Spring Academy 2012

Date: May 9–14, 2012
Location: MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Faculty Lectures

Early transitions in educational careers: Are parents' decisions rational or wise?
Jürgen Baumert, MPI for Human Development (MPIB)
Methodological challenges and possible solutions to the study of adult development and aging
Alexandra M. Freund, UZh
Inquiry into terminal decline: History, status quo, and future prospects
Denis Gerstorf, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU)
Neural plasticity in the developing gustatory brainstem
David Hill, University of Virginia (UVa)
Culture and emotion regulation: Some psychological consequences
Shinobu Kitayama, University of Michigan (UM)
Dyadic co-development across the lifespan: Dyadic co-development across the lifespan: How temporal interpersonal systems stabilize their relationship quality
Mike Martin, University of Zurich (UZh)
On bets and p's
Timo von Oertzen, UVa
Modeling visual word recognition across the lifespan
Sascha Schroeder, MPIB
Experience and executive functions: Evidence from correlational, naturalistic, and training studies
Priti Shah, UM
Episodic memory across the lifespan: separating strategic and associative components
Yee Lee Shing, MPIB
Fellow and Alumni Presentations
Ten-month-old infants' processing of continuous vs. non-continuous movement: Is there evidence for action simulation from ERPs?
Cathleen Bache, MPIB
Different understandings of the same marriage: A genetically informed study of spouses' marital functioning
Christopher Beam, UVa
The secret lives of experiments: Estimating the analytic flexibility of functional neuroimaging
Joshua Carp, UM
Social networks across the lifespan: A LIFE perspective
Katherine L. Fiori, UM alumna, now Adelphi University
The Age of Anxiety: A multi-dimensional perspective on age and anxiety across the adult life span
Jennifer Green, UVa
No pain, no gain? How pleasure and pain impact means evaluations
Marie Hennecke, UZh alumna, now UVa
Cognitive and neuroanatomical changes associated with healthy aging
Sarah Hirsiger, UZh
How transition to grandparenthood affects job-related attitudes and plans
Dalit Jäckel, UZh
Affective variability across adolescence: A temporary imbalance between hormonal and cognitive development?
Kathrin Klipker, MPIB
Understanding procrastination: A dynamic model of procrastination and goal focus
Kathrin Krause, UZh
Catch me if you can: Novel mechanisms of social functioning and intervention in youth with autism spectrum disorders
Matthew D. Lerner, UVa
Lower EEG inter-trial phase coherence is related to higher reaction time variability across the lifespan
Goran Papenberg, MPIB
Does job stress impact social involvement? Findings in the Health and Retirement Study
Bettina Sonnenberg, DIW
Discovery of large-scale psychological differences within China explained by rice vs. wheat agriculture
Thomas Talhelm, UVa

Fellow and Alumni Posters

Demographic influences on parenting in low-income families
Riana Anderson, UVa
Ten-month-old infants’ processing of continuous vs. non-continuous movement: Is there evidence for action simulation from ERPs?
Cathleen Bache, MPIB
Phenotype-environment correlations in longitudinal twin models
Christopher R. Beam, UVa
Training-induced neural plasticity across the lifespan
Ladina Bezzola, UZh alumna
Age and the integration of novel sensory inputs
Timothy R. Brick, UVa alumnus, now MPIB
Women with an avoidant attachment style show attenuated estradiol responses to emotionally intimate stimuli
William J. Chopik, UM
Now you see me and now you see me again: Investigating source confusion and high confidence errors for mugbook presentations in younger and older adults
David Dobolyi, UVa
Are there differences in delay of gratification between elderly individuals with and without cognitive impairment?
Reinhard Drobetz, UZh alumnus
Cost and benefits of being wonderful
Michael Dufner, HU
A dual-route cascaded model of reading by deaf adults: Evidence for grapheme to viseme conversion
Eeva A. Elliott, FU
Adult age differences in the neural correlates of interference control over currently irrelevant memories
Yana Fandakova, MPIB
Emergence of behavioral individuality in genetically identical mice exposed to the same environment
Julia Freund, CRTD — Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden
Dynamical system analysis applied on longitudinal data from memory updating task measures
Fidan Gasimova, HU, now Ulm University
Linguistic simplification of mathematics test items as an accommodation for second language learners
Nicole Haag, HU
Effects of physical activity on the senescent brain and cognition
Maike Kleemeyer, MPIB
Planning and preparatory behaviors bridge the intention-behavior gap in physical activity
Milena Koring, FU
Impact of caesarean section on psychological and physical health of mothers and their children: Evidence from German survey data
Anita Kottwitz, DIW
Understanding the role of early life trauma in the neuroendocrine dysregulation of youth depression
Kate R. Kuhlman & Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, UM
Estimation and interpretation of latent variable interactions
Julie Maslowsky, UM alumna
When developmental outcomes turn into gain: Stability becomes more positive with increasing age
Maida Mustafić, UZh alumna
The effect of bilingualism on amnestic mild cognitive impairment
Lynn Ossher, UM
Peer popularity and personal discrimination: A longitudinal multilevel study of immigrant youth
Anne K. Reitz, HU
Relevance of class composition for selected aspects of quality of instruction and achievement gains
Camilla Rjosk, HU
Speech processing — the unique ability that remains stable over the lifespan?
Katharina Rufener, UZh
Intra- and interbrain synchronization and network properties when playing guitar in duets
Johanna Sänger, MPIB
Self-development during the transition from childhood to adolescence
Kathrin Schaffhuser, UZh
Differentiation of crystallized abilities during secondary education
Stefan Schipolowski, HU
Functioning and coupling of memory systems during spatial navigation are affected by age and KIBRA (WWC1) genotype
Nicolas W. Schuck, HU/MPIB
The impact of cyberbullying on internalizing and externalizing problems in adolescence
Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, FU
Not just child’s play: Exploring the trajectory of pretense engagement through early adulthood
Eric D. Smith, UVa
"Math talk" in families of preschool-aged children
Mané Susperreguy, UM
Interoceptive awareness modulates affect transfer in AMP-related subliminal affective priming
André Weinreich, Berlin alumnus, HU
Comparing manually segmented to automatically segmented hippocampal volumes: Reliability and validity issues for older brains
Elisabeth Wenger, MPIB
Who lived happily thereafter? Differential effects of subjective well-being on mortality
Maja Wiest, Berlin alumna, DZA, Benjamin Schüz, DZA, Noah Webster, UM, & Susanne Wurm, DZA
Social influence and bullying behavior: Intervention-based network dynamics
Ralf Wölfer, Berlin alumnus, FU