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Alexandra M. Freund

Alexandra M. Freund

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Psychology

D-Index
59
Citations
15922
World Ranking
3669
National Ranking
37

Overview

Alexandra M. Freund is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a focus on several subfields including Social Psychology, Applied Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The scholar has contributed extensively to topics such as Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Aging and Gerontology Research, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, Health disparities and outcomes, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Do We Become More Prosocial as We Age, and if So, Why?" (2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science)
  • "Determinants of protective behaviours during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021, British Journal of Health Psychology)
  • "The bucket list effect: Why leisure goals are often deferred until retirement." (2020, American Psychologist)
  • "More or less energy with age? A motivational life-span perspective on subjective energy, exhaustion, and opportunity costs." (2020, Psychology and Aging)
  • "Age-Related Changes in the Role of Social Motivation: Implications for Healthy Aging" (2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Urte Scholz
  • Sebastian Horn
  • Zita Mayer
  • Ulrich Mayr
  • Ryan Best

Publication venues where Alexandra M. Freund has appeared most often include:

  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Psychology and Aging
  • Motivation and Emotion
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE

Their body of work reflects a broad investigation into aging processes, motivational aspects of behavior, and psychological well-being across the lifespan. Studies on prosocial behavior changes with age, motivation related to leisure and retirement, and responses during the COVID-19 pandemic exemplify the diverse yet interconnected research foci.

Best Publications

  • Life-management strategies of selection, optimization and compensation: Measurement by self-report and construct validity.

    Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: Correlations with subjective indicators of successful aging.

    Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: from striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses.

    Natalie C. Ebner;Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Walking While Memorizing: Age-Related Differences in Compensatory Behavior

    Karen Z. H. Li;Ulman Lindenberger;Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • The orchestration of selection, optimization and compensation: An action–theoretical conceptualization of a theory of developmental regulation.

    Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Interference and Facilitation among Personal Goals: Differential Associations with Subjective Well-Being and Persistent Goal Pursuit

    Michaela Riediger;Alexandra M. Freund

  • Age-differential motivational consequences of optimization versus compensation focus in younger and older adults

    Alexandra M. Freund

  • Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation

    Alexandra M. Freund

  • Understanding Developmental Regulation in Adolescence: The Use of the Selection, Optimization,and Compensation Model

    Richard M. Lerner;Alexandra M. Freund;Imma De Stefanis;Tilmann Habermas

  • Selection, Optimization, and Compensation: An Action-Related Approach to Work and Partnership

    Bettina S. Wiese;Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Goal progress makes one happy, or does it? Longitudinal findings from the work domain

    Bettina S. Wiese;Alexandra M. Freund

  • Subjective career success and emotional well-being: Longitudinal predictive power of selection, optimization, and compensation

    Bettina S. Wiese;Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • The measurement of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) by self report : Technical report 1999

    Paul B. Baltes;Margret M. Baltes;Alexandra M. Freund;Frieder R. Lang

  • The Handbook of Life-Span Development

    Richard M. Lerner;Michael E. Lamb;Alexandra M. Freund

  • Overview of first Wendelstein 7-X high-performance operation

    T. Klinger;T. Klinger;T. Andreeva;S. Bozhenkov;C. Brandt

  • Self, personality, and life regulation: Facets of psychological resilience in old age

    Ursula M. Staudinger;Alexandra M. Freund;Michael Linden;Ineke Maas

  • Major results from the first plasma campaign of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

    R.C. Wolf;A. Ali;A. Alonso;J. Baldzuhn

  • Managing life through personal goals : intergoal facilitation and intensity of goal pursuit in younger and older adulthood

    Michaela Riediger;Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Misinformation, disinformation, and violent conflict: From Iraq and the "War on Terror" to future threats to peace

    Stephan Lewandowsky;Werner G. K. Stritzke;Alexandra M. Freund;Klaus Oberauer

  • The Dynamics of Possible Selves in Old Age

    Jacqui Smith;Alexandra M. Freund

  • The psychological science of human ageing

    Paul B. Baltes;Alexandra M. Freund;Shu-Chen Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul B. Baltes
Paul B. Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Michaela Riediger
Michaela Riediger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Derek M. Isaacowitz
Derek M. Isaacowitz Northeastern University
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Margret M. Baltes
Margret M. Baltes Freie Universität Berlin
Susanne Scheibe
Susanne Scheibe University of Groningen
Richard M. Lerner
Richard M. Lerner Tufts University
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Andreas Keil
Andreas Keil University of Florida

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