Daniel Mroczek, PhD, Professor and Lab Director
Dan Mroczek’s research focuses on 1) lifespan personality development, including change, stability, and trajectory models of key traits, 2) the influence of personality (and personality change) on physical health, mortality, and other important life outcomes (e.g., well-being). He also has several methodological interests, in particular multilevel modeling, survival analysis, longitudinal design, secondary and archival data analysis, and integrative data analysis (IDA). His research is supported by the National Institute on Aging. Below are four of his most recent publications:
Allemand, M., Job, V., & Mroczek, D.K. (in press; published online December 13, 2018). Self-control development in adolescence predicts love and work in adulthood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. NIHMS1013876
Mroczek, D.K., Graham, E.K., Turiano, N.A., & Oro-Lambo, M.O. (in press). Personality Development in Adulthood and Later Life. In Robins, R.W., John. O.P., & Pervin, L.A. (Eds.) Handbook of Personality: Theory and Research (4th Edition). New York: Guilford.
Weston, S. J., Gladstone, J. J., Graham, E. K., Mroczek, D. K., & Condon, D. M. (in press; Published advance access online September 13, 2018). Who Are the Scrooges? Personality Predictors of Holiday Spending. Social Psychological and Personality Science
Graham, E.K., Rutsohn, J.P., Turiano, N.A., Bendayan, R., Batterham, P., Gerstorf, D., Katz, M., Reynolds, C., Schoenhofen, E., Yoneda, T., Bastarache, E., Elleman, Zelinski, E.M., Johansson, B., Kuh, D., Barnes, L.L., Bennett, D., Deeg, D., Lipton, R., Pedersen, N., Piccinin, A., Spiro, A., Muniz- Terrera, G., Willis, S., Schaie, K.W., Roan, C., Herd, P., Hofer, S.M., & Mroczek, D.K. (2017). Personality predicts mortality risk: An integrative analysis of 15 international longitudinal studies. Journal of Research in Personality, 70, 174-186.
Eileen Graham, PhD, Research Associate Professor and Lab Co-Director
Eileen’s work focuses on individual differences factors that are associated with health outcomes in older adulthood. Specifically, She is interested in the development personality traits (e.g. The Big Five, well-being) over the life course, and how these dynamic individual difference factors may influence physical health, onset of disease, cognitive decline, dementia, and mortality. Additionally, she uses open science practices, in order to enhance the replicability and reproducibility of the lifespan developmental sciences.
Jing Luo, PhD, Research Assistant Professor
Jing’s research focuses on the interplay among personality, stress, and health across the life course. First, she studies the influences of stress and health-related experiences on the development of personality across the life span. Second, she examines individual differences in early and adulthood stress, including both stress exposure and stress responses. Third, she is interested in the independent and joint influences of personality and stress on changes in health, especially during aging process. Jing’s research addresses these research questions by employing an integrative approach that incorporates longitudinal methods, behavioral genetic studies, meta-analysis, and coordinated data analysis. Jing received her PhD in Social-Personality Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018 and her BA in Psychology from the University of Iowa in 2012. When not doing research, Jing enjoys playing the piano, reading, and traveling.
Katherina Hauner, PhD, Assistant Professor
Katherina’s research aims to modify affective processing and emotional regulation in humans. She examines functioning in both healthy participants as well as clinical populations, and applies a variety of methods, including neuroimaging, psychophysiological measurement, and non-invasive neurostimulation. The long-term goal of her research is to make impactful contributions towards our understanding of cognitive-emotional dysfunction, and to develop biologically-motivated treatments that improve the lives of patients.
Katie Jackson, MS, Senior Biostatistician
Tomiko Yoneda, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Tomiko is passionate about identifying early indicators of and protective factors for cognitive decline, with an overall aim of improving both daily and long-term components of health in older adulthood. Her research focuses on individual differences in personality traits, whether these differences are associated with modifiable (e.g., physical activity) and physiological (e.g., blood pressure variability) factors, and the extent to which personality mediates the association between risk/protective factors and within-person change in cognitive aging processes. She uses data from diverse samples and a wide range of statistical (e.g., latent growth curve modelling, growth mixture modelling, dyadic and parallel process modelling, multi-level modelling, multi-state survival modelling) and methodological (e.g., pre-registration, longitudinal repeated measurement, intensive measurement designs, coordinated analysis, meta-analysis) approaches. Tomiko received her PhD in Lifespan Health and Development from the University of Victoria in 2021. When Tomiko is not researching, she enjoys trail running, dinner parties, and building beach forts with her son.
Gabrielle Pfund, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Gabrielle Pfund (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher in the Lifespan Personality and Health lab. She received her PhD in Psychological & Brain Sciences from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022 and a BA in Psychology & Hispanic Studies from Pepperdine University in 2018. During her graduate training, her research focused on the measurement, development, and implications of sense of purpose across the adult lifespan. Thanks to the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, Gabrielle was able to spend three months in Switzerland learning about personality processes and successful aging while at the University of Zurich. This experience sparked her interest in the bi-directional associations between personality and health across the lifespan, leading her to her new lab. In her free time, she enjoys reading (generally fiction), Pure Barre, and spending time with her friends and dogs–and especially her friends with dogs.
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Stephen Antonoplis, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher
Stephen studies the interplay of personality and social structure, with specific focuses on the development of cross-race relationships in personal networks and on the mutual effects of socioeconomic conditions and personality. He also maintains a strong interest in the philosophy and practice of measurement, having done work on the conceptualization and measurement of socioeconomic status and on the measurement of personality traits using self-report methods. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus in Social–Personality Psychology, in 2022 and received his BA in Psychology (minor in Economics) from Northwestern University in 2016. Outside of work, he enjoys distance running, cooking vegetarian meals and trying vegan restaurants, listening to and playing music, going to art museums, and spending time with friends.
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Lily Pieramici, Research Assistant
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