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Daniel Bernstein BA (Hons) (California), M.Ps. (Brock), PhD (SFU)

Dr. Daniel Bernstein has launched a large-scale study that examines how social thinking changes over time.
Email: 
daniel.bernstein@kpu.ca
Voicemail: 
9882
Surrey Campus: 
604.599.3372
Surrey Office: 
Main 2881
Richmond Campus: 
604.599.2587
Richmond Office: 
Room 2406
Lifespan Cognition

Courses Taught

PSYC 1100 - Introduction to Psychology: Basic Processes
PSYC 1200 - Introduction to Psychology: Areas and Applications
PSYC 2375 - Perception
PSYC 2385 - Cognition
PSYC 3215 - Memory

Areas of Interest

Belief and memory; Developmental metacognition; Hindsight bias; Mild head injury; Sleep and dreams.

My current interests are in false memory and cognitive development. Specifically, I am interested in how people develop false memories, or memories for events that never occurred. I am also interested in the behavioural consequences of false memories.

"I am interested in supervising honours students."

Interview with Dr. Daniel M. Bernstein

Interview by Scott Douglas Jacobsen. He founded In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal and In-Sight Publishing.

Scholarly Work

Aßfalg, A., & Bernstein, D.M. (2012). Puzzles produce strangers: A puzzling result for revelation-effect theories. Journal of Memory and Language, 67, 86-92.
Begeer, S., Bernstein, D.M., Wijhe, J.V., Scheeren, A.M., & Koot, H.M. (2012). A continuous false belief task reveals egocentric biases in children and adolescents with autism. Autism. doi:10.1177/1362361311434545.
Bernstein,D.M.,Erdfelder,, E., Meltzoff, A.N., Peria, W., & Loftus, G.R. (2011). Hindsight bias from 3 to 95 years of age. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0021971
Bernstein, D.M., Thornton, W.L., & Sommerville, J.A. (2011). Theory of mind through the ages: Older and middle-aged adults exhibit more errors than do younger adults on a continuous false-belief task. Experimental Aging Research, 37, 481-502.
Strange, D., Garry, M., Bernstein, D.M., & Lindsay, D.S. (2010). Photographs cause false memories for the news. Acta Psychologica. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.10.006.
Attance, C.M., Bernstein, D.M., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2010). Thinking about false belief: It’s not just what children say, but how long it takes them to say it. Cognition, 116, 297-301. doi: 10.1016/j,cognition.2010.05.008
Bernstein, D.M., Godfrey, D.R., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). False Memories: The role of plausibility and autobiographical belief. In K. Markman, W. Klein, & J. Suhr (Eds.). Handbook of Imagination and Mental Stimulation (pp. 89-102). New York: Psychology Press.
Bernstein, D.M., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). How to tell if a particular memory is true or false. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 370-374.
Bernstein, D.M., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). The consequences of false memory for food preferences and choices. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 4, 135-139.
Bernstein, D.M., Rudd, M.E., Erdfelder, E., Godfrey, R., & Loftus, E.F. (2009). The revelation effect for autobiographical memory: A mixture model analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin, & Review, 16, 463-468
Geraerts, E., Bernstein, D.M., Merckelbach, H., Linders, C., Raymaekers, L., Loftus E.F. (2008). Lasting false beliefs and their behavioural consequences. Psychological Science, 19(8), 749-753.
Bernstein, D.M., Atance, C., Meltzoff, A.N., & Loftus, G.R. (2007). Hindsight bias and developing theories of mind. Child Development, 78, 1374-1394.
Bernstein, D.M., & Harley, E.M. (2007). Fluency misattribution and visual hindsight bias. Memory, 15, 548-560.
Birch, S.A.J., & Bernstein, D.M. (2007). What children can tell us about hindsight bias: A fundamental constraint on perspective taking? Social Cognition, 25, 98-113.
Kronlund, A., & Bernstein, D.M. (2006). Unscrambling words increases brand name recognition and preference. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 681-687.
Bernstein, D.M., Laney, C., Morris, E.K., & Loftus, E.F. (2005). False beliefs about fattening foods can have healthy consequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102, 13724-13731.
Bernstein, D.M. (2005). Making sense of memory. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 199-208.
Bernstein, D.M., Laney, C., Morris, E.K., & Loftus, E.F. (2005). False memories about food can produce food avoidance. Social Cognition, 23, 11-34.
Bernstein, D.M., Loftus, G.R. & Meltzoff, A. (2005). Object identification in preschool children and adults. Developmental Science, 8, 151-161.
Bernstein, D.M., Atance, C., Loftus, G.R. & Meltzoff, A. (2004). We saw it all along: Visual hindsight bias in children and adults. Psychological Science, 15, 264-267.
Bernstein, D.M., Godfrey, R., Davison, A., & Loftus, E.F. (2004). Conditions affecting the revelation effect for autobiographical memory. Memory & Cognition, 32, 455-462.
Bernstein, D.M. (2002). Information processing difficulty long after self-reported concussion. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 8, 673-682.