Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf - Coping with Affective Polarization

Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

Principal Investigator

Research Stream: Berlin Polarization Monitor

Research Stream: Social Interactions

Research Stream: Civil Society Interventions Lab

Mail:
denis.gerstorf@hu-berlin.de

Website:
https://www.psychology.hu-berlin.de/de/mitarbeiter/1685131

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2133-9498

Short Vita

I am Professor and chair of Developmental Psychology at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. I am also a Research Fellow at the Socio-Economic Panel, one of the longest-running national surveys worldwide. I have the privilege to serve as one of the editors of the journal Gerontology. I also very much enjoy being the spokesperson of the interdisciplinary, multi-institutional Berlin Aging Study-II consortium. In my research, I focus on questions about the individuality of age(ing) and how age and ageing have changed over the course of time.

Key publications

Gerstorf, D., Hueluer, G., Drewelies, J., Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W., & Ram, N. (2020). Adult development and aging in historical context. American Psychologist, 75(4), 525–539. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000596
Infurna, F. J., Dey, N. E. Y., Gonzalez Avilés, T., Grimm, K. J., Lachman, M. E., & Gerstorf, D. (2024). Loneliness in midlife: Historical increases and elevated levels in the United States compared with Europe. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001322
Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Eibich, P., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Liebig, S., Goebel, J., Demuth, I., Villringer, A., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Ghisletta, P. (2023). Today’s older adults are cognitively fitter than older adults were 20 years ago, but when and how they decline is no different than in the past. Psychological Science, 34(1), 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221118541
Gerstorf, D., Schilling, O. K., Pauly, T., Katzorreck, M., Lucke, A. J., Wahl, H. W., Kunzmann, U., Hoppmann, C. A., & Ram, N. (2023). Long-term aging trajectories of the accumulation of disease burden as predictors of daily affect dynamics and stressor reactivity. Psychology and Aging, 38(8), 763-777. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000779
Wahl, H.-W. & Gerstorf, D. (2018). A conceptual framework for studying Context Dynamics in Aging (CODA). Developmental Review, 50(Part B), 155-176.

Press publications

https://www.psychology.hu-berlin.de/de/prof/devped/medien/medien

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