Center on Autobiographical Memory Research – CON AMORE – was founded in 2010 as a Centre of Excellence based on a grant from the Danish National Research Foundation. 
CON AMORE studies autobiographical memory, that is the ability to consciously remember the personal past.



Guest researchers 2025

  • 11 March – 30 June 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow Aleksandra Isham, University of Oslo (Norway)
  • 17 – 21 March 2025 PhD Student Marius Boeltzig, University of Münster (Germany)
  • 2 – 27 June 2025 Professor Rick Hoyle, Duke University (USA)
  • 2 June – 20 August 2025 Professor David C. Rubin, Duke University (USA)         
  • 3 – 4 June 2025 Dr David Hallford, School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia)
  • 15 June – 2 July 2025 Assistant Professor Worawach Tungjitcharoen, Thammasat University (Thailand)
  • 19 – 29 June 2025 Professor Elaine Reese, University of Otago (New Zealand)
  • 26 August 2025 PhD student Julie Ertman Nørkær Lundsgaard, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
  • 22 – 26 September 2025 Professor Pascale Piolino, University of Paris (France)
  • 20 – 31 October 2025 PhD student Linn Petersdotter, Lund University (Sweden)

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Recent publications

In press

Camia, C. & Bohn, A. (Eds.). (in press). Autobiographical Memory and the Life Story: New Perspectives on Narrative Identity. Cambridge University Press.

Camia, C. & Bohn, A. (in press). Conceptualizing Cultural Life Scripts as Master Narratives: An Underestimated Tool to Explore Life Stories. In C. Camia. & A. Bohn, (Eds.), Autobiographical Memory and the Life Story: New Perspectives on Narrative Identity. Cambridge University Press.

Matsumoto, N., & Watson, L. A. (in press). Meta-autobiographical Remembering Questionnaire (MARQ): Metacognitive Beliefs About Voluntary and Involuntary Negative and Positive Autobiographical Memories. Cognitive Therapy and Research. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10608-025-10607-z

Rasmussen, K. W., & Berntsen, D. (in press). Nostalgia Films improves the Episodic Richness of the Life Story in Alzheimer’s Dementia, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Shan, Y., Berntsen, D., Allé, M. & Rubin, D. C. (in press). Exploring changes in consciousness, cognition, and anxiety amidst social isolation: China's strict covid-19 measures as a case study. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.  https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000422

Shan, Y, Yan, S., Jia, Y., Hu, Y., Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (in press). The properties of involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memories in Chinese depressed and healthy individuals. Cognitive Therapy and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10353-0

2025

Krøjgaard, P., Kingo, O. S., & Sonne, T. (2025). Spontaneous event memory in young children. I L. M. Bietti, & M. Pogacar (red.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93789-8_85-1

Shan, Y, Rubin, D. C. & Berntsen, D. (2025). Involuntary autobiographical memories as a transdiagnostic factor in mental disorders. Clinical Psychology Review, 116, 102545. doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2025.102545

Sonne, T., Krøjgaard, P., & Kingo, O. S. (2025). Childhood Amnesia. I L. M. Bietti, & M. Pogacar (red.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93789-8_78-1


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