Dr. Christie Chung directs the Mills Cognition Laboratory (MCL) in Mills College's Psychology Department. She and her research assistants design behavioral experiments to examine the underlying cognitive mechanisms that constitute age-related changes in memory. Current research studies examine the effects of age, culture, weight consciousness, and circadian arousal on emotional and flashbulb memory.

Newsletters:

• 2012
• 2010
• 2009

Mills Cognition Lab/Dr. Chung in the media:

• HUG TO interview (January 2013)
• Mills Quarterly interview (Summer 2012)
• Meg Quigley Fellow interview (2010)
• Mills College Admission Facebook post

Publications

Chung, C., & Lin, Z. (2012). A cross-cultural examination of the positivity effect in memory: United States vs. China. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 75(1), 31-44.

Summers, S. L., & Chung, C. (2012). A holistic approach to understanding military TBIs: A multidisciplinary perspective. Undergraduate Research Journal for the Human Sciences, 11. Retrieved from www.kon.org/urc/v10/summers.html

Chung, C., Sharifi, F, & Harris, S. (2011). The effects of circadian arousal and weight consciousness on women’s memory. Psychology, 2, 732-736. 
doi: 10.4236/psych.2011.27112

Sharifi, F., Chung, C., Mahinda, E., Johnson, J., & Wong, S.A. (2011). Emotional memory in women: Why a negativity bias? Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 22, 36-42.

Chung, C. (2010). Effects of view of life and selection bias on emotional memory in old age. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 23(3), 161-168. doi: 10.1024/1662-9647/a000019

Chung, C. (2010). Is the positivity effect in old age a cohort effect? In H. Blatterer & J. Glahn (Eds.), Times of Our Lives. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press. (ISBN: 978-1-904710-91-2).

Chung, C. (2009). The positivity effect in old age: Why does it occur? In J. Jaafar & S. McCarthy (Eds.), Building Asian Families and Communities. UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Chung, C., & Light, L. L. (2009). Effects of age and study repetition on plurality discrimination. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16, 446-460.

Light, L. L., Chung, C., Pendergrass, R., & Van Ocker, J. C. (2006). Effects of repetition and response deadline on item recognition in young and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 34, 335-343.

Healy, M. R., Light, L. L., & Chung, C. (2005). Dual-process models of associative recognition in young and older adults: Evidence from receiver operating characteristics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 768-788.

Light, L. L., Healy, M. R., Patterson, M. M., & Chung, C. (2005). Dual-process models of memory in young and older adults: Evidence from associative recognition. In L. Taconnat, D. Clarys, S. Vanneste, & M. Isingrini (Eds.), Proceedings of the VIIth Cognitive Aging Conference (Tours, France). Paris: Public book Editions.

Light, L. L., Patterson, M. M., Chung, C., & Healy, M. R. (2004). Effects of repetition and response deadline on associative recognition in young and older adults. Memory & Cognition, 32, 1182-1193.

Hasher, L., Chung, C., May, C. P., & Foong, N. (2002). Age, time of testing, and proactive interference. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56, 200-207.