Publications

Gerstorf, D., Aichele, S., Lindenberger, U., Rabbitt, P., & Ghisletta, P. (in press). Little to no evidence for historical improvements in verbal learning among older adults. Psychology and Aging.

Ghisletta, P., Aichele, S., Gerstorf, D., Carollo, A., & Lindenberger, U. (2025). Verbal fluency selectively predicts survival in old and very old age. Psychological Science, 36(2), 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976241311923

Willroth, E. C., Beck, E., Yoneda, T. B., Beam, C. R., Deary, I. J., Drewelies, J., Gerstorf, D., Huisman, M., Katz, M. J., Lipton, R. B., Muniz Tererra, G., Pedersen, N. L., Reynolds, C. A., Spiro, A., Turiano, N. A., Willis, S., Mroczek, D. K., & Graham, E. K. (2025). Associations of personality trait level and change with mortality risk in 11 longitudinal studies. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(2), 392–409. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000531

Suanet, B., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Eibich, P., Demuth, I., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., Ram, N., Ghisletta, P., & Gerstorf, D. (2024). Historical change in trajectories of loneliness in old age: Older adults today are less lonely, but do not differ in their age trajectories. Psychology and Aging, 39(4), 350–363. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000803

Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Eibich, P., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Liebig, S., Goebel, J., Demuth, I., Villringer, A., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Ghisletta, P. (2023). Today’s older adults are cognitively fitter than older adults were 20 years ago, but when and how they decline is no different than in the past. Psychological Science, 34(1), 22–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221118541

Wettstein, M., Ghisletta, P., & Gerstorf, D. (2023). Between-person and within-person associations among sensory functioning and attitude toward own aging in old age: Evidence for mutual relations. Psychology and Aging, 38(8), 808–823. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000772

Drewelies, J., Hueluer, G., Düzel, S., Vetter, V. M., Pawelec, G., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., Lill, C. M., Bertram, L., Gerstorf, D., & Demuth, I. (2022). Using blood test parameters to define biological age among older adults: Association with morbidity and mortality independent of chronological age validated in two separate birth cohorts. GeroScience, 44, 2685–2699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11357-022-00662-9

Löckenhoff, C. E., Drewelies, J., Düzel, S., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Demuth, I., Freund, A. M., Staudinger, U. M., Lindenberger, U., Wagner, G. G., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2022). Sociohistorical change in urban older adults’ perceived speed of time and time pressure. The Journals of Gerontology: B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(3), 457–466. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab094

Wahl, H.-W., Drewelies, J., Düzel, S., Lachman, M. E., Smith, J., Eibich, P., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Demuth, I., Lindenberger, U., Wagner, G. G., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2022). Subjective age and attitudes toward own aging across two decades of historical time. Psychology and Aging, 37(3), 413–429. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000649

Becker, K., Delius, J., Düzel, S., & Gerstorf, D. (2020). Remembering the last participant in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). LIFE Newsletter, 14(1), 2–7.

Graham, E. K., Weston, S. J., Gerstorf, D., Yoneda, T. B., Booth, T., Beam, C. R., Petkus, A. J., Drewelies, J., Hall, A. N., Bastarache, E. D., Estabrook, R., Katz, M. J., Turiano, N. A., Lindenberger, U., Smith, J., Wagner, G. G., Pedersen, N. L., Allemand, M., Spiro III, A., Deeg, D. J. H., Johansson, B., Piccinin, A. M., Lipton, R. B., Schaie, K. W., Willis, S., Reynolds, C. A., Deary, I. J., Hofer, S. M., & Mroczek, D. K. (2020). Trajectories of big five personality traits: A coordinated analysis of 16 longitudinal samples. European Journal of Personality, 34(3), 301–321. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2259

O'Súilleabháin, P. S., Sutin, A. R., & Gerstorf, D. (2020). Body mass index, waist circumference, and mortality risks over 27 years of follow-up in old age. Annals of Epidemiology, 46, 20–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.04.008

Windsor, T. D., Ghisletta, P., & Gerstorf, D. (2020). Social resources as compensatory cognitive reserve? Interactions of social resources with education in predicting late-life cognition. The Journals of Gerontology: B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(7), 1451–1461. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby143

Gerstorf, D., Drewelies, J., Duezel, S., Smith, J., Wahl, H.- W., Schilling, O., Kunzmann, U., Siebert, J. S., 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(8), 1090–1108. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000389

O'Súilleabháin, P. S., Gallagher, S., & Steptoe, A. (2019). Loneliness, living alone, and all-cause mortality: The role of emotional and social loneliness in the elderly during 19 years of follow-up. Psychosomatic Medicine, 81(6), 521–526. https://doi.org/10.1097/PSY.0000000000000710

Tucker-Drob, E. M., Brandmaier, A. M., & Lindenberger, U. (2019). Coupled cognitive changes in adulthood: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 145(3), 273–301. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000179

Braun, S. T., & Stuhler, J. (2018). The transmission of inequality across multiple generations: Testing recent theories with evidence from Germany. The Economic Journal, 128(609), 576–611. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12453

Hertzog, C., Hülür, G., Gerstorf, D., & Pearman, A. M. (2018). Is subjective memory change in old age based on accurate monitoring of age-related memory change? Evidence from two longitudinal studies. Psychology and Aging, 33(2), 273–287. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000232

König, M., Drewelies, J., Norman, K., Spira, D., Buchmann, N., Hülür, G., Eibich, P., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Gerstorf, D., & Demuth, I. (2018). Historical trends in modifiable indicators of cardiovascular health and self-rated health among older adults: Cohort differences over 20 years between the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) and the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0191699. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191699

Mueller, S., Wagner, J., Voelkle, M. C., Smith, J., & Gerstorf, D. (2018). The interplay of personality and functional health in old and very old age: Dynamic within-person interrelations across up to 13 years. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 115(6), 1127–1147. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000173