Alexandra M. Freund, Prof. Dr. phil.

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

Administrative support

Tamara Herz, Dipl.-Psych.*

• Administration

Senior researcher

Sebastian Horn, Ph.D.

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

• Memory-based decision making from a developmental lifespan perspective
• Prospective and episodic memory
• Motivational reorientation in value-based decisions across the lifespan
• Uncertainty in different decision domains: preferential, perceptual-motor, and memory-based
• Cognitive measurement modeling

Chris Napolitano, Ph.D.

• Self regulation
• Relational developmental systems theories
• Developmental equifinality and multifinality

Postdoctoral researchers

Laura Almeling, Dr. rer. nat.

Postdoctoral researcher
almeling@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Room BIN 3.A.13

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

Xianmin Gong, Ph.D.

• Motivational orientation towards gains, maintenance, loss avoidance across adulthood
• Change of motivation and emotion across adulthood
• Interplay of emotion and cognition

Oliver J. Kaftan, Ph.D.

• Procrastination
• Goal focus
• Self regulation

Doctoral students

Anastasia Besika, MSc

• The relationship of sources of meaning and values

• The influence of values on goal setting

• Maximizing meaning in personal goals

Brian Cardini, MSc

• Time perception
• Recovery and exhaustion processes
• Multiple goal pursuit

Christopher Elmi, MSc

• Self-Regulation

• Lifespan Developmental Psychology

• Planning and Backup Planning

• Goal Pursuit

Zita Mayer, MSc

Doctoral student
mayer@psychologie.uzh.ch
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Room BIN 3.A.03

• Self-Regulation
• Dynamics of multiple goal pursuit
• Life-span developmental psychology

Lea Mörsdorf, MSc

• Goal representations
• Perception of goal-directed actions
• Self-regulation

Victoria Schüttengruber, MSc

• Recovery and exhaustion processes
• Self-regulation
• Goal pursuit
• Lifespan developmental psychology

Technical support

Benjamin Bill

Isabel Hotz, MSc

Scientific Research Assistant

Adjunct Lecturers

Prof. Jana Nikitin, PD Dr. phil.

Professor at the University of Basel
jana.nikitin@unibas.ch
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• Development of social motivation
• Motivational processes in transitions
• Approach and avoidance motivation

• Emotional development form adolescence to old age
• Age differences in emotional abilities
• Motivational conflicts across the lifespan

Martin Tomasik, PD Dr. phil.

Professor
Faculty of Health
Witten/Herdecke University
Martin.Tomasik@uni-wh.de

• Age differences in goal engagement and disengagement
• Biopsychosocial contexts of goal enagagement and disengagement
• Social, motivational and emotional aspects of life-span developmental psychology
• Globalisation and social change

Research affiliates and cooperation partners

Former members