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  1. What Preceding Health Changes Mean for Our Connection with Past and Future Selves

    Article • Psychology and Aging, May 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Yi Lu, Corinna Loeckenhoff, Urmimala Ghose, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  2. Little to no evidence for historical improvements in verbal learning among older adults.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, June 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  3. Sex differences in the age-related decrease of spontaneous baroreflex function in healthy individuals

    Article • AJP Heart and Circulatory Physiology, January 2024, American Physiological Society

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  4. Daily Rumination–Affect Associations in Dyads During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, December 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  5. Differences in self-perceptions of aging across the adult lifespan: The sample case of awareness of age-related gains and losses.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, November 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  6. Levels of awareness of age-related gains and losses throughout adulthood and their developmental correlates.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, October 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  7. Long-term aging trajectories of the accumulation of disease burden as predictors of daily affect dynamics and stressor reactivity.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, October 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  8. The mediating role of personality traits in the association between childhood trauma and depressive symptoms in young adulthood

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, October 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  9. Daily solitude and well‐being associations in older dyads: Evidence from daily life assessments

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

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  10. Between-person and within-person associations among sensory functioning and attitude toward own aging in old age: Evidence for mutual relations.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, August 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  11. Everyday Pain in Middle and Later Life: Associations with Daily and Momentary Present-Moment Awareness as One Key Facet of Mindfulness

    Article • Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, August 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  12. Three facets of emotion regulation in old and very old age: Strategy use, effectiveness, and variability.

    Article • Emotion, August 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  13. Life goals and personality traits develop together

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, July 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Laura Buchinger, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  14. In it Together: Relationship Transitions and Couple Concordance in Health and Well-Being

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  15. Personality traits and health care use: A coordinated analysis of 15 international samples.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, June 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  16. Diversified innovations in the health sciences: Proposal for a Diversity Minimal Item Set (DiMIS)

    Article • Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy, June 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  17. Time-Varying Daily Gratitude-Affect Links Across the Adult Lifespan

    Article • GeroPsych, June 2023, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  18. Younger Than Ever? Subjective Age Is Becoming Younger and Remains More Stable in Middle-Age and Older Adults Today

    Article • Psychological Science, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  19. Context Matters: Health Sensitivity in the Daily Lives of Older Adults Living Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  20. Age Differences in Self-Continuity in Germany and the United States: The Role of Temporal Direction, Temporal Distance, and Demographics

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series B, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  21. Beyond Big Five trait domains: Stability and change in personality facets across midlife and old age

    Article • Journal of Personality, November 2022, Wiley

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  22. Bidirectional Links of Daily Sleep Quality and Duration With Pain and Self-rated Health in Older Adults’ Daily Lives

    Article • The Journals of Gerontology Series A, September 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  23. The impact of affective information on working memory: A psychometric approach.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, August 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Annette Brose, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  24. Subjective age and attitudes toward own aging across two decades of historical time.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, May 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  25. Emotional reactivity to daily stressors: Does stressor pile-up within a day matter for young-old and very old adults?

    Article • Psychology and Aging, March 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Manfred Diehl, Martin Katzorreck, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  26. Emotion regulation in old and very old age.

    Article • Emotion, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Martin Katzorreck, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  27. Dyadic analysis and the reciprocal one-with-many model: Extending the study of interpersonal processes with intensive longitudinal data.

    Article • Psychological Methods, February 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  28. A developmental–contextual model of couple synchrony across adulthood and old age.

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

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  29. Time-varying associations between everyday affect and cortisol in older couples.

    Article • Health Psychology, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Maureen C. Ashe, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  30. Historical change in midlife health, well-being, and despair: Cross-cultural and socioeconomic comparisons.

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

    Dr Frank J Infurna, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  31. “I felt so old this morning.” Short-term variations in subjective age and the role of trait subjective age: Evidence from the ILSE/EMIL ecological momentary assessment data.

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

    David Weiss, Martin Katzorreck, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  32. You’re under my skin: Long-term relationship and health correlates of cortisol synchrony in older couples.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Maureen C. Ashe, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  33. The development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, October 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  34. Trajectories of multiple subjective well-being facets across old age: The role of health and personality.

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

    Sophie Potter, Annette Brose, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  35. Dehydration predicts longitudinal decline in cognitive functioning and well-being among older adults.

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

    Konstantinos Mantantzis, Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  36. Adult development and aging in historical context.

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

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  37. Cohort differences in adult-life trajectories of internal and external control beliefs: A tale of more and better maintained internal control and fewer external constraints.

    Article • Psychology and Aging, December 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  38. Future time perspective: Dimensions of opportunities, life, and time are differentially associated with physical health, cognitive functioning, and well-being in old age

    Article • Aging & Mental Health, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf

  39. Terminal change across facets of affective experience and domain satisfaction: Commonalities, differences, and bittersweet emotions at the end of life.

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

    Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf