July, 2023: “Feeling Stuck or Moving Up?” my research report in Character & Context, the blog of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.
May, 2023: “Why do we feel younger than we are?” Nataly Bleuel (Die ZEIT) talks to David Weiss about the psychology of feeling younger or older across the life span
October, 2019: You’re only as old as you feel? Emily Labor-Warren (New York Times) talks to David Weiss about subjective aging.
July 2018: I am leaving Columbia University to become a Heisenberg Fellow at the University of Leipzig in Germany.
May, 2018: Traveling Asia and presenting at the ‘Aging Across Contexts Conference’ in Hong Kong as well as Peking University in China. Big thanks to my young assistant who always made sure that everything went smoothly.
October, 2017: Holly Lawrence talks to David Weiss about how we can resist the detrimental consequences of age stereotypes.
September, 2017: New Findings from the Self, Identity, and Aging LAB
How Does the Age of Our Political Leaders Affect Our Opinions of Older Adults?
July, 2017: It was great to meet so many colleagues at the IAGG 2017 World Congress in San Francisco. I presented the paper “Is Age More Than a Number? Essentialist Beliefs About Aging Predict How Young or Old People Feel” co-authored by Anne K. Reitz (New York University).
June, 2017: Sharon Jayson (USA TODAY) talks to David Weiss about the inevitability of aging and why none of us wants to think we’re old.
May, 2017: We just attended the conference of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology to present some new research findings on the Implications of Generational Metastereotypes for Older Adults at Work. It was nice visiting Ireland and catching up with some old colleagues, and hanging out with the youngest attendee of this year’s EAWOP conference.
April, 2017 (I): Taylar Peoples (MSPH Class of 2017) has spent the last two years working in our lab. Her work and findings are featured in the latest issue of the Mailman School of Public Health “Student Voices” profile.
April, 2017 (II): Bethany Biron talks to David Weiss about ageism in the fashion industry.
November, 2016: We had a great time at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 16-20, 2016 in New Orleans, LA
October, 2016: We’re launching a new study to investigate “Pathways of Age-Stereotype Activation: Identifying Ways to Mitigate the Detrimental Effects of Negative Age Stereotypes on Cardiovascular Health in Later Adulthood” in the Physiology Lab of the Division of Behavioral Medicine, New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Mary Callaghan & Jacob E. Thomas
August, 2016: Congratulations to Deirdre Robertson. Deirdre will be moving to the Trinity College Dublin, Institute of Neuroscience to start a 2-year fellowship funded by the Irish Research Council titled “Linking Age-Related Stereotypes to Ill-Health: The Role of Reward Seeking Behaviours and Dopamine”. She will be investigating the underlying mechanisms that may explain why negative age-related stereotypes are harmful to older adults’ health.
July, 2016: We’ll be presenting at the 69th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), November 16-20, 2016 in New Orleans.
Wednesday, November 16, 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.: “Essentialist Beliefs About Aging, Individual Agency, and Cognitive Performance in Later Adulthood” (ID 2503077) paper to be presented by David Weiss and Deirdre Robertson in the symposium “It’s All in Your Head”: Effects of Age-Related Beliefs on Development in Old Age”
Thursday, November 17, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.: David Weiss will serve as a discussant in the symposium “Measures of Subjective Aging Predicting Health-Related Outcomes: Findings From Longitudinal Studies” (ID 226832)
Thursday, November 17, 12:15 – 2:15 p.m.: “Age Identity and Social Status Perceptions: Differences Between Black and White Older Adults” (ID 2499188 ), poster to be presented by Taylar Peoples, Deirdre Robertson, and David Weiss.
Friday, November 18, 8 – 9:30 a.m.: “Subjective Age Around the World: The Role of Power Distance and Hierarchy Beliefs” (ID 2500683) paper to be presented by David Weiss and Omar Halawa in the symposium “Potential Avenues for Change: Understanding the Sources of Ageist Attitudes and Stereotypes”
Saturday, November 19, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.: “Holding Your Own–Status Loss Dissociation in Older Adults” (ID 2497063) paper to be presented by Deirdre Robertson and David Weiss in the symposium “New Views on Aging Awareness”
June, 2016: Congratulations to Stephanie Grah who has been accepted into the Clinical Psychology PhD program at Virginia Coommonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
January, 2016: Deirdre Robertson was cited in Irish Times on her research examining how negative attitudes to aging affect both physical and cognitive health in later years.
December, 2015: Farewell to Kerstin Treiber from The University oif Tuebingen, Germany. Kerstin completed a 3-month research internship to study differences in the use and abuse of social power among young, middle-aged, and older adults.
December, 2015: End of the year LAB meeting with Chäs-Fondue Dinner.
October, 2015: The Wall Street Journal talks to David Weiss about his research on negative aging stereotypes, generation identity and how one’s views on getting old matter.
To Age Well, Change How You Feel About Aging
Spetember, 2015: The LAU Magazine talks to David Weiss about age identity and time perception.
August, 2015: Butler Intern Omar Halawa completed his research internship studying cultural differences in subjective age (i.e., How young or old people feel) comparing Argentina, Jordan, and the US.
Photo credits: Mona Weiss