Publications

Köber, Christin, Florian Schmiedek, and Tilmann Habermas. 2015. “Characterizing Lifespan Development of Three Aspects of Coherence in Life Narratives : A Cohort-Sequential Study.” Developmental Psychology 51: 260–75. doi:10.1037/a0038668.

Habermas, Tilmann, and Christin Köber. 2015. “Autobiographical Reasoning Is Constitutive for Narrative Identity.” In The Oxford Handbook of Identity Development, edited by Kate C. McLean and Moin Syed, 149–65. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199936564.013.010.

Habermas, Tilmann, and Christin Köber. 2015. “Autobiographical Reasoning in Life Narratives Buffers the Effect of Biographical Disruptions on the Sense of Self-Continuity.” Memory 23 (June): 664–74. doi:10.1080/09658211.2014.920885.

Habermas, Tilmann, Neşe Hatiboğlu, and Christin Köber. 2015. “Why Does the Adolescence Bump Differ from the Emergent Adulthood Bump in Autobiographical Memories?” Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition 4 (January): 84–86. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.12.004.

Allé, Mélissa C., Jevita Potheegadoo, Christin Köber, Priscille Schneider, Romain Coutelle, Tilmann Habermas, Jean-Marie Danion, and Fabrice Berna. 2015. “Impaired Coherence of Life Narratives of Patients with Schizophrenia.” Scientific Reports 5: 12934. doi:10.1038/srep12934.

Allé, Mélissa C., Marie-Charlotte Gandolphe, Karyn Doba, Christin Köber, Jevita Potheegadoo, Romain Coutelle, Tilmann Habermas, Jean-Louis Nandrino, Jean-Marie Danion, and Fabrice Berna. 2016. “Grasping the Mechanisms of Narratives’ Incoherence in Schizophrenia: An Analysis of the Temporal Structure of Patients’ Life Story.” Comprehensive Psychiatry 69 (August): 20–29. doi:10.1016/j.comppsych.2016.04.015.

Köber, Christin, and Tilmann Habermas. 2017. “How Stable Is the Personal Past? Stability of Most Important Autobiographical Memories and Life Narratives across Eight Years in a Life Span Sample.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 113 (October): 608–26. doi:10.1037/pspp0000145.

Köber, Christin, and Tilmann Habermas. 2017. “Development of Temporal Macrostructure in Life Narratives Across the Lifespan.” Discourse Processes 54 (October): 143–62. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2015.1105619.

Köber, Christin, Ruth Weihofen, and Joachim K Rennstich. 2017. “Echoes of the Past: Meaning Making in Congolese Narratives Relates to Their Social Distance Attitudes Toward Europeans.” Imagination, Cognition and Personality 37 (December): 224–43. doi:10.1177/0276236617731734.

Köber, Christin, and Tilmann Habermas. In Press. “Parents’ Traces in Life: When and How Parents Are Presented in Spontaneous Life Narratives.” Journal of Personality, October. doi:10.1111/jopy.12350.

Waters, Theodore E A, and Christin Köber. In Press. “Individual Differences in Personal Narrative: Coherence, Autobiographical Reasoning, and Meaning Making.” In The SAGE Handbook of Personality and Individual Differences, edited by Virgil Zeigler-Hill and T. Schackelford. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.