Amy Smith

Amy Smith is an Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, USA. Amy earned her B.A. in Psychology and Mathematics from The State University of New York at Potsdam in 2013, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Tufts University in 2016 and 2018, respectively. After a one-year postdoctoral position at the Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Tufts University, Amy joined the faculty in the Department of Psychology at Quinnipiac.

In her research, Amy examines how memory is influenced by different psychological stressors (e.g., social evaluation, time pressure, stereotype threat). Amy uses a variety of episodic- and semantic-memory paradigms to determine the circumstances in which declarative memory is impaired, enhanced, or unaffected by stress. Her work has been featured in high-impact journals such as Science and Hormones and Behavior, and by popular news outlets such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The Guardian.