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1) The section on David's academic information and achievements needs to be developed. 2) Two sources that will be used for the development of this section is documents e-mailed to me from Rubin himself. Also, there is some brief information about his academic achievements on his page on the Duke University Website. The most valuable will be the documents that he sent me. 3) My first question is how to cite e-mails, or documents that Rubin has sent me. The second question is: Is citing the Duke University website page considered reliable/credible?

Hmerickson (talk) 18:21, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

1- Major contributions 2-Memory in Oral traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting Out Rhymes by. David C. Rubin Autobiographical Memory by David C. Rubin 3- I hope we are able to make this article up to standards with David's contributions. What if we are not able to find many credible sources in order to cover what we should cover in this article?

Brittany.michels (talk) 18:26, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

1. His article lacks much information of his Early Life (personal info). 2. Sources on this topic are David Rubin himself (we have been in contact with him via email), as for another source I do not have one as he is difficult to find any personal information on. 3. A comment I have is that it is difficult to find personal information on academic figures who are still living. I also have to comment that he is very well known and accomplished throughout his field.

Kmemcc22 (talk) 18:27, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

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• Introduction: David C. Rubin is currently a professor and researcher at Duke University. He is most notable for his research and publications regarding memory, specifically the reminiscence bump and long term memory.
• Early Life: David Charles Rubin was born on the third of March in 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts to parents Edith Weisberg Rubin and Benjamin Henry Rubin. He was joined three years later with the birth of his brother Gerald M. Rubin. David grew up in a large family with twenty four first cousins. He and his family resided in the historical Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. David attended elementary school at Robert Treat Paine, he then attended the Solomon Lewenberg Junior High School. David then went on to go to high school at Boston Technical High School. All of David's childhood schools are no longer in existence today. In high school David had a various jobs. He worked at a drug store, as well as staffing kitchens at an old age home, as well as a girls' summer camp. In college he worked in various psychology, as well as physics labs, and also lifeguarded at his college pool.

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• Academia: David attended Carnegie-Mellon University for his undergraduate studies in Physics and Psychology. He received his Bachelor of Science for these two subjects and graduated in 1968. He then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1968-1969 as a Special Student of Psychology before being accepted into Harvard for graduate school in 1970. It was at Harvard that Rubin obtained his M.D. and his Ph.D in Psychology by 1974.

• Awards/Honors: I think his awards and honor's should be in list view, or bullet points! What do you guys think?!?

1) Named Chair of psychology department in 2008 2) Annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series in 2009 3) Honorary Doctorate at University of Aarhus in 2012 4) In 2012, elected a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists

• Careers: In 1968, Rubin was worked as an Aerospace Engineer for NASA Electronics Research Center in Massachusetts. It was here that he pursued research and development in optics. From 1974-1978 he was an assistant professor of psychology at Lawrence University located in Appleton, Wisconsin. He then moved to Durham, North Carolina to continue as a assistant professor of psychology until 1981 when he became an associate professor of psychology. Still dedicated to Duke University he became a Professor of Psychology, Professor of Experimental Psychology, and a Professor of Neuroscience in 1987. These positions were held until 2008. In 2008, he was elected chair of the department and he currently holds that position.

(I know I need to get my citations in here, I am workin' on it!) Hmerickson (talk) 01:12, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

• Current Research: David C. Rubin currently studies autobiographical memory at Duke University. Autobiographical memory is the retrieval of of events from ones own life or what we typically think of as memory . David and his team of researchers use functional MRI (fMRI), psychophysiological, and behavioral methods to exam autobiographical memory in youth, older adults, and clinical populations. <ref>http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/research/labs/rubinlab/ref>.

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• Important Publications:

-D.C. Rubin.1995.Memory in oral traditions: The cognitive psychology of epic, ballads, and counting-out rhymes.New York; Oxford University Press. -1996.Remembering our past: Studies in autobiographical memory.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -2005.Cognitive Methods and their Application to Clinical Research.Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press. -Rubin, D.C. & Berntsen, D., & Bohni, M.K..2008.A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: Evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosis.Psychological Review 985-1011 . -D.C. Rubin, Boals, A., & Berntsen, D..2008.Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 591-614. -Rubin, D. C..2006.The Basic-Systems Model of Episodic Memory. Perspectives on Psychological Science 1:277-311 . -Daselaar, S.M., Rice, H.J., Greenberg, D.L., Cabeza, R., LaBar, K.S., & Rubin, D.C.. 2008. The spatiotemporal dynamics of autobiographical memory: Neural correlates of recall, emotional intensity, and reliving. Cerebral Cortex 217-229 . -Berntsen, D., & Rubin, D.C..2006. The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one’s identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. Behaviour Research and Therapy 44: 219-231.

(I'm having trouble figuring out which of his contributions is the most important that I should go more in depth on)

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