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Last published 2025
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Denise R. Beike

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Professor

Also affiliated: Arkansas Department of Agriculture (2003); University of Southampton (2004); Indiana University (1996)

Faculty Researcher

18 h-index 60 pubs 1,414 cited

  • Humans
  • Memory, Episodic
  • Female
  • Male
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Motivation
  • Adult
  • Emotions
  • Memory
  • Mental Recall
  • Adaptation, Psychological
  • Deception
  • Truth Disclosure
  • Goals
  • Middle Aged

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Denise R. Beike's research focuses on the cognitive and psychological underpinnings of identity, particularly in relation to autobiographical memory and interpersonal connections. Her work investigates how specific memories contribute to an individual's sense of self, with a recent publication exploring this link in mature versus emerging adults. She also examines the cognitive intertwining of identity with representations of close others who fulfill needs. Beike's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 18, with 60 total publications and 1,406 total citations. She has collaborated with researchers such as Carmen R. Merrick of Hendrix College and James Fuji Collins of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Metrics

  • h-index: 18
  • Publications: 60
  • Citations: 1,414

Selected Publications

  • Sense of identity is cognitively intertwined with representations of need fulfilling close others (2025)
    Self and Identity DOI OpenAlex
  • Specific autobiographical memories are a resource for identity strength among mature but not emerging adults (2023)
    Memory 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Tall tales make fast friends: Exaggerating when retelling previous experiences fosters relational closeness (2018)
    Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 7 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Sharing specific “We” autobiographical memories in close relationships: the role of contact frequency (2017)
    Memory 18 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The effect of the order in which episodic autobiographical memories versus autobiographical knowledge are shared on feelings of closeness (2016)
    Memory 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Is sharing specific autobiographical memories a distinct form of self-disclosure? (2016)
    Journal of Experimental Psychology General 75 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Gaining Insight into Insight: Do Insights into Stressful Life Experiences have to be Correct to be Beneficial? (2015)
    Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Throwing You Under the Bus: High Power People Knowingly Harm Others When Offered Small Incentives (2015)
    Basic and Applied Social Psychology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Cherished Memories: Autobiographical Memory and the Self (2013)
    Oxford University Press eBooks 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The Ethical Treatment of Research Assistants: Are We Forsaking Safety for Science? (2013)
    DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 10 citations OpenAlex
  • Priming the nonconscious goal to self-actualize: Can even the highest order goals be primed nonconsciously? (2012)
    The Humanistic Psychologist 2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Episodic and Semantic Systems of Autobiographical Memory (2012)
    Elsevier eBooks 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Regulatory focus and affective recall (2011)
    Motivation and Emotion 20 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Closure of autobiographical memories moderates their directive effect on behaviour (2009)
    Memory 19 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Snitching, lies and computer crashes: An experimental investigation of secondary confessions. (2009)
    Law and Human Behavior 54 citations DOI OpenAlex

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