Contact information
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David Weiss (phone: ++49- 9131 - 85 26529)
Room 3.106, office hours: Wed, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Address
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Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Institute of Psychogerontology
Naegelsbachstraße 25
D-91052 Erlangen
Germany
Research
Research Interests
- Self and Identity
- Self-Regulation in late Adulthood
- Online - Research: GEROTEST
Teaching Activities
- Development of Self and Person Perception (WS 2005/06)
- Psychology of Aging (SS 2006)
- Emotion, Motivation and Aging (WS 2006/07)
- Age and Aging in the Context of Culture (SS 2007)
- Cognition and Competence (WS 2007/08)
- Introduction to Latent Growth Models (WS 2007/08)
Curriculum Vitae
| since 2006 | Research assistant and PhD student | Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Institute of Psychogerontology (Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang) |
| 2005-2006 | Research assistant | Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, School of Psychology , Developmental Psychologye (Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang) |
| 1999-2005 | Studies in Psychology, Diploma | Christian-Albrechts University Kiel |
| 2003-2004 | Diploma Thesis : "Legitimizing Myths - Psychological Protection or Social Strategy?" | Australian National University, Department of Psychology, Canberra (Prof. Dr. P.J. Oakes) |
| 2002-2005 | Student Research Assistant | Chair of Social Psychology (Prof. Dr. B. Simon) and Chair of Educational Psychology (Prof. Dr. Bliesener) Christian-Albrechts University Kiel |
Publications
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (in press). Thinking About My Generation: Adaptive Effects of a Dual Age Identity in Later Adulthood. Psychology and Aging.
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). Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 127 (1), 183-192.
Conference Presentations
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). How to Communicate Age? Implications of a Dual Age Identity in Later Adulthood. Paper presented at the International Conference: Social Capital and Volunteering, City University of Hong Kong, December, 2008.
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). Thinking About My Generation: The Adaptive Flexibility of Age Identification. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), National Harbor, Maryland, November 2008.
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). Expecting More or Less in Five Years? - Future Orientations and Well-Being across Adulthood. Paper presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, July 2008.
Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). The two Faces of Age Identification in Late Adulthood. Paper presented at the 20th meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Wuerzburg, Germany, July 2008.
Weiss, D., Diewald, M., & Lang, F.R. (2006). Control Beliefs and Challenges Across the Lifespan: Efficacy, Adjustment, and Stabilisation. Paper presented at the 45th Congress of the German Society of Psychology, Nuremberg, September, 2006.
Weiss, D., Oakes, P.J., & Simon, B. (2005). A False Consciousness of the Dominant? Legitimizing Myths and the Tactics of Intergroup Relations. Poster presented at the 14th Conference of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Wuerzburg, July 2005.
