Victoria (she/her/hers) is interested in how memories of our personal past influence self-schemas and mental health. She is supervised by Dr. Daniela Palombo in the Memory and Imagination Lab.

Memory, emotion, trauma, childhood adversity, self-schema

Wardell, V., & Palombo, D. (in press). Stability and malleability of emotional autobiographical memories. Nature Reviews Psychology.

Petrucci, A.S., McCall, C. Schofield, G., Wardell, V., Safi, O.K., & Palombo, D.J. (2024) The relationship between environmentally induced emotion and memory for a naturalistic virtual experience. Cognition and Emotion. Online. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2333067

Picon, E.L., Wardell, V., Palombo, D.J., Todd, R.M., Aziz, B., Bedi, S., & Silverberg, N.D. (2023). Factors perpetuating functional cognitive symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 45(10), 988-1002. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2023.2247601

Wardell, V., Jameson, T.J., Bontkes, O.J.R., Le, M.L., Duan, T., St. Jacques, P.L., Madan, C.R., Palombo, D.J. (2023). Fade in, fade out: Do shifts in visual perspective predict the consistency of real-world memories?. Psychological Science. OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231180588

Stewardson, C.I., Hunsche, M.C., Wardell, V., Palombo, D.J., Kerns, C.M. (2022). Episodic memory through a social and emotional lens. Emotion. 23(4), 961-972. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001147

Wardell, V., Grilli, M.D., Palombo, D.J. (2022). Simulating the best and worst of times: The powers and perils of emotional simulation. Memory, 30(8). 1212-1225. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2088796

Dev, D.K.*, Wardell, V.*, Checknita, K.J., Te, A.A., Petrucci, A.S., Le, M.L., Madan, C.R., Palombo, D.J. (2022). Negative emotion enhances memory for the sequential unfolding of a naturalistic experience. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000015

Rioux, M., Wardell, V., Palombo, D. J., Picon, E. L., Le, M. L., & Silverberg, N. D. (2022). Memory for forgetting in adults with persistent symptoms following concussion. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 44(1), 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2022.2067326

Ng-Cordell, E., Wardell, V., Stewardson, C.I., Kerns, C.M. (2022). Anxiety and Trauma-Related Disorders in Children on the Autism Spectrum. Current Psychiatry Reports, 24, 171-180. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-022-01331-6

Hurd, L., Mahal, R., Wardell, V., Liang, J. (2022). “There were no words”: Older LGBTQ+ persons’ experiences of finding and claiming their gender and sexual identities. Journal of Aging Studies, 60, 100999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2022.100999

Wardell, V., Madan., C.R., Jameson, T. J., Cocquyt, C., Checknita, K.J., Liu, H., & Palombo, D.J. (2021). How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1454-1465. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3877

Wardell, V., Esposito, C.L., Madan, C.R., Palombo, D.J. (2021). Semi-automated transcription and scoring of autobiographical memory narratives. Behavioral Research Methods, 53, 507–517. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01437-w

* authors contributed equally

• Dean of Arts Graduate Student Research Award, University of British Columbia (2024)
• Killam Donald N. Byers Memorial Prize, University of British Columbia (2023)
• Killam Memorial Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia (2023-2025)
• Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral, SSHRC (2023-2026)
• Early Career Researcher Travel Award, Generative Episodic Memory Meeting (2023)
• Graduate Student Travel Award, UBC (2022)
• Graduate Entrance Scholarship, UBC (2022 – Deferred)
• Graduate Student Travel Award, UBC (2021)
• Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, NSERC (2021)
• HSBC Emerging Leader Scholarship, UBC (2020)
• Wesbrook Scholar, UBC (2020)
• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award, NSERC/UBC (2020)
• Dean of Arts Scholarship, UBC (2020)
• Student Scholarship in Arts, UBC (2020)
• Trek Excellent Scholarship for Continuing Students, UBC (2020)
• Student Scholarship in Arts, UBC (2019)
• Trek Excellence Scholarship for Continuing Students, UBC (2019)
• Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature, UBC (2018)