Publications by David Weiss

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

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

Lang, F. R., Weiss, D., Gerstorf, D., & Wagner, G. G. (in press). Forecasting Life Satisfaction Across Adulthood: Benefits of Seeing a Dark Future? Psychology and Aging.

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

Lang, F. R., Weiss, D., Stocker, A., & von Rosenblatt, B. (2007). Assessing Cognitive Capacities in Computer-Assisted Survey Research: Two Ultra-Short Tests of Intellectual Ability in the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 127, 183–192.

Papers submitted

Weiss, D., Sassenberg, K., & Freund, A. M. (in revision). When feeling different pays off: How older adults can counteract negative age stereotypes.

Weiss, D., Sczesny, S., & Freund, A. M. (in revision). Wanting to get more or to protect one’s assets: Age-differential effects of gain vs. loss perceptions on the willingness to engage in collective action.

Thesis

Weiss, D. (2005). Legitimizing Myths – Psychological Protection or Social Strategy? Department of Psychology. Christian-Albrechts University Kiel, Germany.

Weiss D. (2009). Aging Identities: The Ambivalence of Age Group and Generation Belonging. Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.

Conference Presentations

Weiss, D., Sassenberg, K., & Freund, A. M. (2012). Differenzierung als selbstwertschützender Mechanismus im Umgang mit negativen Altersstereotypen. [Differentiation as a Self-Protective Mechanism in Dealing with Negative Age Stereotypes]. Paper presented at the 48th Meeting of the German Psychological Association, Bielefeld, Germany.

Weiss, D., Sassenberg, K., & Freund, A. M. (2012). Differentiation as a Self-Protective Strategy in Coping with Negative Age Stereotypes. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2012.

Weiss, D., Sczesny, S., & Freund, A. M. (2012). Age-Differential Effects of Gain vs. Loss Perceptions on Willingness to Engage in Collective Action. Poster presented at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Study of Motivation (SSM), Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2012.

Weiss, D., Wiese, B. S., & Freund, A. M. (2012). The Role of Traditional Gender Ideology for Self-Efficacy and Well-Being During Occupational Transitions. Paper presented at the 10th conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Zurich, Switzerland, April 2012.

Weiss, D. & Freund, A. M. (2011). Negative Information über das Alter motiviert die Distanzierung von Gleichaltrigen. Paper presented at the 20. Fachgruppentagung Entwicklungspsychologie in Erfurt, Germany, September 2011.

Weiss, D., Wiese, B. S., & Freund, A. M. (2011). Keeping on Track or Throwing the Towel? Adolescents’ Self-Regulatory Strategy Use in Mastering Life Transitions. Paper presented at the Success and Well-Being Conference in Basel, Switzerland, September 2011.

Weiss, D. & Freund, A. M. (2011). When Being Older Just Feels Better: How Status Differences Motivate Young Adults’ Differentiation and Assimilation. Paper presented at the 15th conference of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Maastricht, The Netherlands, May 2011.

Weiss, D. (2011). “Still Young at Heart” - How Older Adults Cope with Negative Age Stereotypes. Talk given at the Knowledge Media Research Center – KMRC, Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg, Tübingen, Germany, May, 2011.

Weiss, D., Freund, A.M., & Wiese, B.S. (2010). Funktionen traditioneller Geschlechtsrollenideologie für Frauen in beruflichen Übergangsphasen. Paper presented at the 47th Congress of the German Society of Psychology, Bremen, Germany, September, 2010.

Weiss, D.& Lang, F.R. (2010). Agency and Communion in Advanced Age: Functional Differences of a Dual Age Identity. Paper presented at the 47th Congress of the German Society of Psychology, Bremen, Germany, September, 2010.

Weiss, D. (2010). Two Faces of Age Identity: The Adaptive Flexibility of Age Identification. Paper presented at the 12th European Social Cognition Network Conference (ESCON). Gothenburg, Sweden, August, 2010.

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). How to Communicate Age? Implications of a Dual Age Identity in Later Adulthood. Paper presented at the International Conference: Social Capital and Volunteering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, December, 2008.

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). Thinking About My Generation: Adaptive Effects of Age Identification. Poster presented at the 61st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), National Harbor, Maryland, USA, November 2008.

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). Expecting More or Less in Five Years? – Future Orientations and Well-Being across Adulthood. Paper presented at the XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, July 2008.

Weiss, D. & Lang, F. R. (2008). The two Faces of Age Identification in Later Adulthood. Paper presented at the 20th meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Wuerzburg, Germany, July 2008.

Weiss, D., Diewald, M., & Lang, F.R. (2006). Control Beliefs and Challenges Across the Lifespan: Efficacy, Adjustment, and Stabilisation. Paper presented at the 45th Congress of the German Society of Psychology, Nuremberg, Germany, September, 2006.

Weiss, D., Oakes, P.J., & Simon, B. (2005). A False Consciousness of the Dominant? Legitimizing Myths and the Tactics of Intergroup Relations. Poster presented at the 14th Conference of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, Wuerzburg, Germany, July 2005.