Dr. Martin Katzorreck-Gierden

Education

• 06/2022
  Obtainment of the doctoral degree "Dr. rer. nat.", Leipzig University
  Dissertation thesis: „The influence of the situational context on the employment of emotional competencies from a perspective of lifespan development“
• 10/2013
  M. Sc. in Psychology, Leipzig University
  Master thesis: „The Offspring-Buffer of Terror Management Theory as literal and symbolic Immortality“
• 09/2010
  B. Sc. in Psychology, Leipzig Universtiy
  Bachelor thesis:  „On the Relation between Implicit Motives and Operant Behaviour in Group Discussions“

Academic Positions

• since 06/2022
  Post-Doc and research associate, Leipzig University, Institute for Psychology, Lifespan Developmental Psychology Lab (Prof. Dr. Ute Kunzmann)
• 06/2017 - 06/2022
  Ph. D. Student, Leipzig University, Institute for Psychology, Lifespan Developmental Psychology Lab (Prof. Dr. Ute Kunzmann)
• since 09/2020 – 09/2021
  Researcher, Humboldt-University Berlin, Developmental and Educational Psychology (Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf)
• 06/2015 – 05/2017
  Scholarship by the Scholarship Programme of Saxony, Institute for Psychology, Lifespan Developmental Psychology Lab (Prof. Dr. Ute Kunzmann)
• 11/2012 – 04/2013
  Research Intern, Institute for Psychology, Social Psychology Lab (Prof. Dr. Immo Fritsche)
• 07/2008 – 09/2010
  Undergraduate Research Assistant, Leipzig University, Institute for Psychology, Cognitive Psychology Lab (Prof. Dr. Jörg Jescheniak)

• Lifespan psychology
• Emotional competencies (emotional reactivity, emotional variability, emotion regulation, empathy)
• Dealing with death anxiety and the awareness of one’s own mortality

Gerstorf, D., Schilling, O., Pauly, T., Katzorreck, M., Lücke, A., Wahl, H.-W., Kunzmann, U., Hoppmann, C. A., & Ram, N. (in press). Long-term aging trajectories of the accumulation of disease burden as predictors of daily affect dynamics and stressor reactivity. Psychology and Aging.

Lücke, A. J., Wrzus, C., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Hoppmann, C., & Schilling, O. K. (2022). Bidirectional links of daily sleep quality and duration with pain and self-rated health in older adults’ daily lives. The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glac192

Kornadt, A. E., Pauly, T., Schilling, O. K., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Lücke, A. J., Hoppmann, C. A., Gerstorf, D., & Wahl, H.-W. (2022). Momentary subjective age is associated with perceived and physiological stress in the daily lives of old and very old adults. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000711

Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Wieck, C., Schilling, O. Lücke, A. J., & Gerstorf, D. (in press). Emotion Regulation in Old and Very Old Age. Emotion.

Lücke, A., Wrzus, C., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Schmiedek, F., Hoppmann, C., Schilling, O. (in press). Between-person and within-person associations of sleep and working-memory in the everyday lives of old and very old adults: initial level, learning, and variability. Sleep.

Katzorreck, M., Nestler, S., Wrosch, C., & Kunzmann, U. (in press). Age differences in sadness reactivity and variability. Psychology and Aging.

Schilling, O. K., Gerstorf, D., Lücke, A. J., Katzorreck, M., Wahl, H.-W., Diehl, M. K., & Kunzmann, U. (in press). Emotional reactivity to daily stressors: Does stressor pile-up within a day matter for young-old and very-old adults? Psychology and Aging.

Pauly, T., Drewelies, J., Kolodziejczak, K., Katzorreck, M., Lücke, A. J., Schilling, O. K., Kunzmann, U., Wahl, H.-W., Ditzen, B., Ram, N., Gerstorf, D., Hoppmann, C. A. (2021). Positive and negative affect are associated with salivary cortisol in the everyday life of older adults: A quantitative synthesis of four aging studies. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 133, Article 105403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105403

Kornadt, A. E., Weiss, D., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Luecke, A., Schilling, O., Katzorreck, M., Siebert, J., & Wahl, H.W. (2021). “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. Psychology and Aging. 36(3), 373–382. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000604

Katzorreck, M., Wieck, C., & Kunzmann, U. (2020). Altersunterschiede in der Empathie: Theorien und empirische Evidenz. In M. Peters (Hrsg.) Psychotherapie im Alter- Theory of Mind, Empathie & Mentalisierung. 4/17. Jg. Tübingen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

Gerstorf, D., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Smith, J., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., Kunzmann, U., Siebert, J., Katzorreck, M., Eibich, P., Demuth, I., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., Heckhausen, J., & Ram, N. (2019). 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. Psychology and Aging, 34, 1090-1108. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000389

Kunzmann, U., Schilling, O., Wrosch, C., Siebert, J. S., Katzorreck, M., Wahl, H.-W., & Gerstorf, D. (2019). Negative emotions and chronic physical illness: A lifespan developmental perspective. Health Psychology, 38, 949-959. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000767

Katzorreck, M. & Kunzmann, U. (2018). Greater empathic accuracy and emotional reactivity in old age: The sample case of death and dying. Psychology and Aging, 33, 1202-1214. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000313

Katzorreck, M., Nestler, S., & Kunzmann, U. (2019). Age Differences in Emotional Variability: The Role of Context. Vortrag auf der 24. Tagung der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, 09. – 12. September.

Katzorreck, M., Nestler, S., & Kunzmann, U. (2018). Age differences in emotional variability: A within- and cross-context approach. Vortrag auf dem 51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Frankfurt am Main, 15. – 20. September.

Katzorreck, M. & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Altersunterschiede in emotionaler Reaktivität und Empathie beim Umgang mit Tod und Sterben. Vortrag auf der 23. Tagung der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Münster, 11. – 14. September.

Katzorreck, M. & Kunzmann, U. (2016). Age Differences in Emotional Reactions to Death and Dying. Posterpräsentation auf dem 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Leipzig, 18. – 22. September.

• European Journal of Personality
• Psychology and Aging
• Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie