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Christin Camia

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  • Ph.D. in Psychology, 2015, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
  • Narrative Identity; Autobiographical Memory; Personal Identity; Life Story Development; Collective Memory

  • Aug. 2019 – present Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Assistant Professor

  • Sep. 2016 – Aug. 2019 New York University – Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Post-Doctoral Associate, Supervisor: Prof. Theodore Waters

  • Jan. 2015 – July 2016 Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Post-Doctoral Associate, Supervisor: Prof. Tilmann Habermas

  • Jan. 2013 – May 2015 American University of Paris (AUP), France, Junior Lecturer

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the Special Interest Conference on Narrative Identity: Insights from Research to Practice, June 2023, Lille, France. https://2023conference-narrativeidentity.univ-lille.fr/  

  • Organizer of the conference “To tell a life: Symposium on life story psychology in honor of Tilmann Habermas”, September 2022, Aarhus, Denmark. https://aias.au.dk/events/aias-symposium-to-tell-a-life  

  • Journal referee forApplied Cognitive Psychology, British Journal of Guidance and Counseling, Child Abuse & Neglect, Cognition, Cognition & Emotion, GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Journal of Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Personality, Journal of Personality Assessment, Journal of Personality Disorders, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Memory, The Open Psychology Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Self and Identity, Topics in Cognitive Psychology  

  • Member of the Postdoc Council, New York University Abu Dhabi, 2016 – 2019 

  • Member of the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Journals (Last Ten)

  1. Camia, C., & Alhallami, A. O. (2023). A Meta-Analytical Comparison of Depression Prevalence in GCC Countries. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 100149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100149

  1. Camia, C., Almansoori, M., & Grysman, A. (2023). Narrative Identity, Sense of Self and Meaning in Life in Emirati and U.S.-American Women. Identity, 23 (4), 347–360. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2023.2231982

  1. Camia, C., Alhallami, A. O., Alhattali, D. K., Al Hosani, B. M., & Bohn, A. (2023). Historical change in the Emirati life script. Applied Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.4112

  1. Grysman, A., Camia, C., & Pasupathi, M. (2023). Different routes to conversational influences on autobiographical memory. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. 10.1037/mac0000101

  1. Müller, H., & Camia, C.(2023). Uniformity and Polarization: Women’s Empowerment in the Public Press of GCC States. Politics & Gender,19, 166–194. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000465

  1. Camia, C., Motiani, S., & Waters, T. (2022). On the way to adult identity: An evaluation of identity status and narrative identity models of development. Journal of Research in Personality, 101, 104304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104304

  1. Farouk, S., & Camia, C. (2022). Narrative identities of teachers from the German Democratic Republic. Qualitative Psychology, 9, 45–61. https://doi.org/10.1037/qup0000171

  1. Camia, C., Sengsavang, S., Rohrmann, S., & Pratt, M. W. (2021). The longitudinal influence of parenting and parents’ traces on narrative identity in young adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 57, 1991–2005. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001242

  1. Camia, C., & Zafar, R. (2021). Autobiographical meaning making protects the sense of self-continuity past forced migration. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 618343. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.618343

  1. Camia, C., & Habermas, T. (2020). Explaining change in content of life narratives over time. Memory, 28, 655–668. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2020.1761397

  • 08/2023 Shortlisted in the 4th Women in Research Forum 2023, University of Sharjah & University of Khorfakkan  
  • 5/2022 – 3/2024 Research grant, Design and Development of an Abu Dhabi Specific Parenting Program, in collaboration with Prof. Antje Suchodoletz, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Prof. Michelle Kelly, Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi Early Childhood Authority (grant No. RFP2022/005), 3,277,352.38 AED (excl. VAT) 
  • 3/2020 – 8/2022 Zayed University Start Up Grant, grant number R20024, 20,000 AED 
  • 9/2016 Conference travel grant, Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität (Association of Friends and Sponsors of Goethe University), 800 € 
  • 7/2016 Conference travel grant, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), 830 € 
  • 1/2016 Research grant, Heidehof Stiftung (grant No. 54168.01.1/1.16), 5040 €, awarded to the study “How living conditions in Germany affect refugees’ cultural integration, personality, and mental health”  
  • 9/2007 - 5/2011 Meritorious Scholarship granted by the Foundation " Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst"

  1. Gupta, S. (2023) Trauma distorts our sense of time and self. A new therapy might help.  https://www.sciencenews.org/article/trauma-distorts-time-self-new-therapy   [This article is not written by me but by the journalist who conducted an interview with me. The article displays several of my publications.] 

  1. Köber, C., (2019). Eltern sind auch nur Menschen [Parents are humans too]. Psychologie heute [German version of the print journal Psychology Today], 66-69. 

  1. Köber, C. (2017). How Stable is the Personal Past. Psychology Today – Blog. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/whats-your-story/201711/how-stable-is-the-personal-past   

  1. Köber, C., & Habermas, T. (2015). Erzähl dein Leben [Tell your life]. Gehirn und Geist [Brain and Mind], 26-31. www.spektrum.de/artikel/1372105