Emotional Reactivity and Regulation in Old Age: A Multi-Time-Scale Approach
At a glance
Project duration
06/2017
– 05/2021
DFG classification of subject areas
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Personality Psychology, Clinical and Medical Psychology, Methodology
Funded by
DFG Individual Research Grant
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Project description
Using an innovative combination of laboratory tests and outpatient surveys in everyday life, we investigate questions of emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in elderly and very elderly participants in the Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult Development (ILSE).
Project head
04/2017 - 03/2020

Person
Prof. Dr. Denis Gerstorf
- Faculty of Life Sciences
- Department of Psychology
Cooperation partners
- Cooperation partnerUniversityGermany
Heidelberg University
- Cooperation partnerUniversityGermany
Leipzig University