Lena Pollerhoff

More than happy to finally share the preprint of this project "Age Differences in Prosociality Across the Adult Lifespan: A Meta-Analysis" - work with David Reindel, @ShuchenTwit, @pkanske, and @an_reiter. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

@ShuchenTwit @pkanske @an_reiter Evidence hints at a quadratic age effect on behavioral prosociality, suggesting a peak in midlife

More than happy to finally share the preprint of this project "Age Differences in Prosociality Across the Adult Lifespan: A Meta-Analysis" - work with David Reindel, @ShuchenTwit, @pkanske, and @an_reiter. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

@ShuchenTwit @pkanske @an_reiter Studies which included monetary incentives revealed a stronger linear age effect

@ShuchenTwit @pkanske @an_reiter A linear age effect on prosociality shows that older adults are more prosocial than younger adults

@ShuchenTwit @pkanske @an_reiter Lifespan meta-analysis combines data from 120 samples (n = 103,829) on prosociality

Check out our new preprint investigating value integration for self and other in older versus younger adult 🧐🚀

adolescents have a reputation of being moody - it was fun to think with @GregorovaKlara @eraneldar and @ldeserno about how mood swings in adolescence might be explained with reinforcement learning -- new preprint here: psyarxiv.com/u62vr/ happy about any feedback!!

🙋‍♀️Wir suchen noch deutschsprachige Teilnehmer*innen zwischen 9 und 40 Jahren für unsere Studie (bequem am Smartphone und online von zu Hause) für unsere Studie zu sozialen Interaktionen. 👫👬👭🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Alle Infos ⏬⏬⏬

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at others woe" - Homer ~700BCE. I love this quote. It shows #empathy has a short history as a word, but a long past as a concept. Was Homer right that we are taught by time to empathize? #scicomm 1/2

We extended our application deadline! Our lab is offering a position as a PhD student / Postdoc for a 3 year period. Application deadline: March 31, 2022. Join us to study perceptual, cognitive, and motivational development across the lifespan! 👇 tu-dresden.de/mn/psychologie…

🚨🚨 We are looking for a PhD student in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience/Computational Psychiatry - come&join us at @Uni_WUE within the fabulous @RTG2660 to work on the development of approach/avoidance in kids with and without mental health problems tinyurl.com/cd4kbfhd

But small age effects were found for the daily experience of empathy, with increasing empathy across the adult lifespan, showing a peak in midlife!

By analyzing smartphone based experience sampling data collected from participants across the adult lifespan, we did not find too much evidence of age-related increases in prosociality and well-being (contrary to what is often times assumed in the current literature).

Happy to share my first first-author paper from my PhD! "Investigating adult age differences in real‑life empathy, prosociality, and well‑being using experience sampling", just published today! 👉rdcu.be/cH4gp

🚨Wimi/Promotionsstelle Stelle an der KJPP/ Deutsches Zentrum für Präventionsforschung und Psychische Gesundheit @Uni_WUE: Prävention bei Kindern- und Jugendlichen&Mitarbeit bei der Leitlinie für Angstbehandlung im Kindes- und Jugendalter👧👦💪tinyurl.com/pmcjswp7 @YouCAP_3

Very excited to share our replication "The ageing of the social mind: replicating the preservation of socio-affective and the decline of socio-cognitive processes in old age" - just published today! One milestone further on the way to a PhD :) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Really excited to share our preprint "investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling" - work with @JuliaStietz, @GDepow, @minzlicht, @pkanske, @ShuchenTwit, and @an_reiter! Preprint: osf.io/3f78n/.

1 Dogs are known for their ability to cooperate with humans and read our social cues. But are these skills biologically prepared? To find out, we tested 375 puppies at 8.5 weeks on 4 social cognition tasks (task descriptions: bit.ly/3bPL7wO) #AnimBehav2021 #Cognition