Alexandra M. Freund

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PhD Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Psychology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley

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Life-management strategies of selection, optimization, and compensation: measurement by self-report and construct validity. (2002) (747)
Selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: correlations with subjective indicators of successful aging. (1998) (668)
Developmental changes in personal goal orientation from young to late adulthood: from striving for gains to maintenance and prevention of losses. (2006) (633)
Walking While Memorizing: Age-Related Differences in Compensatory Behavior (2001) (468)
Interference and Facilitation among Personal Goals: Differential Associations with Subjective Well-Being and Persistent Goal Pursuit (2004) (295)
Age-differential motivational consequences of optimization versus compensation focus in younger and older adults. (2006) (252)
The orchestration of selection, optimization and compensation: An action–theoretical conceptualization of a theory of developmental regulation. (2000) (221)
Successful Aging as Management of Resources: The Role of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2008) (185)
Understanding Developmental Regulation in Adolescence: The Use of the Selection, Optimization,and Compensation Model (2001) (185)
Subjective career success and emotional well-being: Longitudinal predictive power of selection, optimization, and compensation (2002) (177)
Selection, Optimization, and Compensation: An Action-Related Approach to Work and Partnership (2000) (160)
Goal progress makes one happy, or does it? Longitudinal findings from the work domain (2005) (147)
Managing life through personal goals: intergoal facilitation and intensity of goal pursuit in younger and older adulthood. (2005) (136)
The Handbook of Life-Span Development (2010) (136)
Self, personality, and life regulation: Facets of psychological resilience in old age (1999) (128)
The dynamics of possible selves in old age. (2002) (114)
Changes in the sensitivity to appetitive and aversive arousal across adulthood. (2009) (108)
Content and function of the self-definition in old and very old age. (1999) (101)
Still young at heart: negative age-related information motivates distancing from same-aged people. (2012) (97)
Misinformation, disinformation, and violent conflict: from Iraq and the "War on Terror" to future threats to peace. (2013) (97)
The measurement of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) by self report : Technical report 1999 (1999) (97)
Successful development and aging: The role of selection, optimization, and compensation (1999) (96)
What I have and what I do: The role of resource loss and gain throughout life (2001) (96)
Self-Regulation of Normative and Non-Normative Developmental Challenges1 (2001) (94)
Focusing and restricting: two aspects of motivational selectivity in adulthood. (2006) (92)
Motivational Shifts in Aging Monkeys and the Origins of Social Selectivity (2016) (91)
Delay or procrastination – A comparison of self-report and behavioral measures of procrastination and their impact on affective well-being (2014) (90)
The aging self : shifting from promoting gains to balancing losses (2005) (90)
Age-related differences in altruism across adulthood: making personal financial gain versus contributing to the public good. (2014) (89)
Me against myself: motivational conflicts and emotional development in adulthood. (2008) (87)
Goals as building blocks of personality and development in adulthood (2006) (75)
Age-related differences in outcome and process goal focus (2010) (74)
The adaptiveness of selection, optimization, and compensation as strategies of life management: evidence from a preference study on proverbs. (2002) (71)
The psychological science of human ageing (2005) (71)
Midlife Crisis: A Debate (2009) (70)
A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (69)
Psychological Consequences of Longevity (2009) (67)
Toward a developmental psychology of Sehnsucht (life longings): the optimal (utopian) life. (2007) (67)
When wanting and fearing go together: The effect of co-occurring social approach and avoidance motivation on behavior, affect, and cognition (2009) (63)
Advances in Lifespan Psychology: A Focus on Biocultural and Personal Influences (2005) (62)
On the Use and Usefulness of Backup Plans (2016) (62)
Parents as role models: Parental behavior affects adolescents’ plans for work involvement (2011) (60)
The Role of Social Approach and Avoidance Motives for Subjective Well‐Being and the Successful Transition to Adulthood (2008) (56)
Human strengths as the orchestration of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation. (2003) (55)
When feeling different pays off: how older adults can counteract negative age-related information. (2013) (55)
The intermarriage of wisdom and selective optimization with compensation: Two meta-heuristics guiding the conduct of life (2003) (54)
Changing eating behaviour vs. losing weight: The role of goal focus for weight loss in overweight women (2012) (53)
How to Beat Procrastination The Role of Goal Focus (2014) (52)
Men and women in the Berlin Aging Study (2001) (51)
Are mastery-avoidance achievement goals always detrimental? An adult development perspective (2015) (50)
Normal Aging and Decision Making: The Role of Motivation (2012) (49)
Mastering developmental transitions in young and middle adulthood: the interplay of openness to experience and traditional gender ideology on women's self-efficacy and subjective well-being. (2012) (48)
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Leisure Time Physical Activity, Mental Well-Being and Subjective Health in Middle Adulthood (2020) (44)
Selection and compensation in adulthood. (1995) (40)
Age and motivation predict gaze behavior for facial expressions. (2011) (39)
On Gains and Losses, Means and Ends: Goal Orientation and Goal Focus Across Adulthood (2012) (38)
Going beyond work and family: A longitudinal study on the role of leisure in the work–life interplay (2016) (38)
Selection, optimization, and compensation (2002) (36)
On Means and Ends (2015) (36)
Toward a theory of successful aging: Selection, optimization, and compensation (2007) (35)
Do We Become More Prosocial as We Age, and if So, Why? (2020) (34)
Beyond conflict: Functional facets of the work–family interplay (2010) (34)
Individuating Age Salience: A Psychological Perspective on the Salience of Age in the Life Course. (1997) (34)
The end is (not) near: Aging, essentialism, and future time perspective. (2016) (33)
Beyond Age Comparisons: A Plea for the Use of a Modified Brunswikian Approach to Experimental Designs in the Study of Adult Development and Aging (2014) (33)
When choice matters: task-dependent memory effects in older adulthood. (2013) (31)
Determinants of protective behaviours during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of the COVID‐19 pandemic (2021) (29)
Multidimensionality in Developmental Conceptions Across Adulthood (2012) (28)
The indirect nature of social motives: the relation of social approach and avoidance motives with likeability via extraversion and agreeableness. (2015) (26)
The role of age and motivation for the experience of social acceptance and rejection. (2014) (26)
The Role of Age and Social Motivation in Developmental Transitions in Young and Old Adulthood (2012) (26)
Self-regulation among youth in four Western cultures (2015) (25)
The interplay of work and family in young and middle adulthood (2000) (25)
It’s in the means: Process focus helps against procrastination in the academic context (2016) (24)
The use of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) in goal pursuit in the daily lives of middle-aged adults (2017) (23)
Multidomain Engagement and Self-Reported Psychosomatic Symptoms in Middle-Aged Women and Men (2014) (23)
Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Risks: Unrealistic Optimism in the Health Domain (2018) (22)
Does Medical Risk Perception and Risk Taking Change with Age? (2018) (21)
Staying on and getting back on the wagon: age-related improvement in self-regulation during a low-calorie diet. (2010) (19)
The bucket list effect: Why leisure goals are often deferred until retirement. (2020) (19)
Graduating from high school: The role of gender-related attitudes, self-concept and goal clarity in a major transition in late adolescence (2013) (18)
Aging and social perception: so far, more similarities than differences. (2014) (17)
The Way is the Goal: The Role of Goal Focus for Successful Goal Pursuit and Subjective Well-Being (2018) (17)
Identifying success on the process level reduces negative effects of prior weight loss on subsequent weight loss during a low-calorie diet. (2014) (17)
The Motivational Power of the Happy Face (2019) (16)
Values across adulthood: A neglected developmental construct guiding thought and action over time (2014) (16)
Michael Jackson, Bin Laden and I: Functions of positive and negative, public and private flashbulb memories (2015) (16)
Fear of Failure, Disorganization, and Subjective Well-Being in the Context of Preparing for an Exam (2012) (16)
Feeling Loved and Integrated or Lonely and Rejected in Everyday Life: The Role of Age and Social Motivation (2018) (16)
Social interactions and activity patterns of old Barbary macaques: Further insights into the foundations of social selectivity (2017) (15)
Some Evidence for the Usefulness of an Optimal Foraging Theory Perspective on Goal Conflict and Goal Facilitation (2017) (15)
What you want to avoid is what you see: Social avoidance motivation affects the interpretation of emotional faces (2015) (14)
Methodological comment: temporal stability of older person's spontaneous self-definition. (1999) (14)
Boundary Management: A Time-Sampling Study on Managing Work and Private Life in Middle Adulthood (2016) (14)
Why do(n’t) you like me? The role of social approach and avoidance motives in attributions following social acceptance and rejection (2015) (14)
The effect of age and time perspective on implicit motives (2015) (14)
It Is What You Have, Not What You Lose: Effects of Perceived Gains and Losses on Goal Orientation across Adulthood. (2020) (13)
Is longing only for Germans? A cross-cultural comparison of Sehnsucht in Germany and the United States. (2011) (13)
Means or outcomes? Goal orientation predicts process and outcome focus (2012) (13)
Selection, Optimization, and Compensation Questionnaire (2011) (13)
Ecological Validity as a Key Feature of External Validity in Research on Human Development (2017) (12)
When Work Takes Over: Emotional Labor Strategies and Daily Ruminations About Work While at Home (2017) (12)
Perception of Risk for Older Adults: Differences in Evaluations for Self versus Others and across Risk Domains (2018) (11)
More or less energy with age? A motivational life-span perspective on subjective energy, exhaustion, and opportunity costs. (2020) (11)
A motivational perspective on academic procrastination: Goal focus affects how students perceive activities while procrastinating. (2019) (11)
Age, Action Orientation, and Self-Regulation during the Pursuit of a Dieting Goal. (2016) (11)
Age-related differences in evaluating developmental stability (2013) (11)
The value of "negative" appraisals for resilience. Is positive (re)appraisal always good and negative always bad? (2015) (10)
Who Cares? Effects of Social Approach and Avoidance Motivation on Responsiveness to Others (2018) (10)
Adult age differences in monetary decisions with real and hypothetical reward (2021) (10)
Personality Theories of Successful Aging (2012) (10)
First Evidence for “The Backup Plan Paradox” (2017) (9)
Age-Related Changes in the Role of Social Motivation: Implications for Healthy Aging. (2021) (9)
Out of mind, out of heart: Attention affects duration of emotional experience (2013) (8)
The Model of Selection, Optimization, Compensation (2019) (8)
Responding to emotional scenes: effects of response outcome and picture repetition on reaction times and the late positive potential (2018) (8)
Stronger evidence for own-age effects in memory for older as compared to younger adults (2011) (8)
Men and women in the Berlin Aging Study : Theoretical considerations and empirical findings (1999) (8)
Longing (Sehnsucht) as a new lifespan concept: a developmental conceptualization and its measurement in adulthood (2005) (8)
The Adaptation Process of Aging (2019) (8)
Personality Development in Adulthood: A Goal Perspective (2019) (8)
How Do Gain and Loss Incentives Affect Memory for Intentions Across Adulthood? (2020) (7)
Striving for gains and preventing losses : Multi-method evidence on the differences in personal goal orientation in early and late adulthood (2005) (6)
Social Motives Predict Loneliness During a Developmental Transition (2017) (6)
You cannot spend the same dollar twice: A series of studies on resolving goal conflicts (2015) (6)
The development of goals and motivation (2017) (6)
The psychological distance of memories: Examining causal relations with mood and self-esteem in young, middle-aged and older adults (2017) (6)
Wanting to Get More or Protecting One's Assets: Age-Differential Effects of Gain Versus Loss Perceptions on the Willingness to Engage in Collective Action. (2016) (5)
25 Successful Aging (2012) (5)
Approaching Sehnsucht (Life Longings) from a Life-Span Perspective: The Role of Personal Utopias in Development (2008) (5)
Developmental psychology of life management (2001) (5)
Age, Loss Minimization, and the Role of Probability for Decision-Making (2018) (5)
Does focusing on others enhance subjective well-being? The role of age, motivation, and relationship closeness. (2021) (5)
The Ill-Fated Quest for Fame in Psychological Research (2017) (5)
Motivation and Healthy Aging: A Heuristic Model. (2021) (5)
Better off without? Benefits and costs of resolving goal conflict through goal shelving and goal disengagement (2022) (5)
When the Fun Is Over (2019) (4)
Adult age differences in frequency estimations of happy and angry faces (2015) (4)
The Model of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2015) (4)
Motivational Changes Across Adulthood: The Role of Goal Representations for Adult Development and Aging (2017) (4)
Individual Differences in Habitual Social Goals and Daily Well–Being: The Role of Age and Relationship Closeness (2019) (4)
Competing goals draw attention to effort, which then enters cost-benefit computations as input. (2013) (4)
Life Management, Developmental Psychology of (2001) (4)
Intergoal relations in the context of starting to exercise: A case of positive development from younger to older adulthood (2007) (4)
Goal Changes and Healthy Aging. (2021) (4)
Life Management Through Selection, Optimization, and Compensation (2015) (3)
Social motives, attributions and expectations as predictors of the decision to participate in a speed-dating event (2019) (3)
How to work out and avoid procrastination: The role of goal focus (2020) (3)
Effort Mobilization and Healthy Aging. (2021) (3)
Managing conflicting goals through prioritization? The role of age and relative goal importance (2021) (3)
Adult age-related differences in appetitive and aversive associative learning. (2021) (2)
Introduction: Social and emotional development across the life span (2010) (2)
A Motivational Life-Span Perspective on Procrastination: The Development of Delaying Goal Pursuit Across Adulthood (2018) (2)
Beyond money: Nonmonetary prosociality across adulthood. (2021) (2)
LEISURE TIME PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, LEISURE SATISFACTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS IN MIDLIFE (2018) (2)
"Mastering developmental transitions in young and middle adulthood: The interplay of openness to experience and traditional gender ideology on women's self-efficacy and subjective well-being": Correction to Weiss et al. (2012). (2013) (2)
Recovery from accumulated strain: the role of daily mood and opportunity costs during a vacation (2020) (2)
Social and emotional development (2010) (2)
Spelling out some unaddressed conceptual and methodological challenges in empirical lifespan research. (2022) (2)
A motivational perspective on reactions to emotional faces (2010) (2)
Unterschiede im physischen Selbstkonzept bei normalgewichtigen und adipösen Personen. Eine Analyse mit dem Physical Self Description Questionnaire von Marsh (2009) (1)
Getting at Developmental Processes Through Experiments (2015) (1)
From Hate to Love: How Learning Can Change Affective Responses to Touched Materials (2020) (1)
Introduction to the special section: The role of gender in school-related transitions and beyond (2011) (1)
Backup plans as a motivational construct (2015) (1)
Self-Regulation in Adulthood (2015) (1)
Does Goal Orientation Modulate Satisfaction with Cognitive Performance in Different Age Groups? (2021) (1)
For Whom Is the Path the Goal? A Lifespan Perspective on the Development of Goal Focus (2022) (1)
Values Across Adulthood (2014) (1)
Sociohistorical Change in Urban Older Adults' Perceived Speed of Time and Time Pressure. (2021) (1)
Why do(n’t) you like me? The role of social approach and avoidance motives in attributions following social acceptance and rejection (2015) (1)
A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (1)
Adding life to one's added years: Self- regulatory balancing of life domains across old age. (2019) (1)
Annäherungs- vs. Vermeidungsmotivation (2009) (1)
Adult age differences in remembering gain- and loss-related intentions (2021) (1)
On Gains and Losses, Means and Ends (2019) (1)
Emotion, Goals, and Distance: A View From the Study of Adult Development and Aging (2016) (1)
Wanting more is not always better: Associations of goal-orientation with age, outcome vs. process focus, and subjective indicators of well-being (2008) (0)
Lifespan psychology : Illustrations from adulthood and old age (2001) (0)
Does goal orientation affect the salience of the means or the outcomes of a goal (2008) (0)
It’s in the means: Process focus helps against procrastination in the academic context (2016) (0)
Decision options: When do older adults prefer negative versus positive aspects? (2017) (0)
Goal Pursuit Measure (2013) (0)
[Effect of personal priorities on magnitude of stimulus preference: initial empirical findings]. (2001) (0)
Changing conceptualization of stability across the lifespan (2012) (0)
Age and information preference: Neutral information sources in decision contexts (2022) (0)
Temporal dynamics of protective behaviors and their determinants in the context of the new corona virus pandemic (2020) (0)
RUNNING HEAD : View from Aging Comment : Emotion , Goals and Distance : A View from the Study of Adult Development and Aging (2017) (0)
What you want to avoid is what you see: Social avoidance motivation affects the interpretation of emotional faces (2015) (0)
Running Head : AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN ALTRUISM Age-Related Differences in Altruism Across Adulthood : Making Personal Financial Gain vs . Contributing to the Public Good (2017) (0)
Developmental Trajectory Evaluation Measure (2013) (0)
Age-related differences in the use and utility of backup plans: Comparing contingency and redundancy (2018) (0)
Non-Monetary Gambling Task (2021) (0)
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (0)
Running Head : EVALUATING DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY Age-Related Differences in Evaluating Developmental Stability (2017) (0)
What do you focus on? An investigation of goal focus from childhood to old age. (2023) (0)
From gains to losses: Age-related differences in decisions under risk in a non-monetary gambling task. (2020) (0)
Social and Emotional Development across the Life Span (2010) (0)
Improvement for the younger – Maintenance for the old: Two sides of the same coin? (2010) (0)
Contents Vol. 63, 2019 (2020) (0)
United States Steel Corporation Eastern Steel Operations Fairless Works and United Steelworkers of America Local Union 5030 (1965) (0)
AGING, TASK DIFFICULTY, AND EFFORT: A META-ANALYSIS (2019) (0)
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Leisure Time Physical Activity, Mental Well-Being and Subjective Health in Middle Adulthood (2019) (0)
Shift Happens (2023) (0)
Using Mixture Distribution Models to Test the Construct Validity of the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire: (707152011-001) (2011) (0)
Contents Vol. 61, 2018 (2019) (0)
Gender Differences in Aspirations and Attainment: What should I do with my life? (2014) (0)
Chasing the “How” and “Why” of Goal Pursuit: A Multimethod Approach to the Study of Goal Focus (2023) (0)
United States Steel Corporation Fairless Works and United Steelworkers of America Local Union 4889 (1971) (0)
Contents Vol. 54, 2011 (2012) (0)
Predictors of success in insulin pump therapy (2000) (0)
IT’S WHAT YOU HAVE, NOT WHAT YOU LOSE: EFFECTS OF RESOURCE ACCUMULATION AND LOSS ON GOAL ORIENTATION ACROSS ADULTHOOD (2018) (0)
Call for Papers: “Measuring States and Traits: Theories, Models, and Assessment”: A Special Issue of the European Journal of Psychological Assessment (2015) (0)
Conceptions of stability and change across the lifespan: processes and implications for development (2012) (0)
Persistent Goal Pursuit Interference and Facilitation among Personal Goals : Differential Associations with Subjective Well-Being (2004) (0)
United States Steel Corporation Rod, Wire and Wire Products Division Fairless Works and United Steelworkers of America Local Union 2670 (1971) (0)
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (0)
Multidimensionality of developmental conceptions (2012) (0)
The effect of age and time perspective on implicit motives (2014) (0)
Predicting the endorsement of preventive behaviors in the context of the Corona virus pandemic (2020) (0)
Association between goal orientation and the means as well as the outcomes of a goal (2009) (0)
Self-control from a multiple goal perspective of mixed reward options (2021) (0)
MOTIVATION AND PROCESSING EMOTIONAL FACES 1 Running Head : MOTIVATION AND PROCESSING EMOTIONAL FACES 1 2 3 4 What You Want to Avoid is What You See : 5 Social Avoidance Motivation Affects the Interpretation of Emotional Faces 6 7 (2017) (0)
The number of response categories and the assessment of the physical self-concept (2013) (0)
Age-related differences in subjective conceptions of gains and losses across the lifespan (2010) (0)
The Backup Planning Scale (BUPS): A Brief, Self-Reported Measure of a Person’s Tendency to Develop, Reserve, and Use Backup Plans (2021) (0)
Age-Differential Effects of Gain vs. Loss Perceptions on Willingness to Engage in Collective Action (2012) (0)
Contents Vol. 56, 2013 (2014) (0)
Running Head : EXPERIMENTS TARGETING DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES Getting at developmental processes through experiments (2017) (0)
Bridging the Gap between Clinical and Behavioural Gerontology Part II: Quality of Life in Multimorbidity (2014) (0)
AGING AND LOSS MINIMIZATION: THE ROLE OF PROBABILITY IN DECISION-MAKING (2018) (0)
Asymmetric Comparison in Choice Processes (2009) (0)
The Role of Subjective Expectations for Exhaustion and Recovery: The Sample Case of Work and Leisure. (2022) (0)
Running Head : GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL 1 2 3 4 Graduating from high school : The role of gender-related attitudes , self concept and goal clarity 5 in a major transition in late adolescence 6 7 (2017) (0)
Introduction to Special Issue (2008) (0)
Social motives, attributions and expectations as predictors of the decision to participate in a speed-dating event (2019) (0)
Are mastery-avoidance achievement goals always detrimental? An adult development perspective (2015) (0)
Contents Vol. 60, 2017 (2018) (0)
More than only skin deep? Appearance self-concept predicts most of students' self-esteem. (2016) (0)
Pay One or Pay All? The Role of Incentive Schemes in Decision Making Across Adulthood. (2022) (0)

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