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Overview

Klaus Rothermund is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including social psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, particularly focusing on aging and gerontology research, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, health disparities and outcomes, social and intergroup psychology, neural and behavioral psychology studies, behavioral health and interventions, as well as retirement, disability, and employment.

Rothermund's recent publications include:

  • "Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity" (2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series B)
  • "Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC)" (2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • "The Law of Recency: An Episodic Stimulus-Response Retrieval Account of Habit Acquisition" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Age Discrimination in the Context of Motivation and Healthy Aging" (2021, The Journals of Gerontology Series B)
  • "Contingency learning as binding? Testing an exemplar view of the colour-word contingency learning effect" (2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Maria Clara Pinheiro de Paula Couto, Carina G. Giesen, Thomas M. Hess, Helene H. Fung, and Jana Nikitin.

Key publication venues for their work include:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Cognition & Emotion
  • European Journal of Ageing
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Best Publications

  • Automatic vigilance: the attention-grabbing power of approach- and avoidance-related social information.

    Dirk Wentura;Klaus Rothermund;Peter Bak

  • The Life-Course Dynamics of Goal Pursuit and Goal Adjustment: A Two-Process Framework

    Jochen Brandtstädter;Klaus Rothermund

  • Interpreting the parameters of the diffusion model: an empirical validation.

    Andreas Voss;Klaus Rothermund;Jochen Voss

  • Underlying Processes in the Implicit Association Test: Dissociating Salience From Associations

    Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Aging in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Avoiding Ageism and Fostering Intergenerational Solidarity.

    Liat Ayalon;Alison Chasteen;Manfred Diehl;Becca R. Levy

  • When do motor behaviors (mis)match affective stimuli? An evaluative coding view of approach and avoidance reactions

    Andreas B. Eder;Klaus Rothermund

  • I feel better but I don't know why": The psychology of implicit emotion regulation.

    Sander L. Koole;Klaus Rothermund

  • Contexts of Aging: Assessing Evaluative Age Stereotypes in Different Life Domains

    Anna E. Kornadt;Klaus Rothermund

  • Binding and Retrieval in Action Control (BRAC).

    Christian Frings;Bernhard Hommel;Iring Koch;Klaus Rothermund

  • Coping With Deficits and Losses in Later Life: From Compensatory Action to Accommodation.

    Klaus Rothermund;Jochen Brandtstädter

  • Age stereotypes and self-views in later life: Evaluating rival assumptions

    Klaus Rothermund;Jochen Brandtstädter

  • Self-percepts of control in middle and later adulthood: buffering losses by rescaling goals.

    Jochen Brandtstädter;Klaus Rothermund

  • Retrieval of incidental stimulus-response associations as a source of negative priming.

    Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura;Jan De Houwer

  • Counter-regulation in affective attentional biases: a basic mechanism that warrants flexibility in emotion and motivation.

    Klaus Rothermund;Andreas Voss;Dirk Wentura

  • Affective priming of semantic categorisation responses

    Jan De Houwer;Dirk Hermans;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Figure-Ground Asymmetries in the Implicit Association Test (IAT)

    Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Allgemeine Psychologie: Motivation und Emotion

    Klaus Rothermund;Andreas B. Eder

  • Distractor repetitions retrieve previous responses to targets

    Christian Frings;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

  • Depression in later life: cross-sequential patterns and possible determinants.

    Klaus Rothermund;Jochen Brandtstädter

  • Intentional self-development through adulthood and later life: Tenacious pursuit and flexible adjustment of goals.

    Jochen Brandtstädter;Dirk Wentura;Klaus Rothermund

  • The adaptive self: Personal continuity and intentional self-development.

    Werner Greve;Klaus Rothermund;Dirk Wentura

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Wentura
Dirk Wentura Saarland University
Jan De Houwer
Jan De Houwer Ghent University
Helene H. Fung
Helene H. Fung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Sander L. Koole
Sander L. Koole Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Wilfried Kunde
Wilfried Kunde University of Würzburg
Bernhard Hommel
Bernhard Hommel Shandong Normal University
Axel Buchner
Axel Buchner Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Liat Ayalon
Liat Ayalon Bar-Ilan University
Andrea Kiesel
Andrea Kiesel University of Freiburg
Iring Koch
Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University

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