Oliver Huxhold

LIFE Faculty & Alumnus

German Center of Gerontology, Berlin

Developmental Psychology

LIFE Fellow from 2002 to 2006, MPI for Human Development, Berlin

Dr. phil.

Dissertation completed in February 2007

Processing Fluctuations in Postural Control: Relations to Adult Age and Fluctuations in Cognition

(Advisors: Ulman Lindenberger & Shu-Chen Li)

Selected Publications

Fiori, K. L., Windsor, T. D., & Huxhold, O. (2020). The increasing importance of friendship in late life: Understanding the role of sociohistorical context in social development. Gerontology, 66(3), 286–294. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505547

Huxhold, O., Fiori, K. L., Webster, N. J., & Antonucci, T. C. (2020). The strength of weaker ties: An underexplored resource for maintaining emotional well-being in later life. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 75(7), 1433–1442. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa019

Huxhold, O. (2019). Gauging effects of historical differences on aging trajectories: The increasing importance of friendships. Psychology and Aging, 34(8), 1170–1184. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000390