William N. Koller
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William N. Koller
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Post-doc @ Princeton | Clinical psychology Ph.D. candidate @ Yale | Studying psychosis, psychotic-like experiences, and the memory/learning processes that may underlie them.

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New paper out in JEP: General (open access)! Here, we find that those endorsing more psychosis-like sx (and more frequent/intense déjà vu) show a “hyper-recency” bias in memory, remembering stimuli as having been encountered *more recently* than they truly were. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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Today marks the last day of my internship at the Bedford VA - as of 4:30pm, I will officially have a Ph.D 😮! Grateful to all my amazing mentors throughout this journey and looking forward to starting a post-doc w/ @yaelniv.bsky.social in September focusing on latent cause learning x mental health!
August 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New paper out in JEP: General (open access)! Here, we find that those endorsing more psychosis-like sx (and more frequent/intense déjà vu) show a “hyper-recency” bias in memory, remembering stimuli as having been encountered *more recently* than they truly were. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
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June 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Excited to see this thesis project published! We explored demographic/psychological associates of status threat (concern that group status will be undermined by outsiders) and found pos. assoc. w/ conspiracy mentality, paranoia, and political conservatism. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Conspiracy mentality, subclinical paranoia, and political conservatism are associated with perceived...
Status threat (i.e., concern that one’s dominant social group will be undermined by outsiders) is a significant factor in current United States politics. While demographic factors such as race (e.g....
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December 14, 2023 at 3:43 PM
New paper out on asymmetrical memory errors in schizotypy! In an omnibus sample (N=795), we found that positive sx and paranoia were differentially assoc. with "intrusive" memory errors (i.e., false alarms) - negative sx showed no such relationship. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky
October 24, 2023 at 3:01 PM