Dr. Nikoletta Symeonidou

Dr. Nikoletta Symeonidou

Dr. Nikoletta Symeonidou

Academic Staff Member
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
L 13, 15 – Room 420
68161 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
On Appointment

Primary Advisor:  Prof. Dr. Beatrice Kuhlmann (University of Mannheim)

Additional Supervisors:  Prof. Dr. Mandy Hütter, Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder

Thesis:  Emotional Source Memory: (When) Are Emotional Sources Remembered Better?

Degree: Dr. rer. soc., received from the University of Mannheim in August 2022

First Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Mannheim

  • Research Areas

    • Source memory and source forgetting
    • Individual and state-specific differences in episodic memory
    • Mathematical modelling of cognitive processes
  • Publications

    Symeonidou, N., & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2022). Better memory for emotional sources? A systematic evaluation of source valence and arousal in source memory. Cognition & emotion, 36(2), 300–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.2008323

    Symeonidou, N., & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2021). A novel paradigm to assess storage of sources in memory: The source recognition test with reinstatement. Memory, 29(4), 507–523. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1910310

  • Talks

    Symeonidou, N. (2021). Behavioral research online: A valid alternative? (together with Liliane Wulff). Talk given at the Mathematical and Cognitive Psychology Lab at the  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

    Symeonidou, N. (2021). Emotional valence and arousal of sources does not improve source memory. Talk given at the 63rd Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), online.

    Symeonidou, N. (2020). Emotional content = better memory!? Reduced memory for negative arousing contexts. Talk given at the Social Cognition and Decision Sciences Lab at the University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.

    Symeonidou, N. & Kuhlmann, B. G. (2019). Source reinstatement facilitates source retrieval. In 61. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen. London, UK.

    Nadarevic, L., Gebhardt, S., Gröger, M.-S., & Symeonidou, N. (2017). In colore veritas? Investigating automatic color-validity associations with a Stroop paradigm. In 20Ith meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Potsdam, Germany.

  • Posters

    Symeonidou, N. (2019). Final destination: Memory! Determinants of remembering to whom you gave what. Poster presented at the 60th Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society (Psychonomics), Montreal, Canada.

    Symeonidou, N. (2019, June). Emotional source memory: (Why) Are emotional sources remembered better? Poster presented at the 34th IOPS/SMiP Summer Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

    Symeonidou, N. (2019, June). Emotional source memory: (Why) Are emotional sources remembered better?. Poster at the 34th IOPS/SMiP Summer Conference, 13–14 June 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands.