Spring Academy 2013

Date: May 14–18, 2013
Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

For invited participants only

LIFE OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD LECTURE

Time-oriented design and data analysis: Playing with new mediums
Nilam Ram, UVa alumnus, now Penn State University

FACULTY LECTURES

Improving nonresident African American fathers' parenting skills and behaviors to reduce sons' aggression
Cleopatra Caldwell, University of Michigan
Mechanisms of action perception in infancy
Moritz Daum, University of Zurich
Violence is contagious across the social ecosystem
Eric Dubow, Bowling Green State University & University of Michigan
Stepping back to move forward: Self-distancing promotes meaning-making
Ethan Kross, University of Michigan
Interactive talk with fellows
Data mining in a retrospective study on former indentured child laborers in old age
Andreas Maercker, University of Zurich
Neuroplasticity
Arno Villringer, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig
Evolution of risk for substance abuse over the first 20 years of life
Robert A. Zucker, University of Michigan

FELLOW PRESENTATIONS

Averting pathways to pain: Discrimination, ethnic identity, parenting, and child outcomes
Riana Elyse Anderson, UVa (Advisor: Melvin Wilson)
A developmental neuroscience perspective on the influence of prior knowledge on episodic memory: Finding a paradigm that works
Garvin Brod, MPIB (Advisors: Yee Lee Shing & Ulman Lindenberger)
Decision making across the lifespan: The role of motivation
Miriam Depping, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Measures of the confidence–accuracy relationship: An investigation of power
David Dobolyi, UVa (Advisor: Chad Dodson)
Effects of exercise on cognition in older adults: First results from a randomized, controlled intervention
Maike Kleemeyer, MPIB (Advisors: Sabine Schaefer & Ulman Lindenberger)
Cognitive control of attention and working memory as influenced by weight control
Lynn Ossher, UM (Advisors: Patricia Reuter-Lorenz & Cindy Lustig)
Consider the source: Children’s processing of peer and adult’s explanation of mathematical equivalence
Xingyu Pan, UM (Advisors: Kevin Miller & Priti Shah)
Goal focus and the experience of boredom
Josua Schmeitzky, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Examining medium-specific effects on children's propensity to imitate
Eric D. Smith, UVa (Advisors: Angeline S. Lillard & James P. Morris)
Math talk in families of preschool-aged children: Frequency and relations to children’s early math skills across time
Mané Susperreguy, UM (Advisor: Pamela Davis-Kean)
Sophisticated yet easy modeling with Ωnyx
Siny Tsang, UVa (Advisor: Timo von Oertzen)
Age-related differences in the influence of social context on momentary affect
Nina Vogel, HU & DIW (Advisors: Denis Gerstorf & Gert G. Wagner)

FELLOW POSTERS

Research into resiliency: A new conceptualization of sense of coherence
Rahel Bachem, UZh (Advisor: Andreas Maercker )
Is multi-domain cognitive training superior to single-domain training? Preliminary results of a cognitive training study with older adults
Julia Binder, UZh (Advisors: Jacqueline Zöllig & Mike Martin)
Maternal nurturance predicts lower child avoidance in emerging adulthood
William Chopik, UM (Advisor: Robin Edelstein)
An investigation of construct validity using higher order invariance across literacy and income levels
Geneva Dodson, UVa (Advisor: Steven M. Boker)
The development of intraindividual interest profiles across four domains
Alanna Epstein, UM (Advisor: Jacquelynne Eccles)
Neural correlates of the positivity effect
Miray Erbey, HU (Advisor: Arno Villringer)
The sense of requiredness and rhythmic expertise: Is the clave pattern the “key” to salsa music?
Laura Getz, UVa (Advisor: Michael Kubovy)
Self-regulation and behavior change across the lifespan
Maryam Gholami, FU (Advisor: Ralf Schwarzer)
Does the active participation in leisure time activities promote cognitive and neuroanatomical health?
Sarah Hirsiger, UZh (Advisors: Mike Martin & Lutz Jäncke)
A genetically informed analysis of the trajectory of antisocial behavior from adolescence to early adulthood: The role of marriage
Erin E. Horn, UVa (Advisors: Eric Turkheimer & Robert E. Emery)
Age differences in memory-based decision making
Anika K. Josef, MPIB (Advisors: Ralph Hertwig & Rui Mata)
Emotion dynamics in adolescents' daily life
Kathrin Klipker, MPIB (Advisors: Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus, & Antje Rauers)
Classroom composition and development of students' subject-related motivation
Camilla Rjosk, HU (Advisors: Petra Stanat & Oliver Lüdtke)
Don't get lost in details: The relevance of global information in auditory language processing
Katharina Rufener, UZh (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Personality traits and relationship satisfaction in intimate couples: A focus on self-, partner- and meta-perception of personality
Kathrin Schaffhuser, UZh (Advisors: Mike Martin & Mathias Allemand)
Wives' and husbands' marital tension trajectories over 16 years
Wylie Wan, UM (Advisors: Toni Antonucci, Jacqui Smith, & Kira Birditt)