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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. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12691
Rasmussen, K.W., Salgado, S., Daustrand, M. & Berntsen, D. (2021). Using nostalgia films to stimulate spontaneous autobiographical remembering in Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10 (3), 400-411. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.11.001
Rubin, D. C. (2021). Properties of autobiographical memories are reliable and stable individual differences. Cognition, 210, 104583. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104583
Salgado, S. & Berntsen, D. (2021). "It Won’t Happen to Us". Unrealistic Optimism Affects COVID-19 Risk Assessments and Attitudes Regarding Protective Behaviour. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10 (3), 368-380. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.07.006
Sonne, T., Kingo, O.S., Berntsen, D., & Krøjgaard, P. (2021). Noting a difference: change in social context prompts spontaneous recall in 46-month-olds, but not in 35-month-olds. Psychological Research, 85, 939–950. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-020-01310-7
Staugaard, S. R. & Berntsen, D. (2021). Gender Differences in the Experienced Emotional Intensity of Experimentally Induced Memories of Negative Scenes. Psychological Research, 85, 1732–1747. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-020-01334-z
Staugaard, S.R., Fuglsang, A.K. & Berntsen, D. (2021). Involuntary Memories of War-Related Scenes in Veterans with PTSD. Clinical Psychological Science, 9 (5), 919-931. DOI: 10.1177/2167702621994544
Svane, R. P., Kingo, O. S., & Krøjgaard, P. (2021). A Micro-Analytic Approach to Parent-Child Reminiscing. Cognitive Development, 57, article 101004. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.101004
Svane, R. P., Olesen, M. J. R., Kingo, O. S., & Krøjgaard, P. (2021). Gender and Parental Involvement in Parent-Child Reminiscing in a Scandinavian Sample. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 62 (2), 159-169 . DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12695
Thomsen, D.K., Pfattheicher, S., & Dunlop, W.L. (2021). Authoring esteem: Writing about vicarious and personal life story chapters boosts state self-esteem. Personality Science, 2, 1-24. DOI: 10.5964/ps.7017
Thomsen, D.K., Talarico, J.M., & Steiner, K.L. (2021). When does a wedding mark the beginning of a new chapter in one’s life? Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 62 (5), 675-682. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12754
Tungjitcharoen, W. & Berntsen, D. (2021). Belief-related memories: Autobiographical memories of the religious self. Memory, 29 (5), 573-586. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2021.1923753
Allé, M. C., Berna, F., Danion, J.M., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Involuntary autobiographical memories in schizophrenia: characteristics and conditions of elicitation. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, article 567189. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.567189
Allé, M. C., Berna, F., Danion, J. M., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Seeing or Hearing One’s Memories: Manipulating Autobiographical Memory Imagery in Schizophrenia. Psychiatry research, 286, article 112835. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2020.112835
Berntsen, D. & Rubin, D.C. (2020). Academic Forgetting. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9 (1), 52-57. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.12.003
Burnell, R., Rasmussen. A.S., & Garry, M. (2020) Negative memories serve functions in both adaptive and maladaptive ways. Memory, 28 (4), 494-505. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1737133
Congleton, A.R. & Berntsen, D. (2020). It took me by surprise: Examining the retroactive enhancement effect for memory of naturally-unfolding events. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9 (3), 300-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.03.003
Congleton, A.R. & Berntsen, D. (2020). The devil is in the details: investigating the influence of emotion on event memory using a simulated event. Psychological Research, 84 (8), 2339-2353. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01215-0
Del Palacio-Gonzalez, A. & Berntsen, D. (2020). Involuntary Autobiographical Memories and Future Projections in Social Anxiety. Memory, 28 (4), 516-527. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1738497
Del Palacio-Gonzalez, A. & Berntsen, D. (2020). Memory-Related Emotion Regulation and its Relation to Internalizing Symptoms. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44 (6), 1162-1176. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-020-10137-w
From, L., Olesen, M.H., & Thomsen, D.K. (2020). Elite athletes are higher on grit but lower on conscientiousness than a comparison sample of non-athletes. Scandinavian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2, 2-7. DOI:10.7146/sjsep.v2i0.115111
Gehrt, T. B., Frostholm, L. Obermann, M-L., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Autobiographical memory and episodic future thinking in severe health anxiety: A comparison with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 44 (1), 89-107. DOI: 10.1007/s10608-019-10058-3
Gehrt, T. B., Frostholm, L., Pallesen, K. J., Obermann, M-L., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Conscious thought during the resting state in patients with severe health anxiety and patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice, 7 (3), 207-217. DOI: 10.1037/cns0000256
Holm, T., Thomsen, D.K., Huling, K.S., Fisher, M.W, & Lysaker, P.H. (2020). Narrative identity, metacognition, and well-being in patients with schizophrenia or HIV. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 208 (12), 958-965. DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001238
Jensen, R.A.A., Thomsen, D.K, Bliksted, V.F., & Ladegaard, N. (2020). Narrative Identity in Psychopathology: A Negative Past and a Bright but Foreshortened Future. Psychiatry Research, 290, article 113103. DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113103
Jensen, R.A.A., Thomsen, D.K., O’Connor, M., & Mehlsen, M.Y. (2020). Age Differences in Life Stories and Neuroticism Mediate Age Differences in Subjective Well-Being. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 3-15. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3580
Lewis, A., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Pet Memories: The characteristics of event memories in cats and dogs, as reported by their owners. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 222, article 104885. DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2019.104885
Lind, M., Vanwoerden, S., Penner, F., & Sharp, C. (2020). Narrative Coherence in Adolescence: Relations with Attachment, Mentalization, and Psychopathology. Journal of Personality Assessment, 102 (3), 380-389. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2019.1574805
Lind, M., Østergaard, J.H., Rasmussen, H. (2020). Mentalization-based principles within the organization: Elevated Empowerment and lower depressive symptoms. Current Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-00749-6
Nielsen, N.P., Salgado, S., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Using Virtual Reality to Examine Emotional Hotspots and Intrusions in the Trauma Film Paradigm. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9 (3), 370-380. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.06.004
O’Toole, M. S., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Prepartum mental time traveling: Investigating specificity and content of time travelling and their association with psychological distress. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 69, article 101590. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2020.101590
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. DOI:10.1002/acp.3681
Puig, V.A., Özbek, M., & Szpunar, K.K. (2020). A negativity bias in detail generation during event simulation. Emotion, 20 (8), 1390-1398. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000647
Rask, C. U., Gehrt, T. B., Rimvall, M., & Frostholm, L. (2020). Health anxiety: Conceptualization and future directions. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228 (2), 141-144. DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000407
Rubin, D. C. (2020). Self-Concept Focus: A Tendency to Perceive Autobiographical Events as Central to Identity. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 9 (4), 576–86. DOI: 10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.06.001
Rubin, D. C. (2020). The ability to recall scenes is a stable individual difference: Evidence from autobiographical remembering. Cognition, 197, article 104164 . DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104164
Salgado, S. & Berntsen, D. (2020). My future is brighter than yours: the positivity bias in episodic future thinking and future self-images. Psychological Research, 84, 1829–1845. DOI: 10.1007/s00426-019-01189-z
Salgado, S. & Kingo, O. S. (2020). Data related to measures of physiological arousal during everyday life experiences and their relation to self-reports of subjective experience of both the event and its memory. Data in brief, 28, article 104823. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104823.
Sanson, M., Cardwell, B., Rasmussen, A.S., & Garry, M. (2020). Evidence that “voluntary” versus “involuntary” retrieval is a fluency-based attribution. Psychological Reports, 123, 141-158. DOI: 10.1177/0033294119854180
Sonne, T., Kingo, O.S., Berntsen, D., & Krøjgaard, P. (2020). Age affects Strategic but not Spontaneous Recall in 35- and 46-month-old Children. Journal of Cognition and Development, 21 (4), 603-621. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2020.1797748
Štěpánková, L., Kadlčíková, D., & Zaragoza Scherman, A. (2020). Czech and Slovak Life Scripts: The Rare Case of Two Countries that Used to Be One. Memory, 28 (10), 1204-1218. DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2020.1828476
Thomsen, D.K., Panattoni, K., Allé, M.C., Wellnitz, K.B., & Pillemer, D.B. (2020). Vicarious life stories: Examining relations to personal life stories and well-being. Journal of Research in Personality, 88, article 103991. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103991
Umanath, S. & Berntsen, D. (2020). Some personal life events are more prominent than others: Younger and older adults agree on which life events matter most. Memory Studies, 13 (4), 551-569. DOI: 10.1177/1750698017754250
Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Soenens, B., Mouratidis, A., De Pauw, S., Krøjgaard, P., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2020). Towards a detailed understanding of preschool children’s memory-related functioning and emotion regulation: The role of parents’ observed reminiscence style, memory valence, and parental gender. Developmental Psychology, 56(9), 1696-1708. DOI:10.1037/dev0001048
Zaragoza Scherman, A., Salgado, S., Shao, Z., & Berntsen, D. (2020). Younger adults report more distress and less well-being: A cross-cultural study of event centrality, depression, PTSD, and life satisfaction. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34 (5), 1180-1196. DOI: 10.1002/ACP.3707
Books and book chapters
Kirk, M. & Jensen, A. M. (2020). Etik og demens. I Etiske problemstillinger, dilemmaer og paradokser for sundhedsprofessionelle, kapitel 14, 201-212, red. Marianne Eilsø Munksgaard og Solveig Fjordside. Gads Forlag: København.
Kongshøj, I. L. L., & Bohn, A. (2020). PTSD in Youth from a Developmental Perspective. In Gülgöz, S., & Sahin-Acar, B. (Eds.). Autobiographical Memory Development: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. Routledge.
Krøjgaard, P., Sonne, T., & Kingo, O. S. (2020). Is the eye the mirror of the soul? Exploring autobiographical memory development by means of looking-time measures. In Gülgöz, S. & Sahin-Acar, B. (Eds.). Autobiographical Memory Development: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches. Routledge.
Sonne, T., Kingo, O.S., Berntsen, D. & Krøjgaard, P., (2020). Thirty-five-month-old children have spontaneous memories despite change of context for retrieval. In Gülgöz, S. & Wang, Q. (Eds.). Remembering and forgetting early childhood. Routledge.