Elizabeth Kensinger

Elizabeth Kensinger is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Boston College. She is known for her research on emotion and memory over the human lifespan. She is co-author of the book ''Why We Forget and How To Remember Better: The Science Behind Memory'', published in 2023 by Oxford University Press, which provides an overview of the psychology and neuroscience of memory. She also is the author of the book ''Emotional Memory Across the Adult Lifespan,'' which describes the selectivity of memory, i.e., how events infused with personal significance and emotion are much more memorable than nonemotional events. This book provides an overview of research on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the formation and retrieval of emotional memories. Kensinger is co-author of a third book ''How Does Emotion Affect Attention and Memory? Attentional Capture, Tunnel Memory, and the Implications for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder'' with Katherine Mickley Steinmetz, which highlights the roles of emotion in determining what people pay attention to and later remember.

Kensinger received the Searle Scholar Award in 2008, the Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging from American Psychological Association, Division 20 in 2009, the F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Prize on Understanding the Human Mind from the American Psychological Association in 2010, and the Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2010. Provided by Wikipedia