Fall Academy 2012
Date: October 15–19, 2012
Location: Wintergreen, Virginia
For invited participants only
Lectures
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Maintained individual data distributed likelihood experiments (MIDDLE)
Steven M. Boker, University of Virginia (UVa)
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Social baseline theory and the social regulation of emotion
James A. Coan, UVa
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Age-related differences in goal focus
Alexandra M. Freund, University of Zurich (UZh)
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Dual and mobile eye tracking: New paradigms for studying the dynamics of teaching and learning
Kevin F. Miller & Kai S. Cortina, University of Michigan (UM)
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Changing thinking to reduce anxiety: Implications of a lifespan perspective
Bethany Teachman, UVa
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Individual risk attitudes and impatience: Measurement in a large-scale survey, determinants, and behavioral consequences
Gert G. Wagner, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
Summit: Reinventing Lifespan Developmental Science
- Social contexts and adolescent development
Jacquelynne S. Eccles, UM
- The lifespan approach to behavioral and neural development
Ulman Lindenberger, MPI for Human Development, Berlin (MPIB)
- Scattered thoughts on the future of lifespan research
John R. Nesselroade, UVa
- Fragile minds: The paradox of neuropathology and healthy aging
Denise Park, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fellow Presentations
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Infants' processing of movement under occlusion
Cathleen Bache, MPIB (Advisor: Ulman Lindenberger)
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The influence of prior knowledge on episodic memory: A developmental neuroscience perspective
Garvin Brod, MPIB (Advisors: Yee Lee Shing & Ulman Lindenberger)
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A dietary planning intervention increases fruit consumption in Iranian women
Maryam Gholami, Freie Universität Berlin (FU) (Advisor: Ralf Schwarzer)
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Revisiting the relevance of academic language in the assessment of mathematical competence
Nicole Haag, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) (Advisor: Petra Stanat)
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Characterizing role of early life trauma in neuroendocrine reactivity among youth: Implications for adolescent depression research
Kate Kuhlman, UM (Advisors: Nestor Lopez-Duran & Sherri Olson)
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Class composition, instruction, and educational outcomes: The relevance of the learning environment for achievement and psychosocial development of students with and without an immigrant background
Camilla Rjosk, HU (Advisors: Petra Stanat & Oliver Lüdtke)
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Development of self-esteem and self-concepts during the transition from childhood to adolescence
Kathrin Schaffhuser, UZh (Advisor: Mike Martin)
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Language competencies and factual knowledge: How do they relate?
Stefan Schipolowski, HU (Advisors: Oliver Wilhelm & Hans Anand Pant)
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Considerable differences in late-life trajectories of life satisfaction between East Germany and West Germany
Nina Vogel, HU, DIW (Advisors: Denis Gerstorf & Gert G. Wagner)
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Brain plasticity: Timing of training-induced gray matter alterations
Elisabeth Wenger, MPIB (Advisors: Martin Lövdén & Ulman Lindenberger)
Fellow Posters
- Cognitive training in old age: Is multi-domain cognitive training superior to single-domain training?
Julia Binder, UZh (Advisors: Mike Martin & Jacqueline Zöllig)
- Clear skies ahead: Fair weather conditions are associated with relationship status and comfort with intimacy
William J. Chopik, UM (Advisor: Robin Edelstein)
- Confidence and eyewitness identification: Does the type of scale matter?
David Dobolyi, UVa (Advisor: Chad Dodson)
- In the wake of transgressions: What do victim-sensitive individuals do?
Tanja M. Gerlach, formerly HU, now Technical University Darmstadt (Advisor: Jaap Denissen)
- Chronological and implicit ages' relationship to anxiety across the adult lifespan
Jennifer S. Green, UVa (Advisor: Bethany A. Teachman)
- Test-retest reliability of cortical thickness in an older sample
Sarah Hirsiger, UZh (Advisors: Lutz Jäncke & Mike Martin)
- Development of a short preparatory behavior scale for physical activity
Milena Koring, FU (Advisor: Ralf Schwarzer)
- Consider the source: Children’s processing of child and adult explanation of mathematical equivalence
Xingyu Pan, UM (Advisors: Kevin Miller & Priti Shah)
- Electrophysiological correlates of speech-related attention
Katharina Rufener, UZh (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
- Age-related differences in escalation of commitment: No regret or avoidance of future losses?
Josua Schmeitzky, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
- Ability beliefs are important predictors of math achievement
Maria Ines (Mané) Susperreguy, UM (Advisor: Pamela E. Davis-Kean)