Credit: Anne Wendelken
Désirée Schönung, M.Sc. (she/her)
Doctoral Candidate
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 415
68161 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 415
68161 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
On Appointment
On Appointment
Academic and Professional Career
Academic Career
since 2023 Doctoral (Ph.D.) student in Psychology, Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim. since 2023 Research Associate, DFG Research Training Group „Statistical Modeling in Psychology“ (SMiP), University of Mannheim 2021 – 2023 Master of Science Psychology – Cogntive and Clinical Psychology, University of Mannheim 2021 Semester abroad at Erasmus University Rotterdam 2017–2021 Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Mannheim 2017 A-Levels (Abitur) – Gymnasium Edenkoben 2013/ 2014 High School Year, Madison Wisconsin, USA Professional Career
since 2023 Teaching Assistant, Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim since 2023 Coordinator Lab Mannheim, DFG Research Training Group “Statistical Modeling in Psychology” (SMiP), University of Mannheim 2022- 2023 Student Assistant, Chair for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim Research Interests
- Source memory and source forgetting
- Metamemory, especially judgements of source (JOS)
- Mathmatical modeling of cognitive processes
- Cognitive aging
- Emotional source memory
Publications
- Porstein, I., Schönung, D. N., Sahakyan, L., Kwapil, T. R. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2026). Source monitoring along the continuum of psychosis: insights from schizotypy. TeaP 2026, 68. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Schönung, D. N., Albrecht, G. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2026). Source memory and metamemory for concrete and abstract words. TeaP 2026, 68. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Tübingen, Germany.
- Schönung, D. N., Schaper, M. L. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2026). When expectancy meets volume: joint or competing effects on metamemory. 2nd Darmstadt-Mannheim Metamemory and Memory Meetup, Darmstadt, Germany.
- Schönung, D. N., Zühlke, R., Haag, V. N. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2025). How accurate are people at predicting their memory for context? TeaP 2025, 67. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Conference of Experimental Psychologists, Frankfurt, Germany.
- Schönung, D. N., Zühlke, R., Haag, V. N. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2025). Is there relative accuracy in participants' judgments for context? ESCoP 2025, 24th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
- Schönung, D. N. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2024). Assessing the relative accuracy of judgements of source using MPT modeling. EARLI SIG 16 Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning 2024, Heidelberg, Germany.
- Schönung, D. N. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2024). The relative accuracy of source memory predictions. Psychonomic Society 65th Annual Meeting, New York, NY.
- Schönung, D. N., Symeonidou, N. and 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.
- Schönung, D. N., Symeonidou, N. and Kuhlmann, B. G. (2024). Memory for emotional conceptual sources – A replication and extension of May et al. (2005) using MPT modeling. 53rd DGPs Kongress / 15th ÖGP Conference, Wien, Austria.
- Kuhlmann, B. G., Symeonidou, N., Tanyas, H., Schönung, D. N., Pinkinelli, J., Mitchell, K. and Naveh-Benjamin, M. (2022). Item versus source memory: Dissociations in forgetting patterns. TeaP 2022, 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, Online.