Dorthe Berntsen

15.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
219 papers, 10.6k citations indexed

About

Dorthe Berntsen is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dorthe Berntsen has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 10.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 124 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 63 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Dorthe Berntsen's work include Identity, Memory, and Therapy (166 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (106 papers) and Aging and Gerontology Research (30 papers). Dorthe Berntsen is often cited by papers focused on Identity, Memory, and Therapy (166 papers), Memory Processes and Influences (106 papers) and Aging and Gerontology Research (30 papers). Dorthe Berntsen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and United Kingdom. Dorthe Berntsen's co-authors include David C. Rubin, Annette Bohn, Anne S. Rasmussen, Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen, Malene Klindt Bohni, Sinué Salgado, Kim Berg Johannessen, Søren Risløv Staugaard, Adriel Boals and Jonathan Koppel and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Child Development and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Dorthe Berntsen

215 papers receiving 10.3k citations

Hit Papers

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The centrality of event scale: A measure of integrating a trauma into one's identity and its relation to post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms

2005 594 citations Dorthe Berntsen, David C. Rubin profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dorthe Berntsen Denmark	52	6.6k	5.4k	2.8k	2.7k	1.6k	219	10.6k
Robyn Fıvush United States	70	9.8k 1.5×	4.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	3.9k 1.4×	4.5k 2.8×	192	15.5k
Martin A. Conway United Kingdom	32	4.1k 0.6×	4.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	935 0.3×	892 0.5×	79	6.9k
Arnaud D’Argembeau Belgium	48	2.8k 0.4×	6.0k 1.1×	3.5k 1.2×	971 0.4×	552 0.3×	144	8.9k
Ted Ruffman New Zealand	47	4.1k 0.6×	3.1k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	522 0.3×	124	8.0k
Martin Conway United Kingdom	38	3.7k 0.6×	4.2k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	613 0.2×	1.0k 0.6×	124	6.6k
Derek M. Isaacowitz United States	42	1.1k 0.2×	2.9k 0.5×	3.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.9×	140	11.0k
Luc Goossens Belgium	67	3.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.2×	3.2k 1.1×	6.5k 2.4×	3.6k 2.2×	238	15.2k
Stephanie M. Carlson United States	48	6.4k 1.0×	3.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.7×	730 0.4×	105	13.6k
Clancy Blair United States	65	6.1k 0.9×	2.6k 0.5×	3.3k 1.2×	9.0k 3.3×	989 0.6×	219	20.8k
Klaus Rothermund Germany	49	1.0k 0.2×	3.8k 0.7×	2.2k 0.8×	872 0.3×	2.0k 1.2×	212	8.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Allé, Mélissa C. & Dorthe Berntsen. (2025). Autobiographical Memory Disturbances in Schizophrenia and the Psychosis Continuum: Integrating New Insights. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 35(1). 41–48.

Rubin, David C., et al.. (2025). Involuntary autobiographical memories as a transdiagnostic factor in mental disorders. Clinical Psychology Review. 116. 102545–102545. 1 indexed citations

Berntsen, Dorthe, et al.. (2024). Self-reported sensibility to bodily signals predicts individual differences in autobiographical memory: an exploratory study. Memory. 32(8). 996–1011. 1 indexed citations

Kingo, Osman S., et al.. (2023). “Workman made noise in my room. Me kept my hands on my ears!” A diary study of spontaneous memories in 34‐ to 36‐month‐old children. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 37(5). 980–991.

Salgado, Sinué, et al.. (2023). Self- and other-focused autobiographical memories of life story events across cultures. Memory. 31(10). 1387–1401. 1 indexed citations

Berntsen, Dorthe, et al.. (2023). Individual differences in autobiographical memory predict the tendency to engage in spontaneous thoughts. Memory. 31(9). 1134–1146. 4 indexed citations

Berntsen, Dorthe, et al.. (2023). Digital daydreaming: Introducing the spontaneous smartphone checking scale. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 37(1). 147–160.

Faber, Peter, Niels Peter Nielsen, & Dorthe Berntsen. (2023). Effects of mental context reinstatement on accuracy and recollective experience. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 37(5). 1004–1015. 2 indexed citations

Kingo, Osman S., et al.. (2022). On the importance of contextual cues for spontaneous recall in 35- and 46-month-old children. Psychological Research. 87(4). 1155–1165. 4 indexed citations

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Berntsen, Dorthe, et al.. (2022). The cognitive characteristics of music‐evoked autobiographical memories: Evidence from a systematic review of clinical investigations. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 14(3). e1627–e1627. 12 indexed citations

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Berntsen, Dorthe, Marie Kirk, & Michael D. Kopelman. (2022). Autobiographical memory loss in Alzheimer's disease: The role of the reminiscence bump. Cortex. 150. 137–148. 14 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Niels Peter, et al.. (2022). Individual differences in autobiographical memory predict memory confidence but not memory accuracy.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 12(4). 542–551. 7 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Niels Peter & Dorthe Berntsen. (2021). How posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms affect memory for new events and their “hotspots” over a long delay. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 36(1). 59–68. 1 indexed citations

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Berntsen, Dorthe, et al.. (2021). Belief-related memories: autobiographical memories of the religious self. Memory. 29(5). 573–586. 2 indexed citations

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Bohn, Annette, et al.. (2021). A tale of two cultural life scripts: do young second-generation Turkish immigrants versus young Danes in Denmark perceive life through different cultural lenses?. Memory. 29(6). 778–792. 5 indexed citations

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Salgado, Sinué, et al.. (2021). Using nostalgia films to stimulate spontaneous autobiographical remembering in Alzheimer’s disease.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 10(3). 400–411. 18 indexed citations

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Berntsen, Dorthe. (2020). Involuntary autobiographical memories and their relation to other forms of spontaneous thoughts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1817). 20190693–20190693. 53 indexed citations

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Congleton, Adam R. & Dorthe Berntsen. (2020). It took me by surprise: Examining the retroactive enhancement effect for memory of naturally unfolding events.. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 9(3). 300–309. 4 indexed citations

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Berntsen, Dorthe, et al.. (2018). Psychological and clinical correlates of the Centrality of Event Scale: A systematic review. Clinical Psychology Review. 65. 57–80. 76 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Dorthe Kirkegaard & Dorthe Berntsen. (2008). The cultural life script and life story chapters contribute to the reminiscence bump. Memory. 16(4). 420–435. 116 indexed citations

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