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Josephine Ross is a faculty member in the Department of Psychology within the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, UK. She is an active researcher in developmental and cognitive psychology, with a specific focus on the interplay between self-concept and memory in childhood.
Her research interests center on the development of autobiographical memory and the self-memory system (SMS) across early to late childhood. She investigates how children's self-knowledge evolves from concrete to abstract representations and how this development is linked to improvements in episodic memory, source monitoring, and the ability to recall personally experienced events. Her work often employs naturalistic paradigms, such as enactment tasks, to study autonoetic experience and memory binding in children aged 3 to 11 years.
Her most recent publication, a 2024 empirical article in Child Development, demonstrates a close developmental association between self-knowledge and autobiographical memory, providing empirical support for Conway's SMS theory. The research shows age-related increases in the volume and complexity of self-descriptions, the specificity of autobiographical narratives, and the magnitude of the enactment effect, with structural equation modeling confirming significant links between these domains.
Dr. Ross has been a co-holder of a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, indicating her role in securing external funding for her research. She has collaborated with researchers from the University of Aberdeen and Abertay University on studies involving child participants from Scottish schools and nurseries.
