About
Victoria (she/her/hers) is interested in how memories of our personal past influence self-schemas and mental health. She is co-supervised by Dr. Daniela Palombo in the Memory and Imagination Lab and Dr. Connor Kerns in the Anxiety Stress and Autism Program (ASAP) Lab
Research
Memory, emotion, trauma, childhood adversity, self-schema
Publications
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, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2022.2067326
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000015
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. 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. 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
Awards
- Canadian Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, NSERC (2021)
- Graduate Entrance Scholarship, UBC (2021 – Deferred)
- 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)