Spring Academy 2008

Date: May 19–24, 2008
Venue: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Darden Business School

Lectures

Peer socialization processes from early adolescence to early adulthood
Joe Allen, University of Virginia (UVa)
Social baseline theory and the social regulation of emotion
James Coan, UVa
Propensity score analysis: A new alternative to using covariates in nonexperimental designs
Kai Cortina, University of Michigan (UM)
Too close for comfort: Attachment avoidance and the defensive regulation of emotion, behavior, and cognition
Robin S. Edelstein, UM
Emotions, decisions, and the brain
Richard Gonzalez, UM
The changing taste of development
David Hill, UVa
At the intersection of motivation, emotion, and action: Adult development and the dynamics among goals
Michaela Riediger, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB)
The combination of surveys and experiments in lifespan and life-course research
Gert G. Wagner, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)
Individual differences in conflict and context effects: Evidence from the Simon and Eriksen task
Oliver Wilhelm, HU

Adult age differences in structural brain connectivity and their relations to brain functioning and behavior
Agnieszka Burzynska, MPIB
Family socio-economic background, education, and labor force outcomes
Daniel Caro, HU
Skin cancer prevention for adolescents: A theory- and evidence-based intervention approach
Natalie Mallach, FU
Culture and self-reflection: Preliminary findings
Felicity Miao, UVa
Age-related differences in investment decisions
Peter Mohr, MPIB
Performance level modulates adult age differences in brain activation during a spatial working memory task
Irene Nagel, MPIB
The couple dance: Intimacy and autonomy in couples' distance regulation over adulthood
Wiebke Neberich, HU
The role of personality similarity in judgments of liking
Elizabeth Tenney, UVa
On the nature of affective priming: Effects of prime saliency and target saturation in the liking paradigm and its theoretical implications
André Weinreich, HU
Structure of movement variability in manual pointing in older and younger adults
Julius Verrel, MPIB
Generalized mixed models with mixture links for multivariate zero-inflated count data
Lijuan Wang, UVa

Intraindividual variability in cognitive performance and student achievement in early adolescence
Gizem Hülür, HU
Experiences with intrusive thoughts in younger and older adults
Joshua Magee, UVa
Beginning teachers' perceived mentor support: Preliminary results of a pilot study
Dirk Richter, MPIB