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Overview

Michaela Riediger is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant body of work encompassing social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, applied psychology, and clinical psychology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to psychological well-being and life satisfaction, mental health research, aging and gerontology, cultural differences and values, behavioral health and interventions, health disparities and outcomes, and personality traits and psychology.

Recent publications by Michaela Riediger include the following papers:

  • Longitudinal coupling of momentary stress reactivity and trait neuroticism: Specificity of states, traits, and age period, 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures, 2023, American Psychologist
  • When and How to Regulate: Everyday Emotion-Regulation Strategy Use and Stressor Intensity, 2021, Affective Science
  • Interdependencies between family and friends in daily life: Personality differences and associations with affective well-being across the lifespan, 2022, European Journal of Personality
  • Ease of Mind or Ties That Bind? Costs and Benefits of Disclosing Daily Hassles in Partnerships, 2022, Social Psychological and Personality Science

Their work has appeared in several publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science
  • British Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • American Psychologist
  • Affective Science

Michaela Riediger frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors across their research projects. Notable collaborators include:

  • Cornelia Wrzus
  • Gloria Luong
  • Antje Rauers
  • Jennifer A. Bellingtier
  • Gert G. Wagner

Best Publications

  • FACES—A database of facial expressions in young, middle-aged, and older women and men: Development and validation

    Natalie C. Ebner;Michaela Riediger;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Seeking Pleasure and Seeking Pain: Differences in Prohedonic and Contra-Hedonic Motivation From Adolescence to Old Age

    Michaela Riediger;Florian Schmiedek;Gert G. Wagner;Ulman Lindenberger

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

    Michaela Riediger;Alexandra M. Freund

  • Desired emotions across cultures: A value-based account

    Maya Tamir;Shalom H. Schwartz;Jan Cieciuch;Michaela Riediger

  • 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

  • Let Me Guess How Old You Are: Effects of Age, Gender, and Facial Expression on Perceptions of Age

    Manuel C. Voelkle;Natalie C. Ebner;Ulman Lindenberger;Michaela Riediger

  • Mix it to fix it: Emotion regulation variability in daily life.

    Elisabeth S. Blanke;Annette Brose;Elise K. Kalokerinos;Yasemin Erbas

  • What I have and what I do: The role of resource loss and gain throughout life

    Alexandra M. Freund;Michaela Riediger

  • Selection, optimization, and compensation as developmental mechanisms of adaptive resource allocation : review and preview

    Michaela Riediger;Shu-Chen Li;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Emotion regulation in adolescence.

    Michaela Riediger;Kathrin Klipker

  • Beyond "happy, angry, or sad?" Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception

    Michaela Riediger;Manuel C. Voelkle;Natalie C. Ebner;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Personality-situation transactions from adolescence to old age

    Cornelia Wrzus;Gert G. Wagner;Michaela Riediger

  • Goals as building blocks of personality and development in adulthood

    Alexandra M. Freund;Michaela Riediger

  • Age-related differences in outcome and process goal focus

    Alexandra M. Freund;Marie Hennecke;Michaela Riediger

  • Focusing and restricting: two aspects of motivational selectivity in adulthood.

    Michaela Riediger;Alexandra M. Freund

  • Me against myself: Motivational conflicts and emotional development in adulthood

    Michaela Riediger;Alexandra M. Freund

  • Affective and cardiovascular responding to unpleasant events from adolescence to old age: complexity of events matters.

    Cornelia Wrzus;Viktor Müller;Gert G. Wagner;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Is seeking bad mood cognitively demanding? Contra-hedonic orientation and working-memory capacity in everyday life.

    Michaela Riediger;Cornelia Wrzus;Florian Schmiedek;Gert G. Wagner

  • Measuring time use in surveys - Concordance of survey and experience sampling measures.

    Bettina Sonnenberg;Michaela Riediger;Cornelia Wrzus;Gert G. Wagner

  • When bad moods may not be so bad: Valuing negative affect is associated with weakened affect–health links.

    Gloria Luong;Cornelia Wrzus;Gert G. Wagner;Michaela Riediger

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Florian Schmiedek
Florian Schmiedek Max Planck Society
Susanne Scheibe
Susanne Scheibe University of Groningen
Boris Egloff
Boris Egloff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Peter Kuppens
Peter Kuppens KU Leuven
Paul B. Baltes
Paul B. Baltes Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Shu-Chen Li
Shu-Chen Li TU Dresden
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Maya Tamir
Maya Tamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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