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= Jutta Heckhausen = Professor of Psychological Science

Ph.D. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Great Britain

(949) 824-9219

4316 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway

Department:

Psychological Science

Specializations:

life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context

Biography
grew up in Germany and did my graduate work and Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland where I studied the way in which infants’ development is promoted by interaction and joint activities with their mothers. In 1984, I joined the Center for Life-Span Psychology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where over the years I became a senior scientist with my own research group. In the 1980s and 90s, I expanded my research area to include development in adulthood and old age, formulated the life-span theory of control with my collaborator Richard Schulz, Ph.D., and launched a research program to test its propositions and applicability to developmental regulation in adulthood. In 1995/96, I was a fellow at the Center for Social and Behavioral Science at Stanford, and in 2015/16 I was a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University Bielefeld, Germany. In 2000, I joined the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at UC Irvine and constituted the research laboratory on Life-Span Development and Motivation. My undergraduate and graduate teaching is in the areas of life-span development and motivational psychology.

Research
Her research addresses motivational processes involved in development across the life span. In particular, Her colleagues, students study the way in which individuals at different points in the life span try to control their own development. Her research targets important transitions in the life course, such as the transition associated with the “biological clock” in midlife. In particular, She is interested in the transitions from school to work, from school to college, and college to work, because these transitions play a key role in social mobility. Another area of research are individuals’ adaptations to changes associated with illness, disability, and rehabilitation throughout adulthood and old age. She is intrigued by the ability of people at all ages during the life span to adapt to and make the most of these changes. also in life-span developmental psychology, motivational psychology, control behavior, psychological influences on health, and developmental regulation across the life span. My ongoing research addresses the role of the individual as an active agent in major life-course transitions and when confronted with challenging life events. Specifically, our research team currently conducts empirical studies in three areas: (1) psychological and in particular motivational processes involved in social mobility during the transition to adulthood and in educational and vocational careers, (2) goal engagement and disengagement during adulthood and old age, and (3) the role of individual differences in the regulation of goal engagement and in implicit motives (achievement, power, affiliation) for shaping the way individuals influence their own development.

other research includes:


 * Life-Span Theory of Control and Its Application in Gerontological and Health-Related Research Richard Schulz, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
 * Goal Engagement and Disengagement in Adulthood, Carsten Wrosch, Ph.D., Concordia University, Montreal, Canada http://crdh.concordia.ca/researchers/Carsten_Wrosch.html ,
 * Individual Agency in the Transition to Adulthood: International Comparisons from a Social-Ecological Developmental Perspective, Ingrid School, Ph.D., University of London, UK, and fellow at Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) https://www.wzb.eu/en/persons/ingrid-schoon
 * Prospective Study of Developmental Regulation Across Adulthood, Denis Gerstorf, Ph.D., Humboldt University, Berlin, Germanyhttps://www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de/mitarbeiter/1685131
 * German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), Deutsches Institut fuer Wirtschaftsforschung http://www.diw.de/en/diw_02.c.221178.en/about_soep.html
 * German National Educational Panel (NEPS), University of Bamberg, Germany http://www.uni-bamberg.de/neps/
 * Centre of Excellence on Learning and Motivation, University of Jyväskylä, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Ph.D, https://www.jyu.fi/ytk/laitokset/psykologia/henkilokunta/henkilokunta_vanha/salmela_aro
 * University of London, Department of Quantitative Social Science, Ingrid Schoon, Ph.D.
 * Center for Applied Developmental Science, Rainer K. Silbereisen, Ph.D. Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
 * Laboratory for Aging and Health Research (LAHR) Judith Chipperfield, Ph.D., & Raymond Perry, Ph.D., University of Manitoba, Canada
 * Emotion, Motivation, and Control Research Group
 * Raymond Perry, Ph.D. & Judith Chipperfield, Ph.D.

== Representative Publications ==