Psychology Faculty

Elizabeth Kensinger

Professor

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Elizabeth Kensinger

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 510

Telephone: 617-552-1350

Email: elizabeth.kensinger@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Courses

PSYC1072 Memory in Everyday Life

PSYC3375 Psychology and Neuroscience of Human Memory

PSYC4473 Event-Related Potentials

PSYC5575 Advanced Affective Neuroscience

Research Interests

Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience: The effect of emotional content on memory; specifically, the cognitive and neural mechanisms through which emotion influences in the vividness and accuracy of memory, and how these influences change across the adult lifespan; research questions are investigated through behavioral testing of young and older adults and functional neuroimaging (fMRI).

Curriculum Vitae

Department

Psychology

Representative Publications

Williams, S. E., Ford, J. H., & Kensinger, E. A. (2022). The power of negative and positive episodic memories. Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 1–35. Advance online publication. 

Cunningham TJ, Fields EC, Garcia S, & Kensinger EA (2021). The relation between age and experienced stress, worry, affect, and depression   during the spring 2020 phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Emotion, 21(8):1660-1670. doi: 10.1037/emo0000982

Ford, J. H., Garcia, S. M., Fields, E. C., Cunningham, T. J., & Kensinger, E. A. (2021). Older adults remember more positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychology and aging, 36(6), 694–699. 

Kensinger, E. A., & Ford, J. H. (2020). Retrieval of Emotional Events from Memory. Annual review of psychology, 71, 251–272. 

Kark, S., & Kensinger EA (2019). Post-encoding Amygdala-Visuosensory Coupling Is Associated with Negative Memory Bias in Healthy Young Adults. Journal of Neuroscience, 39(16), 3130-3143. 

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