Dr. phil. Tabea Wolf

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Tabea Wolf is a senior researcher in the Department of Business and Organizational Psychology at the Institute for Education, Work and Society at the University of Hohenheim. She completed her doctorate in the Department of Developmental Psychology at Ulm University and worked there as a postdoc. In her research, she examines processes of autobiographical memory and explores the question of which psychosocial functions autobiographical memories serve in everyday life (e.g. how they guide our actions and influence social interactions).

At the University of Hohenheim, she coordinates a project on age-diverse friendship. Her current research focuses on the following topics:

  • Age-Diverse Friendships (at Work)
  • Knowledge Transfer Between Colleagues
  • Future Time Perspective
  • Psychosocial Functions of Autobiographical Memory

Academic career

since 06/2024

Senior researcher
University of Hohenheim, Dept. of Business and Organizational Psychology

08/2016 - 07/2024

Research associate (Postdoc) and Lecturer, Ulm University

10/2012 - 07/2016

PhD, Psychology (Dr. phil.), Ulm University

05/2012 - 08/2012Doctoral student, Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg
10/2008 - 03/2012Master, Psychology (M.Sc., Educational Psychology), University of Hildesheim
10/2005 - 10/2008Bachelor, Psychology (B.A., Educational Psychology), University of Hildesheim

Publications

Nusser, L., Wolf, T., & Zimprich, D. (2024). Emotional and temporal order effects – a comparison between word-cued and important autobiographical memories recall orders. Memory, 32(4), 449–464. doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2333507
Wolf, T., & Nusser, L. (2024). How remembering positive and negative events affects intimacy in romantic relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1177/02654075241235962
Wolf, T., Nusser, L., & Cappeliez, P. (2024). How reminiscing about deceased close others together with continuing bonds relates to grief severity and personal growth: a cross-sectional study with bereaved adults. Aging & Mental Health. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2301737
Zimprich, D., Pociūnaitė, J., & Wolf, T. (2024). A multilevel factor analysis of the short form of the Centrality of Event Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1268283. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1268283
Nusser, L., Zimprich, D., & Wolf, T. (2023). Themes of Trust, Identity, Intimacy, and Generativity in Important Autobiographical Memories: Associations with Life Periods and Life Satisfaction. Journal of Personality, 91(5), 1110-1122. doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12786
Nusser, L., Wolf, T., & Zimprich, D. (2023). Bringing order to life: Temporal order effects during the recall of important autobiographical memories in young and old adults. Experimental Aging Research, 49(5), 516-542. doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2022.2137361
Pociunaite, J., & Wolf, T. (2023). I will keep your memory! Reasons for remembering lost loved ones. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(6), 1397-1408. doi.org/10.1002/acp.4132
Wolf, T., & Pociunaite, J. (2023). Personal reminiscence styles and adaptation to bereavement: How meaning mediates their relationship. Aging & Mental Health, 27(8), 1600-1608. doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2022.2118667
Wolf, T., Strack, V., & Bluck, S. (2023). Adaptive and harmful autobiographical remembering after the loss of a loved one. Aging & Mental Health, 27(2), 408-416. doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.2003299
Nusser, L., Wolf, T., & Zimprich, D. (2022). How do we recall the story of our lives? Evidence for a temporal order in the recall of important life story events. Memory, 30(7), 806-822. doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2022.2042564
Pociunaite, J., Zimprich, D., & Wolf, T. (2022). Centrality of positive and negative autobiographical memories across adult lifespan. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(3), 623-635. doi.org/10.1002/acp.3949
Wolf, T., & Nusser, L. (2022). Maintaining intimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36(4), 954-961. doi.org/10.1002/acp.3960
Wolf, T., Pociunaite, J., Hoehne, S., & Zimprich, D. (2021). The valence and the functions of autobiographical memories: Does intensity matter? Consciousness & Cognition, 91, 103–119. doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2021.103119
Wolf, T. & Zimprich, D. (2020). What characterizes the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory? New answers to an old question. Memory & Cognition, 48, 607–622. doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00994-6
Wolf, T. & Demiray, B. (2019). The mood-enhancement function of autobiographical memories: Comparisons with other functions in terms of emotional valence. Consciousness & Cognition, 70, 88-100. doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.03.002
Zimprich, D., & Wolf, T. (2018). Levelling up the analysis of the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory: A new approach based on multilevel multinomial models. Memory & Cognition, 46, 1178-1193. doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0830-8
Wolf, T. & Zimprich, D. (2016). How can individual differences in autobiographical memory distributions of older adults be explained? Memory, 24, 1287-1299.https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2015.1102291
Wolf, T. & Zimprich, D. (2016). The distribution and the functions of autobiographical memories: Why do older adults remember autobiographical memories from their youth? European Journal of Ageing, 13, 241-250. doi.org/10.1007/s10433-016-0372-5
Zimprich, D. & Wolf, T. (2016a). Modeling individual differences in autobiographical memory distributions using mixed logitnormal regression. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(3), 360-374. doi.org/10.1002/acp.3211
Zimprich, D. & Wolf, T. (2016b). The distribution of memories for popular songs in old age: An individual differences approach. Psychology of Music, 44, 640-657. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1177/0305735615578708
Wolf, T. & Zimprich, D. (2015). Differences in the use of autobiographical memory across the adult lifespan, Memory, 23(8), 1238-1254. doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.971815
Wolf, T. (2014). Nostalgie und die Funktionen des autobiographischen Gedächtnisses. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 47, 557-562.
Wolf, T. & Zimprich, D. (2014). Funktionen des autobiographischen Gedächtnisses bei jungen und älteren Erwachsenen. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 46(4), 201-210. doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000116