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

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?

• 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

2012–2015: Postdoctoral scholarship, Max Planck Society

2005–2007: Graduate scholarship, German National Academic Foundation