Omran is a PhD student working with Dr. Daniela Palombo in the Memory and Imagination Lab. His research is focused on elucidating the threads which bind our sense of subjective time for the disparate events of our lives.

Omran’s research examines how we remember elapsed time for the varying events we experience in our lives. During his master’s, he created a novel virtual reality paradigm to probe recalled duration for emotional versus neutral events. His PhD work extends this by investigating the varying factors that may affect how we remember duration for different episodes in our lives. He uses a combination of traditional laboratory studies and virtual reality to investigate these phenomena.

Safi, O. K., Shi, Y., Madan, C. R., Lin, T., & Palombo, D. J. (2023). The effects of emotion on retrospective duration memory using virtual reality. Psychological Research, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-023-01909-6

Ballance, B. C., Tuen, Y. J., Petrucci, A. S., Orwig, W., Safi, O. K., Palombo, D., & Madan, C. (2022). Imagining Emotional Events Benefits Future-Oriented Decisions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221086637