Publications

In Press

Yamashiro, J. & Topçu, M. N. (in press). Collective future thinking. In A. Erll & W. Hirst (Eds.) Cognition, culture, and political momentum: A companion to interdisciplinary memory research.

2024

Topçu, M. N. & Hirst, W. (2024). When the personal and the collective intersects: Memory, future thinking, and perceived agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 153(9), 2258-2278. Link

2023

Hirst, W. & Topçu, M. N. (2023). Scripts, agents, and interpretations: Delving into valence biases of mental time travel. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12(1), 25-28. Link

Cheriet, N.*, Topçu, M. N.*, Bastin, C., Hirst W., & Folville, A. (2023). A day that America will remember: Flashbulb memory, collective memory, and future thinking for the Capitol Riots. Memory, 31(5), 715-731, (*Equal contribution). Link

2022

Topcu, M. N. & Hirst, W. (2022). Collective mental time travel: Current research and future directions. Progress in Brain Research, 274(1), 71-97. Link

2021

Topcu, M. N. & Hirst, W. (2021). Mémoire collective et élaboration. In R. Miljkovitch & C. Beauvais (Eds.). L'élaboration mentale: Comprendre les mécanismes qui sous-tendent la santé mentale (pp. 149-160). Elsevier Masson. [Collective memory and elaboration. In Mental elaboration: Understanding the mechanisms underlying mental health]

2020

Topcu, M. N. & Hirst, W. (2020). Remembering a nation's past to imagine its future: The role of event specificity, phenomenology, valence, and perceived agency. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 46(3), 563-579. Link

2016

Merck, C., Topcu, M. N., & Hirst, W. (2016). Collective mental time travel: Creating a shared future through our shared past. Memory Studies, 9(3), 284-294. Link