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Annette Bohn

PhD, Lektor

Profile photoAnnette Bohn
Lektor
Psykologisk Institut - CON AMORE - Center for Selvbiografisk Hukommelsesforskning
Psykologisk Institut

Postaddresse:
Bartholins Allé 9, 1350, 428
8000 Aarhus C
Danmark

E-mail: anetboh@psy.au.dk
Telefon: +4587165864

Education

1985M.A. in German; Pennsylvania State University/ USA
1986University Degree for Teachers of German and English; Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel/ Germany
1991Government-certified teacher of German and English; Germany
2002Bachelor in Psychology; Aarhus University/ Denmark
2005M.Sc. in Psychology; Aarhus University/ Denmark
2008Ph.D. in Psychology Aarhus University/ Denmark
Title of dissertation: Studies on the social and cultural characteristics og autobiographical memory and their development across the life span

Research Areas

Autobiographical Memory; Life Story Development; Cultural Life Scripts; Emotion and Memories;
Past and Future Mental Time Travel; Cultural Differences in Autobiographical Memory

Teaching Areas

Cognitive Psychology, Autobiographical Memory

Grants and Awards

2009-2010 Post Doc Stipend funded by the Danish Research Agency for Communication and Culture (1.420.000DKK)
2009 AUFF Award (Aarhus University Research Grant Agency) for Best Dissertation in the Social Sciences 2008 (50,000 DKK.)
2011 Research grant by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Agency) for stay at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (2150 euro)
2013- 2014 Jens Chr. Skou Junior Fellowship at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University
2016 AUFF Mobility Stipend for research stay in Australia (86 000 DKK)
2016 Inge Lehmanns Legat of 1983 for project “Not WEIRD but truly different: Autobiographical Memories in Indigenous Australia (103 000 DKK)
2017- AcademiaNet – Expert Database for Outstanding Female Academic
2017 AUFF Guest Researcher Grant to host professor Ali Tekcan (138 605 DKK)
2021-2024 AIAS Associate Fellowship Category 2: Established Researcher
2022 Carlsberg Foundation Grant for organization of "To tell a life: Symposium on life story psychology in honor of Tilmann Habermas" at AIAS (54 000 DKK)

Publication Data (1/ 2023)

>24 articles in international peer-reviewed journals
h index 14; total citations >1480

Teaching and Supervison

Lectures in Cognitive Psychology (undergraduate)
Seminars on all aspects of Autobiographical Memory (undergraduate, graduate and PhD level)
Supervision of > 50 Master Theses and > 100 Bachelor Theses
Main Advisor of 4 PhD students and 2 postdoc

Publications

Roderer, A. V., & Bohn, A. (2023). Retrospective future thinking as a novel method to imagine the future: Remembering autobiographical events from the perspective of the future self. Memory, 31(1), 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2120997
Roderer, A. V., Watson, L. A., & Bohn, A. (2022). Remembering future life goals: Retrospective future thinking affects life goal qualities. Acta Psychologica, 226, [103582]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103582
Roderer, A. V., Bohn, A., & Watson, L. A. (2022). Retrospective future thinking: Keeping distant personal future events mentally close. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221126471
Kongshøj, I. L. L., Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2022). To mention or not to mention? The inclusion of self-reported most traumatic and most positive memories in the life story. Memory, 30(2), 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1995876
Özbek, M., Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2021). A tale of two cultural life scripts: do young second-generation Turkish immigrants versus young Danes in Denmark perceive life through different cultural lenses? Memory, 29(6), 778-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1948576
Ramsgaard, S. B., & Bohn, A. (2021). The Development of Past and Future Life Stories in Adolescence: Overall Emotional Tone, Coherence and Life Script Events. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 62(2), 150-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12691
Bohn, A., & Bundgaard-Nielsen, R. L. (2021). Not “WEIRD” but truly different: Cultural Life Scripts and autobiographical memory in Indigenous Australia. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(1), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.09.006
Özbek, M., Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Characteristics of personally important episodic memories, counterfactual thoughts, and future projections across age and culture. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(5), 1020-1033. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3681
Talarico, J. M., Bohn, A., & Wessel, I. (2019). The role of event relevance and congruence to social groups in flashbulb memory formation. Memory, 27(7), 985-997. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1616097
Ramsgaard, S. B., & Bohn, A. (2019). My family matters: Past and future life stories in adolescents with refugee background. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 33(6), 1247-1259. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3578
Ramsgaard, S. B., Bohn, A., & Thastum, M. (2019). Past and future life stories in adolescents with anxiety disorders: a comparison with community controls. Memory, 27(7), 998-1010. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1595660
Camia, C., Menzel, C., & Bohn, A. (2019). A positive Living-in-History effect: The case of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Memory, 27(10), 1381-1389. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2019.1661494
Özbek, M., Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2018). Why do I think and talk about it? Perceived functions and phenomenology of episodic counterfactual thinking compared with remembering and future thinking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(10), 2101-2114. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021817738731
Özbek, M., Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2017). Imagining the personal past: Episodic counterfactuals compared to episodic memories and episodic future projections. Memory & Cognition, 45(3), 375-389. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-016-0671-2
Bohn, A., Koppel, J., & Harris, C. B. (2017). Life happens when you are young: Reminiscence bump in cultural life scripts regardless of number of events elicited. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(3), 337-342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2017.07.004
Bohn, A., & Habermas, T. (2016). Living in history and living by the cultural life script: How older Germans date their autobiographical memories. Memory, 24(4), 482-495. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1019890
Ritchie, T. D., Batteson, T. J., Bohn, A., Crawford, M. T., Ferguson, G. V., Schrauf, R. W., Vogl, R. J., & Walker, W. R. (2015). A pancultural perspective on the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory. Memory, 23(2), 278-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.884138
Kingo, O. S., Bohn, A., & Krøjgaard, P. (2013). Warm-up questions on early childhood memories affect the reported age of earliest memories in late adolescence. Memory, 21(2), 280-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2012.729598
Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2013). The Future is Bright and Predictable: The Development of Prospective Life Stories across Childhood and Adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 49(7), 1232-1241. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030212
Bohn, A. (2011). Normative ideas of life and autobiographical reasoning in life narratives. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Spring (131), 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.286
Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2011). The reminiscence bump reconsidered: Children's prospective life stories show a bump in young adulthood. Psychological Science, 22(2), 197-202. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610395394
Bohn, A. (2010). Generational differences in cultural life scripts and life story memories of younger and older adults. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 24(9), 1324-1345. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.1641
Berntsen, D., & Bohn, A. (2010). Remembering and forecasting. The relation between autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking. Memory & Cognition, 38(3), 265-278. https://doi.org/10.3758/MC.38.3.265
Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2008). Life story development in childhood: The development of life story abilities and the acquisition of cultural life scripts from late middle childhood to adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 1135-1147.
Bohn, A., & Berntsen, D. (2007). Pleasantness bias in flashbulb memories: Positive and negative flashbulb memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall among East and West Germans. Memory & Cognition, 35(3), 565-577.