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  • Dana Kotter-Gruehn

  • Visiting assistant professor
  • Psychology and Neuroscience
  • 122H Sociology-Psychology Building
  • Phone: 919-613-6280
  • Office Hours: W 10 am - noon & by appointment
  • Curriculum Vitae

  • Specialties

    • Developmental Psychology
    • Social Psychology

  • Research Summary

    developmental psychology; social gerontology

  • Research Description

    My research focuses on - psychosocial development in middle adulthood and old age - social cognition (age stereotypes, ageism, self-perceptions of aging) - self-regulation & coping in the context of aging and critical life events - well-being in the context of successful aging - group processes in the context of intergenerational interactions - social relationships & social support - psychosocial predictors of mortality

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Freie Universitaet Berlin [Free University Berlin, Germany],
      • 2008
      • MS,
      • Technische Universitaet Dresden [University of Technology Dresden, Germany],
      • 2004
      • BS,
      • Technische Universitaet Dresden [University of Technology Dresden, Germany],
      • 2001

  • Recent Publications

      • Stephan, Y., Chalabaev, A., Kotter-Grühn, D., & Jaconelli, A.
      • 2013.
      • “Feeling younger, being stronger”: An experimental study of Subjective Age and Physical Functioning among Older Adults.
      • Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
      • 68:
      • 1-7
      • .
      • Kotter-Grühn, D..
      • 2013.
      • Subjective and objective nearness to death.
      • .
      • Kotter-Grühn, D., & Hess, T. M.
      • 2012.
      • So you think you look young? Matching older adults’ subjective ages with age estimations provided by younger, middle-aged, and older adults.
      • International Journal of Behavioral Development
      • 36:
      • 468-475
      • .
      • Kotter-Grühn, D. & Hess, T. M.
      • 2012.
      • The impact of age stereotypes on self-perceptions of aging across the adult lifespan.
      • Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
      • 67:
      • 563-571
      • .
      • Hess, T. M., & Kotter-Grühn, D.
      • 2011.
      • Social knowledge and goal-based influences on social information processing in adulthood.
      • Psychology and Aging
      • 26:
      • 792-802
      • .
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