Global InformationJutta Heckhausen information
Jutta Heckhausen | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | German |
| Occupation(s) | Psychology and Social Behavior Professor |
| Awards | 1999 Max Planck Research Award for International Cooperation
2014 APA Baltes Distinguished Research Achievement Award 2020 Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award, Behavioral and Social Sciences Section, Gerontological Society of America |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | PhD., University of Strathclyde, 1985
M.A.,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1980 B.A., Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 1977 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine |
Jutta Heckhausen (born March 1957) is Professor of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine. She specializes in life-span developmental psychology, motivation, individual agency and social context.[1] She expanded her education at the Center for Social and Behavioral Science, Stanford University and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University Bielefeld, Germany. At the Department of Psychological Science at University of California, Irvine, she teaches in the areas of life-span development and motivational psychology.
Heckhausen worked with Richard Schulz and formulated the life-span theory of control, their journal article was published in 1995 as A life-span theory of control.[2] Further developments of their conceptual framework into a motivational theory of life-span development were published with co-author Carsten Wrosch in 2010 and 2019.
- ^ "Jutta Heckhausen – UCI School of Social Ecology". faculty.sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
- ^ Heckhausen, Jutta; Schulz, Richard (1995). "A life-span theory of control". Psychological Review. 102 (2): 284–304. doi:10.1037/0033-295x.102.2.284. ISSN 0033-295X. PMID 7740091.