Education
- 2006
Habilitation, Free University Berlin
The differential development of pragmatic competencies in adulhood and old age - 1998
PhD in Psychology (Dr. phil.), Free University Berlin
Being and feeling in control: Two sources of older people's emotional well-being - 1994
Diploma in Psychology, Free University Berlin
Emotional Well-Being: Structure, Stability and Change
Professional Positions
- since 2007
Professor for Life-Span Developmental Psychology (W3), Leipzig University, Institute for Psychology - 2004 - 2007
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen, Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (Direktorin: Prof. Ursula M. Staudinger) - 2000 - 2004
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Center for Life-Span Psychology (Director: Prof. Paul B. Baltes) - 1998 - 1999
Post-Doctoral Stipend of the German Research Foundation, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Personality and Social Research, Berkeley Psychophysiology Lab (Director: Prof. Robert W. Levenson) - 1994 - 1997
Doctoral Stipend, Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin, Center for Life-Span Psychology (Director: Prof. Paul B. Baltes) - 1992 - 1994
Research Assistent, Max Planck Institute of Human Development in Berlin, Center for Life-Span Psychology (Director: Prof. Paul B. Baltes) - 1991 - 1992
Research Assistent, Free University Berlin, Social and Personality Research Group (Prof. Adolf O. Jäger and Prof. Heinz-Martin Süss)
2024
Liebal, K., Denzer, V., Eisenhauer, N., Fritsche, I., Kunzmann, U., Oña, L., Quaas, M.F., Staude, I., & Wirth, C. (2024) Biodiversity, mental health and well-being: psychological mechanisms and moderators of a complex relationship (BIOWELL). Research Ideas and Outcomes 10: e116333. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e116333
Kunzmann, U. (in press). Wisdom and Age - A Complex Association. In M. Lachman und A. Spiro (Eds.), APA Handbook of Adult Development and Aging
Kunzmann, U. & Wrosch, C. (2024). Not All Negative Emotions Are Equal - Sadness and Anger Develop Differently and Their Adaptivity Is Age-Graded. Current Opinion in Psychology. 55, 101766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101766
2023
Gerstorf, D., Schilling, O. K., Pauly, T., Katzorreck, M., Luecke, A. J., Wahl, H. W., Kunzmann, U., Hoppmann, C. A., & Ram, N. (2023). Long-term aging trajectories of the accumulation of disease burden as predictors of daily affect dynamics and stressor reactivity. Psychology and Aging. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000779
Kunzmann, U., Nestler, S., Lücke, A. J., Katzorreck, M., Hoppmann, C. A., Wahl, H.-W., Schilling, O., & Gerstorf, G. (in press). Three facets of emotion regulation in old and very old age: Strategy use, effectiveness, and variability. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001269
Scheibe, S., Wieck, C., & Kunzmann, U. (2023). Technical report: Development and validation of Dutch film stimuli to assess empathy in the work context. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/af6ct
Kunzmann, U. & Wieck, C. (2023). Mitgefühl - eine Ressource über die gesamte Lebensspanne. In J. Kienbaum (Hrsg.), Die Entwicklung von Mitgefühl. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
2022
Lücke, A., J., Wrzus, C., Gerstorf, D., Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Schmiedek, F., Hoppmann, C. A., & Schilling, O. K. (2022). 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, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab279
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
Barlow, M. A., Wrosch, C., Hamm, J., Sacher, T., Miller, G. E., & Kunzmann, U. (2022). Discrete Negative Emotions and Goal Disengagement in Older Adulthood: Context Effects and Associations with Emotional Well-Being. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001091
Weiss, D., Greve, W., & Kunzmann, U. (2022). Responses to Social Inequality Across the Life Span: The Role of Social Status and Upward Mobility Beliefs. International Journal of Behavioral Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221089615
Kunzmann, U. (2022). The wisdom in emotions. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Glück (Eds.), Wisdom: An Introduction (pp. 157–174). Cambridge University Press.
Katzorreck, M., Nestler, S., Wrosch, C., & Kunzmann, U. (2022). Age differences in sadness reactivity and variability. Psychology and Aging, 37, 163–174. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000666
Kunzmann, U., Katzorreck, M., Wieck, C., Schilling, O., Lücke, A. J., & Gerstorf, D. (2022). Emotion regulation in old and very old age. Emotion, 22(7), 1473–1486. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001075
Schilling, O. K., Gerstorf, D., Lücke, A. J., Katzorreck, M., Wahl, H.-W., Diehl, M., & Kunzmann, U. (2022). Emotional reactivity to daily stressors: Does stressor pile-up within a day matter for young-old and very old adults? Psychology and Aging, 37(2), 149–162. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000667
Blöchl, M., Schaare, H. L., Kunzmann, U., & Nestler, S. (2022). The age-dependent association between vascular risk factors and depressed mood. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 77(2), 284–294, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab063
Wieck, C., Scheibe, S. & Kunzmann, U. (2022). Development and validation of film stimuli to assess empathy in the work context. Behavioral Research, 54, 75–93. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01594-6
2021
Rohr, M. K., Salazar Kämpf, M., & Kunzmann, U. (2021). Love and imitation: facial mimicry and relationship satisfaction in younger and older couples. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbab193. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab193
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
Hamm, J., Barlow, M., Wrosch, C., & Kunzmann U. (2021). A tale of two emotions: the diverging salience and health consequences of calmness and excitement in old age. Psychology and Aging. 36(5), 626–641. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000512
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
Roebbig, J., Erbey, M., Babayan, A., Reiter, A.M.F, Kumral, D., Schaare, H.L., Reinelt, J.D., Gaebler, M., Kunzmann, U., & Villringer, A. (2021). Anger Regulation Choice – the Role of Age and Habitual Reappraisal. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000915
Wieck, C., Kunzmann, U., & Scheibe, S. (2021). Empathy at Work: The Role of Age and Emotional Job Demands. Psychology and Aging, 36(1), 36-48. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000469
2020
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
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.
2019
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. doi: 10.1037/pag0000389
Rohr, M., Nestler, S., & Kunzmann, U. (2019). A trouble shared is a trouble halved: age differences in emotional experience and expression during couples’ conversations. Psychology and Aging, 34, 848-861. doi: 10.1037/pag0000386
Kunzmann, U. (2019). Wisdom and successful aging: The royal road to personality growth. In R. Fernandez-Ballesteros, A. Benethos, & J. M. Robine (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Zacher, H. & Kunzmann, U. (2019). Wisdom in the workplace. In R. Sternberg, H. Nussbaum, & J. Glück (Eds.), Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems (pp. 255-292). Cham, CH: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kunzmann, U. (2019). Performance-based measures of wisdom: State of the art and future directions. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom (pp. 277-296). Cambridge University Press.
Kunzmann, U. & Glück, J. (2019). Wisdom and emotion. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Glück (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Wisdom (pp. 575-601). Cambridge University Press.
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. doi: 10.1037/hea0000767
Barlow, M., Wrosch, C., Gouin, J. P., & Kunzmann, U. (2019). Is anger, but not sadness, associated with chronic inflammation and illness in older adulthood? Psychology and Aging, 34, 330-340. doi: 10.1037/pag0000348
2018
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. doi: 10.1037/pag0000313
Scheibe, S. & Kunzmann, U. (2018). Territories of Positive Life Span Development: Wisdom and Sehnsucht (Life Longings). In C. R. Snyder, S. J. Lopez, L. M. Edwards, and S. C. Marques (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology (3rd edition). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199396511.013.13
Gerstorf, D., Hülür, G., Wagner, G. G., Kunzmann, U., & Ram, N. (2018). Terminal change across facets of affective experience and domain satisfaction: Commonalities, differences, and bittersweet emotions at the end of life. Developmental Psychology, 54, 2382-2402. doi: 10.1037/dev0000599
Braun, T., Rohr, M., Wagner, J., & Kunzmann, U. (2018). Perceived reciprocity and relationship satisfaction: Age and relationship category matter. Psychology and Aging, 33, 713-727. doi: 10.1037/pag0000267
Wirth, M. & Kunzmann, U. (2018). Age Differences in Regulating Negative Emotions via Attentional Deployment. Psychology and Aging, 33, 384-398. doi: 10.1037/pag0000254
Wrosch, C., Barlow, M. A., & Kunzmann, U. (2018). Age-related changes in older adults' anger and sadness: the role of perceived control. Psychology and Aging, 33, 350-360. doi: 10.1037/pag0000229
Kunzmann, U., Wieck, C., & Dietzel, C. (2018). Empathic accuracy: age differences from adolescence into middle adulthood. Cognition and Emotion, 32, 1611-1624. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1433128
Kunzmann, U., & Wrosch, C. (2018). Comment: The emotion-health link: Perspectives from a lifespan theory of discrete emotions. Emotion Review, 10, 59-61. doi: 10.1177/1754073917719332
2017
Kunzmann, U., Nowak, J., Thomas, S., & Nestler, S. (2017). Value relativism and perspective taking are two distinct facets of wisdom-related knowledge. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 8, 1384–1392. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx136
Rakoczy, H., Wandt, R., Thomas, S., Nowak, J., & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Theory of mind and wisdom: The development of different forms of perspective-taking in late adulthood. British Journal of Psychology, 109, 6-24. doi:10.1111/bjop.12246
Rohr, M. K., Wieck, C., & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Age differences in positive feelings and their expression. Psychology and Aging, 32, 608-620. doi: 10.1037/pag0000200
Wirth, M., Isaacowitz, D. M., & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Visual attention and emotional reactions to negative stimuli: The role of age and cognitive reappraisal. Psychology and Aging, 32, 543-556. doi: 10.1037/pag0000188
Kunzmann, U., & Isaacowitz, D. (2017). Emotional aging: Taking the immediate context seriously. Research in Human Development, 14, 182-199. doi:10.1080/15427609.2017.1340048
Wieck, C. & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Age differences in emotion recognition: A question of modality? Psychology and Aging, 32, 401-411. doi: 10.1037/pag0000178
Braun, T., Schmukle, S. C., & Kunzmann, U. (2017). Stability and change in subjective well-being: The role of performance-based and self-rated cognition. Psychology and Aging, 32, 105-117. doi: 10.1037/pag0000153
Kunzmann, U. & Wrosch, C. (2017). Emotional development in old age. In N. A. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of geropsychology (pp. 752-762). New York: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-082-7_112
Kunzmann, U., Rohr, M., Wieck, C., Kappes, K., & Wrosch, C. (2017). Speaking about feelings: Further evidence for multidirectional age differences in anger and sadness. Psychology and Aging, 32, 93-103. doi: 10.1037/pag0000142
2015
Wieck, C., & Kunzmann, U. (2015). Age differences in empathy: Multidirectional and context-dependent. Psychology and Aging, 30, 407-419. doi: 10.1037/a0039001
Kunzmann, U. & Thomas, S. (2015). Wisdom-related knowledge across the life span. In S. Joseph (Ed.), Positive Psychology in Practice (2 ed., pp. 577-594). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118996874.ch34
2014
Kunzmann, U., Kappes, C., & Wrosch, C. (2014). Emotional aging: a discrete emotions perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-5. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00380
Kunzmann, U. & Thomas, S. (2014). Multidirectional age differences in anger and sadness. Psychology and Aging, 29, 16-27. doi: 10.1037/a0035751
Thomas, S., & Kunzmann, U. (2014). Age differences in wisdom-related knowledge: Does the age-relevance of the task matter? The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69, 897-905. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt076
2013
Kunzmann, U., Richter, D., & Schmukle, S. C. (2013). Stability and change in affective experience across the adult life span: analyses with a national sample from Germany. Emotion, 13, 1086-1095. doi: 10.1037/a0033572
2011
Streubel, B. & Kunzmann, U. (2011). Age differences in emotional reactions: Arousal and age-relevance count. Psychology and Aging, 26, 966-978. doi: 10.1037/a0023424
Richter, D. & Kunzmann, U. (2011). Age differences in three facets of empathy: Perfomance-based evidence. Psychology and Aging, 26, 60-70. doi: 10.1037/a0021138
2010
Richter, D., Dietzel, C. & Kunzmann, U. (2010). Age differences in emotion recognition: The task matters. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 66, 48-55. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbq068.
2009
Kunzmann, U. & Richter, D. (2009). Emotional reactivity across the adult life-span: The cognitive pragmatics make a difference. Psychology and Aging, 24, 879-889. doi: 10.1037/a0017347
Kunzmann, U. & Salisch, M., von (2009). Die Entwicklung von Emotionen und emotionalen Kompetenzen über die Lebensspanne. In G. Stemmler (Eds.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie: Psychologie der Emotion (pp. 528-569). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Scheibe, S., Kunzmann, U. & Baltes, P. B. (2009). New territories of positive lifespan development: Wisdom and life longings. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Oxford handbook of Positive Psychology (2nd ed., pp. 171-183). New York: Oxford University Press.
Stange, A. & Kunzmann, U. (2009). Fostering wisdom: A psychological perspective. In M. Ferrari & G. Potworowski (Eds.), Teaching for wisdom: Cross-cultural perspectives on fostering wisdom (pp. 23-36). New York: Springer.
2008
Kunzmann, U. (2008). Emotionale Entwicklung im Alter: Verlust oder Gewinn? In W. Janke, G. Debus & M. Schmidt-Daffy (Hrsg.), Experimentelle Emotionspsychologie (pp. 887-910). Lengerich. Papst Verlag.
Kunzmann, U. (2008). Differential age trajectories of positive and negative affect: Further evidence from the Berlin Aging Study. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 63, 261-270. doi: 10.1093/geronb/63.5.P261
2007
Kunzmann, U. (2007). Wisdom: Motivational and emotional dynamics in old age. In: R. Fernández-Ballesteros (Ed.), Geropsychology: European perspectives for an ageing world (pp. 224-238). Hogrefe & Huber.
Scheibe, S., Kunzmann, U. & Baltes, P. B. (2007). Wisdom, life-longings, and optimal development. In J. A. Blackburn & C. N. Dulmus (Eds.), Handbook of gerontology: Evidence-based approaches to theory, practice, and policy (pp. 117-142). New York: Wiley.
2006
Kunzmann, U. (2006). Wisdom. In R. Schulz (Editor-in-Chief), The encyclopedia of aging (4th edition). New York, NY: Springer.
Kunzmann, U. & Stange, A. (2006). Wisdom as a classical human strength: Psychological conceptualizations and empirical inquiry. In A. D. Ong & M. Van Dulmen (Eds.), Varieties of positive experience: Structure, variability, and change (pp. 306-322). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
2005
Kunzmann, U. & Baltes, P. B. (2005). The psychology of wisdom: Theoretical and empirical challenges. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Jordan (Eds.), Handbook of wisdom (pp. 110-135). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Kunzmann, U. & Grühn, D. (2005). Age differences in emotional reactivity: The sample case of sadness. Psychology and Aging, 20, 47-59. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.1.47
Kunzmann, U., Kupperbusch, C. S. & Levenson, R. W. (2005). Behavioral inhibition and amplification during emotional arousal: A comparison of two age groups. Psychology and Aging, 20, 144-159. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.20.1.144
Kunzmann, U., Stange, A. & Jordan, J. (2005). Positive emotionality and lifestyle in adulthood: Do you do what you feel? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 31, 574-588. doi: 10.1177/0146167204271586
Salisch, M., von & Kunzmann, U. (2005). Emotionale Entwicklung über die Lebensspanne. In J. Asendorpf (Hrsg.), Bd. 3: Soziale, emotionale und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, Serie V: Entwicklungspsychologie, Themenbereichs C: Theorie und Forschung, Enzyklopädie der Psychologie (pp. 259-334), Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Staudinger, U. M. & Kunzmann, U. (2005). Positive adult personality development: Adjustment and/or growth? European Psychologist, 10, 320-329. doi: 10.1027/1016-9040.10.4.320
2004
Baltes, P. B. & Kunzmann, U. (2004). Two faces of wisdom: Wisdom as a general theory of knowledge and judgment about excellence in mind and virtue vs. wisdom as everyday realization in people and products. Human Development, 47, 290-299. doi: 10.1159/000079156
Kunzmann, U. (2004). Approaches to a good life: The emotional-motivational side to wisdom. In P. A. Linley & S. Joseph (Eds.), Positive Psychology in Practice (pp. 504-517). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.
Li, S.-C. & Kunzmann, U. (2004). Research on intelligence in German speaking countries. In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), International handbook of the psychology of human intelligence (pp. 135-169). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
2003
Baltes, P. B. & Kunzmann, U. (2003). Wisdom: The peak of human excellence in the orchestration of mind and virtue. The Psychologist, 16, 131-133.
Kunzmann, U. & Baltes, P. B. (2003). Beyond the traditional scope of intelligence: Wisdom in action. In R. J. Sternberg, J. Lautry & T. I. Lubart (Eds.), Models of intelligence for the next millennium (pp. 329-343). Washington DC: American Psychological Association.
Kunzmann, U. & Baltes, P. B. (2003). Wisdom-related knowledge: Affective, motivational, and interpersonal correlates. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1104-1119. doi: 10.1177/0146167203254506
2002
Baltes, P. B., Glück, J. & Kunzmann, U. (2002). Wisdom: Its structure and function in regulating successful lifespan development. In C. R. Snyder & S. J. Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of positive psychology (pp. 372-350). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Kunzmann, U., Little, T. D. & Smith, J. (2002). Perceiving control: A double-edged sword in old. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciencesage. , 57, 484-491. doi: 10.1093/geronb/57.6.P484
2000
Kunzmann, U., Little, T. D. & Smith, J. (2000). Is age-related stability of subjective well-being a paradox? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence from the Berlin Aging Study. Psychology and Aging, 15, 511-526. doi: 10.1037/0882-7974.15.3.511
1999
Smith, J., Fleeson, W., Geiselmann, B., Settersten, R. & Kunzmann, U. (1999). Sources of well-being in very old age. In P. B. Baltes & K. U. Mayer (Eds.), The Berlin Aging Study: Aging from 70 to 100 (pp. 450-471). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.