Corinna Loeckenhoff is the Director of the Laboratory for Healthy Aging. Her research focuses on age differences in personality and emotional experience and their influence on mental and physical health across the life span. A central goal is to understand how age groups differ in their approach to health-related choices and to explore ways to optimize such choices across the life span. Another line of research examines life-long trajectories in people's personality traits and their relation to health-related behaviors and outcomes.
Corinna Loeckenhoff received her undergraduate degree from the University of Marburg in Germany and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Her postdoctoral work was completed at the National Institute on Aging in Baltimore. She currently is the Louis and Mel Tukman Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development, College of Human Ecology.
Fall 2009 - Transitions Across the Life Span (HD 4590)
Fall 2009 - Empirical Research in the Healthy Aging Laboratory (HD4010)
Spring 2010 - Adult Development and Aging (HD2180)
Mikels, J.A., Löckenhoff, C.E., Maglio, S. et al. (in press). Follow Your Heart or Your Head? The Effects of Affective Versus Deliberative Decision Strategies Differ by Age Group. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Löckenhoff, C.E., De Fruyt, F., Terracciano, A., McCrae, R.R., De Bolle, M., & Costa, P.T. Jr. et al. (2009). Perceptions of Aging across 26 Cultures and their Culture-Level Associates. Psychology and Aging, 24, 941-954.
Löckenhoff, C.E, Ironson, G., O’Cleirigh, C., & Costa (2009). Five-Factor Model Personality Traits, Spirituality/Religiousness, and Mental Health among People Living with HIV/AIDS. Journal of Personality, 77, 1411-1436.
Löckenhoff, C.E, Terraciano, A. & Costa (2009). Five-factor model personality traits and the retirement transition: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations. Psychology and Aging, 24, 722-728.
Löckenhoff, C.E, Terracciano, A., Patriciu, N.S., Eaton, W.W. & Costa, P.T., Jr. (2009). Self-reported extremely adverse life events and longitudinal changes in five-factor model personality traits in an urban sample. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 22, 53-59.
Löckenhoff, C.E, & Carstensen, L.L. (2008). Decision strategies in healthcare choices for self and others: Older adults make adjustments for the age of the decision target, younger adults do not. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P106-P109.
Löckenhoff, C.E., Costa, P.T., & Lane, R.D. (2008). Age differences in descriptions of emotional experience in oneself and others. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 63, P92-P99.
Löckenhoff, C.E, Sutin, A., Ferrucci, L. & Costa, P.T. Jr. (2008). Personality, subjective health, and vulnerability: The association between NEO-PI-R and SF-36 in advanced age differs across samples that vary in impairment levels. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 1334-1346.
Terracciano, A., Löckenhoff, C.E., Zonderman, A.B., Ferrucci, L., & Costa, P.T. Jr., & (2008). Personality predictors of longevity: Activity, emotional stability, and conscientiousness. Psychosomatic Medicine, 70, 621-627.
Löckenhoff, C.E., Terracciano, A., Bienvenu, O.J., Patriciu, N.S., Nestadt, G., McCrae, R.R., Eaton, W.W., & Costa, P.T. Jr. (2008). Ethnicity, education, and the temporal stability of personality traits in the East Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 577-598.
Löckenhoff, C.E., & Carstensen, L.L. (2007). Aging, emotion, and health-related decision strategies: Motivational manipulations can reduce age differences. Psychology and Aging, 22, 134-146.
Isaacowitz, D.M., Löckenhoff, C.E., Lane, R. D., Wright, R., Sechrest, L., Riedel, R., & Costa, P. T. (2007). Age differences in recognition of emotion in lexical stimuli and facial expressions. Psychology and Aging, 22, 147-159.
Löckenhoff, C.E., & Carstensen, L.L. (2004). Socioemotional selectivity theory, aging, and health: The increasingly delicate balance between regulating emotions and making tough choices. Journal of Personality, 72, 1393 - 1424.