.  

        Berger, S.A.  (1997, July). Distortion of autobiographical memory. Presented to the Second Annual Workshop in Cognitive Psychology, State University of New York, Albany, NY.

Publications

        Gorfein, D., Berger, S. A. & Bubka, A.  (2000). The selection of homograph meaning: Word association when context changes. Memory and Cognition, 28, 766-773.

        Bahrick, H.P., Hall, L.K., & Berger, S. A. (2000).  Accuracy and distortion in memory for high school grades.  In U. Neisser & I. E. Hyman, Jr. (Eds.) , Memory Observed (pp. 164-174).  New York, NY: Worth. 

         Berger, S.A., Hall, L. K., & Bahrick, H. P. (1999). Stabilizing access to marginal and sub-marginal knowledge.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 5, 438-447.

         Bahrick, H.P., Hall, L.K., & Berger, S. A. (1996).  Accuracy and distortion in memory for high school grades.  Psychological Science, 7, 265-271.

         Bahrick, H. P., Hall, L. K., Goggin, J.P., Bahrick, L.E. & Berger, S. A. (1994).  Fifty years of language maintenance and language dominance in bilingual Hispanic immigrants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 264-283.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• PSYC 204: Introduction to Psychology
• PSYC 315: Research Methods
• PSYC 205: Statistics
• PSYC 330: Special Topics: Memory
• PSYC 340: Learning and Cognition

Education:

• B.A., University of Dayton, 1987
• M.A., Adelphi University, 1989
• Ph.D., Adelphi University, 1992