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Susan Bluck is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with a focus on subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics covered in Bluck's work include:

  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Family Support in Illness

Frequent publication venues for Bluck's research are:

  • Innovation in Aging (18 publications)
  • Palliative & Supportive Care (3 publications)
  • Psychology and Aging (3 publications)
  • Death Studies (2 publications)
  • American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® (2 publications)

Bluck collaborates often with several researchers including Emily L. Mroz, Carma L. Bylund, Mary Kate Koch, Shubam Sharma, and Diana J. Wilkie.

Highlighted recent papers authored or co-authored by Bluck are:

  • Quality of Life for Older Cancer Patients: Relation of Psychospiritual Distress to Meaning-Making During Dignity Therapy, 2021, American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®
  • More Vulnerable? The Life Story Approach Highlights Older People's Potential for Strength During the Pandemic, 2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Young adults' perspectives on advance care planning: Evaluating the Death over Dinner initiative, 2020, Death Studies
  • Older adults recall memories of life challenges: the role of sense of purpose in the life story, 2022, Current Psychology
  • Emerging Adults' Outlook on the Future in the Midst of COVID-19: The Role of Personality Profiles, 2022, Journal of Adult Development

Best Publications

  • Getting a life: the emergence of the life story in adolescence.

    Tilmann Habermas;Susan Bluck

  • A Tale of Three Functions: The Self-Reported Uses of Autobiographical Memory.

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea;Tilmann Habermas;David C. Rubin

  • Why are you telling me that? A conceptual model of the social function of autobiographical memory

    Nicole Alea;Susan Bluck

  • Autobiographical memory: exploring its functions in everyday life.

    Susan Bluck

  • The Life Story Schema

    Susan Bluck;Tilmann Habermas

  • Positive and Negative Life Changes Following Bereavement and their Relations to Adjustment

    Darrin R. Lehman;Christopher G. Davis;Anita Delongis;Camille B. Wortman

  • Reminiscence as autobiographical memory: a catalyst for reminiscence theory development

    Susan Bluck;Linda J. Levine

  • Making Things Better and Learning a Lesson: Experiencing Wisdom Across the Lifespan

    Susan Bluck;Judith Glück

  • Exploring the functions of autobiographical memory: Why do I remember the autumn?

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea

  • I'll keep you in mind: the intimacy function of autobiographical memory

    Nicole Alea;Susan Bluck

  • Crafting the TALE: Construction of a measure to assess the functions of autobiographical remembering

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea

  • The MORE Life Experience Model: A Theory of the Development of Personal Wisdom

    Judith Glück;Susan Bluck

  • Motivation and personality: The conceptual/integrative complexity scoring manual

    Gloria Baker-Brown;Elizabeth J. Ballard;Susan Bluck;Brian de Vries

  • Looking back across the life span: A life story account of the reminiscence bump

    Judith Glück;Susan Bluck

  • The wisdom of experience: Autobiographical narratives across adulthood

    Judith GlüCk;Susan Bluck;Jacqueline Baron;Dan P. Mcadams

  • Extending the study of autobiographical memory: Thinking back about life across the life span.

    Susan Bluck;Tilmann Habermas

  • New perspectives on autobiographical memory: The integration of narrative processing and autobiographical reasoning.

    Jefferson A. Singer;Susan Bluck

  • Remembering being me: The self continuity function of autobiographical memory in younger and older adults.

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea

  • Painting with broad strokes: Happiness and the malleability of event memory

    Linda J. Levine;Susan Bluck

  • Thinking and talking about the past: Why remember?

    Susan Bluck;Nicole Alea

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Suedfeld
Peter Suedfeld University of British Columbia
Tilmann Habermas
Tilmann Habermas Goethe University Frankfurt
Linda J. Levine
Linda J. Levine University of California, Irvine
David C. Rubin
David C. Rubin Duke University
Dan P. McAdams
Dan P. McAdams Northwestern University
Gerben Johan Westerhof
Gerben Johan Westerhof University of Twente
Janet Metcalfe
Janet Metcalfe Columbia University
Manfred Diehl
Manfred Diehl Colorado State University
Deborah Carr
Deborah Carr Boston University

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