 Attentional Capture, Tunnel Memory, and the Implications for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder" with Katherine Mickley Steinmetz, which highlights the roles of emotion in determining what people pay attention to and later remember.Kensinger received the Searle Scholar Award in 2008, the Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging from American Psychological Association, Division 20 in 2009, the F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Prize on Understanding the Human Mind from the American Psychological Association in 2010, and the Janet Taylor Spence Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2010.Kensinger graduated from Harvard University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) in Psychology, and Biology.