Corinna Elisabeth Löckenhoff (also spelled Loeckenhoff) is a

gerontologist Gerontology ( ) is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903, from the Greek , ''geron'', "old man" and , ''-logia'', "study of". Th ...

. She is a professor of Human Development at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

and of Gerontology in Medicine at

Weill Cornell Medicine The Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University is Cornell University's biomedical research unit and medical school located in Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York. Weill Cornell Medicine is affiliated with NewY ...

Education

Löckenhoff earned her undergraduate degree from the

University of Marburg The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

. She went on to receive her PhD in psychology from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 2004. Her doctoral advisor was

Laura L. Carstensen Laura L. Carstensen is the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and professor of psychology at Stanford University, where she is founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity and the principal investigator for the Stanford ...

, and her thesis title was ''Age-Related Positivity Effects in Information Acquisition and Decision-Making: Testing Socioemotional Selectivity Theory in the Health Domain''. After her PhD, she had a postdoctoral fellowship at the

National Institute on Aging The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), located in Bethesda, Maryland. The NIA itself is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the ...

Career

Löckenhoff has been a faculty member at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medical since 2009. Her research focuses on how psychological factors vary with age and what these variations imply for mental and physical health. She investigates age differences in decision making, and in 2015 she co-edited a book on this topic, ''Aging and Decision Making'', with Thomas M. Hess and JoNell Strough. She also studies the influence of personality and emotion upon health behaviors and outcomes, a line of inquiry exemplified in a 2016 book that she co-edited with Anthony Ong, ''Emotion, Aging, and Health''.

Awards and honors

The

Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in ...

recognized Löckenhoff as a Rising Star in 2011, and she received the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology from the

Gerontological Society of America The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is a multidisciplinary organization devoted to research and education in all aspects of gerontology: medical, biological, psychological and social. History and organization The Gerontological Society ...

in 2014. She was elected fellow of the

in 2016 and the Association for Psychological Science in 2020.

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