Project task
Co-PI, views of aging, technology acceptance, quality of life assessment
Expertise
Psychology of Aging, Aging and Technology
Biography
Biography
Hans-Werner Wahl is a former Professor of Psychological Aging Research. He currently is a Seniorprofessor and Project Director at the Network Aging Research of Heidelberg University and Senior Researcher at the Institute of Psychology of Heidelberg University. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the Free University of Berlin in 1989. His research activities include the role of subjective aging as well as the physical-technological environments for aging well, adaptational processes related to chronic functional loss, and conceptual issues in aging research. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and more than 450 scholarly journal articles and chapters related to the study of adult development and aging. He is the founding editor of the European Journal of Ageing (together with Dorly Deeg), consulting editor of Psychology and Aging, one of the editors of the Zeitschrift für Geronotlogie and Geriatrie, and an editorial board member of The Gerontologist. Dr. Wahl is also a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) since 2002. He has received the 2008 Social Gerontology Award of the GSA (together with Manfred Diehl), the 2009 M. Powell Lawton Award of the GSA, the 2019 IAGG-ER Advanced Scholar Award: Socio-Behavioral Sciences, the 2020 BSS – Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Award (Article) of the Gerontological Society of America (together with Denis Gerstorf), and the 2021 BSS – Richard M. Kalish Innovative Publication Award (Book), Gerontological Society of America (together with Manfred Diehl). He is currently President-Ellect of the German Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics..
Relevant publications
Brothers, A., Kornadt, A. E., Nehrkorn-Bailey, A., Wahl, H.-W., & Diehl, M. (2021). The effects of age stereotypes on physical and mental health are mediated by self-perceptions of aging. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 76, 845-857. https:// doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa176
Pinquart, M., & Wahl, H.-W. (2021). Subjective age from childhood to advanced old age: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 36, 394–406. https:// doi.org/ 10.1037/ pag0000600
Schmidt, L. & Wahl, H.-W. (2019). Predicting performance in technology-based tasks in older adults with mild cognitive impairment and healthy controls: The role of self-efficacy and obsolescence. The Gerontologist, 59, 90-100. doi: 10.1093/geront/gny062
Schulz, R., Wahl, H.-W., Matthews, J. T., de Vito Dabbs, A., Beach, S. R. & Czaja, S. J. (2015). Advancing the aging and technology agenda in gerontology. The Gerontologist, 55, 724-734. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnu07
Seifert, A. & Wahl, H.-W. (2018). Young at heart and online? Subjective age and Internet use in two Swiss survey studies. Educational Gerontology, 44, 139-147. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/03601277.2018.1427495