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
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. Advance online publication. 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
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.
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.
Krämer, M. D., & Bleidorn, W. (2025). Informal care and personality: Selection and socialization effects. Personality Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/27000710251321820
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. (2024). 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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-024-02536-1
Lucca, K., Capelier-Mourguy, A., Byers-Heinlein, K., … Loeffler, M. T., … , Stutz, S., … Hamlin, K. (in press). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study [Registered report]. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qhxkm (Preprint)
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
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
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
Raffington, L., Willems, Y., Aikins, M., Mitchell, C., Goosby, B., & Fraemke, D. (in press). Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence. Molecular Psychiatry.
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., & 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