Associate Professor
             Department of Psychology
             bluck@ufl.edu


            






Education

• Max Planck Institute for Human Development Postdoctoral Fellow, 1997 to 2000.
• UC, Irvine Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Behavior, 1997.
• UC, Irvine M.A. in Social Ecology, 1994.
• University of British Columbia B.A. with Honors in Psychology, 1982.

Research Interests

Dr. Bluck's research concerns social cognition across the lifespan with a focus on how and
why people remember the events of their own lives. Her specific interests include
lifespan differences and continuities in:

• The functions of autobiographical memory, reminiscence, and the life story.
• Autobiographical memory abilities and the relation of memory to the self.

Teaching Interests
   
Dr. Bluck regularly teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level in:

• Introduction to Gerontology
• Issues and Concepts in Gerontology
• Adulthood and Aging 
• Autobiographical Memory Across the Lifespan
• Death and Dying

Faculty Profile

Dr. Bluck's theoretical and empirical work has appeared in such journals as Psychology and
Aging, The Gerontologist, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology,  and Psychological
Bulletin. She is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and a member of APA (Divisions 1, 20),
the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, and the Society for Personology. Dr. Bluck
is Associate Editor of Applied Cognitive Psychology, and on the editorial board of JPSP: PPID.