Prof. Dr. Michaela Riediger
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Psychologie
Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungspsychologie
ehemals Heisenberg-Stipendiatin
Am Steiger 3, Raum 16
07743 Jena
Curriculum Vitae
Currently
Professor of Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Education
2011
Venia Legendi for psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Habilitation Adult development at the intersection of motivation, behavior, and subjective experience, Habilitation lecture Smiling – forms, functions, and inter-individual differences
2001
Dr. phil., Free University Berlin, Germany (summa cum laude)
Dissertation On the dynamic relations among multiple goals: Intergoal conflict and facilitation in younger and older adults (Advisors: Prof. Paul B. Baltes and Dr. Alexandra M. Freund)
1997
Diploma in Psychology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (grade: 1.2). Diploma thesis The German CES-D as an instrument in gerontological research: Psychometric properties and cross-cultural comparability (Advisors: Prof. Michael Linden and Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wilms)
Professional Positions
Since 03/2017
Professor of Department of Developmental Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2015 -2017
Heisenberg Fellow of the German Research Foundation, Free University of Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
01 – 05/2015
Senior Science Manager at a Health-Services Startup (Conceptualization and evaluation of self-regulation interventions for patients with chronic diseases)
Since 2011
Lecturer (Privatdozentin) at the Institute of Psychology of the University Zurich, Switzerland
2009 - 2014
Max Planck Research Group Leader (W2), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Research Group: Affect Across the Lifespan
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/max-planck-research-groups/mprg-affect-across-the-lifespan
2003 – 2008
Senior Research Scientist (principal investigator and project head) in the Center for Lifespan Psychology (directors: Prof. Ulman Lindenberger and Prof. Paul B. Baltes), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Project: Developmental Regulation of Affect, Motivation, and Abilities (DRAMA)
2001 – 2002
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Center of Lifespan Psychology (director: Prof. Paul B. Baltes), Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin. Project: Personal Goals in Lifespan Development (project head: Dr. Alexandra M. Freund).
1998 – 2001
Doctoral Fellow of the Graduate Program Psychology and Psychiatry of Aging (Free University Berlin and Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin).
1997 – 1998
Research Scientist at the Chair of Organizational Psychology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Project: Integrity and Self-Control (principal investigator: Prof. Heinz Schuler).
Im Druck
Riediger, M., & Luong, G. (in press). Happy to be unhappy? Pro- and contra-hedonic motivations from adolescence to old age. In A. Ong & C. Löckenhoff (Eds.), New developments in emotional aging. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wrzus, C., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (in press). Personality-situation transactions from adolescence to old age. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
2015
Blanke, E. S., Rauers, A., & Riediger, M. (2015). Nice to meet you: Adult age differences in empathic accuracy towards strangers. Psychology and Aging, 30, 149-159. doi:10.1037/a0038459
Riediger, M. (2015). Affect-regulation motivation. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (Vol. 1, 2nd ed., pp. 241-247). Oxford: Elsevier. doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.26073-X
Riediger, M., & Luong, G. (2015). From adolescence to old age: Developmental perspectives on the extended process model of emotion regulation. Psychological Inquiry, 26, 99-107. doi:10.1080/1047840X.2015.962443
Wrzus, C., Luong, G., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (2015). Can't get it out of my head: Age differences in affective responses vary with elapsed time after, and preoccupation with, daily hassles. Emotion, 15, 257-269. doi:10.1037/emo0000019
2014
Riediger, M., & Klipker, K. (2014). Emotion regulation in adolescence. In J. J. Gross (Ed.), Handbook of emotion regulation (2nd ed., pp. 187-202). New York: Guilford Press.
Riediger, M., & Rauers, A. (2014). Do everyday affective experiences differ throughout adulthood? A review of ambulatory-assessment evidence. In P. Verhaeghen and C. Hertzog (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of emotion, social cognition, and everyday problem solving during adulthood (pp. 61-79). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Riediger, M., Studtmann, M., Westphal, A., Rauers, A., & Weber, H. (2014). No smile like another: Adult age differences in identifying emotions that accompany smiles. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:480. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00480
Riediger, M., Voelkle, M. C., Schaefer, S., & Lindenberger, U. (2014). Charting the life course: Age differences and validity of beliefs about lifespan development. Psychology and Aging, 29, 503-520. doi:10.1037/a0036228
Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., Klipker, K., Müller, V., Schmiedek, F., & Wagner, G. G. (2014). Outside of the laboratory: Associations of working-memory performance with psychological and physiological arousal vary with age. Psychology and Aging, 29, 103-114. doi:10.1037/a0035766
Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., & Wagner, G. G. (2014). Happiness is pleasant, or is it? Implicit representations of affect valence are associated with contra-hedonic motivation and mixed affect in daily life. Emotion, 14, 950-961. doi:10.1037/a0037711
Voelkle, M. C., Ebner, N. C., Lindenberger, U., & Riediger, M. (2014). A note on age differences in mood-congruent versus mood-incongruent emotion processing in faces. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:635. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00635
Wrzus, C., Müller, V., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Riediger, M. (2014). Affect dynamics across the lifespan: With age, heart rate reacts less strongly, but recovers more slowly from unpleasant emotional situations. Psychology and Aging, 29, 563-576. doi:10.1037/a0037451
Wrzus, C., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (2014). Feeling good when sleeping in? Day-to-day associations between sleep duration and affective well-being differ from youth to old age. Emotion, 14, 624-628. doi:10.1037/a0035349
2013
Freund, A. M., Nikitin, J., & Riediger, M. (2013). Successful aging. In R. M. Lerner, M. A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 6. Developmental psychology (2nd ed., pp. 615-638). New York, NY: Wiley.
Rauers, A., Blanke, E., & Riediger, M. (2013). Everyday empathic accuracy in younger and older couples: Do you need to see your partner to know his or her feelings? Psychological Science, 24, 2210-2217. doi:10.1177/0956797613490747
Rauers, A., Böhnke, A., & Riediger, M. (2013). Motivational selectivity prospectively predicts couples' realization of their goal to have a child. International Journal of Developmental Science, 7, 143-149. doi:10.3233/DEV-120119
Voelkle, M. C., Ebner, N. C., Lindenberger, U., & Riediger, M. (2013). Here we go again: Anticipatory and reactive mood responses to recurring unpleasant situations throughout adulthood. Emotion, 13, 424-433. doi:10.1037/a0031351
Wrzus, C., Müller, V., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Riediger, M. (2013). Affective and cardiovascular responding to unpleasant events from adolescence to old age: Complexity of events matters. Developmental Psychology, 49, 384-397. doi:10.1037/a0028325
2012
Sonnenberg, B., Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., & Wagner, G. G. (2012). Measuring time use in surveys: Concordance of survey and experience sampling measures. Social Science Research, 41, 1037-1052. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.03.013
Voelkle, M. C., Ebner, N. C., Lindenberger, U., & Riediger, M. (2012). Let me guess how old you are: Effects of age, gender, and facial expression on perceptions of age. Psychology and Aging, 27, 265-277. doi:10.1037/a0025065
Wrzus, C., Brandmaier, A. M., Oertzen, T. v., Müller, V., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (2012). A new approach for assessing sleep duration and postures from ambulatory accelerometry. PLoS ONE, 7(10):e48089. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048089
Wrzus, C., Brandmaier, A. M., Oertzen, T. v., Müller, V., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (2012). A new approach for assessing sleep duration and postures from ambulatory accelerometry (SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 507). Berlin: DIW.
(Reprinted from PLoS ONE, 7(10):e48089, 2012, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048089)
2011
Isaacowitz, D. M., & Riediger, M. (2011). Introduction to the special section: When age matters. Developmental perspectives on "Cognition and Emotion". Cognition and Emotion, 25, 957-967. doi:10.1080/02699931.2011.561575
Kleinspehn-Ammerlahn, A., Riediger, M., Schmiedek, F., Oertzen, T. v., Li, S.-C., & Lindenberger, U. (2011). Dyadic drumming across the lifespan reveals a zone of proximal development in children. Developmental Psychology, 47, 632-644. doi:10.1037/a0021818
Rauers, A., Riediger, M., Schmiedek, F., & Lindenberger, U. (2011). With a little help from my spouse: Does spousal collaboration compensate for the effects of cognitive aging? Gerontology, 57, 161-166. doi:10.1159/000317335
Riediger, M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (Eds.). (2011). When age matters: Developmental perspectives on "Cognition and Emotion" [Special Section]. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 957-1044.
Riediger, M., Voelkle, M. C., Ebner, N. C., & Lindenberger, U. (2011). Beyond "happy, angry, or sad?": Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception. Cognition and Emotion, 25, 968-982. doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.540812
Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., Schmiedek, F., Wagner, G. G., & Lindenberger, U. (2011). Is seeking bad mood cognitively demanding? Contra-hedonic orientation and working-memory capacity in everyday life. Emotion, 11, 656-665. doi:10.1037/a0022756
Sonnenberg, B., Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., & Wagner, G. G. (2011). Measuring time use in surveys: How valid are time use questions in surveys? Concordance of survey and experience sampling measures (SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 390). Berlin: DIW.
2010
Ebner, N. C., Riediger, M., & Lindenberger, U. (2010). FACES: A database of facial expressions in young, middle-aged, and older women and men. Development and validation. Behavior Research Methods, 42, 351-362. doi:10.3758/BRM.42.1.351
Freund, A. M., Hennecke, M., & Riediger, M. (2010). Age-related differences in outcome and process goal focus. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 7, 198-222. doi:10.1080/17405620801969585
Riediger, M. (2010). Experience sampling. In German Data Forum (RatSWD) (Ed.), Building on progress: Expanding the research infrastructure for the social, economic, and behavioral sciences (Vol. 1, pp. 581-594). Opladen: Budrich UniPress.
Riediger, M., & Rauers, A. (2010). The "I know you" and the "You know me" of mutual goal knowledge in partnerships: Differential associations with partnership satisfaction and sense of closeness over time. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 647-656. doi:10.1348/014466610X494078
2009
Ebner, N. C., Riediger, M., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Schema reliance for developmental goals increases from early to late adulthood: Improvement for the young, loss prevention for the old. Psychology and Aging, 24, 310-323. doi:10.1037/a0015430
Hoppmann, C. A., & Riediger, M. (2009). Ambulatory assessment in lifespan psychology: An overview of current status and new trends. European Psychologist, 14, 98-108. doi:10.1027/1016-9040.14.2.98
Riediger, M. (2009). Experience sampling (Working Paper Series of the German Council for Social and Economic Data No. 62). Berlin: German Council for Social and Economic Data.
Riediger, M., Schmiedek, F., Wagner, G. G., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Seeking pleasure and seeking pain: Differences in prohedonic and contra-hedonic motivation from adolescence to old age. Psychological Science, 20, 1529-1535. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02473.x
2008
Mayser, S., Scheibe, S., & Riediger, M. (2008). (Un)reachable? An empirical differentiation of goals and life longings. European Psychologist, 13, 126-140. doi:10.1027/1016-9040.13.2.126
Riediger, M. (2008). Motivational systems and the pursuit of goals: Lessons learned from older adults. European Health Psychologist, 10, 37-39.
Riediger, M., & Freund, A. M. (2008). Me against myself: Motivational conflicts and emotional development in adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 23, 479-494. doi:10.1037/a0013302
2007
Riediger, M. (2007). Interference and facilitation among personal goals: Age differences and associations with well-being and behavior. In B. R. Little, K. Salmela-Aro, & S. D. Philipps (Eds.), Personal project pursuit: Goals, action, and human flourishing (pp. 119-143). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Riediger, M., & Ebner, N. C. (2007). A broader perspective on three lifespan theories: Comment on Boerner and Jopp. Human Development, 50, 196-200. doi:10.1159/000103359
Riediger, M., & Freund, A. M. (2007). Intergoal relations in the context of starting to exercise: A case of positive development from younger to older adulthood. ISSBD Newsletter, 52, 8-11.
2006
Freund, A. M., & Riediger, M. (2006). Goals as building blocks of personality and development in adulthood. In D. K. Mroczek & T. D. Little (Eds.), Handbook of personality development (pp. 353-372). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Marcus, B., Höft, S., & Riediger, M. (2006). Integrity tests and the five-factor model of personality: A review and empirical test of two alternative positions. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 14, 113-130. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2389.2006.00338.x
Riediger, M., & Freund, A. M. (2006). Focusing and restricting: Two aspects of motivational selectivity in adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 21, 173-185. doi:10.1037/0882-7974.21.1.173
Riediger, M., Li, S.-C., & Lindenberger, U. (2006). Selection, optimization, and compensation as developmental mechanisms of adaptive resource allocation: Review and preview. In J. E. Birren & K. W. Schaie (Eds.), The handbooks of aging: Vol. 2. Handbook of the psychology of aging (6th ed., pp. 289-313). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
2005
Freund, A. M., & Riediger, M. (2005). Gerontopsychologie: Erfolgreiches Altern. In H. Weber & T. Rammsayer (Eds.), Handbuch der Psychologie: Vol. 2. Handbuch der Persönlichkeitspsychologie und differentiellen Psychologie (pp. 564-571). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Riediger, M., Freund, A. M., & Baltes, P. B. (2005). Managing life through personal goals: Intergoal facilitation and intensity of goal pursuit in younger and older adulthood. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 60B, P84-P91.
2004
Riediger, M. (2004). Lebenslanges Lernen [Lifelong learning]. In D. Dettling & C. Prechtl (Eds.), Weißbuch Bildung: Für ein dynamisches Deutschland (pp. 78-84). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Riediger, M., & Freund, A. M. (2004). Interference and facilitation among personal goals: Differential associations with subjective well-being and persistent goal pursuit. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1511-1523. doi:10.1177/0146167204271184
2003
Freund, A. M., & Riediger, M. (2003). Successful aging. In R. M. Lerner, M. A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Eds.), Handbook of psychology: Vol. 6. Developmental psychology (pp. 601-628). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
2001
Freund, A. M., & Riediger, M. (2001). What I have and what I do: The role of resource loss and gain throughout life [Commentary]. Applied Psychology, 50, 370-380.
Riediger, M. (2001). On the dynamic relations among multiple goals: Intergoal conflict and intergoal facilitation in younger and older adulthood. Doctoral dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
1998
Riediger, M., Linden, M., & Wilms, H.-U. (1998). Die deutsche Version der CES-D als Instrument der gerontologischen Forschung [The German CES-D as an instrument in gerontological research]. Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie, Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 46, 344-364.
Riediger, M., & Rolfs, H. (1998). Computergestützte Postkorbverfahren: Mailbox '90, PC-Office und PC-Postkorb "Seeblick" [Computerized in-basket performance measures: Mailbox '90, PC-Office and PC-Postkorb "Seeblick"]. Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie, 42, 43-50.