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| Dorthe BerntsenSummaryAffiliation: University of Aarhus Country: Denmark Publications
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The reminiscence bump reconsidered: children's prospective life stories show a bump in young adulthoodAnnette Bohn
Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Nobelparken, Jens Chr Skousvej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Psychol Sci 22:197-202. 2011....- Breast cancer patients' narratives about positive and negative communication experiencesDorthe K Thomsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Acta Oncol 46:900-8. 2007..The results highlight that meeting medical and emotional needs of patients may be closely intertwined in concrete treatment situations... - The end point effect in autobiographical memory: more than a calendar is neededDorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
Department of Psychology, Universit of Aarhus, Denmark
Memory 13:846-61. 2005..Generally, the results support the narrative theory and this is discussed in relation to broader theories of autobiographical memory... - Is there an association between rumination and self-reported physical health? A one-year follow-up in a young and an elderly sampleDorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
Psychooncology Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
J Behav Med 27:215-31. 2004..In conclusion, rumination is associated with poorer self-reported physical health, but the association depends on the age of the individual as well as time span studied... - The influence of rumination and defensiveness on negative affect in response to experimental stressDorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
Psychooncology Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Scand J Psychol 45:253-8. 2004..32). Four groups of high and low rumination and defensiveness scorers were created using median splits. An ANOVA showed that scoring high on defensiveness did not reduce the negative affect experienced by high ruminating participants... - Negative thoughts and health: associations among rumination, immunity, and health care utilization in a young and elderly sampleDorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
Psychooncology Research Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Arhaus, Denmark
Psychosom Med 66:363-71. 2004..A young sample and an elderly sample were included to test for age differences in the association between rumination and health-related measures... - Involuntary (spontaneous) mental time travel into the past and futureDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Nobelparken, Jens Chr Skousvej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Conscious Cogn 17:1093-104. 2008..The findings are discussed in relation to cultural learning and MTT considered as a higher mental process... - Current concerns in involuntary and voluntary autobiographical memoriesKim Berg Johannessen
Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Conscious Cogn 19:847-60. 2010..The findings support the view that involuntary and voluntary remembering is subject to similar motivational constraints... - Flashbulb memories and posttraumatic stress reactions across the life span: age-related effects of the German occupation of Denmark during World War IIDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Jens Chr Skous vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Psychol Aging 21:127-39. 2006..The results are discussed in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder and childhood amnesia... - Emotional valence and the functions of autobiographical memories: positive and negative memories serve different functionsAnne S Rasmussen
Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Mem Cognit 37:477-92. 2009.... - The effect of emotional stress on involuntary and voluntary conscious memoriesNicoline Marie Hall
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Memory 16:48-57. 2008..The findings are compatible with research on emotion and memory in general, but challenge clinical claims of differential involuntary versus voluntary access to emotionally stressful events... - Two versions of life: emotionally negative and positive life events have different roles in the organization of life story and identityDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Emotion 11:1190-201. 2011..Positive events become central to life story and identity primarily through their correspondence with cultural norms. Negative events become central through mechanisms associated with emotional distress... - Personality traits and autobiographical memory: Openness is positively related to the experience and usage of recollectionsAnne S Rasmussen
Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Memory 18:774-86. 2010.... - The cultural life script and life story chapters contribute to the reminiscence bumpDorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Memory 16:420-35. 2008.... - The episodic nature of involuntary autobiographical memoriesDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Mem Cognit 32:789-803. 2004..The findings show that the way autobiographical memories are sampled greatly affects the findings and that involuntary retrieval more often provides access to memories of specific episodes and associated emotional states... - Remembering and forecasting: The relation between autobiographical memory and episodic future thinkingDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Mem Cognit 38:265-78. 2010..For both temporal directions, sensory imagery dropped, whereas self-narrative importance and reference to normative cultural life script events increased with increasing temporal distance... - Life story development in childhood: the development of life story abilities and the acquisition of cultural life scripts from late middle childhood to adolescenceAnnette Bohn
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Arhus, Denmark
Dev Psychol 44:1135-47. 2008..Further, a significant relationship between the normativity of life scripts and the coherence of life stories, but not the coherence of single-event stories, was found... - Personal memories for remote historical events: accuracy and clarity of flashbulb memories related to World War IIDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
J Exp Psychol Gen 134:242-57. 2005..Ratings of surprise and consequentiality were unrelated to the accuracy and clarity of the memories... - The reappearance hypothesis revisited: recurrent involuntary memories after traumatic events and in everyday lifeDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Mem Cognit 36:449-60. 2008..We argue that recurrent involuntary memories after traumas and in everyday life can be explained in terms of general and well-established mechanisms of autobiographical memory... - The centrality of event scale: a measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptomsDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Jens Chr Skous vej 4, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Behav Res Ther 44:219-31. 2006..Possible connections between the CES and measures of maladaptive attributions and rumination are considered along with suggestions for future research... - Emotionally charged autobiographical memories across the life span: the recall of happy, sad, traumatic, and involuntary memoriesDorthe Berntsen
Institute of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Psychol Aging 17:636-52. 2002..Standard accounts of the bump need to be modified, for example, by repression or reduced rehearsal of negative events due to life change or social censure... - Tunnel memories for autobiographical events: central details are remembered more frequently from shocking than from happy experiencesDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
Mem Cognit 30:1010-20. 2002..The finding suggest that tunnel memories--enhanced memory for the central details of an event--are limited to emotionally negative memories. The findings contradict expectations derived from the notion of repression... - Motivation for weight loss affects recall from autobiographical memory in dietersKim Berg Johannessen
Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Memory 17:69-83. 2009..The findings are discussed in relation to the notions of the working self (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000) and current concerns (Klinger, 1978)... - Odour-induced mental time travel into the past and future: do odour cues retain a unique link to our distant past?Amanda N Miles
Department of Psychology, Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Memory 19:930-40. 2011..The results support the view that odours possess a unique ability to evoke remote autobiographical memories... - The unpredictable past: spontaneous autobiographical memories outnumber autobiographical memories retrieved strategicallyAnne S Rasmussen
Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Conscious Cogn 20:1842-6. 2011..The findings suggest that involuntary recall is a typical way of accessing the personal past... - Involuntary and voluntary mental time travel in high and low worriersHildur Finnbogadottir
Department of Psychology, Center on Autobiographical Memory Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
Memory 19:625-40. 2011..We found only partial support for our hypotheses in that high worriers rated personal memories and future projections lower on measures of self-relevance than did low worriers... - Cultural life scripts structure recall from autobiographical memoryDorthe Berntsen
Department of Psychology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Mem Cognit 32:427-42. 2004..Life scripts provide an alternative explanation of the reminiscence bump. Emphasis is on culture, not individuals... - Snapshots from therapy: exploring operationalisations and ways of studying flashbulb memories for private eventsDorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Memory 11:559-70. 2003..Number of remembered episodes was positively related to the subjective evaluation of the therapy... - Life scripts help to maintain autobiographical memories of highly positive, but not highly negative, eventsDavid C Rubin
Department of Psychological and Brain Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0086, USA
Mem Cognit 31:1-14. 2003..The results support the idea of culturally shared life scripts for positive but not negative events, which structure retrieval processes and spaced practice... - A memory-based model of posttraumatic stress disorder: evaluating basic assumptions underlying the PTSD diagnosisDavid C Rubin
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Psychol Rev 115:985-1011. 2008..Special mechanisms that apply only to traumatic memories are not needed, increasing parsimony and the knowledge that can be applied to understanding PTSD... - People believe it is plausible to have forgotten memories of childhood sexual abuseDavid C Rubin
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 0086, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 14:776-8. 2007..Combined with Pezdek et al.s' findings, and counter to their conclusions, our findings imply that there is a substantial danger of inducing false memories of childhood sexual abuse through imagination in psychotherapy... - [Recovered memories]Dorthe Berntsen
Ugeskr Laeger 166:3116; author reply 3116-7. 2004 - [Problematic report about recovered memories]Dorthe Berntsen
Ugeskr Laeger 166:3623. 2004 - People over forty feel 20% younger than their age: subjective age across the lifespanDavid C Rubin
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 0086, USA
Psychon Bull Rev 13:776-80. 2006..Demographic variables (gender, income, and education) account for very little variance in subjective age...