Sebastian Horn, Dr. rer. nat.
Independent Research Group Leader
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Sebastian Horn, Dr. rer. nat. University of Zurich Department of Psychology Developmental Psychology: Adulthood Binzmuehlestrasse 14/11 CH-8050 Zurich / Switzerland |
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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, Awards
2012–2015: Postdoctoral scholarship, Max Planck Society
2005–2007: Graduate scholarship, German National Academic Foundation