Recent LIFE-Related Publications
A Selection of Recent Articles, Books, and Chapters by LIFE Fellows and Alumni
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Publications 2025, advance online, and in press
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
Aikins, M.*, Willems, Y.*, Fraemke, D., Mitchell, C., Goosby, B., & Raffington, L. (2025). Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence. Molecular Psychiatry. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-025-03010-3
* Equal contributions
Allen, J. P., Costello, M. A., Pettit, C., Bailey, N. A., & Stern, J. A. (2025). Unique roles of adolescents’ friends and fathers in predicting verbal aggression in future adult romantic relationships. Development and Psychopathology, 37(1), 393-402. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001670
Ascigil, E., Gunaydin, G., Selcuk, E., Sandstrom, G. M., & Aydin, E. (2025). Minimal social interactions and life satisfaction: The role of greeting, thanking, and conversing. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(2), 202–213. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231209793
Barde, W., Renner, J., Emery, B., Khanzada, S., Hu, X., Garthe, A., Rünker, A. E., Amin, H., & Kempermann, G. (2025). Beyond nature, nurture, and chance: Individual agency shapes divergent learning biographies and brain connectome. Science Advances, 11(2), Article eads7297. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads7297
Beam, C. R., Bakulski, K. M., Zandi, E., Turkheimer, E., Lynch, M., ... Bell, S. A., ... Davis, D. W. (2024). Epigenome-wide association study of loneliness in a sample of U.S. middle-aged twins. Epigenetics, 19(1), Article 2427999. https://doi.org/10.1080/15592294.2024.2427999
Bechtiger, L., Steinhoff, A., Dollar, J., Keane, S., Calkins, S., & Shanahan, L. (2025). Developmental cascades from maternal depressive symptoms in childhood to adolescents’ friendship quality. Developmental Psychology, 61(8), 1531–1546. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001834
Bell, S. A., Beam, C. R., Zandi, E., Kam, A., Andrews, E., Becker, J., Finkel, D., Davis, D. W., & Turkheimer, E. (in press). Second generation DNA methylation age predicts cognitive change in midlife: The moderating role of childhood socioeconomic status. Aging. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5551592/v1 (Preprint)
Bosshart, N., Bearth, A., Stutz, S. E., Wermelinger, S., Daum, M. M., & Siegrist, M. (2025). Avoiding unintentional injuries from household chemicals: Comparing the appeal to children from the perspectives of children, caregivers, and experts. Applied Ergonomics, 122, Article 104401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2024.104401
Bruckner, R., Nassar, M. R., Li, S.-C., & Eppinger, B. (2025). Differences in learning across the lifespan emerge via resource-rational computations. Psychological Review, 132(3), 556–580. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000526
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.
Burger, K., Mele, F., Kirkpatrick Johnson, M., Mortimer, J., & Han, X. (2025). The intergenerational reproduction of self-direction at work: Revisiting Class and Conformity. Social Forces. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf016
Costello, M. A., Pascale, M., Potter, K., Knoll, S. J., Bodolay, A., Kaur, J., Du, R., Greenspan, L., Gray, C. A., McIntyre, J., & Schuster, R. M. (2025). Understanding adolescent mental health symptom progression in school-based settings: The Substance Use and Risk Factors (SURF) longitudinal survey. School Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000681
Dolan, P., Krekel, C., & Swanke, S. (2024). Affective paternalism. Behavioural Public Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/bpp.2024.24
Driver, C. C. (2025). Inference with cross-lagged effects—Problems in time. Psychological Methods, 30(1), 174–202. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000665
Ebright-Jones, B. D., Cortina, K. S., Mahler, N., & Miller, K. F. (2025). Racialized reprimands: A mobile eye-tracking study on teachers’ responses to students’ norm-violating behaviors. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 80, Article 102351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2025.102351
Fraemke, D., Willems, Y. E., Okbay, A., Lindenberger, U., Zinn, S., Wagner, G. G., Richter, D., Harden, K. P., Tucker-Drob, E. M., Hertwig, R., Koellinger, P., & Raffington, L. (2025). Polygenic associations with educational attainment in East versus West Germany: Differences emerge after reunification. Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/095679762513509
Frank, C. C., Mottola, G. R., Chen, M., Yu, L., Boyle, P. A., Samanez-Larkin, G. R., & Seaman, K. L. (2025). Overconfidence and financial risk tolerance in older age. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80(6), Article gbaf032. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf032
Frank, C. C., & Pachur, T. (2025). The affect gap in risky choice is similar for younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000889
Frei, V., & Giroud, N. (2025). Immersive auditory-cognitive training improves speech-in-noise perception in older adults with varying hearing and working memory. npj Science of Learning, 10(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00306-5
Ghose, U., Krämer, M., Richter, D., Wagner, G. G., Infurna, F., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2025). How spousal bereavement shapes life satisfaction: Stability and change across historical time. European Journal of Personality. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070251336534
Hecht, M., Schulze, C., & Pachur, T. (in press). Models of social sampling. In T. Reimer, L. van Swol, & A. Florack (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of communication and social cognition. Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
Heumann, J., Cole, S. W., Eisner, M., Ribeaud, D., Grünblatt, E., & Shanahan, M. J. (2025). Peer victimization in adolescence alters gene expression and cytokine profiles during transition to adulthood. Brain, Behavior, & Immunity – Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbih.2025.101025
Isaacowitz, D. M., Ebright-Jones, B. D., & Polk, R. J. (2025). A new frame on emotion regulation in aging: The adaptive positive tactic shift. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251349777
Janousch, C., Eggenberger, L., Steinhoff, A., Johnson-Ferguson, L., Bechtiger, L., Loher, M., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M., Baumgartner, M. R., Binz, T. M., Shanahan, L., & Quednow, B. B. (2025). Words versus strands: Reliability and stability of concordance rates of self-reported and hair-analyzed substance use of young adults over time. European Addiction Research, 31(1), 60–74. https://doi.org/10.1159/000541713
Kelso, L. E., Dobolyi, D. G., Grabman, J. H., & Dodson, C. S. (2025). AI assistance improves people’s ability to distinguish correct from incorrect eyewitness lineup identifications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122(21), Article e2503971122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2503971122
Krämer, M. D., & Bleidorn, W. (2025). Informal care and personality: Selection and socialization effects. Personality Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.1177/27000710251321820
Krämer, M. D., Hopwood, C. J., Miller, T. J., & Bleidorn, W. (2025). What explains personality change intervention effects? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000565
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., Rohrer, J. M., Lucas, R. E., & Richter, D. (2025). Life events and life satisfaction: Estimating effects of multiple life events in combined models. European Journal of Personality, 39(1), 3–23. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241231017
Lalwani, P., Polk, T. A., & Garrett, D. D. (2025). Modulation of brain signal variability in visual cortex reflects aging, GABA, and behavior. eLife, 14, Article e83865. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.83865
Lawes, M., & Eid, M. (2025). Longitudinal associations between well-being, hair cortisol, and self-reported health. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 17(1), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12628
Lawes, M., Hetschko, C., Schöb, R., Stephan, G., & Eid, M. (2025). Examining interindividual differences in unemployment-related changes in subjective well-being: The role of psychological well-being and re-employment expectations. European Journal of Personality, 39(1), 24–45. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070241231315
Lawes, M., West, S. G., & Eid, M. (2025). A guide to causal inference in life-event studies. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459241302015
Lee, M., & Gonzalez, M. Z. (2025). Asymmetric access to social vs. economic resources during development calibrates socio-cognitive pathways to risk-taking in emerging adults. Cerebral Cortex, 35(7), Article bhaf169. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf169
Li, C., Ybarra, O., Lee, D. S., Adams, S., & Bi, C. (2025). Worse than a braggart: Interpersonal costs of humblebragging in China. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 28(1), Article e12671. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12671
Liu, S. R., Bailey, N. A., Romero-González, S., Moors, A., Campos, B., Davis, E. P., & Glynn, L. M. (2025) The QUIC-SP: A Spanish language tool assessing unpredictability in early life is linked to physical and mental health. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0298296. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298296
Loher, M., Steinhoff, A., Bechtiger, L., Ribeaud, D., Eisner, M. P., Shanahan, L., & Quednow, B. B. (2025). Disentangling the effects of self-control and the use of tobacco and cannabis on violence perpetration from childhood to early adulthood. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 34, 1063–1074. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-024-02536-1
Lucca, K., ... Daum, M. M., ... Grossmann, T., ... Loeffler, M. T., ... Schlegelmilch, K., ... Stutz, S. E., ... Wertz, A. E., ... Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study [Registered Report]. Developmental Science, 28(1), Article e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.1358
Mascherek, A., Luong, G., Wrzus, C., Riediger, M., & Kühn, S. (2025). Meadows or asphalt road — Does momentary affective well-being vary with immediate physical environment? Results from a geographic ecological momentary assessment study in three metropolitan areas in Germany. Environmental Research, 264 (Part 1), Article 1202283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.120283
Mayer, Z., & Freund, A. M. (2025). To let go for now or for good? Goal shelving and goal disengagement across adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 40(4), 391–412. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000892
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. (2024). Looking White but feeling Asian: The role of physical permeability and perceived discrimination in multiracial-monoracial alliances. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241267332
Metzner, O., Wang, Y., Symes, W., Huang, Y., Keller, L., de Melo, G., & Lazarides, R. (2025). A process-oriented perspective on pre-service teachers' self-efficacy and their motivational messages: Using large language models to classify teachers' speech. British Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12779
Mintz, E. H., Toner, E. R., Skolnik, A. M., Pan, A., Frumkin, M. R., Baker, A. W., Simon, N. M., & Robinaugh, D. J. (2024). Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity. Death Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2433109
Moore, I. L., Smith, D. E., & Long, N. M. (2025). Mnemonic brain state engagement is diminished in healthy aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 151, 76–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.03.012
Naganuma, S., & Xu, R. (2024). Characterising high school students’ interest trajectory profiles. International Journal of Science Education. Advance online publication. 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
Papenberg, G., Karalija, N., Salami, A., Johansson, J., Wahlin, A., Andersson, M., Axelsson, J., Garrett, D. D., Riklund, K., Lindenberger, U., Nyberg, L., & Bäckman, L. (2025). Aging-related losses in dopamine D2/3 receptor availability are linked to working-memory decline across five years. Cerebral Cortex, 35(2), Article bhae481. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae481
Pauley, C., & Sander, M. C. (2025). The role of age differences in neural representations for memory performance. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 176, Article 106262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106262
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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-025-10623-z
Potter, S., Bridger, E., & Drewelies, J. (2025). Daily health and well-being in adulthood and old age: The role of adverse childhood experiences. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 17(1), Article e12637. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12637
Potter, S., Bridger, E., Piotrowska, P. J., & Drewelies, J. (2025). Emotional reactivity to daily positive and negative events in adulthood: The role of adverse childhood experiences. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001512
Reed, L. A., Brown, M. L., Kappas Mazzio, A., Messing, J. T., Grimm, K., Wachter, K., Jiwatram-Negrón, T., & Gonzalez-Pons, K. (2024). Patterns of technology-based abuse among adult intimate partner violence survivors and associations with offline abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 40(13–14), 3284–3306. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241268782
Roos, Y., Krämer, M. D., Richter, D., & Wrzus, C. (2024). Persons in contexts: The role of social networks and social density for the dynamic regulation of face-to-face interactions in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000512
Savell, S. M., Niguse, M., Caluori, N., Brown-Iannuzzi, J. L., Wilson, M. N., Lemery-Chalfant, K., & Shaw, D. S. (2024). Cascading influences of caregiver experiences of discrimination and adolescent antisocial behavior. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2024.230177
Schoon, I., Mele, F., & Burger, K. (2025). Academic agency and educational attainment: The intersection of SES, ethnicity and sex. Learning and Individual Differences, 120, Article 102689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102689
Schwarze, S. A., Bonati, S., Cichy, R. M., Lindenberger, U., Bunge, S. A., & Fandakova, Y. (2025). Task-switch related reductions in neural distinctiveness in children and adults: Commonalities and differences. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(26), Article e2358232025. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2358-23.2025
Schwarze, S. A., Laube, C., Khosravani, N., Lindenberger, U., Bunge, S. A., & Fandakova, Y. (2025). Intensive task-switching training and single-task training differentially affect behavioral and neural manifestations of cognitive control in children. Cerebral Cortex, 35(5), Article bhaf103. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaf103
Sengewald, E., Hardt, K., & Sengewald, M. A. (2025). A causal view on bias in missing data imputation: The impact of evil auxiliary variables on norming of test scores. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 60(2), 258–274. https://doi.org/10.1080/00273171.2024.2412682
Thoma, A. I., Newell, B. R., & Schulze, C. (2025). Emerging adaptivity in probability learning: How young minds and the environment interact. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154(6), 1523–1544. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001747
Thoma, A. I., & Schulze, C. (2025). Do children match described probabilities? The sampling hypothesis applied to repeated risky choice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 251, Article 106126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106126
Toner, E. R.*, Rucker, M.*, Wang, Z., Larrazabal, M. A., Cai, L., Datta, D., Thompson, E., Lone, H., Boukhechba, M., Teachman, B. A., & Barnes, L. E. (2025). Wearable sensor-based multimodal physiological responses of socially anxious individuals across social contexts. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2025.356278
Trauernicht, M., Anders, Y., Oppermann, E., & Klusmann, U. (2024). Emotional exhaustion in German preschool teachers: The role of personal, structural, and social conditions at the workplace. Journal of Research in Childhood Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2024.2325466
Trauernicht, M., & Lazarides, R. (2024). The flip side of teacher enthusiasm? Relations between teaching enthusiasm and socio-emotional support under consideration of different perceptions of teachers and students. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-024-01259-y
Ward-Seidel, A. R., & Bentley, L. (2025). Teacher preparation needs critical consciousness. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 5, Article 100119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sel.2025.100119
Ward-Seidel, A. R., Rimm-Kaufman, S. E., Bell, B. A., & Sandilos, L. E. (2025). Belonging contributes to compassion: A longitudinal study of middle school students' prosocial competencies. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 99, Article 101834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2025.101834
Ward-Seidel, A. R., Rimm-Kaufman, S. E., & Sandilos, L. E. (2024). Schoolwork with purpose: A mixed methods study on youths’ perspective on what makes learning meaningful. Journal of Adolescent Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584241280266
Weber, E., Hopwood, C. J., Denissen, J. J. A., & Bleidorn, W. (2024). Self-esteem and sexual experiences. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241257355
Wermelinger, S., Moersdorf, L., Baldenweg, C, & Daum, M. M. (2025). Do facial masks impact infants' joint attention? A within‐participant laboratory study. Infancy, 30(1), Article e12640. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12640
Yucel, M., Stern, J., Eisen, S., Lillard, A. S., & Vaish, A. (2025). Heroes, villains, and everything in between: Children’s assessment of morally ambiguous characters. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 256, Article 106251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106251
Zarandooz, S., & Raffington, L. (2025). Applying blood-derived epigenetic algorithms to saliva: Cross-tissue similarity of DNA methylation indices of aging, physiology, and cognition. Clinical Epigenetics, 17, Article 61. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-025-01868-2