A5056429943- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Sleep and related disorders
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Psychology, Coaching, and Therapy
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Noise Effects and Management
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2014-2024
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
2011-2022
Lifespan
2017-2022
Freie Universität Berlin
2016-2019
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2019
University of Newcastle Australia
2019
KU Leuven
2019
Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology
2019
Max Planck Society
2007-2018
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT
2018
Using a mobile-phone-based experience-sampling technology in sample of 378 individuals ranging from 14 to 86 years age, we investigated age differences how people want influence their feelings daily lives. Contra-hedonic motivations wanting either maintain or enhance negative affect dampen positive were most prevalent adolescence, whereas prohedonic maintain, but not enhance, old age. This pattern was mirrored by an age-related increase self-reported day-to-day emotional well-being. Analyses...
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Three studies demonstrate that mutual facilitation and interference among personal goals are distinct characteristics rather than mutually exclusive opposites have different functions for psychological well-being goal pursuit. The three vary in design (cross-sectional, short-termlongitudinal) follow a multimethod approach using questionnaires, diaries, objective behavioral information. Results show (resulting from resource constraints incompatible attainment strategies) is negatively...
Values reflect how people want to experience the world; emotions actually world. Therefore, we propose that across cultures desire are consistent with their values. Whereas prior research focused on desirability of specific affective states or 1 2 target emotions, offer a broader account desired emotions. After reporting initial evidence for potential causal effects values in preliminary study (N = 200), tested predictions our proposed model 8 samples 2,328) from distinct world cultural...
Perceptions of age influence how we evaluate, approach, and interact with other people.Based on a paramorphic human judgment model, the present study investigates possible determinants accuracy bias in estimation across adult life span.For this purpose, 154 young, middle-aged, older participants both genders estimated 171 faces men women, portrayed total 2,052 photographs.Each face displayed either an angry, fearful, disgusted, happy, sad, or neutral expression (FACES database; Ebner,...
People presumably choose and create their daily environments according to personality. Prior research shows that, for example, more extraverted people engage often in social situations, conscientious work-related activities compared with less or people, respectively. The current study examined such personality-situation transactions people's life. Based on the assumption that older know themselves personality better than younger we investigated whether momentary proximate associations (i.e.,...
Two studies varying in design (cross-sectional and longitudinal) methods (questionnaires, diaries, objective information) support the notion that personal goals are among phenomena show positive development throughout adulthood: Older adults (M = 64 years) reported more mutual facilitation their were engaged goal pursuit than younger 25 years). Results robust when age-group differences education disposable time controlled for, they also emerged a context where older participants had one...
Bad moods are considered "bad" not only because they may be aversive experiences in and of themselves, but also associated with poorer psychosocial functioning health. We propose that people differ their negative affect valuation (NAV; the extent to which affective states valued as pleasant, useful/helpful, appropriate, meaningful experiences) affect-health links moderated by NAV. These predictions were tested a life span sample 365 participants ranging from 14-88 years age using reports...
Two studies investigated the overpowering hypothesis as a possible explanation for currently inconclusive empirical picture on age differences in affective responding to unpleasant events.The predicts that are particularly evident highly resource-demanding situations overtax older adults' capacities.In Study 1, we used mobile phone-based experience-sampling technology 378 participants 14 -86 years of age.Participants reported their momentary negative affect and occurrences events average 54...
Young, middle-aged, and older raters (N=154) evaluated 1,026 prototypical facial poses of neutrality, happiness, anger, disgust, fear, sadness stemming from 171 young, posers. The majority were rated as multi-faceted, that is, to comprise several expressions varying intensities. Consistent with the notion age-related increases in negativity–avoidance/positivity effects, crossed-random effects analyses showed an decrease attributions negative, but not positive neutral, target (that poser...
Attractiveness and distinctiveness constitute facial features with high biological social relevance. Bringing a developmental perspective to research on social-cognitive face perception, we used large set of faces taken from the FACES Lifespan Database examine effects perceiver characteristics subjective evaluations attractiveness in young (20–31 years), middle-aged (44–55 older (70–81 years) men women. We report novel findings supporting variations by age, interaction gender emotion:...
Mindfulness is a state of awareness comprising an attentional focus on the present moment and nonjudgmental stance. It associated with affective well-being assumed to facilitate adaptive emotion regulation. To support this claim at within-person level, we investigated associations between 2 mindfulness facets (present-moment attention acceptance), emotion-regulation strategies varying in adaptiveness (rumination reflection), positive negative affect everyday life using data from...
Personality traits like neuroticism show both continuity and change across adolescence adulthood, with most pronounced changes occurring in young adulthood. It has been assumed, but insufficiently examined, that trait occur gradually over the years through accumulation of daily experiences. The current longitudinal measurement burst study examined (a) how average momentary stress reactivity are coupled neuroticism, (b) extent to which this coupling is specific (c) there age differences...
Emotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions critical maximizing health. Few studies, however, tested the correlates of different emotion strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study (
Using a short-term longitudinal design, the authors investigated implications of 2 facets motivational selectivity--restricting (to few goals) and focusing (on central similar goals)--for goal-pursuit investment. Participants were 20-69 years old (Time 1, N = 177; Time 2, 160). Results show that selectivity in terms (but not restricting) is associated with an enhanced involvement goal pursuit (assessed 3 months later), irrespective age. Structural equation models demonstrated this...
Two studies investigated adult age differences in the frequency and emotional consequences of motivational conflicts (i.e., feeling that one wants to or should do something else a given situation). Study 1 compared younger older adults. 2 included more age-heterogeneous sample ranging from 20 70 years. Data were obtained using diary experience-sampling methods. Multilevel regression showed conflict was associated with lower well-being. With age, decreased, while well-being increased....
Three studies report initial findings on age-related differences in goal focus.Study 1 compared younger (n ¼ 23,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25] to older 20, 57-78 years) adults regarding their preference for representations of goals terms the means (process focus) or associated outcomes (outcome focus).As expected, chose process descriptors more frequently than adults.Study 2 investigated emotional consequences focus.Whereas 49, 18-25 reported higher negative affect when they focused a goal,...
Hedonism, or wanting to feel good, is central human motivation. At times, however, people also seek maintain enhance negative affect dampen positive affect, and this can be instrumental for the later attainment of their goals. Here, we investigate assumption that such contra-hedonic orientation cognitively more demanding than prohedonic orientation, above beyond effects momentary affective experience. We provided 378 participants with mobile phones they carried them 3 weeks while pursuing...
Mindfulness is commonly defined as a multidimensional mode of being attentive to, and aware of, momentary experiences while taking nonjudgmental accepting stance. These qualities have been linked to 2 different facets affective well-being: proposed lead an appreciation they are, thus positive affect (PA). Accepting unpleasant in fashion has hypothesized reduce negative (NA). Alternatively, however, attention may increase both affectivity, whereas acceptance modify how people relate their...