Staff members of the Chair of Developmental Psychology: Adulthood

Prof. Dr. Alexandra M. Freund

• Processes of developmental regulation; successful development
• Motivation across the life  span
• Development of self-related cognitions and emotions across the life span
• Lifelong learning         

Dr. Sebastian Horn

Senior teaching and research associate
horn@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Phone +41 44 635 72 02

• Cognition from a developmental lifespan perspective                                              
• Prospective and episodic memory
• Judgment and decision making
• Motivational orientation and value-based decisions
• Cognitive measurement modeling

Zita Mayer, MSc

• Self-regulation
• Dynamics of multiple goal pursuit
• Lifespan developmental psychology

Jasmin Brummer, MSc

• Prospective memory
• Motivation
• Lifespan developmental psychology
• Cognitive models

Beatrice Tarapoanca, MSc

• Exhaustion and recovery processes
• Lifespan developmental psychology

Ziqi Zhang, M.Ed.

• Lifespan developmental psychology
• Develop self-related cognitions and emotions throughout the lifespan
• Mental and physical effort

Jasmin Weber, MSc

• Prosocial behaviour

Selina Caviezel, MSc

• Health behavior change
• Dyadic interventions
• Social relationships and well-being

Sophie Louise Kittelberger, MA

Doctoral student
s.kittelberger@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Room BIN 3.A.13

• Social norms
• Social identity
• Protective health behavior

Christopher Elmi, MSc

• Self-regulation
• Lifespan developmental psychology
• Planning and backup planning
• Goal pursuit

Celina Flück, BA Sinology & Ethnlology

• Administration

Tove Hensler, MSc

Valentina Triantafyllidou, BSc Psych. / MEng.*                                      

Dr. Laura Almeling 

• Determinants of healthy aging
• Attention focus in daily life
• Behavioral Endocrinology (Testosterone and Cortisol)

Dr. Brian Cardini

cardini@psychologie.uzh.ch
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• Processes of exhaustion and recovery
• Age-related changes in the subjective availability of energy for daily activities across adulthood
• Multiple goal pursuit

Dr. Oliver J. Kaftan

External Lecturer
kaftan@psychologie.uzh.ch
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• Procrastination
• Goal focus
• Self regulation