Publications of Nilam Ram

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

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

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

Hoppmann, C. A., Infurna, F. J., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2017). Associations among individuals' perceptions of future time, individual resources, and subjective well-being in old age. The Journals of Gerontology: B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 72(3), 388–399. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbv063

Wagner, J., Ram, N., Smith, J., & Gerstorf, D. (2016). Personality trait development at the end of life: Antecedents and correlates of mean-level trajectories. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 111(3), 411–429. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000071

Hülür, G., Hoppmann, C. A., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2015). Developmental associations between short-term variability and long-term changes: Intraindividual correlation of positive and negative affect in daily life and cognitive aging. Developmental Psychology, 51(7), 987–997. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039341

Wagner, J., Hoppmann, C., Ram, N., & Gerstorf, D. (2015). Self-esteem is relatively stable late in life: The role of resources in the health, self-regulation, and social domains. Developmental Psychology, 51(1), 136–149. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038338

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

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

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.