Chris Wahlheim

How do we balance external attention to the outside world and internal attention to our thoughts & memories?

We review evidence that external and internal attention can compete, unfold concurrently, or cooperate!

Loved working on this with @samversc.bsky.social & @tobiasegner.bsky.social!

My lab is recruiting a postdoc and a full-time research technician to work on an NIH-funded project studying age-related changes in memory for naturalistic events. Behavior, fMRI, and blood-based biomarkers. 3+ years funding guaranteed.

Postdoc: tinyurl.com/ykjfbnj8

Tech: tinyurl.com/2f2hw3f5

Clinical Psychology Assistant Professor The Department of Psychology at UNC-Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Clinical Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2026. The Department of Psycholog...

UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties:

spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557

Andy Conway and I are honored to serve as inaugural co-Editors of this new Psychonomics journal, focused on the rigorous study of individual differences in cognition. Please spread the word to potentially interested colleagues; we hope that you will send us your best relevant work!

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

Attending Psychonomics in Denver? Consider arriving early enough to join the 2nd mtg of the Symposium for Individual Differences (SIDIC) on Thurs. Registration is open thru 10/31 & we've got a great program planned, with a keynote by @amiyake.bsky.social
caliberlab.wixsite.com/sidic2025/pr...

M&C's special issue for Larry Jacoby would be a good fit for memory control & automaticity papers, & many others. Deadline 12/31/25 www.psychonomic.org/page/MCjacoby Send questions to me, @cnwahlheim.bsky.social, Andy Y., or Steve L. See Larry's WIDE range work: scholar.google.com/citations?us...)

Sinclair Lab The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

🌟 Excited to share that I'm recruiting PhD students in Psychology for my new lab at Rice University this cycle (Signal boost appreciated!)

To learn more, check out the Learning & Behavior Change Lab website:
www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Applications are due Dec 1st: psychology.rice.edu/graduate/pro...

Job alert! Please share with your networks that include quantitative psychologists. TY in advance! fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

I hear it’s okay there!

Early post-immigration escalation polling ugly for Trump:

Immigration approval
37%-52% (-15) WaPo
43%-54% (-11) Quinnipiac (Q)
Deportations
39%-50% (-11) YouGov
40%-56% (-16) Q
Overall approval
43%-52% (-9) Econ/YouGov
40%-53% (-13) YouGov
38%-54% (-16) Q
Budget Bill
30%-50% (-20) Econ/YG

Memory & Cognition Special Issue - Psychonomic Society D. Stephen Lindsay, University of Victoria, Canada

The Larry Jacoby special issue deadline at M&C is extended to 6/30. Feel free to contact me or @cnwahlheim.bsky.social if you want to check whether your work would be a good fit before deciding to submit. www.psychonomic.org/general/cust...

Please spread the word!

Psych Science is recruiting volunteers to help conduct computational reproducibility checks.
If you have experience writing reproducible analysis scripts in psychology, and want to join the team, please apply!

www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

Clear summary of just what got cancelled in the recent misinformation grant terminations - lots of valuable research on how to improve the information environment and ensure that people have easy access to accurate information

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Photo of (l-r) Ethan Porter, Emily Vraga, Lisa Fazio, Robert Wiley, Chris Wahlheim

THURSDAY, APRIL 24 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS 1:30pm - 1:45pm DR. ETHAN PORTER Associate Professor, Media and Public Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University "The Meaning of Misinformation" 1:45 - 3:00pm DR. LISA FAZIO Associate Professor, Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University "Understanding the Effects of Repetition on Belief" 3:15-4:30pm FRIDAY, APRIL 25 DR. CHRIS WAHLHEIM Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UNC Greensboro "The Role of Memory in Correcting False Beliefs" 9:00-10:15am DR. EMILY VRAGA Don & Carole Larson Professor in Health Communication, University of Minnesota "How We Can All Respond to Misinformation on Social Media" 10:30-11:45am CONCLUDING PANEL DISCUSSION 11:45am-12:15pm

Bittersweet to have spent the past two days talking about misinformation research w/ @ekvraga.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social The gathering had been planned for months as part of @cnwahlheim.bsky.social's NSF grant. But the grant was cancelled days before the event. We decided to carry on 1/

I deeply appreciate this thoughtful summary of our event, Lisa! It was amazing to celebrate this important work together, even if funding priorities have changed. I look forward to more great work on this topic to come from all of our labs :)

Congrats!

Thanks Chad.

Thanks, Laura. It certainly was not a fun email to read :(

I’m sure. Quite the timing…

Can confirm that mine has also been canceled. :(

Memory updating and the structure of event representations People form memories of specific events and use those memories to make predictions about similar new experiences. Living in a dynamic environment pres…

We use our memories to make predictions – but what happens when our memories are outdated and our predictions are wrong?

@cnwahlheim.bsky.social & @jzacks.bsky.social review evidence for how memories can be differentiated or integrated in light of new evidence

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I'd like to be added, please :)

I am advertising a postdoc position to work on a cognitive psych project on misinformation 👇
Please share!

external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...

Research Associate in Psychology The Long Term Memory Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position. The position will involve working on a project funde...

My lab is hiring! We are hiring a postdoc and a research coordinator to work on a project investigating the role of memory brain states in cognition. Please see job ads below! Postdoc: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJob...
Research coordinator: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...

Postdoctoral fellowship in aging at Wash U! See psychaging.wustl.edu/postdoctoral... for info and jobs.wustl.edu to apply.

At UNCG, we definitely can pay them with our own grant funds, but it is not required.

Left! :)

🚨New #WorkingMemory PhD position!🚨
Come work with me at the University of Sheffield starting October 2024! All the details at the link, very happy to answer any informal questions, and can put you in touch with former mentees of mine 😄
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...