Publications of Ulman Lindenberger

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walhovd, K. B., Fjell, A. M., Westerhausen, R., Nyberg, L., Ebmeier, K. P., Lindenberger, U., Bartrés-Faz, D., Baaré, W. F. C., Siebner, H. R., Henson, R., Drevon, C. A., Strømstad Knudsen, G. P., Budin Ljøsne, I., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Ghisletta, P., Rogeberg, O., Tyler, L., Bertram, L., & Lifebrain Consortium. (2018). Healthy minds from 0-100 years: Optimising the use of European brain imaging cohorts ("Lifebrain"). European Psychiatry, 50, 47–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.12.006

Hülür, G., Drewelies, J., Eibich, P., Düzel, S., Demuth, I., Ghisletta, P., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Gerstorf, D. (2016). Cohort differences in psychosocial function over 20 years: Current older adults feel less lonely and less dependent on external circumstances. Gerontology, 62(3), 354–361. https://doi.org/10.1159/000438991

Gerstorf, D., Hülür, G., Drewelies, J., Eibich, P., Düzel, S., Demuth, I., Ghisletta, P., Steinhagen-Thiessen, E., Wagner, G. G., & Lindenberger, U. (2015). Secular changes in late-life cognition and well-being: Towards a long bright future with a short brisk ending? Psychology and Aging, 30(2), 301–310. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000016

Ghisletta, P., Bäckman, L., Bertram, L., Brandmaier, A. M., Gerstorf, D., Liu, T., & Lindenberger, U. (2014). The Val/Met polymorphism of the Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) gene predicts decline in perceptual speed in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 29(2), 384–392. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035201

Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Lindenberger, U., & Smith, J. (2013). Age and time-to-death trajectories of change in indicators of cognitive, sensory, physical, health, social, and self-related functions. Developmental Psychology, 49(10), 1805–1821. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031340

Delius, J. A. M., Kotter-Grühn, D., Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, A., Röcke, C., Smith, J., & Lindenberger, U. (2012). Die Berliner Altersstudie (BASE): Kognitive Entwicklung im Alter. News & Science, 31(2), 4–9.

Ram, N., Gerstorf, D., Lindenberger, U., & Smith, J. (2011). Developmental change and intraindividual variability: Relating cognitive aging to cognitive plasticity, cardiovascular lability, and emotional diversity. Psychology and Aging, 26(2), 363–371. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021500

Lindenberger, U., & Ghisletta, P. (2009). Cognitive and sensory declines in old age: Gauging the evidence for a common cause. Psychology and Aging, 24(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014986

Gerstorf, D., Ram, N., Röcke, C., & Lindenberger, U. (2008). Decline in life satisfaction in old age: Longitudinal evidence for links to distance-to-death. Psychology and Aging, 23(1), 154–168.