Fall Academy 2008

Date: October 16–20, 2008
Venue: Collegium Hungaricum & Magnus Haus, Berlin

Lectures

Coordination dynamics during conversation: social expectation, person perception, and head movements
Steven M. Boker, University of Virginia (UVa)
Personality development across the life span: from description towards explanation of longitudinal changes and fluctuating dynamics
Jaap J. A. Denissen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU)
Motivational reserve in Alzheimer’s dementia: Concept, empirical evidence, and future studies
Simon Forstmeier, University of Zurich (UZh)
Plant toxins and the paradox of drug reward
Peter Hammerstein, HU
Expanding the correlative triade: Dopamine, decision making, and aging
Hauke Heekeren, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB)
Believing what you're told: Children's trust in testimony
Vikram Jaswal, UVa
Strategies matter (and ability does too): Individual differences in memory training and transfer
Cindy A. Lustig, University of Michigan (UM)
Power equivalence in structural equation modeling
Timo von Oertzen, MPIB
The role of self-beliefs in health behavior change
Ralf Schwarzer, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Fundamental and practical questions about developmental transitions, continuity, and discontinuity
John E. Schulenberg, UM
Child-related data in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): General introduction and research examples
C. Katharina Spieß, FU & Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
Children's intuitive physics as a window to some general insight about cognitive development
Friedrich Wilkening, UZh

Fellow Presentations

False memories: Short-term and long-term effects compared
Kristin Flegal, UM
Sexually transmitted diseases among the Tjimba/Himba: An interdisciplinary study of disease, ecology and transition
Ashley Hazel, UM
Is it the wrong means or the wrong ends? How goal focus might affect cognitive, behavioral, and affective reactions to failure
Marie Hennecke, UZh
Social influences on the dynamics of neuronal development in the adult hippocampus
Imke Kirste, CRTD – Center for Regenerative Therapy Dresden
Global connection, social change, gender identity, and beliefs about gender roles in India
Leah H. Kokinakis, UM
Word learning and shared book reading: An analysis of eye movements
Scott McCann, UM
The lifespan development of semantic networks
Ana Sofia Morais, MPIB
Association between premorbid motivational abilities and apathy and depression in Alzheimer's dementia: A planned study
Moyra E. Mortby, UZh
Professional learning of teachers as a developmental process throughout the career
Dirk Richter, MPIB
Predicting longevity: A focus on subjective well-being and psychological resources
Maja Wiest, German Centre of Gerontology (DZA)
On the nature of affective priming — how task-specific and individual features moderate short-term transfer effects
André Weinreich, HU
Effects of ostracism on feelings and selective memory in young age
Ralf Wölfer, FU

Fellow Posters

Infants’ sensitivity to interpersonal contingency and timing
Karen Bartling, MPIB
Relationships between handedness and interhemispheric transfer time
Jessica Bernard, UM
Men’s internal working models about dating and sex and the regulation of negative affect following rejection
Jerel P. Calzo, UM
The role of academic achievement growth in teachers’ school track recommendations
Daniel H. Caro, HU
Attachment style, adaptive processes, and relationship quality in long-distance relationships
Fanny V. Jimenez, HU
Anxiety and impulsivity in latent classes of protective and risk behavior
Natalie Mallach, FU
Sensitivity to time, speed, and distance interrelations in infancy
Wenke Möhring, UZh
Does goal orientation affect the salience of the means or the outcomes of a goal?
Maida Mustafic, UZh
Object permanence made difficult: can infants keep track of objects that lose their external boundaries?
Simone Schaub, UZh
Increase in cognitive abilities in old age: Cognitive and physical training under single- and dual-task conditions
Vera Schumacher, UZh