Spring Academy 2018

MPI for Human Development

Date: May 31– June 4, 2018
Location: MPI for Human Development
Organizers: Ulman Lindenberger, Imke Kruse

ALUMNI AWARD 2017 LECTURE

Igor Grossmann
Wisdom as a meta-cognitive framework for sound judgment: Measurement, ecology and the self

LECTURES

Steven M. Boker, University of Virginia
Multi-timescale models of resiliency across the lifespan
Anja Gampe, University of Zurich
Morality goes culture
Tobias Grossmann, University of Virginia
The developmental origins of human prosociality
Moritz M. Daum, University of Zurich
Eye tracking in early childhood research
Ioulia Kovelman, University of Michigan
Tracking continuity and change in learning to read through bilingual acquisition
Thorsten Pachur, MPI for Human Development
How does attention shape age differences in risky choice?
Clemens Tesch-Römer, German Center of Gerontology
Successful aging: Empty promises of an alluring concept?

FELLOW PRESENTATIONS

Tania Bermudez, UZh (Advisors: Urte Scholz, Andreas Maercker)
Physical activity and adjustment disorder in cardiovascular disease patients: An intensive-longitudinal study
Tiago Cabaço, HU (Advisor: Manuel Völke)
Towards modeling individual differences in cognitive processes using two-choice reaction time tasks.
Sierra Eisen, UVa (Advisors: Angeline Lillard, Jamie Jirout)
The role of play and parents in children’s spatial development
Ebru Ger, UZh (Advisor: Moritz M. Daum)
When do Turkish children acquire inflectional productivity for causatives?
Evan J. Giangrande, UVa (Advisor: Eric Turkheimer)
Gene x SES interaction and age-related increases in the heritability of IQ
Zarina Kraal, UM (Advisor: Laura Zahodne)
Religious involvement may protect against racial/ethnic inequalities in memory aging
Ira Kurthen, UZh (Advisors: Moritz M. Daum, Martin Meyer)
Speech comprehension in older adults: Limited by neuronal capacity to process prosodic cues?
Zita Mayer, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
Antecedents and consequences of goal shelving
Robert Moulder, UVa (Advisor: Steven M. Boker)
Structural equation modeling for the estimation of multivariate latent Lyapunov exponents
Toni Muffel, HU (Advisor: Arno Villringer)
Differential effects of transcranial direct current stimulation
Meghan Puglia, UVa (Advisor: James P. Morris, Jessica Connelly)
Epigenetic and neural correlates of social attention across the lifespan
Karola Schlegelmilch, MPIB (Advisor: Annie E. Wertz)
Visual properties relevant for the classification of naturalistic structures in children and adults
Larissa Stuber, UZh (Advisor: Moritz M. Daum)
Understanding of causality in Turkish and Swiss toddlers – Does causal language help young children understand untypical causal events?
Jessica Taggart, UVa (Advisor: Angeline S. Lillard)
Children prefer real activities to their pretend alternatives
Alexandra J. Werntz, UVa (Advisor: Bethany Teachman)
Experimental examination of message framing to increase dissemination of evidence-based anxiety treatments
Meltem Yucel, UVa (Advisors: Amrisha Vaish, Gerald Clore)
Norms with affect: Children and adults show greater affective arousal to moral than conventional transgressions

FELLOW POSTERS

Miranda L. Beltzer, UVa (Advisor: Bethany Teachman)
Perceived dangerousness of persons with mental illness changes in the wake of mass shootings
Julia Brehm, UZh (Advisor: Moritz M. Daum)
Processes of learning from competent and incompetent models
Peter Felsman, UM (Advisors: Joseph A. Himle, Colleen Seifert)
Improvisation promotes tolerance for uncertainty and cognitive flexibility
Katinka Hardt, HU (Advisor: Manuel Völkle)
On the use and usefulness of individual scores in dynamic factor models in case of misspecified models
Laura Jagoda, UZh (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Effects of cochlear implants on speech lateralisation in adult patients with single-sided deafness
Marko Katana, UZh (Advisors: Mike Martin, Lutz Jäncke)
What are meaningful features of continuous accelerometer data?
Shauna McGee, UZh (Advisors: Andreas Maercker, Myriam Thoma)
Sense of coherence and stress-related resilience: Examining the role of sense of coherence in the health of older adults with varying experiences of stress and adversity
Tabea Meier, UZh (Advisor: Mike Martin)
Capturing health through natural word use: A narrative-based online study on healthy aging
Lea Mörsdorf, UZh (Advisors: Moritz M. Daum, Alexandra M. Freund)
A lifespan approach to the study of goal focus: First findings
Pia Neuschwander, UZh (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
Behavioural and neural signature of speech intelligibility in hearing aid users
Julia Rohrer, DIW (Advisor: Gert G. Wagner)
Evaluating the role of importance weighting for global life satisfaction judgments