Spring Academy 2009

Date: May 25–29, 2009
Venue: Boldern, near Zurich

Lectures

Specialization of the specialists: The plastic brain
Lutz Jäncke, University of Zurich (UZh)
Genetic effects on cognition across the lifespan
Ulman Lindenberger, MPI for Human Development (MPIB)
Situation awareness in teaching: Toward understanding the processes that underlie teaching and learning
Kevin F. Miller, UM
The effects of traumatic stressors and PTSD on lifespan development
Andreas Maercker, UZh
Affective working memory: Converging evidence for a new construct
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, UM
A unified theory of development
Arnold Sameroff, University of Michigan (UM)
Functional implications of age-related changes in motor system connectivity
Rachael Seidler, UM
Happy to be back at work? Re-entering the workforce after maternity leave
Bettina S. Wiese, UZh

Fellow Presentations

The development of infants’ sensitivity to interpersonal timing: Combining behavioral and (neuro-) physiological measures
Karen Bartling, MPIB
White matter, aging and executive functions
Agnieszka Burzynska, MPIB
Examining the antecedents and correlates of joint trajectories of alcohol and sex in adolescence and early adulthood
Jerel Calzo, UM
Inter- and intraindividual variability in cognitive abilities and student achievement
Gizem Hülür, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU)
Mechanisms underlying the capacity for novelty to improve memory
Stanley O. King, University of Virginia (UVa)
Bridging naturalistic and laboratory measures of self-regulation: The development and validation of challenge tasks
Xuezhao Lan, UM
Age-based hiring discrimination as a function of self-perceived objectivity and equity norms
Nicole Lindner, UVa
I don’t care about tomorrow, as long as I look good today –Health behavior theories and adolescent risk behavior
Natalie Mallach, Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Internalizing and externaliziing symptoms as predictors of adolescent substance use: The big picture based on national data
Julie Maslowsky, UM
Distinct neural representations of decision risk and anticipation risk
Peter Mohr, MPIB
Women’s non-normative life paths and personality development
Nicky Newton, UM
Risk and protective factors for depression in African American mothers
Jennifer O’Neil, UVa
Thriving with a plural self
Jesse Pappas, UVa
Indecisiveness: Three different ones?
Georges Potworowski, UM
Variations in health within and between social status groups: The role of psychosocial resources
Ina Schöllgen, German Centre of Gerontology (DZA)
Temporal characteristics of affective priming
André Weinreich, HU

Round Tables

Cognition across the lifespan: Age-related changes in functional neuroanatomy
Faculty: Shu-Chen Li, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Rachael Seidler
Motivation and emotion across the lifespan: Social relations and their relations to emotions and subjective well-being
Faculty: Toni C. Antonucci, Jaap Denissen, Robin S. Edelstein, Clemens Tesch-Römer
Motivation and emotion across the lifespan: Contextualization of midlife goals
Faculty: Alexandra M. Freund, Gert G. Wagner, Bettina S. Wiese
Methods: Current trends in missing data analysis
Faculty: Richard Gonzalez, Daniel Zimprich

Fellow Posters

Longitudinal evaluation of training-induced neural plasticity
Ladina Bezzola, UZh
Age differences in the influence of threat-induced arousal on performance in dual-task settings
Nate Boyden, MPIB
Multiple timescales and conversation
Timothy Brick, UVa
Aging and sensitivity to gains and losses in decision-making
Miriam Depping, UZh
Model of delay of gratification
Reinhard Drobetz, UZh
Age and individual differences in associative and strategic components of episodic memory: A latent profile analysis
Yana Fandakova, MPIB
Optimizing cognitive training interventions for older adults: Combined effects of proactive and reactive control
Kristin Flegal, UM
Forgiveness processes in couples across the lifespan
Tanja Gerlach, HU
Am I dieting or losing weight? Consequences of attributing failure and success to the processes versus the outcomes of a low-caloric diet
Marie Hennecke, UZh
Societal influences on parents of young simultaneous bilinguals
Erin Howe, UM
How far did the train travel? Infants’ sensitivity to the direct relationship between time and distance at constant speed
Wenke Möhring, UZh
Does goal orientation affect the salience of the means or the outcomes of a goal?
Maida Mustafic, UZh
E-health and life-span psychology – a research outline. A new tele-assistance system (TAS) for elderly people with depression and anxiety disorder
Barbara Preschl, UZh
What materials can be deformed? Infants’ sensitivity to the invariant shape of solid objects and the changing shape of nonsolid substances
Simone Schaub, UZh
Interindividual and age-related differences in dynamic selective attention
Viola Störmer, MPIB
Adaptation to widowhood as an indicator of resilience and mortality: Preliminary findings
Maja Wiest, DZA
Thwarting the need to belong: Effects of cyberball in childhood
Ralf Wölfer, FU