Dr. phil. David Weiss

Postdoctoral researcher

	Contact
	Dr. phil. David Weiss University of Zurich Department of Psychology Applied Psychology: Life-Management Binzmuehlestrasse 14/11 8050 Zurich / Switzerland
	Phone: Fax: E-Mail: Room: Office hours:	+41 44 635 72 04 +41 44 635 7209 d.weiss@psychologie.uzh.ch BIN 3.A.07 n. Vereinb.

CV David Weiss (PDF, 147 KB)

Central Research Interests

Self and identity
Motivation across the life span
Developmental regulation and social categorization

Brief Research Statement

My primary research interests concern (1) social cognitive aging, that is, the perception and cognitive representation of age group identity vs. generation identity in older adults, (2) motivation and self-categorization, especially the question how motives guide and predict identification and dissociation with social groups, and (3) developmental regulation and the adaptivity of the self-system.

Selected Key Publications

Freund, A. M., Weiss, D., & Wiese, B. S. (in press). Graduating from high school: The role of gender-related attitudes, attributes, and motives for a central transition in young adulthood. European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Lang, F. R., Weiss, D., Gerstorf, D., & Wagner, G. G. (2013). Forecasting life satisfaction across adulthood: Benefits of seeing a dark future? Psychology and Aging. doi:10.1037/a0030797

Weiss, D., Freund, A. M., & Wiese, B. S. (2012). Mastering developmental transitions in young and middle adulthood: The interplay of openness to experience and traditional gender ideology on women’s self-efficacy and well-being. Developmental Psychology, 48, 1774-84. doi: 10.1037/a0028893

Weiss, D. & Freund, A. M. (2012). Still Young at Heart: Negative Age-Related Information Motivates Distancing from Same-Aged People. Psychology and Aging, 27, 173-180. doi:10.1037/a0024819

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R.(2012a). «They» Are Old but «I» Feel Younger: Age Group Dissociation as a Self-Protective Strategy in Old Age. Psychology and Aging, 27, 153-163. doi:10.1037/a0024887

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R.(2012b). The Two Faces of Age Identity. The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 25, 5-14. doi:10.1024/1662-9647/a000050

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2009). Thinking About My Generation: Adaptive Effects of a Dual Age Identity in Later Adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 24, 729–734. doi:10.1037/a0016339

Complete list of publications by David Weiss

Education and Honors


2011	Vontobel Award for Research on Age(ing) (Center for Gerontology UZH/Vontobel Families Foundation).
2010	Karl-Giehrl Award for Outstanding PhD-Thesis, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
2009	PhD, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, Thesis «Aging Identities: The Ambivalence of Age Group and Generation Belonging», (Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang and Prof. Dr. A. E. Abele-Brehm).
2005	Diploma (equivalent to M.A.) in Psychology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany.
2003–2004	Thesis : «Legitimizing Myths – Psychological Protection or Social Strategy?» Australian National University, Department of Psychology, Canberra, (Prof. Dr. P.J. Oakes and Prof. Dr. B. Simon).
1999–2005	Undergraduate and Graduate Studies of Psychology at the Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany and at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Professional Positions


Since 2009	Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Dr. A. M. Freund, University of Zurich, Department of Psychology, Applied Psychology: Life-Management.
2006–2009	Research Assistant and Doctoral Student, Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang, Institute of Psychogerontology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
2005–2006	Research Assistant, Prof. Dr. F. R. Lang, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Germany.
2002–2005	Student Research Assistant, Prof. Dr. B. Simon, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology, Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany.

Department of Psychology – Applied Psychology: Life-Management