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Department of Psychology Developmental Psychology: Adulthood

Dr. Sebastian Horn

Independent Research Group Leader

 

Contact

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Dr. Sebastian Horn
University of Zurich
Department of Psychology
Developmental Psychology: Adulthood
Binzmuehlestrasse 14/11
CH-8050 Zurich / Switzerland

E-Mail:
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horn@psychologie.uzh.ch
BIN 3.A.07

Research Interests

  • Cognition from a developmental lifespan perspective
  • Prospective and episodic memory
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Motivational orientation and value-based decisions
  • Cognitive measurement modeling

Brief Research Statement

My research focuses on the development and interplay between memory and decision making across the lifespan: How do people of different ages use their memory when they decide on the value of outcomes or when they compare objects? I am also investigating the role of motivation in preferential and economic decisions: How do age-related changes in motivational orientation influence people’s attitudes to gains and losses?

Selected Publications

  • Horn, S., & Freund, A. M. (2021). How do gain and loss incentives affect memory for intentions across adulthood? The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76, 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa140
  • Horn, S., Avrahami, J., Kareev, Y., & Hertwig, R. (2021). Age-related differences in strategic competition. Scientific Reports, 11, 15318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94626-2
  • Horn, S. & Freund, A. M. (2021). Adult age differences in monetary decisions with real and hypothetical reward. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2253
  • Horn, S., & Bayen, U., & Michalkiewicz, M. (2021). The development of clustering in episodic memory: A Cognitive-modeling approach. Child Development, 92, 239–257. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13407
  • Horn, S., Mata, R., & Pachur, T. (2019). Good+ Bad=? Developmental differences in balancing gains and losses in value‐based decisions from memory. Child Development, 91, 417– 438. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13208

Academic Experience

2012–2017 Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2012 Dr. rer. nat. [Dissertation: Cognitive Modeling of Interference from Prospective-Memory Tasks]
2008–2012 Doctoral research [Cognitive aging, experimental and mathematical psychology;
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf]
2007 Diplom Psychology [M.S., University of Freiburg, Germany]
2006–2007 Visiting scholar [The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.]

Scholarships and Awards

2012–2015 Postdoctoral scholarship, Max Planck Society
2005–2007 Graduate scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

Weiterführende Informationen

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