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Jutta Heckhausen (March 1957) is Department of Psychology and Social Behavior Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context. She expanded her education at the Center for Social and Behavioral Science, Stanford University and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University Bielefeld, Germany. At the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at University of California, Irvine, she teaches in the areas of life-span development and motivational psychology.

Heckhausen worked with Richard Schulz and formulated the life-span theory of control, their journal article was published in 1995 as A life-span theory of control. She received the 1999 Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation, and the 2014 Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association.

Biography
Jutta Heckhausen is the daughter of German psychologist Heinz Heckhausen. Heckhusen grew up in Münster/Westfalen, Germany. She maintains her permanent residency in the United States.

Heckhausen earned both her Vordiplom (B.A.) in Psychology and Philosophy and Diplom in Psychology (M.A.) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany in 1997 and 1980, respectively. In the following years from 1981 to 1983, she completed her graduate studies and research on child development at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain. Heckhuasen earned two graduate scholarships between 1981 and 1984, they were the Graduate scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (1981 to 1983), and the Graduate scholarship of the Doctorate Program for Developmental Psychology funded by the Volkswagen-Foundation (1983-1984). She earned her Ph. D. in Psychology in 1985 at the University of Strathclyde (where she studied development in infants through the joint-interactions with their mothers).

From 1984 through 1986, Heckhausen worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Life-Span Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin. During these years, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in developmental psychology, motivation, personality, and educational psychology at the Technical University and Freie Universität in Berlin. She worked as a research scientist from 1987 to 1996 and became a senior scientist with her own research group in 1996. This same year, she earned her Habilitation (Venia Legendi) in Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She was an associate member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Mid-Life Development from 1991 to 1998. Between these years, from 1995-1996 Heckhausen worked as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

In December 2000, Heckhausen joined the University of California, Irvine as a professor of the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior. She established the research laboratory on Life-Span Development and Motivation. She was a part-time visiting professor at the Ruprecht-Karl University Heidelberg, Germany in 2013 and 2014. From 2015 to 2016, Heckhausen worked as a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research University of Bielefeld, Germany.

She is currently a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America since 2011 and a fellow of the Association of Psychological Science since 2016.

Some awards Heckhausen received from the University of California, Irvine include the Teaching Excellence Award in 2005, Faculty Mentor of the Month for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program in May 2014, and the 2014 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research for her work with her undergraduate student Cynthia Sanchez.

Research
Jutta Heckhausen's research revolves around motivational processes and its relation to the development of individuals as they transition through different stages of their life. Her research enables people to understand social mobility in the context of transitions from school to college to the workplace.

In 1991, Heckhausen co-edited the third edition of the book Motivation and Action with Heinz Heckhausen. This edition is a translated version of the fifth German edition of Motivation and Action, and includes a more in-depth presentation of the history of motivation and presents new theories and research findings pertaining to motivation psychology, human motivation, and power motivation. The book also discusses information regarding roles of motivation in school and college, work environment, and sports.

Heckhausen and her collaborator Richard Schulz, formulated the life-span theory of control and tested its premise and relation to developmental adulthood. They co-authored the journal article A life-span theory of control in 1995. This theory was developed by understanding concepts of primary control and secondary control. Primary control refers to behaviors influenced by the external environment, involves an individuals attempt to change the surroundings to fit their needs, and has functional primacy over secondary control. Secondary control involves the internal environment which helps the individual cope with failure and direct the individual toward life goals through motivational resources.

In the following year, Heckhuasen published the article A life span model of successful aging which talks about the development of the model in three aspects including successful aging in the context of life course development and integrated motivation. This model of successful aging is influenced by primary control which optimize the mechanism of compensation and selection process.

Hechhausen co-authored A motivational theory of life-span development with Schulz and Carsten Wrosch in 2010. This article focuses on four main points: it discusses challenges and questions that the theory of life-span development addresses, presents this theory in full context using primary and secondary control, reviews relevant literature testing suggestion of the theory, and indicated areas that need further research.

Representative Publications

 * Heckhausen, J., & Schulz, R. (1995). A life-span theory of control. Psychological review, 102(2), 284-304. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.102.2.284
 * Heckhausen, J., Wrosch, C., & Schulz, R. (2010). A motivational theory of life-span development. Psychological review, 117(1), 32. doi:10.1037/a0017668.
 * Schulz, R., & Heckhausen, J. (1996). A life span model of successful aging. American psychologist, 51(7), 702-714. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.51.7.702