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Curriculum Vitae
Ausbildung
2009
Promotion in Psychologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Aging Identities: The Ambivalence of Age Group and Generation Belonging
2005
Diplom in Psychologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Student Fellowship & Diplomarbeit: Australian National University, Department of Psychology, Canberra, Australien (Leitung: Prof. Penelope J. Oakes)
Beruflicher Werdegang
seit 2018
Heisenberg-Stelle der Deutschen Forschungsgesellschaft, Universität Leipzig, Institut für Psychologie, Professur für Entwicklungspsychologie
2014 - 2018
Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Psychology
Columbia Aging Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City
2009 - 2014
Postdoc, Universität Zürich, Psychologisches Institut - Entwicklungspsychologie: Erwachsenenalter (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Alexandra M. Freund)
2005 - 2009
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Doktorand, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Psychogerontologie und Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Institut für Psychologie, Abteilung Entwicklungpsychologie (Leitung: Prof. Frieder R. Lang)
2002 - 2005
Studentischer Mitarbeiter, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Psychologie, Sozialpsychologie (Leitung: Prof. Bernd Simon) / Abteilung Entwicklungspsychologie (Leitung: Prof. Thomas Bliesener)
Forschungsinteressen
Selbst und Identität
Dynamik von sozialem Status über die Lebensspanne
Anpassung an entwicklungsbedingte Übergänge
Herausgebertätigkeit
Mitglied des Redaktionsausschusses
Psychology and Aging
Zeitschriften: Ad-Hoc Reviewer
Cognition
Developmental Psychology
European Journal of Aging
Frontiers in Psychology
Gerontology
International Journal of Aging and Human Development
International Journal of Behavioral Development
International Journal of Psychology
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Journal of Personality
Journal of Adolescence
Journal of Marriage and Family
Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences
PlosOne
Psychology and Aging
Psychophysiology
Self and Identity
Social Science & Medicine
The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry
Publikationen
Blöchl, M. Nestler, S., & Weiss, D. (2020). A limit of the subjective age bias: Feeling younger to a certain degree, but no more, is beneficial for life satisfaction. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000578
Weiss, D. & Diehl, M. (2020). Measuring (Non)Essentialist Beliefs About the Process of Aging. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbaa113
Weiss, D. & Kunzmann, U. (2020). Longitudinal Changes in Subjective Social Status are Linked to Changes in Positive and Negative Affect in Midlife, but not in Later Adulthood. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000572
Weiss, D. & Diehl, M. (2020. Measuring (Non)Essentialist Beliefs About the Process of Aging. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa113
Weiss, D. & Zhang. X (2020). Multiple Sources of Aging Attitudes: Perceptions of Age Groups and Generations from Adolescence to Old Age across China, Germany, and the US. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 6, 407-423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120925904
Weiss, D. & Weiss, M. (2019). Why people feel younger: Motivational and social-cognitive mechanisms of the subjective age bias and its implications for work and organizations. Work, Aging & Retirement, 5, 273-280. doi: 10.1093/workar/waz016
Weiss, D. & Perry E. (2020). Implications of Generational and Age Metastereotypes for Older Adults at Work: The Role of Agency, Stereotype Threat, and Job Search Self-Efficacy. Work, Aging & Retirement, 1, 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waz010
Weiss, D., Reitz, A. K., & Stephan, Y. (2019). Is age more than a number? The role of openness and (non)essentialist beliefs about aging for how young or old people feel. Psychology and Aging, 34, 729-737. doi: 10.1037/pag0000370
Zee, K. S., & Weiss, D. (2019). High-quality relationships strengthen the benefits of a younger subjective age across adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 34, 374–388. doi: 10.1037/pag0000349
Weiss, D. & Kornadt, A. E. (2018). Age-stereotype internalization and dissociation: Contradictory processes or two sides of the same coin? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 477–483. doi: 10.1177/0963721418777743
Robertson, D. A. & Weiss, D. (2018). Rising above it: Status ambivalence in older adults. Gerontology, 64, 576-588. doi: 10.1159/000488389
Weiss, D. (2018). On the inevitability of aging: Essentialist beliefs moderate the impact of negative age stereotypes on older adults’ memory performance and physiological reactivity. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 73, 925-933. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbw087
Robertson, D. A. & Weiss, D. (2017). In the eye of the beholder: Can counter stereotypes change perceptions of older adults’ social status? Psychology and Aging, 32, 531-542. doi: 10.1037/pag0000186
Weiss, D. & Weiss, M. (2016). The interplay of subjective social status and essentialist beliefs about cognitive aging on cortisol reactivity to challenge in older adults. Psychophysiology, 53, 1256-1262. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12667
Weiss, D., Job, V., Mathias, M., Grah, S., & Freund A. M. (2016). The end is (not) near: Aging, essentialism, and future time perspective. Developmental Psychology, 6, 996-1009. doi: 10.1037/dev0000115
Lang, F. R., Gerstorf, D., Weiss, D., & Wagner, G. G. (2016). On differentiating adaptation from dispositional concepts – The case of age-associated dynamics of life satisfaction. Journal of Individual Differences, 36, 206–210. doi: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000205
Weiss, D., Sczesny, S., & Freund, A.M. (2016). 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. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 2, 254-264. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbu098
Weiss, D. (2014). What will remain when we are gone? Finitude and generation identity in the second half of life. Psychology and Aging, 29, 554-562. doi: 10.1037/a0036728
Weiss, D., Sassenberg, K., & Freund, A. M. (2013). When feeling different pays off: How older adults can counteract negative age-related information. Psychology and Aging, 28, 1140-1146. doi: 10.1037/a0033811
Freund, A. M., Weiss, D., & Wiese, B. S. (2013). Graduating from high school: The role of gender-related attitudes, self-concept and goal clarity in a major transition in late adolescence. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 10, 580-596. doi: 10.1080/17405629.2013.772508
Lang, F. R., Weiss, D., Gerstorf, D., & Wagner, G. G. (2013). Forecasting life satisfaction across adulthood: Benefits of seeing a dark future? Psychology and Aging, 28, 249-61. doi:10.1037/a0030797
Weiss, D., Freund, A. M., & Wiese, B. S. (2012). Mastering developmental transitions in young and middle adulthood: The interplay of openness to experience and traditional gender ideology on women's self-efficacy and well-being. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1774-1784. doi: 10.1037/a0028893
Weiss, D., & Freund, A. M. (2012). Still young at heart: Negative age-related information motivates distancing from same-aged people. Psychology and Aging, 27, 173-180. doi: 10.1037/a0024819
Weiss, D., & Lang, F. R. (2012a). "They" are old but "I" feel younger: Age-group dissociation as a self-protective strategy in old age. Psychology and Aging, 27, 153-163. doi: 10.1037/a0024887
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2012b). Two faces of age identity. The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 25, 5-14. doi:10.1024/1662-9647/a000050
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2009). Thinking about my generation: Adaptive effects of a dual age identity in later adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 24, 729-734. doi: 10.1037/a0016339
Lang, F. R., Weiss, D., Stocker, A., & von Rosenblatt, B. (2007). Assessing cognitive capacities in computer-assisted survey research: Two ultra-short tests of intellectual ability in the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 127, 183-192.