Simona Ghetti

Simona Ghetti is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where she is affiliated with the University of California Davis Center for Mind and Brain. She is known for her research on the development of episodic memory, reconstructive memory, and metamemory in youth, with a specific focus on individuals who have had traumatic experiences.

Ghetti was the recipient of multiple awards commending her work, including the Early Career Research Achievement Award from the Society for Research in Child Development in 2007, the Boyd McCandless Early Career Award from the American Psychological Association (Division 7, Developmental Psychology) in 2009, and the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 2010.

Ghetti co-edited, with Anna Mestitz, a volume titled ''Victim-Offender Mediation with Youth Offenders in Europe: An Overview and Comparison of 15 Countries''. This volume provides a cross-cultural perspective on the process of victim-offender mediation, also called restorative justice conferencing, which provides victims with opportunities to meet with their offenders in safe and structured settings. Ghetti co-edited the volume ''Origins and Development of Recollection: Perspectives from Psychology and Neuroscience'' with Patricia Bauer. This book summarizes research on the development of the ability to recollect or recall personal events, which provides the basis for developing a sense of life history or autobiographical memory. Provided by Wikipedia