Beatrice Kuhlmann

Prof. Dr. Beatrice G. Kuhlmann (she/her)

Professorship of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L13,15 – Room 426
68161 Mannheim
  • Professional and Academic Career

    Professional Career

    since 2020Professor for Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging, University of Mannheim
    2018 – 2024PI of the Emmy Noether Research Group “Source Forgetting in Younger and Older Adults”
    2015 – 2020Assistant Professor (German: “Juniorprofessorin”) for Cognitive Psychology with a research emphasis on cognitive aging, University of Mannheim
    2013–2015

    Postdoctoral research & teaching assistant, Institute for Experimental Psychology – Mathematical and Cognitive Psychology (Prof. Ute J. Bayen, Ph.D.), Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf

    2008–2013Graduate research & teaching assistant, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

    Academic Career

    2013Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA (chair of dissertation committee: Dr. Dayna R. Touron).
    2008Diploma (MA) in Psychology, University of Mannheim 
  • Editorial Activities and Editorial Board Memberships

    • Associate Editor: “Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications” (since 2022)
    • Editorial board membership: “Metacognition and Learning” (since 2020)
    • Editor of the topical issue “Strategy Contributions to Cognitive Aging” in Open Psychology (De Gruyter, 2019)
    • Editorial board membership: “Journal of Cognition” (since 2019)
    • Editorial board membership: “Current Psychology” (Springer) (since 2018)
  • Ad-hoc Reviews

    Ad hoc Reviewer for Journal Articles

    • Acta Psychologica
    • American Journal of Psychology
    • Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition
    • British Journal of Psychology
    • Cognition
    • Current Psychology
    • Consciousness and Cognition
    • European Journal of Aging
    • Experimental Psychology
    • Gerontology
    • GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry
    • Journal of Cognition
    • Journal of Individual Differences
    • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
    • Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition
    • Journal of Interindividual Differences
    • Memory & Cognition
    • Neurobiology of Aging
    • Pychology and Aging
    • Plos One
    • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

    Ad hoc Reviewer for Grants

    • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
    • German Research Foundation (DFG)
    • National Science Foundation
    • Psychonomic Society
    • Tirolean Research Fund
  • Research Interests and Projects

    Research Interests

    • Episodic memory, especially source memory
    • Cognitive Aging
    • Metamemory, especially encoding strategies
    • Prospective Memory
    • Cognitive modeling

    Current Projects

    • Context-dependent remembering in older adults (Polish National Science Center, NCN, and German Research Foundation, DFG, Beethoven program), since 2019 as PI (Polish cooperation partners: Drs. Maciej Hanczakowski and Katarzyna Zawadzka, SWPS University in Warsaw)
    • Source forgetting in younger and older adults (German Research Foundation, DFG Emmy Noether-Program), since 2018 as PI  (international cooperation partners: Prof. Dr. Moshe Naveh-Benjamin, University of Missouri, and Prof. Dr. Karen Mitchell, West Chester University)
    •  Hierarchical MPT Modeling – Methodological Comparisons and Application Guidelines, Scientific Network Grant (German Research Foundation, DFG), since 2017 as PI with Dr. Julia Groß
    • Grant for a Research Training Group (German Research Foundation, DFG), since 2016
      PIs (Freiburg, Heidelberg, Koblenz-Landau, Mannheim, Tübingen): Arndt Bröder, Edgar Erdfelder, Benjamin E. Hilbig, Mandy Hütter, Andrea Kiesel, Karl Christoph Klauer, Beatrice G. Kuhlmann, Tanja Lischetzke, Thorsten Meiser, Sabine Sonnentag, Rolf Ulrich, Andreas Voss
      GRK 2277: Satistical Modeling in Psychology (SMiP)
      SMiP web page

    Completed Projects

    • Age-related differences in episodic memory: The role of test format adaptivitity and options for support. Research grant from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts, 2017–2020.
    • Source forgetting in younger and older adults: A model-based approach. Starter grant from the Mannheim University Research Fund, 2015–2016.
    •  Aging-appropriate webpage design: A cognitive psychology approach. Starter grant from the German Society for Online-Research (DGOF e. V.), Interdisciplinary project in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Julia Krönung (business informatics),  2015–2016.
  • Grants, Awards and Scholarships

    Grants

    2018–2023 Grant for an Emmy Noether Research Group (German Research Foundation, DFG) Project: Source forgetting in younger and older adults
    2017–2020 Research grant from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Project: Age-related differences in episodic memory: The role of test format adaptivitity and options for support
    2015–2016 Starter grant from the Mannheim University Research Fund Project: Source forgetting in younger and older adults: A model-based approach
    2015–2016 Starter grant from the German Society for Online-Research (DGOF e. V.) Project: Aging-appropriate webpage design: A cognitive psychology approach Interdisciplinary project in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Julia Krönung (business informatics)

    Awards and Scholarships

    2017 Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
    2015 Member-Select Speaker Award of Psychonomic Society
    2012–2013 Dissertation Research Award from the American Psychological Association (APA)
    2011–2012 John W. Lindsey Memorial Award, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    2010–2011 Elizabeth-Duffy-Award, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
    2009–2010 One of three winners of the Student Grant Competition, Association for Psychological Science (APS)
  • Publications

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  • Conference Contributions

    Talks

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    Posters

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