Dr. Sebastian Horn
Independent Research Group Leader
Contact |
||
|
|
Dr. Sebastian Horn University of Zurich Department of Psychology Developmental Psychology: Adulthood Binzmuehlestrasse 14/11 CH-8050 Zurich / Switzerland |
|
E-Mail: |
horn@psychologie.uzh.ch |
|
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. (2023). Adult Age Differences in Value-Based Decision Making. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101765
-
Horn, S., Schaltegger, T., Best, R., & Freund, A. M. (2023). Pay One or Pay All? The Role of Incentive Schemes in Decision Making Across Adulthood. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 78(1), 51-61.https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac108
-
Horn, S., & Freund, A. M. (2021). Adult age differences in remembering gain-and loss-related intentions. Cognition and Emotion, 35(8), 1652-1669. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1986375
- 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., 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 |