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Germany
2023

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Psychology

D-Index
123
Citations
87025
World Ranking
223
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Germany Leader Award
  • 1997 - Aristotle Prize, European Federation of Psychologists' Associations
  • 1995 - APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology

Overview

Paul B. Baltes is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Germany. The research work is documented primarily in psychology, with a notable focus on developmental theory.

Recent scholarly contributions include a 2020 paper titled Η ατελής αρχιτεκτονική της ανθρώπινης οντογένεσης: Επιλογές, βελτιστοποίηση και αντιστάθμιση ως θεμέλια της αναπτυξιακής θεωρίας published in Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society.

Publication activity includes appearances in the following venues:

  • Psychology the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society (1 publication)

Frequent coauthors are not listed in available data.

Best Publications

  • Psychological perspectives on successful aging: The model of selective optimization with compensation.

    Paul B. Baltes;Margret M. Baltes

  • Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology : On the dynamics between growth and decline

    Paul B. Baltes

  • On the incomplete architecture of human ontogeny: Selection, optimization, and compensation as foundation of developmental theory

    Paul B. Baltes

  • Successful aging: Perspectives from the behavioral sciences

    Paul B. Baltes;Margret M. Baltes

  • Life Span Theory in Developmental Psychology

    Paul B. Baltes;Ulman Lindenberger;Ursula M. Staudinger

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior

    Paul B. Baltes;David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner;Orville Gilbert Brim

  • LIFESPAN PSYCHOLOGY: Theory and Application to Intellectual Functioning

    Paul B. Baltes;Ursula M. Staudinger;Ulman Lindenberger

  • New frontiers in the future of aging: from successful aging of the young old to the dilemmas of the fourth age.

    Paul B. Baltes;Jacqui Smith

  • Wisdom. A metaheuristic (pragmatic) to orchestrate mind and virtue toward excellence.

    Paul B. Baltes;Ursula M. Staudinger

  • Emergence of a Powerful Connection Between Sensory and Cognitive Functions Across the Adult Life Span: A New Window to the Study of Cognitive Aging?

    Paul B. Baltes;Ulman Lindenberger

  • Life-span developmental psychology.

    Paul B. Baltes;Hayne Waring Reese;Lewis P. Lipsitt

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

    P.B. Baltes;N.J. Smelser

  • Sensory functioning and intelligence in old age: A strong connection

    Ulman Lindenberger;Paul B. Baltes

  • Life-span Developmental Psychology: Introduction To Research Methods

    Paul B. Baltes;Hayne Waring Reese;John R. Nesselroade

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

    Alexandra M. Freund;Paul B. Baltes

  • Longitudinal and cross-sectional sequences in the study of age and generation effects

    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

  • Longitudinal Research in the Study of Behavior and Development

    John R. Nesselroade;Paul B. Baltes

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior : Volume 10

    Paul B. Baltes;David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner

  • Life-Span Development and Behavior : Volume 11

    David L. Featherman;Richard M. Lerner;Marion Perlmutter

  • New frontiers in the future of aging: From successful aging of the young old to the dilemmas of the Fourth Age. Keynote lecture at the Valencia Forum, International Scientific Congress, Valencia, Spain

    Paul B. Baltes;Jacqui Smith

  • Theoretical propositions of life-span developmental psychology: On the dynamics between growth and decline [Chinese translation]

    Paul B. Baltes

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Margret M. Baltes
Margret M. Baltes Freie Universität Berlin
Ulman Lindenberger
Ulman Lindenberger Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Alexandra M. Freund
Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich
Reinhold Kliegl
Reinhold Kliegl University of Potsdam
John R. Nesselroade
John R. Nesselroade University of Virginia
K. Warner Schaie
K. Warner Schaie University of Washington
Todd D. Little
Todd D. Little Texas Tech University
Gabriele Oettingen
Gabriele Oettingen New York University

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