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Overview

Frieder R. Lang is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on aging and gerontology research.

Their research interests span several subfields, including social psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, and demography.

Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
  • Technology Use by Older Adults

Their frequent publication venues reflect this interdisciplinary approach, with multiple papers published in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Psychology and Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • GeroPsych

Frequent collaborators include Yaeji Kim-Knauss, Fiona S. Rupprecht, Kristina Martin, Stefan T. Kamin, and Helene H. Fung, among others.

Selected recent papers representative of their research contributions are:

  • "Employee voice at work: the role of employees' gender, self-efficacy beliefs, and leadership" (2020) published in European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • "COVID-19 and perceiving finitude: Associations with future time perspective, death anxiety, and ideal life expectancy." (2021) in Psychology and Aging
  • "Personal ideals of aging and longevity: The role of subjective discordances." (2020) in Psychology and Aging
  • "Participation in activities mediates the effect of Internet use on cognitive functioning in old age" (2020) in International Psychogeriatrics
  • "Late-Life Preparedness and Its Correlates: A Behavioral Perspective on Preparation" (2020) in The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Frieder R. Lang's scholarly output includes over 50 publications primarily situated within psychology, exploring diverse aspects related to aging, mental health, and social factors influencing well-being in later life stages.

Best Publications

  • Time counts: future time perspective, goals, and social relationships.

    Frieder R. Lang;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Close emotional relationships in late life: Further support for proactive aging in the social domain.

    Frieder R. Lang;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Short assessment of the Big Five: robust across survey methods except telephone interviewing

    Frieder R. Lang;Dennis John;Oliver Lüdtke;Jürgen Schupp

  • Everyday functioning and successful aging: the impact of resources.

    Margret M. Baltes;Frieder R. Lang

  • Testgüte und psychometrische Äquivalenz der deutschen Version des Big Five Inventory (BFI) bei jungen, mittelalten und alten Erwachsenen

    Frieder R. Lang;Oliver Lüdtke;Jens B. Asendorpf

  • “They” are old but “I” feel younger: Age-group dissociation as a self-protective strategy in old age.

    David Weiss;Frieder R. Lang

  • Close emotional relationships in late life: Further support for proactive aging in the social domain.

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  • Regulation of Social Relationships in Later Adulthood

    Frieder R. Lang

  • Age-Related Patterns in Social Networks among European Americans and African Americans: Implications for Socioemotional Selectivity across the Life Span

    Helene H. Fung;Laura L. Carstensen;Frieder R. Lang

  • Adapting to aging losses: do resources facilitate strategies of selection, compensation, and optimization in everyday functioning?

    Frieder R. Lang;Nina Rieckmann;Margret M. Baltes

  • Blood is thicker than water: kinship orientation across adulthood.

    Franz Josef Neyer;Frieder R. Lang

  • Perceived control over development and subjective well-being: differential benefits across adulthood.

    Frieder R. Lang;Jutta Heckhausen

  • How art changes your brain: differential effects of visual art production and cognitive art evaluation on functional brain connectivity.

    Anne Bolwerk;Jessica Mack-Andrick;Frieder R. Lang;Arnd Dörfler

  • 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

  • Perspectives on Socioemotional Selectivity in Late Life: How Personality and Social Context Do (and Do Not) Make a Difference

    Frieder R. Lang;Ursula M. Staudinger;Laura L. Carstensen

  • Endings and Continuity of Social Relationships: Maximizing Intrinsic Benefits within Personal Networks when Feeling Near to Death

    Frieder R. Lang

  • Everyday functioning and successful aging: The impact of resources.

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  • Depression bei Hochbetagten Ergebnisse der Berliner Altersstudie

    Michael Linden;G. Kurtz;Margret M. Baltes;Bernhard Geiselmann

  • Soziale Beziehungen alter Menschen

    Michael Wagner;Yvonne Schütze;Frieder R. Lang

  • Perceived control over development and subjective well-being: Differential benefits across adulthood.

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  • Forecasting life satisfaction across adulthood: Benefits of seeing a dark future?

    Frieder R. Lang;David Weiss;Denis Gerstorf;Gert G. Wagner

  • Future Time Perspective Scale

    Laura L. Carstensen;Frieder R. Lang

  • Growing Together: Personal Relationships across the Life Span

    Frieder R. Lang;Karen L. Fingerman

  • Social relationships in old age

    Michael Wagner;Yvonne Schütze;Frieder R. Lang

Frequent Co-Authors

Helene H. Fung
Helene H. Fung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Laura L. Carstensen
Laura L. Carstensen Stanford University
Margret M. Baltes
Margret M. Baltes Freie Universität Berlin
Oliver Lüdtke
Oliver Lüdtke Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education
Denis Gerstorf
Denis Gerstorf Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Raymond P. Perry
Raymond P. Perry University of Manitoba
Judith G. Chipperfield
Judith G. Chipperfield University of Manitoba
Jutta Heckhausen
Jutta Heckhausen University of California, Irvine
Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Paul B. Baltes
Paul B. Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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