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PD Dr. Lena Nadarevic (she/her)
Principal Investigator
DFG-project: Memory for truth-value feedback
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 414
68161 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 414
68161 Mannheim
Professional and Academic Career
Professional Career
since 2024 Head of General and Cognitive Psychology Lab at Charlotte Fresenius University Heidelberg since 2024 External of junior research group leader for the DFG project “True, false, or uncertain? Determinants of memory for truth value feedback”, University of Mannheim 2023 – 2024 Lecturer in Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Fresenius Heidelberg 2022 One-month research stay at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA 2022 – 2023 Principal investigator of the project “True, false or uncertain? Determinants of memory for truth-value feedback” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, NA 1456/ 1–1) 2010 – 2022 Postdoctoral research & teaching assistant, Psychology III, University of Mannheim 2007 – 2010 Research and teaching assistant, Psychology III, University of Mannheim Academic Career
2024 Habilitation in Psychology 2010 Dr. rer. soc. Psychology, Universität Mannheim (advisor: Edgar Erdfelder) 2007 Diploma (MA) in Psychology, University of Mannheim Publications
Publications
- Nadarevic, L. & Erdfelder, E. (2025). On the relationship between recognition judgments and truth judgments: Memory states moderate the recognition-based truth effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001460
- Nadarevic, L. & Bell, R. (2024). Remembering the truth or falsity of advertising claims: A preregistered model-based test of three competing theoretical accounts. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review : PB&R, 31(5), 2323–2331. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02482-8
- Nadarevic, L. (2022). Illusory truth effect. In R. F. Pohl (eds.), Cognitive illusions : intriguing phenomena in thinking, judgement, and memory (3. ed., S. 225–240). London ; New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
- 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 - Nadarevic, L., Klein, L. C. & Dierolf, J. (2021). Does foreign language alter moral judgments? Inconsistent results from two pre-registered studies with the CNI model. Open Psychology, 3(1), 66–86. https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2020-0112
- Nadarevic, L., Schnuerch, M. & Stegemann, M. J. (2021). Judging fast and slow: The truth effect does not increase under time-pressure conditions. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(5), 1234–1266. https://doi.org/10.1017/S193029750000841X
- Schnuerch, M., Nadarevic, L. & Rouder, J. N. (2021). The truth revisited: Bayesian analysis of individual differencesin the truth effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review : PB&R, 28(3), 750–765. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-020-01814-8
- Calio, F., Nadarevic, L. & Musch, J. (2020). How explicit warnings reduce the truth effect: A multinomial modeling approach. Acta Psychologica, 211(Article 103185). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103185
- Nadarevic, L. & Kroneisen, M. (2020). Easy on the mind, easy on the wrongdoer? No evidence for perceptual fluency effects on moral wrongness ratings. Cognition, 196(Article 104156). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104156
- Nadarevic, L., Reber, R., Helmecke, A. J. & Köse, D. (2020). Perceived truth of statements and simulated social media postings: an experimental investigation of source credibility, repeated exposure, and presentation format. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications : CR:PI, 5(1), Article 56. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00251-4
- Kranz, D., Nadarevic, L. & Erdfelder, E. (2019). Bald and bad? Experimental evidence for a dual-process account of baldness stereotyping. Experimental Psychology, 66(5), 331–345. https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000457
- Nadarevic, L. & Erdfelder, E. (2019). More evidence against the Spinozan model: Cognitive load diminishes memory for “true” feedback. Memory & Cognition, 47(7), 1386–1400. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00940-6
- Nadarevic, L., Plier, S., Thielmann, I. & Darancó, S. (2018). Foreign language reduces the longevity of the repetition-based truth effect. Acta Psychologica, 191, 149–159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2018.08.019
- Nadarevic, L. (2017). Emotionally enhanced memory for negatively arousing words: storage or retrieval advantage? Cognition & Emotion, 31(8), 1557–1570. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1242477
- Nadarevic, L. & Aßfalg, A. (2017). Unveiling the truth: warnings reduce the repetition-based truth effect. Psychological Research, 81(4), 814–826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-016-0777-y
- Aßfalg, A. & Nadarevic, L. (2015). A word of warning: Instructions and feedback cannot prevent the revelation effect. Consciousness and Cognition, 34, 75–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.03.016
- Nadarevic, L. & Erdfelder, E. (2014). Initial judgment task and delay of the final validity-rating task moderate the truth effect. Consciousness and Cognition, 23, 74–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.12.002
- Nadarevic, L. & Erdfelder, E. (2013). Spinoza’s error: Memory for truth and falsity. Memory & Cognition, 41(2), 176–186. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-012-0251-z
- Nadarevic, L. & Erdfelder, E. (2011). Cognitive processes in implicit attitude tasks: An experimental validation of the Trip Model. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(2), 254–268. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.776
- Erdfelder, E., Auer, T.-S., Hilbig, B. E., Aßfalg, A., Moshagen, M. & Nadarevic, L. (2009). Multinomial processing tree models: a review of the literature. Zeitschrift für Psychologie = Journal of Psychology, 21(3), 108–124. https://doi.org/10.1027/0044-3409.217.3.108
Research Interests
- truth judgments
- moral judgments
- memory for truth and falsity
- memory for emotional stimuli
- foreign-language effects
- statistical modelling of cognitive processes
Research Grants
2022 Research grant with a temporary position as principal investigator, German Research Foundation (NA 1456/ 1–1, funding period: 3 years) 2021 Open Science Grant awarded by the University of Mannheim 2020 Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange-Fellowship of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art (funding period: 2 years) 2012 Postdoctoral Autonomy Grant awarded by the University of Mannheim Awards and Scholarships
2022 Teaching Award of the University of Mannheim 2019 Travel Grant German Academic Exchange Service 2018 TeaP Selected Poster Award (2. Rank) awarded by the German Society for Psychology (DGPs, Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie) for the poster " 'Sad, thus true' or 'too good to be true'? Seperating negativity and positivity biases in judgments of truth“. 2016 TeaP Selected Poster Award (1. Rank) awarded by the German Society for Psychology (DGPs, Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie) for the poster „Unbiased Truth: Symmetrical Interference Effects on Memory for Truth and Falsity“. 2011 Early Career Best Manuscript Award of the European Journal of Social Psychology for the paper “Cognitive Processes in Implicit Attitude Tasks: An Experimental Validation of the Trip Model”. 2004 Baden-Württemberg Scholarship for an exchange semester at the San Diego State University (USA). Ad-hoc Reviews
- Acta Psychologica
- Advances in Cognitive Psychology
- Applied Cognitive Psychology
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Cognition
- Cognition and Emotion
- Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
- Cognitive Science
- Consciousness and Cognition
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Experimental Psychology
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Journal of Cognition
- Journal of Cognitive Psychology
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
- Memory
- Memory & Cognition
- Open Psychology
- Psychological Research
- Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
- Social Psychology