Recent LIFE-Related Publications
A Selection of Recent Articles, Books, and Chapters by LIFE Fellows and Alumni
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Publications 2026, advance online, and in press
Aalders, E. M., Daum, M. M., & Wermelinger, S. (2025). Diversity in monolingual and multilingual communicative environments and its relation to vocabulary in early childhood. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925100758
Adams, S., & Ybarra, O. (2026) Separate and unequal: Moral domains differ in corresponding social judgments of others. PLoS One, 21(1), Article e0338026. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0338026
Adolf, J. K., & Ceulemans, E. (2025). Improved estimation of autoregressive models through contextual impulses and robust modeling. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000761
Andrae, R., Krämer, M. D., Hopwood, C. J., Denissen, J. J. A., Scholz, U., Bocklet, V., & Bleidorn, W. (in press). Transactions between personality traits and first sexual experiences in adolescence and emerging adulthood. European Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/eh9fa (Preprint)
Babu, H. J., Jantz, T. K., Xie, K., & Reuter-Lorenz, P. A. (in press). Strategy effects and value-directed recall of sub-and supra-span word lists. Memory & Cognition.
Bailey, N. A., Golino, H. F., & Allen, J. P. (2026). Autonomy and relatedness in mother-adolescent interactions: An investigation using exploratory graph analysis. Family Process, 65(1), Article e70116. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.70116
Bechtiger, L., Bürgin, D., Vasconcelos, G. F., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., & Shanahan, L. (2026). Physical aggression toward parents from ages 11 to 24: prevalence trajectory and risk and protective factors. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02953-w
Bell, S. A., Womack, S. R., Kam, A., Gonnene, M., Beam, C. R., Giangrande, E. J., Finkel, D., Turkheimer, E., & Davis, D. W. (2026). Nonlinear decline in the association between birth weight and cognitive ability from infancy to midlife in a community sample of twins. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 81(2), Article gbaf247. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf247
Bezek, J. L., Shewark, E., Suarez, G. L., Klump, K. L., Burt, S. A., & Hyde, L. W. (2025). A person-centered and genetically-informed approach toward characterizing profiles of multi-domain resilience to neighborhood disadvantage in youth. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70068
Buchberger, E. S., Brandmaier, A. M., Lindenberger, U., Werkle-Bergner, M., & Ngo, C. T. (in press). The process structure of memory abilities in early and middle childhood [Registered report]. Developmental Science.
Dolan, P., Krekel, C., & Swanke, S. (2024). Affective paternalism. Behavioural Public Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.24
Ehret, F., Doludda, B., Liu, H., Nexhipi, S., Huang, H., Rost, F., Overall, R. W., Barde, W., Rünker, A. E., Sieweke, M., Dahl, A., Schmidt, M. H. H., & Kempermann, G. (2025). Lifestyle shapes preclinical social and microglial deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model. Molecular Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03368-4
Ehrler, M., Fervença Ramos, J., Wehrle, F. M., Valsangiacomo Buechel, E. R., Beck, I., Latal, B., & Landolt, M. A. (2026). Longitudinal behaviour of children with complex congenital heart disease from preschool to adolescence. Pediatric Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41390-026-04839-2
Fraemke, D. (2026). The end of cognitive meritocracy. AI & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02856-7
Gallagher, V., Sheehan S., Ahmad, A., Ansari, S., Arp, A., Bell, S., Brown, D., Cruise, A., Greth, Z., Greer, S., Hagos, S., Patterson, A., Reilly, S., Rossetti, M. A., Thompson, R., Yildirim, N., Shaffer, K., & Manning, C. (2026). Scoping review of AI-chatbots to support family caregivers. The Gerontologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnag028
Ghose, U., Krämer, M., Richter, D., Wagner, G. G., Infurna, F., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2026). How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time. European Journal of Personality, 40(2), 268–285. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251336534
Gordon, A. M., Thorson, K., Jolink, T., From, A., Diamond, E., & Segal, N. (2026). Toward a science of relationship forecasting: Considerations and recommendations. American Psychologist, 80(9), 1431–1443. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001632
Haehner, P., Hopwood, C. J., Schellenberg, L., Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (in press). Individual differences in personality trait changes across the lifespan: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies. Psychological Bulletin.
Haehner, P., Wright, A. J., Lubczyk, T., Andrae, R., Asselmann, E., Buecker, S., Hopwood, C. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Tailoring personality interventions: How timing, context, and strategies influence proximal intervention outcomes. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000597
Hall-McMaster, S., Wittkuhn, L., Verra, L., Hedrich, N. L., Irie, K., Dayan, P., Gershman, S. J., & Schuck, N. W. (2026). Entorhinal cortex signals dimensions of past experience that can be generalised in a novel environment. Journal of Neuroscience, 46(7), Article e1492252025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1492-25.2025
Hecht, M., Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (2026). Models of social sampling. In T. Reimer, L. van Swol, & A. Florack (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of communication and social cognition (pp. 158–168). Routledge/Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003411741-17
Hepp, J., Heine, C., Schliebener, M., & Dufner, M. (2026). The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 80, 231–236. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2025-224589
Huo, M., Hu, R. X., & Skoblow, H. F. (2025). Aging and perceiving aging together: Couple synchrony in self-perceptions of aging and health. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(12), Article gbaf199. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf199
Hyde, L. W., Trentacosta, C., & Bezek, J. L. (2026). Annual research review: Early conduct problems – precursors, outcomes, and etiology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67(4), 524–545. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70031
Isaacowitz, D. M., Ebright-Jones, B. D., & Polk, R. J. (2026). A new frame on emotion regulation in aging: The adaptive positive tactic shift. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 35(1), 10–16. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251349777
Kelly, D. P., Dzera, J., Demidenko, M. I., Weigard, A., Foster, K. T., & Beltz, A. M. (2025). Pubertal timing and daily alcohol use in adulthood: Insights into the experiences of late maturers. Applied Developmental Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888691.2025.2468254
Krämer, M. D., Asselmann, E., Harzer, C., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Psychological traits predict who uses self-help products but usage is not associated with two-year personality change. Scientific Reports, 16, Article 8393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-39468-6
Krämer, M. D., Kretzschmar, A., Hopwood, C. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2025). A replication attempt of personality change through randomized peer groups. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251331355
Krämer, M. D., Stern, J., Buchinger, L., MacDonald, G., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Life satisfaction, loneliness, and depressivity in consistently single young adults in Germany and the UK. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000595
Lin, J., Moore, J., Field, N., Stern, J., Allen, J., & Coan, J. (2026). Adolescent empathy predicts reduced neural responses to social rejection in adulthood. Development and Psychopathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457942610131X
Liu, C. X., Blair, B. A., & Tenney, E. R. (2026). Registered report: Can agentic Black women get ahead? An experiment revisited. Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976261436988
Loher, M., Jang, J. B., Quednow, B. B., Shanahan, L., & Patrick, M. E. (2025). Concurrent alcohol and marijuana use patterns among high school seniors in the United States. Journal of Drug Issues. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426251394640
Luo, M., Weber, E., Pauly, T., Kolodziejczak-Krupp, K., Gerstorf, D., Hoppmann, C. A., Ram, N., Hülür, G., & Röcke, C. (2026). Leisure activities and working memory in older age: The mediating roles of affect and cortisol. Psychology and Aging, 41(1), 36–50. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000935
Merrell, W. N., & Ackerman, J. M. (2025). Flaunting Porsches or Paris? Comparing the social signaling value of experiential and material conspicuous consumption. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251331658
Merrell, W. N., Vossoughi, N., Kteily, N. S., & Ho, A. K. (2026). Looking White but feeling Asian: The role of physical permeability and perceived discrimination in multiracial-monoracial alliances. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(1), 141–160. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241267332
Metzner, O., Wang, Y., de Melo, G., Symes, W., Huang, Y., & Lazarides, R. (2026). The potential and limitations of large language models for automatic classification of teachers' motivational messages in educational research. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(1), 14–31. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.70013
Mintz, E. H., Toner, E. R., Skolnik, A. M., Pan, A., Frumkin, M. R., Baker, A. W., Simon, N. M., & Robinaugh, D. J. (2026). Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity. Death Studies, 50(3), 482–494. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2433109
Naganuma, S., & Xu, R. (2026). Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles. International Journal of Science Education, 48(1), 24–44. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2024.2394706
Nigro, L., & Ward-Seidel, A. (2024). Reimagining early childhood education and school readiness through the perspectives of historically marginalized families living in a rural community. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/14639491241293479
Petz, K., Toner, E., Rucker, M., Leventhal, E., Livermon, S., Davidson, B., Boukhechba, M., Barnes, L., & Teachman, B. A. (2025). Examining state affective and cognitive outcomes following brief mobile phone-based training sessions to reduce anxious interpretations. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 50, 96–118. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-025-10623-z
Schellenberg, L., Altorfer, M. J., & Haehner, P. (2025). Individual differences in self-esteem trajectories after negative life events: The role of the Big Five personality traits and perceived event characteristics. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251383960
Shah, L., Marzoratti, A., Hofkens, T. L., Nevill, R., Pianta, R. C., Pelphrey, K. A., Krafnick, A. J., & Evans, T. M. (2025). Child-parent interaction quality shows opposite relationships with language comprehension skill and autism symptomatology. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07095-1
Soland, J., Rispoli, M. J., Saina, C., Omollo, M., Mwendwa, E., Boke, C., Xu, R., McNally Keehn, R., Pearson, J. N., Hassinger, T., Stauffer, C., & McHenry, M. S. (2025). Developing culturally responsive surveys on neurodevelopmental disabilities: Lessons from the Kenyan context. Advances in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41252-025-00468-8
Susperreguy, M. I. , Aldoney, D. & Narea, M. (2026). Conducting parenting research in Chile. Developmental Psychology, 62(1), 108–115. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001873
Tenney, E. R., Rochford, K., Stillwell, A., Liu, C. X., Tannenbaum, D., Hennecke, M., Stefanucci, J. K., Blair, B. A., Graham, J., & Bonner, B. L. (2026). Registered report: A replication examining occupational experience and performance on the water-level task. Psychological Science, 37(2), 125–135. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251412721
Verra, L., Spitzer, B., Schuck, N. W., & Zika, O. (2026). Increased generalisation in trait anxiety is driven by aversive value transfer. Communications Psychology, 4, Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-026-00415-w
Vitiello, V. E., Hutchins, N., Krissinger, A., Jirout, J., & Scoville, J. (2026). How early educators make emergent curricula work: A qualitative analysis with an eye toward scale. Early Education and Development, 37(1), 44–65. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2025.2517401
Ward-Seidel, A. R., Rimm-Kaufman, S. E., & Sandilos, L. E. (2026). Schoolwork with purpose: A mixed methods study on youths’ perspective on what makes learning meaningful. Journal of Adolescent Research, 41(3), 598–638. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584241280266
Weber, E., Hopwood, C. J., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2026). Self-esteem and sexual experiences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(2), 293–312. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241257355