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Robert W. Schrauf
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics

Department of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Pennsylvania State University
305 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802

Phone: (814) 865-9622
E-mail: rws23@psu.edu

Lab Affiliation: Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences

Research Interests:

Cognitive aging and multilingualism, bilingual autobiographical memory, linguistic and cultural adaptation of health assessment tools.

Research Opportunities:

Students with interests in language, health, and aging are always welcome to work in my lab.


Recent Publications:

Schrauf, Robert W.and Lesa Hoffman. (2007). The effects of revisionism on remembered emotion: The valence of older, voluntary immigrants’ pre-migration memories. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 21: 895-913.

Rubin, D.C., Schrauf, Robert W., Gulgoz, Sami, and Naka, Makiko. (2007). On the cross-cultural variability of component processes in autobiographical remembering: Japan Turkey, and the U.S.A. Memory 15(5) 536-547.

Schrauf, Robert W., Sandra Weintraub, and Ellen Navarro. (2006). Is a validation of the Word Accentuation Test (WAT) of premorbid intelligence necessary for use among older, Spanish-speaking immigrants in the United States? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 12, 391-399.

Schrauf, Robert W. and Ellen Navarro. (2005). On using existing scales and tests in the field. Field Methods, 17(4), 373-393.

Schrauf, Robert W. and Julia Sanchez (2004). “The preponderance of negative emotion words across generations and across cultures.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 25(2-3), 266-284.

Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W., & Greenberg, D. L. (2004). “Stability in autobiographical memories.” Memory, 12(6), 715-721.

Schrauf, Robert W. and David C. Rubin (2004). “The ‘language’ and ‘feel’ of bilingual memory: Mnemonic traces and narrative framing.” Sociolinguistica, 5(1), 21-39.

Rubin, D. C., Schrauf, R. W., & Greenberg, D. L. (2003). “Belief and recollection of autobiographical memories.” Memory and Cognition, 31(6), 877-886.

Schrauf, R. W. (2003). “A protocol analysis of retrieval in autobiographical memory.” International Journal of Bilingualism, 7(3), 235-256.

Schrauf, R. W., Pavlenko, A., & Dewaele, J. M. (2003). “Bilingual episodic memory: An introduction.” International Journal of Bilingualism, 7(3), 221-233.

Schrauf, Robert W. (2002). “Comparing cultures within-subjects: A cognitive account of acculturation as a framework for cross-cultural study.” Anthropological Theory, 2(1), 98-115.

Schrauf, R. W. (2002). “Bilingual inner speech as the medium of cross-modular retrieval in autobiographical memory.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 698-699.

Larsen, Steen F., Schrauf, Robert W., Pia Fromholt, and David C. Rubin (2002). “Inner speech and bilingual autobiographical memory: A Polish-Danish cross-cultural study.” Memory 10 (1), 45-54.

Schrauf, Robert W. and David C. Rubin (2001). “Effects of voluntary immigration on the distribution of autobiographical memory over the lifespan.” Applied Cognitive Psychology 15, S75-S88.

Schrauf, Robert W. (2000). “Narrative repair of threatened identity.” Narrative Inquiry, 10(1), 1-19.

Schrauf, R. W. (2000). “Bilingual autobiographical memory: Experimental studies and clinical cases.” Culture & Psychology, 6(4), 387-417.

Schrauf, Robert W. and David C. Rubin (2000). “Internal languages of retrieval: The bilingual encoding of memories for the personal past.” Memory and Cognition. 28, 616-623.