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Dr. Nikoletta Symeonidou (she/her)
Academic Staff Member
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 420
68161 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 420
68161 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
On Appointment
On Appointment
Academic and Professional Career
Academic Career
2018–2022 Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Psychology, Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim. Thesis topic: Emotional Source Memory: (When) Are emotional sources remembered better? Advisors: Beatrice G. Kuhlmann, Mandy Hütter, Edgar Erdfelder 2018–2021 Research Associate, DFG Research Training Group “Statistical Modeling in Psychology” (SMiP), University of Mannheim 2015–2018 Master of Science, University of Mannheim 2017 Semester abroad, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 2012–2015 Bachelor of Science, University of Mannheim Professional Career
since 2022 Teaching Assistant, Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim since 2022 Research Assistant in the project Beethoven Classic 3, Polish-German Funding Initiative (Topic: Context-dependend remembering in older adults), Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim. PI & Advisors: Marciej Hanczakowski, Beatrice G. Kuhlmann 2018 – 2022 Research assistant in a project on source forgetting in younger and older adults (Emmy Noether program). Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim. Advisor: Beatrice G. Kuhlmann 2018 Research internship at the Cardiff University, United Kingdom 2014 – 2018 Student research assistant at the Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences (University of Mannheim) Publications and Conference Contributions
Publications
2025
- Symeonidou, N. (2025). Emotion-enhanced source memory: effects of age and experimental setting. Cognition and Emotion, 1–20. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2025.2541766
2024
- Jin, Z., von Hecker, U., Symeonidou, N., Liu, Y. & Klauer, K. C. (2024). The “good is up” metaphoric effects on recognition: True for source guessing but false for item memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology : QJEP, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241269272
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2024). Enhanced source memory for emotionally valenced sources: Does an affective orienting task make the difference? Cognition and Emotion, 1–22 (forthcoming). https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2309707
2023
- Symeonidou, N., Hassan, A., Porstein, I. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2023). Is there an emotionality effect in older adults’ source memory? Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 30(5), 687–712. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2022.2078778
2022
- Nadarevic, L., Symeonidou, N. & Kias, A. (2022). In colore veritas? Color effects on the speed and accuracy of true/
false responses. Psychological Research, 86(3), 919–936. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01528-z
2021
- Kuhlmann, B. G., Symeonidou, N., Tanyas, H. & Wulff, L. (2021). Chapter three – Remembering and reconstructing episodic context: an overview of source monitoring methods and behavioral findings. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 75, 79–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2021.06.002
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2021). A novel paradigm to assess storage of sources in memory: the source recognition test with reinstatement. Memory, 29(4), 507–523. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1910310
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2021). Better memory for emotional sources? A systematic evaluation of source valence and arousal in source memory.. Cognition and Emotion, 36(2), 300–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.2008323
Conference Contributions
2024
- Schönung, D. N., Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2024). Do older adults particularly benefit from conceptual emotional sources? A replication and extension of May et al. (2005). TeaP 2024, 66. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Regensburg, Germany.
2023
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2023). Enhanced Source Memory for Emotional Sources: What Is the Role of Encoding Instructions? 65st Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TEAP), Trier, Germany.
- Symeonidou, N. & Wulff, L. (2023). Destination and source memory revised: Same same but different?!. 23rd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP) 2023, Porto, Portugal.
- Symeonidou, N. & Wulff, L. (2023). Destination and source memory: Same same but Different?!. 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.
2022
- Kuhlmann, B. G., Symeonidou, N., Tanyas, H., Schönung, D. N., Pinkinelli, J., Mitchell, K. & Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2022). Item versus source memory: Dissociations in forgetting patterns. TeaP 2022, 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Online.
- Symeonidou, N., Hassan, A., Porstein, I. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2022). Is there an age-related positivity effect in source memory? Cognitive Aging Conference 2022, Atlanta, GA.
2021
- Symeonidou, N., Burtin, N.C., Plohmann, L.M., Schnieders, B. C., Schott, T. M. & Schweizer, M.S. (2021). Negativity bias in source memory? Enhanced source memory for negative source information. 62th Annual Meeting / Psychonomic Society, Online.
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2021). Emotional valence and arousal of sources does not improve source memory. In A. Huckauf, M. Baumann, M. Ernst, C. Herbert, M. Kiefer & M. Sauter (eds.), TeaP@Home 2021 : Abstracts of the 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists, March 14 – 16, 2021, Ulm, Germany (S. 243–244). , Universität Ulm, Institut für Psycholigie und Pädagogik: Ulm.
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2021). Memory for emotional events: Do valence and arousal affect memory for contextual details? In G. W. Alpers (eds.), Grundlagen- und Psychotherapieforschung Hand in Hand : 38. Symposium Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Mannheim, 12.05.-15.05.2021, Programm (S. 383). , Universität Mannheim Service & Marketing GmbH: Mannheim.
2020
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2020). Emotional content = better memory!? Source memory deficit for negative high-arousing sources. In C. Dobel, C. Giesen, L. A. Grigutsch, J. M. Kaufmann, G. Kovács, F. Meißner, K. Rothermund & S. R. Schweinberger (eds.), TeaP 2020 : abstracts of the 62nd Conference of Experimental Psychologists : Jena, Germany March 22–25, 2020 (S. 302). , Pabst Science Publishers: Lengerich.
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2020). Rethinking source memory and guessing: General mechanisms and determinants. In C. Lange-Küttner (eds.), TeaP 2019 : abstracts of the 61st Conference of Experimental Psychologists : 61. TeaP 2019 (Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender PsychologInnen) April, 15th to 17th, London, England, United Kingdom (S. ). , Pabst Science Publishers: Lengerich.
2019
- Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2019). Source reinstatement facilitates source retrieval. 61. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), London, United Kingdom.
2017
- Nadarevic, L., Gebhardt, S., Gröger, M.-S. & Symeonidou, N. (2017). In colore veritas? Investigating automatic color-validity associations with a Stroop paradigm. In ESCoP 2017 : Abstracts of the 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Potsdam, Germany 3–6 September 2017 (S. 209–210). , European Society for Cognitive Psychology: Potsdam.
Research interests
- Emotional memory
- Source memory and source forgetting
- Cognitive Aging
- Destination memory
- Mathematical modelling of cognitive processes
Teaching
- Seminar I2: Developmental Psychology (Topic: Socio-emotional development), B.Sc., University of Mannheim (Fall semester 2022)
- Seminar C3: Research methods in cognitive psychology (Topic: Emotion and Memory), B.Sc., University of Mannheim (Spring semester 2023)
- Seminar C3: Research methods in cognitive psychology (Topic: Emotion and Memory), B.Sc., University of Mannheim (Spring semester 2022)
- Seminar C3: Research methods in cognitive psychology (Topic: Emotional Source Memory), B.Sc., University of Mannheim (Spring semester 2021)
- Seminar C3: Research methods in cognitive psychology (Topic: Destination Memory), B.Sc., University of Mannheim (Spring semester 2019)