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Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jennifer G. Bohanek is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Developmental Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in Cognition and Development from Emory University in 2006. Jennifer's research as a graduate student at Emory University focused on the social-emotional factors that shape the development of autobiographical narratives in preadolescent children, adolescents, and adults, and in turn, how autobiographical narratives themselves contribute to social-emotional well-being. More specifically, her research addressed the differential socialization of positive and negative emotional events, and how narratives differing by emotional valence and intensity may be related to different aspects of well-being for children, adolescents, adults, and families.
As a postdoctoral fellow, Jennifer is broadening her research to examine the origins of autobiographical memory in younger children (e.g. preschool-age), and is investigating the role of cultural, cognitive, and social-emotional variables involved in this developmental process. Further, Jennifer will also take part in research examining autobiographical memories in other age groups (middle-childhood, adults) and across different types of emotional events, and how these may be related to various psychological outcomes.
