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
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
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. (in press). Polygenic associations with educational attainment in East versus West Germany: Differences emerge after reunification. Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.21.585839 (Preprint)
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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf032
Frank, C. C., & Pachur, T. (in press). The affect gap in risky choice is similar for younger and older adults. Psychology and Aging.
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.
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
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., 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. (in press). Modulation of neural variability: Age-related reduction, GABAergic basis, and behavioral implications. eLife. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.14.507785
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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459241302015
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. (2024). Goal shelving can both undermine and support prioritized goals: The role of opportunity costs. Motivation Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000383
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
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.12779A
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
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. Advance online pubication. 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
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. Advance online publication. 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
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., 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
Zarandooz, S., & Raffington, L. (in press). Applying blood-derived epigenetic algorithms to saliva: Cross-tissue similarity of DNA methylation indices of aging, physiology, and cognition. Clinical Epigenetics.