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Carsten Wrosch

Carsten Wrosch

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
13531
World Ranking
5824
National Ranking
399

Carsten Wrosch publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carsten Wrosch sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 120 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Carsten Wrosch D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carsten Wrosch sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Carsten Wrosch is affiliated with Concordia University in Canada and specializes in psychology with a focus on several key subfields and topics. Their research spans social psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, clinical psychology, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics of Wrosch's work include psychological well-being and life satisfaction, aging and gerontology research, optimism, hope and well-being, health disparities and outcomes, stress responses and cortisol, childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, and resilience and mental health.

Wrosch has contributed research published in a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include Psychoneuroendocrinology, Innovation in Aging, Psychology and Aging, American Psychologist, and Emotion.

Among recent papers authored by Wrosch or in collaboration are the following:

  • Optimism versus pessimism as predictors of physical health: A comprehensive reanalysis of dispositional optimism research, 2020, American Psychologist
  • Well-being as a resource for goal reengagement: Evidence from two longitudinal studies, 2020, Motivation Science
  • A tale of two emotions: The diverging salience and health consequences of calmness and excitement in old age, 2021, Psychology and Aging
  • Stress-Related Trajectories of Diurnal Cortisol in Older Adulthood Over 12 Years, 2020, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Discrete negative emotions and goal disengagement in older adulthood: Context effects and associations with emotional well-being, 2022, Emotion

Frequent co-authors working with Wrosch include Meaghan Barlow, Ute Kunzmann, Jeremy M. Hamm, Heather Herriot, and Michael F. Scheier, reflecting collaborative research efforts in related psychological and aging domains.

Best Publications

  • A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development

    Jutta Heckhausen;Carsten Wrosch;Richard Schulz

  • Adaptive Self-Regulation of Unattainable Goals: Goal Disengagement, Goal Reengagement, and Subjective Well-Being

    Carsten Wrosch;Michael F. Scheier;Gregory E. Miller;Richard Schulz

  • The Importance of Goal Disengagement in Adaptive Self-Regulation: When Giving Up is Beneficial

    Carsten Wrosch;Michael F. Scheier;Charles S. Carver;Richard Schulz

  • The Life Engagement Test: Assessing Purpose in Life

    Michael F. Scheier;Carsten Wrosch;Andrew Baum;Sheldon Cohen

  • Personality and quality of life: The importance of optimism and goal adjustment

    Carsten Wrosch;Michael F. Scheier

  • Self-regulation processes and health: The importance of optimism and goal adjustment

    Heather N. Rasmussen;Carsten Wrosch;Michael F. Scheier;Charles S. Carver

  • Primary and secondary control strategies for managing health and financial stress across adulthood.

    Carsten Wrosch;Jutta Heckhausen;Margie E. Lachman

  • Giving Up on Unattainable Goals: Benefits for Health?:

    Carsten Wrosch;Gregory E. Miller;Michael F. Scheier;Stephanie Brun de Pontet

  • Developmental regulation before and after a developmental deadline: the sample case of "biological clock" for childbearing.

    Jutta Heckhausen;Carsten Wrosch;William Fleeson

  • Control processes before and after passing a developmental deadline: Activation and deactivation of intimate relationship goals

    Carsten Wrosch;Jutta Heckhausen

  • Regret and quality of life across the adult life span: the influence of disengagement and available future goals.

    Carsten Wrosch;Isabelle Bauer;Michael F. Scheier

  • Perceived control of life regrets: Good for young and bad for old adults

    Carsten Wrosch;Jutta Heckhausen

  • Predicting changes in posttraumatic growth and subjective well-being among breast cancer survivors: the role of social support and stress.

    Meghan H. McDonough;Catherine M. Sabiston;Carsten Wrosch

  • Developmental Regulation across the Life Span: Toward a New Synthesis.

    Claudia M. Haase;Jutta Heckhausen;Carsten Wrosch

  • Health stresses and depressive symptomatology in the elderly: the importance of health engagement control strategies.

    Carsten Wrosch;Richard Schulz;Jutta Heckhausen

  • You've Gotta Know When to Fold 'Em Goal Disengagement and Systemic Inflammation in Adolescence

    Gregory E. Miller;Carsten Wrosch

  • Goal Adjustment Capacities, Subjective Well‐being, and Physical Health

    Carsten Wrosch;Michael F. Scheier;Gregory E. Miller

  • Agency and Motivation in Adulthood and Old Age.

    Jutta Heckhausen;Carsten Wrosch;Richard Schulz

  • An Exploration of the Generational Differences in Levels of Control Held Among Family Businesses Approaching Succession

    Stéphanie Brun de Pontet;Carsten Wrosch;Marylene Gagne

  • Changes in social support predict emotional well-being in breast cancer survivors.

    Angela J. Fong;Tanya M.F. Scarapicchia;Meghan H. McDonough;Carsten Wrosch

  • Depressive symptoms can be useful: Self-regulatory and emotional benefits of dysphoric mood in adolescence.

    Carsten Wrosch;Gregory E. Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Schulz
Richard Schulz University of Pittsburgh
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
Gregory E. Miller
Gregory E. Miller Northwestern University
Michael F. Scheier
Michael F. Scheier Carnegie Mellon University
Catherine M. Sabiston
Catherine M. Sabiston University of Toronto
Lynn M. Martire
Lynn M. Martire Pennsylvania State University
Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver University of Miami
Marylène Gagné
Marylène Gagné Curtin University
Jens C. Pruessner
Jens C. Pruessner University of Konstanz
Sonia J. Lupien
Sonia J. Lupien University of Montreal

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