Fall Academy 2016

Date: October 6–10, 2016
Location: MPI for Human Development, Berlin
Organizer: Ulman Lindenberger

LECTURES

Motivational shifts in aging monkeys
Alexandra M. Freund, University of Zurich
Lying in the laboratory: The price we pay
Ralph Hertwig, MPI for Human Development
The structure of lives
Michael Kubovy, University of Virginia
Altruistic behavior across the adult life span
Ulrich Mayr, University of Oregon
On the necessity of subject-specific data analysis
Peter Molenaar, Pennsylvania State University
An evo-devo perspective on working families: Policy and practice implications
Brenda Volling, University of Michigan

FELLOW PRESENTATIONS

Cognitive abilities and personality traits in older adults: Results from the Zurich Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging
Damaris Aschwanden, UZh (Advisors: Mathias Allemand and Mike Martin)
Value-based decision making under perceptual uncertainty
Rasmus Bruckner, FU (Advisor: Hauke Heekeren)
When having fun is over: Examining indicators of recovery and exhaustion
Brian B. Cardini, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Protective role of religion and spirituality against depression and suicide among Black Adolescents
Yasmin Cole-Lewis, UM
Adult age differences in auditory selective attention: The interplay of norepinephrine and rhythmic neural activity
Martin Dahl, MPIB (Advisor: Markus Werkle-Bergner)
The role of cognitive processing units in writing and their emergence in German
Stefan Heß, MPIB (Advisor: Sascha Schroeder)
A systematic review on the curvilinear relationship of adversity and thriving
Jan Hoeltge, UZh (Advisor: Andreas Maercker)
What do numerical representation abilities tell us about math performance beyond executive functions?
Amira Ibrahim, UM (Advisor: Pamela Davis-Kean)
Putting off your workout? What goal focus has to do with it.
Oliver J. Kaftan, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Individual differences and underlying mechanisms in cognitive training
Ben Katz, UM (Advisor: Priti Shah)
The functional relationship between academic achievement and academic self-concepts: Linear or not?
Lena Keller, FU (Advisor: Martin Brunner)
The role of temporal envelope in speech processing: age-related differences?
Matthias Keller, UZh (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Dissociable effects of age and testosterone on adolescent impatience: Implications on brain function and structure
Corinna Laube, MPIB (Advisor: Timothy Pleskac)
How the sensorimotor system helps to grasp the idea of action-language in toddlers
Katharina Ledergerber, UZh (Advisor: Moritz M. Daum)
First year to future career: How gendered dynamics shape belonging and long-term retention in STEM
Neil Lewis, UM
Socio-interpersonal processes predict ICD-11 adjustment disorder symptoms following involuntary job loss
Louisa Lorenz, UZh (Advisor: Andreas Maercker)
The h-aDDM toolbox: A hierarchical framework to model value-based decisions and visual fixation processes
Felix Molter, FU (Advisor: Peter Mohr)
Longitudinal coupled changes of white matter integrity and cognitive/motor abilities in healthy aging
Jessica Oschwald, UZh (Advisor: Mike Martin)
“Science simply isn’t for me” – Why preschool teachers’ motivational beliefs matter
Elisa Oppermann, FU (Advisor: Martin Brunner)
Reverse-engineering the brain: Decoding epigenotypes and behavioral phenotypes through patterned network architecture
Tyler Santander, UVa (Advisor: Chad Dodson)
Home television viewing and children’s empathy and social skills
Jessica Taggart, UVa (Advisor: Angeline Lillard)
Interference between action perception and action production across the lifespan
Stephanie Wermelinger, UZh (Advisor: Moritz Daum)
Every rose has its thorn: Infants’ behavioral responses to pointy-shaped objects in naturalistic contexts
Aleksandra Włodarczyk, MPIB (Advisor: Annie E. Wertz)

FELLOW POSTERS

Age- and cohort-related changes in emotional and social loneliness
Anne Böger, DZA (Advisors: Clemens Tesch-Römer, Oliver Huxhold)
Aging attitudes and daily activity choices: Implications for well-being
Hannah L. Giasson, University of Michigan (Advisor: Jacqui Smith)
Tomographic neurofeedback as treatment for chronic tinnitus: A clinical study
Dominik Güntensperger, University of Zurich (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Factor score prediction in dynamic models of change
Katinka Hardt, HU (Advisor: Manuel Völkle)
Social network profiles among older latina/os
Elise Hernandez, University of Michigan (Advisor:
Preservation and decline of directed forgetting effects in healthy older adults
Tiffany K. Jantz, University of Michigan (Advisor: Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz)
The impact of stereotype awareness on black American women’s sexuality
Morgan Jerald, University of Michigan (Advisor:
Household labor, his and hers: Implications for experienced well-being
Jasmine Manalel, University of Michigan (Advisor: Jacqui Smith)
Attention to social information is associated with epigenetic variability of the oxytocin receptor
Meghan H. Puglia, University of Michigan (Advisors: Jessica J. Connelly & James P. Morris)
Representational similarity of memory encoding and retrieval across the adult lifespan
Verena R. Sommer, MPIB (Advisor: Ulman Lindenberger)
Implicit health associations across the adult lifespan
Alexandra J. Werntz, University of Michigan (Advisor: Bethany A. Teachman)