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  1. Perceived Gains and Losses, Perceived Constraints in Control, and Goal Orientation in Adulthood

    Article • Psychological Reports, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  2. Uncertainty in Work-Related Transitions over the Life Course

    Article • Work Aging and Retirement, October 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  3. People do not always want more: Effects of gains and satisfaction on goal orientation in different age groups

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xianmin Gong, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  4. Goals in old age: What we want when we are old and why it matters

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychology, June 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  5. Comparing Apples and Oranges: Are Children and Adults Two Different Species?

    Article • March 2024, Center for Open Science

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  6. Predicting the use of a COVID‐19 contact tracing application: A study across two points of measurements

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, June 2023, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  7. Chasing the “How” and “Why” of goal pursuit: A multimethod approach to the study of goal focus

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  8. Shift Happens

    Article • European Psychologist, January 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  9. Positive and Negative Spillover Effects: Managing Multiple Goals in Middle Adulthood

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  10. The Role of Subjective Expectations for Exhaustion and Recovery: The Sample Case of Work and Leisure

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  11. Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement

    Article • September 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  12. Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  13. Pay One or Pay All? The Role of Incentive Schemes in Decision Making Across Adulthood

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  14. Age and information preference: Neutral information sources in decision contexts

    Article • PLOS One, July 2022, PLOS

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  15. Spelling out some unaddressed conceptual and methodological challenges in empirical lifespan research

    Article • Acta Psychologica, June 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  16. For Whom Is the Path the Goal? A Lifespan Perspective on the Development of Goal Focus

    Article • Collabra Psychology, January 2022, University of California Press

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  17. Does Goal Orientation Modulate Satisfaction With Cognitive Performance in Different Age Groups?

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, October 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Xianmin Gong, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  18. Adult age differences in remembering gain- and loss-related intentions

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  19. Adult age-related differences in appetitive and aversive associative learning.

    Article • Emotion, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  20. The Backup Planning Scale (BUPS): A Brief, Self-Reported Measure of a Person’s Tendency to Develop, Reserve, and Use Backup Plans

    Article • Journal of Personality Assessment, August 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  21. Effort Mobilization and Healthy Aging

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  22. Goal Changes and Healthy Aging

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  23. Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, July 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  24. Sociohistorical Change in Urban Older Adults’ Perceived Speed of Time and Time Pressure

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  25. Adult age differences in monetary decisions with real and hypothetical reward

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  26. Age-Related Changes in the Role of Social Motivation: Implications for Healthy Aging

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  27. Determinants of protective behaviours during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic

    Article • British Journal of Health Psychology, April 2021, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  28. Managing conflicting goals through prioritization? The role of age and relative goal importance

    Article • PLOS One, February 2021, PLOS

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  29. Does focusing on others enhance subjective well-being? The role of age, motivation, and relationship closeness.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  30. Beyond money: Nonmonetary prosociality across adulthood.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  31. Self-control from a multiple goal perspective of mixed reward options

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  32. From gains to losses: Age‐related differences in decisions under risk in a non‐monetary gambling task

    Article • British Journal of Developmental Psychology, December 2020, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  33. How Do Gain and Loss Incentives Affect Memory for Intentions Across Adulthood?

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  34. Recovery from accumulated strain: the role of daily mood and opportunity costs during a vacation

    Article • Psychology & Health, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  35. More or less energy with age? A motivational life-span perspective on subjective energy, exhaustion, and opportunity costs.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, May 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Brian B. Cardini, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  36. The bucket list effect: Why leisure goals are often deferred until retirement.

    Article • American Psychologist, May 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  37. Do We Become More Prosocial as We Age, and if So, Why?

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, April 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  38. It Is What You Have, Not What You Lose: Effects of Perceived Gains and Losses on Goal Orientation Across Adulthood

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, January 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Xianmin Gong, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  39. How to work out and avoid procrastination: The role of goal focus

    Article • Journal of Applied Social Psychology, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  40. A consensus-based transparency checklist

    Article • Nature Human Behaviour, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Andrew Bennett, Professor Marcus R Munafo, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  41. When the Fun Is Over

    Article • European Psychologist, October 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr. Brian B. Cardini, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  42. Adding life to one’s added years: Self- regulatory balancing of life domains across old age

    Article • Advances in Life Course Research, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  43. Individual Differences in Habitual Social Goals and Daily Well–Being: The Role of Age and Relationship Closeness

    Article • European Journal of Personality, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  44. Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Leisure Time Physical Activity, Mental Well-Being and Subjective Health in Middle Adulthood

    Article • Applied Research in Quality of Life, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  45. Social motives, attributions and expectations as predictors of the decision to participate in a speed-dating event

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Xianmin Gong, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  46. The Motivational Power of the Happy Face

    Article • Brain Sciences, January 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  47. The Model of Selection, Optimization, Compensation

    Article • January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  48. The Model of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  49. Perception of Risk for Older Adults: Differences in Evaluations for Self versus Others and across Risk Domains

    Article • Gerontology, December 2018, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  50. Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Risks: Unrealistic Optimism in the Health Domain

    Article • Risk Analysis, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  51. A Motivational Life-Span Perspective on Procrastination: The Development of Delaying Goal Pursuit Across Adulthood

    Article • Research in Human Development, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  52. A motivational perspective on academic procrastination: Goal focus affects how students perceive activities while procrastinating.

    Article • Motivation Science, July 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  53. Who Cares? Effects of Social Approach and Avoidance Motivation on Responsiveness to Others

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  54. Feeling loved and integrated or lonely and rejected in everyday life: The role of age and social motivation.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, June 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  55. Age, Loss Minimization, and the Role of Probability for Decision-Making

    Article • Gerontology, January 2018, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  56. Some evidence for the usefulness of an optimal foraging theory perspective on goal conflict and goal facilitation.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, December 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  57. Motivational Changes Across Adulthood: The Role of Goal Representations for Adult Development and Aging

    Article • November 2017, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  58. The Ill-Fated Quest for Fame in Psychological Research

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  59. Social interactions and activity patterns of old Barbary macaques: Further insights into the foundations of social selectivity

    Article • American Journal of Primatology, October 2017, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  60. Social Motives Predict Loneliness During a Developmental Transition

    Article • Swiss Journal of Psychology, September 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  61. Ecological Validity as a Key Feature of External Validity in Research on Human Development

    Article • Research in Human Development, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  62. When Work Takes Over

    Article • Journal of Personnel Psychology, July 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  63. The psychological distance of memories: Examining causal relations with mood and self-esteem in young, middle-aged and older adults

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  64. Life Management Through Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  65. The development of goals and motivation

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  66. Responding to emotional scenes: effects of response outcome and picture repetition on reaction times and the late positive potential

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, December 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  67. Boundary Management: A Time-Sampling Study on Managing Work and Private Life in Middle Adulthood

    Article • Research in Human Development, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  68. Does Medical Risk Perception and Risk Taking Change with Age?

    Article • Risk Analysis, September 2016, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  69. The use of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) in goal pursuit in the daily lives of middle-aged adults

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  70. Motivational Shifts in Aging Monkeys and the Origins of Social Selectivity

    Article • Current Biology, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  71. The end is (not) near: Aging, essentialism, and future time perspective.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, June 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Weiss, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  72. Going beyond work and family: A longitudinal study on the role of leisure in the work–life interplay

    Article • Journal of Organizational Behavior, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  73. It’s in the means: Process focus helps against procrastination in the academic context

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  74. Are backup plans a good or bad idea?

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, January 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Christopher M Napolitano, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  75. Age, Action Orientation, and Self‐Regulation during the Pursuit of a Dieting Goal

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  76. Model of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Article • December 2015, Wiley

    Dr Christopher M Napolitano, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  77. Getting at Developmental Processes Through Experiments

    Article • Research in Human Development, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  78. Emotion, Goals, and Distance: A View From the Study of Adult Development and Aging

    Article • Emotion Review, June 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  79. On Means and Ends

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, April 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  80. Why do(n’t) you like me? The role of social approach and avoidance motives in attributions following social acceptance and rejection

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  81. What you want to avoid is what you see: Social avoidance motivation affects the interpretation of emotional faces

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  82. Are mastery-avoidance achievement goals always detrimental? An adult development perspective

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  83. Life Management, Developmental Psychology of

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  84. Self-Regulation in Adulthood

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  85. The value of “negative” appraisals for resilience. Is positive (re)appraisal always good and negative always bad?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  86. The effect of age and time perspective on implicit motives

    Article • Motivation and Emotion, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  87. Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment

    Article • September 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  88. Wanting to Get More or Protecting One’s Assets: Age-Differential Effects of Gain Versus Loss Perceptions on the Willingness to Engage in Collective Action

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, August 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    David Weiss, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  89. Self-regulation among youth in four Western cultures

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  90. Adult age differences in frequency estimations of happy and angry faces

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, July 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  91. Values Across Adulthood

    Article • June 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  92. Delay or procrastination – A comparison of self-report and behavioral measures of procrastination and their impact on affective well-being

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  93. Michael Jackson, Bin Laden and I: Functions of positive and negative, public and private flashbulb memories

    Article • Memory, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  94. The Indirect Nature of Social Motives: The Relation of Social Approach and Avoidance Motives with Likeability via Extraversion and Agreeableness

    Article • Journal of Personality, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  95. How to Beat Procrastination

    Article • European Psychologist, January 2014, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  96. Age-related differences in altruism across adulthood: Making personal financial gain versus contributing to the public good.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  97. Aging and social perception: So far, more similarities than differences.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  98. Multidomain Engagement and Self-Reported Psychosomatic Symptoms in Middle-Aged Women and Men

    Article • Gerontology, January 2014, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  99. The role of age and motivation for the experience of social acceptance and rejection.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  100. Competing goals draw attention to effort, which then enters cost-benefit computations as input

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  101. When choice matters: Task-dependent memory effects in older adulthood.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, December 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  102. Identifying Success on the Process Level Reduces Negative Effects of Prior Weight Loss on Subsequent Weight Loss During a Low‐Calorie Diet

    Article • Applied Psychology Health and Well-Being, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  103. Misinformation, disinformation, and violent conflict: From Iraq and the “War on Terror” to future threats to peace.

    Article • American Psychologist, October 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  104. Graduating from high school: The role of gender-related attitudes, self-concept and goal clarity in a major transition in late adolescence

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    David Weiss, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  105. Age-related differences in evaluating developmental stability

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  106. Out of mind, out of heart: Attention affects duration of emotional experience

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  107. When feeling different pays off: How older adults can counteract negative age-related information.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Weiss, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  108. Beyond Age Comparisons: A Plea for the Use of a Modified Brunswikian Approach to Experimental Designs in the Study of Adult Development and Aging

    Article • Human Development, January 2013, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  109. Changing eating behaviour vs. losing weight: The role of goal focus for weight loss in overweight women

    Article • Psychology & Health, October 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  110. Means or outcomes? Goal orientation predicts process and outcome focus

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  111. Fear of Failure, Disorganization, and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Preparing for an Exam

    Article • Swiss Journal of Psychology, January 2012, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  112. Multidimensionality in Developmental Conceptions Across Adulthood

    Article • GeroPsych, January 2012, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  113. Mastering developmental transitions in young and middle adulthood: The interplay of openness to experience and traditional gender ideology on women's self-efficacy and subjective well-being.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Weiss, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  114. Still young at heart: Negative age-related information motivates distancing from same-aged people.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    David Weiss, Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  115. The Role of Age and Social Motivation in Developmental Transitions in Young and Old Adulthood

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  116. Stronger evidence for own-age effects in memory for older as compared to younger adults

    Article • Memory, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  117. Introduction to the special section: The role of gender in school-related transitions and beyond

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  118. Is longing only for Germans? A cross-cultural comparison of Sehnsucht in Germany and the United States.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, May 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  119. Parents as role models: Parental behavior affects adolescents’ plans for work involvement

    Article • International Journal of Behavioral Development, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  120. Wahrgenommene Zielkonflikte zwischen Gesundheitszielen: Ergebnisse einer Intervention zur Förderung von körperlicher Aktivität und Ernährung

    Article • Zeitschrift für Medizinische Psychologie, May 2011, IOS Press

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  121. Age and motivation predict gaze behavior for facial expressions.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  122. Normal Aging and Decision Making: The Role of Motivation

    Article • Human Development, January 2011, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  123. Beyond conflict: Functional facets of the work–family interplay

    Article • Journal of Vocational Behavior, August 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  124. Introduction

    Article • July 2010, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  125. Age-related differences in outcome and process goal focus

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, March 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  126. Individuating Age Salience: A Psychological Perspective on the Salience of Age in the Life Course

    Article • Human Development, January 2010, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  127. Staying on and getting back on the wagon: Age-related improvement in self-regulation during a low-calorie diet.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  128. Asymmetric Comparison in Choice Processes

    Article • Social and Personality Psychology Compass, July 2009, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  129. When wanting and fearing go together: The effect of co‐occurring social approach and avoidance motivation on behavior, affect, and cognition

    Article • European Journal of Social Psychology, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  130. Changes in the sensitivity to appetitive and aversive arousal across adulthood.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  131. Midlife Crisis: A Debate

    Article • Gerontology, January 2009, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  132. Psychological Consequences of Longevity

    Article • Human Development, January 2009, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  133. Me against myself: Motivational conflicts and emotional development in adulthood.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, September 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  134. The Role of Social Approach and Avoidance Motives for Subjective Well‐Being and the Successful Transition to Adulthood

    Article • Applied Psychology, June 2008, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  135. ApproachingSehnsucht(Life Longings) from a Life-Span Perspective: The Role of Personal Utopias in Development

    Article • Research in Human Development, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  136. Introduction to Special Issue

    Article • Research in Human Development, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  137. Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Article • Research in Human Development, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  138. Toward a developmental psychology of Sehnsucht (life longings): The optimal (utopian) life.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, May 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  139. Focusing and restricting: Two aspects of motivational selectivity in adulthood.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, March 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  140. Age-differential motivational consequences of optimization versus compensation focus in younger and older adults.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  141. Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: From striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  142. Goal progress makes one happy, or does it? Longitudinal findings from the work domain

    Article • Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, June 2005, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  143. Managing Life Through Personal Goals: Intergoal Facilitation and Intensity of Goal Pursuit in Younger and Older Adulthood

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, March 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  144. Advances in Lifespan Psychology: A Focus on Biocultural and Personal Influences

    Article • Research in Human Development, March 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  145. Interference and Facilitation among Personal Goals: Differential Associations with Subjective Well-Being and Persistent Goal Pursuit

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, December 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  146. Die Rolle von Zielen für die Entwicklung

    Article • Psychologische Rundschau, October 2003, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  147. Successful Aging

    Article • April 2003, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  148. Human strengths as the orchestration of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation.

    Article • January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  149. The intermarriage of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation: Two meta-heuristics guiding the conduct of life.

    Article • January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  150. The Dynamics of Possible Selves in Old Age

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, November 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  151. The Adaptiveness of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation as Strategies of Life Management: Evidence From a Preference Study on Proverbs

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, September 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  152. Subjective Career Success and Emotional Well-Being: Longitudinal Predictive Power of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Article • Journal of Vocational Behavior, June 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  153. Life-management strategies of selection, optimization and compensation: Measurement by self-report and construct validity.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, April 2002, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  154. Commentaries

    Article • Applied Psychology, July 2001, Wiley

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  155. Walking While Memorizing: Age-Related Differences in Compensatory Behavior

    Article • Psychological Science, May 2001, SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  156. Zum Einfluss persönlicher Prioritätensetzungen auf Maße der Stimuluspräferenz:

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), January 2001, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  157. Self-Regulation of Normative and Non-Normative Developmental Challenges<sup>1</sup>

    Article • Human Development, January 2001, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  158. Understanding Developmental Regulation in Adolescence: The Use of the Selection, Optimization,and Compensation Model

    Article • Human Development, January 2001, Karger Publishers

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  159. Selection, Optimization, and Compensation: An Action-Related Approach to Work and Partnership

    Article • Journal of Vocational Behavior, December 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  160. The Interplay of Work and Family in Young and Middle Adulthood

    Article • January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  161. Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: Correction to Freund and Bates (1998).

    Article • Psychology and Aging, December 1999, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  162. Content and Function of the Self-Definition in Old and Very Old Age

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, January 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  163. Methodological Comment: Temporal Stability of Older Person's Spontaneous Self - Definition

    Article • Experimental Aging Research, January 1999, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  164. Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: Correlations with subjective indicators of successful aging.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, January 1998, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  165. The Resilience of the Aging Self

    Article • Developmental Review, March 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund

  166. Successful Development and Aging: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Professor Alexandra M. Freund