Center for Lifespan Psychology

The Center of Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development: Conceptual Agenda and Illustration of Research Activities

Founded in 1981 by the late Paul B. Baltes, the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development has helped to establish lifespan psychology as a distinct conceptual approach within developmental psychology. Since 2004, the Center has extended its research program into developmental behavioral neuroscience. Work at the Center is guided by three propositions: (i) ...

Simultaneous EEG - fMRI

For more than two decades, the Center for Lifespan Psychology has promoted a perspective on behavioral development that seeks to integrate age periods, domains of functioning, timescales, and levels of analysis. In part through these efforts, lifespan psychology has evolved into a distinct conceptual approach within developmental psychology (e.g., Baltes, 1987; Baltes, Lindenberger, & Staudinge...

Center for Lifespan Psychology Director : Ulman Lindenberger

Complementary approaches to the study of decision making across the adult life span

1 Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 2 Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany 3 Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany 4 Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands 5 Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, ...

Double edged effect of gum-resin of ferula assa-foetida on lifespan of neurons