Michelle D. Leichtman

University of New Hampshire at Manchester — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

18h-index2.5kcitations49works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Identity, Memory, and Therapy(23), Memory Processes and Influences(14), Early Childhood Education and Development(11), Child and Animal Learning Development(9), Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy(7)

Publications49 total

Functions of autobiographical memory in mother-adolescent reminiscing about emotionally charged events
Cognitive Development·2026Open Access
Transhumanism and Artificial Personality
2025
Transhumanism and Artificial Personality
2025· 1 cited
Reminiscence bumps in personal and vicarious memories: Older adults’ recollections of parent–child memory sharing.
Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition·2024· 1 cited
Remembering our darkest moments: Reminiscence bumps for highly negative life events.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2023· 5 cited
Adults’ memories of childhood cluster in the year of a residential move
Memory·2023· 1 cited
Investigating the appraisal structure of spontaneous thoughts: evidence for differences among unexpected thought, involuntary autobiographical memories, and ruminative thought
Psychological Research·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
A deeper dive into the reminiscence bump: further evidence for the life script hypothesis
Memory·2021· 8 cited
What do you remember about Captain Jon’s visit?: Parent–child conversations and children’s memory for a science lesson
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2021· 6 cited
‘How would you describe Grandpa?’ Mothers’ personal intelligence predicts personality talk with their children
Social Development·2020· 2 cited
The development of children’s autobiographical memory for learning episodes
2020
Autobiographical memory development and self-construals within and across cultures
2020· 5 cited
What happened in kindergarten? Mother-child conversations about life story chapters
2020Open Access
That was last time! The effect of a delay on children's episodic memories of learning new facts
Infant and Child Development·2018· 2 cited
What happened in kindergarten? Mother-child conversations about life story chapters
Memory·2018· 5 citedOpen Access
Studying Mother–Child Conversations at Home in Three Cultures: Western Turkey, Eastern Turkey, and the United States
2018· 2 citedOpen Access
Talking after school: Parents’ conversational styles and children’s memory for a science lesson
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology·2016· 33 cited
Mother–child memory conversations and self-construal in Eastern Turkey, Western Turkey and the USA
Memory·2014· 42 citedOpen Access
I Remember When You Taught Me That! Preschool Children's Memories of Realistic Learning Episodes
Infant and Child Development·2013· 18 cited
The effects of documentation on young children’s memory
Early Childhood Research Quarterly·2013· 10 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

David B. Pillemer(17), Stephen J. Ceci(9), Qi Wang(7), Kaitlin A. Camilleri(6), Rhyannon H. Bemis(6), Jessica Jungsook Han(4), John D. Mayer(4), Başak Şahin-Acar(3), Brett M. Gibson(3), Çağlayan Özdemir(3), Daniel L. Schacter(2), Jerome Kagan(2), Tara L. White(2), Bethany K. B. Fleck(2), Kristina Steiner(2), Dorthe Kirkegaard Thomsen(2), Elizabeth F. Loftus(1), Maggie Bruck(1), Katherine Davies(1), Aashiyana F. Koreishi(1)