Post-Doctoral Fellow

Visiting Scholar

Research Interests

  • lifespan development
  • individual differences in resources, goals, and strategies
  • interplay between psychological well-being and health
  • microanalytical processes in daily life
  • social-interactive developmental processes

Education

 

Free University of Berlin, Ph.D. 2004
Free University of Berlin, Diplom (M.A.) Psychology, 2001

 

Affiliations
Gerontological Society of America

Publications

Hoppmann, C., Coats, A., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (in press). Goals and everyday-problem solving: Examining the link between age-related goals and problem-solving strategy use across the adult lifespan. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition.

Hoppmann, C. , Gerstorf, D., & Luszcz, M. (in press). On the interplay between spousal social activity trajectories in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Aging in the context of cognitive, physical, and affective resources. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

Hoppmann, C., Gerstorf, D., Smith, J., & Klumb, P. (2007). Linking possible selves and behavior: Do domain-specific hopes and fears translate into daily activities in very old age? Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62B, 104-111.

Hoppmann, C. & Smith, J. (2007). Life-history related differences in possible selves in old age. Aging and Human Development, 64, 109-127.

Hoppmann, C. & Klumb, P. (2006). Daily goal pursuits predict cortisol secretion and mood states in employed parents with preschool children. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 887-894.

Klumb, P., Hoppmann, C., & Staats, M. (2006). Work hours affect spouse’s cortisol secretion-For better and for worse. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 742-746.

Klumb, P., Hoppmann, C., & Staats, M. (2006). Division of labor in German dual-earner families: testing equity-theoretical hypotheses. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68, 870-882.

Hoppmann, C. (2005). Interpersonal contributions to the pursuit of work- and family related goals in middle adulthood. Dissertation. Free University, Berlin, Germany. http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2005/24.

Manuscripts Under Review

Ditzen, B., Hoppmann, C., & Klumb, P. (under review). Positive couple interactions and daily cortisol: On the stress-protecting role of intimacy.

Hoppmann, C. & Klumb, P. (under review). Dyadic interdependence of goal pursuit in working parents: The devil is in the details.

Hoppmann, C., & Klumb, P. (under review). Strategies for managing work and family goals in dual earner couples: Domain-specific effects on affect quality and cortisol secretion.

Hoppmann, C. & Klumb, P., & Pötter, U. (under review). Dyadic simultaneity in goal pursuit influences individual well-being in employed parents.

Roecke, C., Hoppmann, C., & Klumb, P. (under review). Positive and negative affect across moments, days, and months: Trajectories of well-being and associations of state and trait affect in old age.

Manuscripts in Preparation

 

Hoppmann, C., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (draft manuscript available). Experimental manipulation of personal goals and its effect on everyday problem solving.

Gerstorf, D., Hoppmann, C, & McArdle, J. J. (in preparation). On the dynamic interplay between cognitive functioning and well-being in older married couples.

Hoppmann, C., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (in preparation). Spousal goals and their association with individual and dyadic problem solving: A time-sampling approach.

Hoppmann, C., & Blanchard-Fields, F. (in preparation). Methodological comparison of ongoing and retrospective reports of everyday problem solving in old age.

Hoppmann, C., Blaskewicz Boron, J., & Klumb, P. (in preparation). Affective complexity and health in midlife and older adulthood.

Hoppmann, C., Gerstorf, D., & Luszcz, M. (in preparation). Spousal interdependencies in cognitive functioning in the Australian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

Hoppmann, C. & Riediger, M. (in preparation). Ambulatory assessment in developmental psychology. European Psychologist, Special Issue on Ambulatory Assessment.

 

Curriculum Vitae