Dr. Sebastian Horn

Independent Research Group Leader

	Contact
	Dr. Sebastian Horn University of Zurich Department of Psychology Developmental Psychology: Adulthood Binzmuehlestrasse 14/11 CH-8050 Zurich / Switzerland
	E-Mail: Room:	horn@psychologie.uzh.ch BIN 3.A.07

Research Interests

Cognition from a developmental lifespan perspective
Prospective and episodic memory
Judgment and Decision Making
Motivational orientation and value-based decisions
Cognitive measurement modeling

Brief Research Statement

My research focuses on the development and interplay between memory and decision making across the lifespan: How do people of different ages use their memory when they decide on the value of outcomes or when they compare objects? I am also investigating the role of motivation in preferential and economic decisions: How do age-related changes in motivational orientation influence people’s attitudes to gains and losses?

Selected Publications

Horn, S. (2023). Adult Age Differences in Value-Based Decision Making. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101765. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101765
Horn, S., Schaltegger, T., Best, R., & Freund, A. M. (2023). Pay One or Pay All? The Role of Incentive Schemes in Decision Making Across Adulthood. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 78(1), 51-61.https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac108
Horn, S., & Freund, A. M. (2021). Adult age differences in remembering gain-and loss-related intentions. Cognition and Emotion, 35(8), 1652-1669. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1986375
Horn, S., Avrahami, J., Kareev, Y., & Hertwig, R. (2021). Age-related differences in strategic competition. Scientific Reports, 11, 15318. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94626-2
Horn, S., Mata, R., & Pachur, T. (2019). Good+ Bad=? Developmental differences in balancing gains and losses in value‐based decisions from memory. Child Development, 91, 417– 438. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13208

Academic Experience

2012–2017	Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
2012	Dr. rer. nat. [Dissertation: Cognitive Modeling of Interference from Prospective-Memory Tasks]
2008–2012	Doctoral research [Cognitive aging, experimental and mathematical psychology; Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf]
2007	Diplom Psychology [M.S., University of Freiburg, Germany]
2006–2007	Visiting scholar [The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.]

Scholarships and Awards

2012–2015	Postdoctoral scholarship, Max Planck Society
2005–2007	Graduate scholarship, German National Academic Foundation

Department of Psychology Developmental Psychology: Adulthood

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