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Andrea Follmer Greenhoot

Associate Professor
Cognitive Psychology
Co-Director, Develomental Program

Ph.D., 1997, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Research Areas: Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology

aghoot@ku.edu

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Cognitive Psychology Program
Developmental Psychology Program

Research Interests

My work focuses on cognitive development with a special focus on memory development. My research team and I investigate how children and adults come to remember both good and bad experiences in their lives, and how these memories are related to well-being and psychological symptoms. A central theme of this work is the interplay between memory and other aspects of cognitive and social functioning. Several of our projects examine autobiographical memory in teens and young adults exposed to various forms of abuse during childhood. We are investigating how these and other significant life experiences are retained and made sense of in memory. We are also examining the role of parent-child conversation in shaping how young children react to and remember negative events. Our results are yielding critical information about how to best talk with people of different ages about the distressing events in their lives and promote the most adaptive responses to such experiences. The findings also inform developmental models of trauma, memory, and psychopathology. My interests also include statistical methodology, with an emphasis on techniques for the analysis of developmental change.

Selected Publications

Greenhoot, A.F., Tsethlikai, M., & Wagner, B. (2006). The relations between children's past experiences, social knowledge, and memories for social situations. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 313-340.

Tsethlikai, M., & Greenhoot, A.F., (2006). The influence of another's perspective on children's recall of previously misconstrued events. Developmental Psychology, 42, 732-745.

Greenhoot, A.F., & Tsethlikai, M. (2008). Repressed and recovered memories during childhood and adolescence. In K. Kuehnle & M. Connell (Eds.), Child Sexual Abuse: Research, Evaluation, and Testimony for the Courts. John Wiley.

Greenhoot, A.F., Johnson, R.,, Legerski, J.P., & McCloskey, L. (2009). Chronic stress and autobiographical memory functioning. In R. Fivush & J. Quas (Eds.), Stress and Memory in Development: Biological, Social, and Emotional Considerations (pp. 86-117). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Greenhoot, A.F. (2011). Retrospective methods in developmental science. In B. Laursen, T. Little, & N. Card (Eds.), Handbook of Developmental Research Methods. Guilford Press.

Bunnell, S.L., & Greenhoot, A.F. (in press). When and Why Does Abuse Predict Reduced Autobiographical Memory Specificity? Memory.