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The goal of this research project is to investigate associations between future time perspective (open versus limited) and gratitude using experimental, cross-sectional, and intensive longitudinal methods.
The goal of this project is to design and pilot a digital companion (smartphone application) that supports people in processes of holding on and letting go in adulthood. The project takes a developmental guidance approach.
The goal of this collaborative project with papilio AG is to design and pilot a digital coaching application that helps people manage changes at work, specifically during COVID-19. The app was piloted in several companies. The project is funded by papilio AG.
(PI, ongoing, 2017-2020: Pilot project)
The goal of this project is to design and evaluate a digital coaching application that promotes self-control. The MindHike app was developed to serve as a digital coach in order to guide and support individuals in their self-imposed goal to increase their self-control (more). The project is funded in part by the Stiftung für wissenschaftliche Forschung an der Universität Zürich.
(PI, 2016-2019)
The goal of the interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with the Psychological Interventions and Psychotherapy lab at the UZH and the Center for Digital Health Interventions at the ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen is to design and to evaluate a smartphone-based intervention for intentional personality change. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
(Co-PI, 2015-2018)
The goal of this research project is to study the ways older individuals maintain or improve their well-being and health with a focus on within-individual processes in everyday life. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
The goal of this research project is to investigate the predictive effects of personality change and dynamics (over and above the effects of personality level) on important life outcomes, including well-being, health, social functioning, and longevity. One focus is on how personality development and dynamics across adolescence may have consequences in early and middle adulthood. The other focus is on how personality development and dynamics in middle adulthood may have consequences for aging processes and coping in later years of the lifespan.
The goal of this project in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Geneva is to study the associations between personality and cognition (more).
The goal of this research project of the URPP Dynamics of Healthy Aging (more) in collaboration with the geographic information science (GIScience) of the UZH is to study short-term fluctuations and long-term trajectories between cognitive, social, emotional functioning, mobility, and daily life contexts in healthy older adults.
The goal of this research project is to study personality processes in specific social situations in daily life (e.g., socializing, flirting). The effects of a group training to promote flirt skills among younger and older adults (FlirtActiv) will be tested.
The goal of this research project is to develop and evaluate psychoeducational group interventions to help older adults manage unresolved interpersonal transgressions. In particular, this research examines the comparative effects of learning-oriented versus action-oriented versus strengths-oriented routes in managing unresolved interpersonal transgressions.
(Co-PI, 2014-2017)
The goal of this international project in collaboration with the PATH (Purpose, Aging, Transitions, and Health) Lab at Washington University in St. Louis is to develop new approaches toward assessing the trait of forgivingness by means of daily behavioral processes and cognitive study paradigms. The project is funded by the John Templeton Foundation (USA).
