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Damaris Aschwanden
Maître Assistante | Research and Teaching Fellow
Office 204 | Chemin de Pinchat 22 | 1227 Carouge
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Courriel
- Member of the Cognitive Aging Lab at the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV)
- Affiliate of the Lab of Personality and Cognition across the Lifespan (LPC Lifespan) at Florida State University
- LIFE Alumna, International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course
- Editorial board member of GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry and Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Education
2015 - 2018 | Ph.D. in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
2012 - 2014 | Diploma (M.Sc.) in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
2008 - 2012 | Diploma (B.Sc.) in Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (Switzerland) |
Academic Positions
since 2022 | Maître Assistante, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV), University of Geneva (Switzerland) |
2018 - 2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine, Florida State University (USA) |
Awards and honors
Vontobel-Award for Research on Age and Aging 2021, Center for Gerontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Selected publications
(Access complete list of publications here)
- Aschwanden, D., Sutin, A. R., Ledermann, T., Luchetti, M., Stephan, Y., Sesker, A. A., Zhu, X., & Terracciano, A. (2022). Subjective Cognitive Decline: Is a resilient personality protective against progression to objective cognitive impairment? Findings from two community-based cohort studies. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-220319
- Aschwanden, D., Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Ó Súilleabháin, P. S., Stephan, Y., Sesker, A. A., Lee, J. H., & Terracciano, A. (2022). The bite is worse than the bark: Associations of personality and depressive symptoms with memory discrepancy. Psychology and Aging. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pag0000675
- Aschwanden, D., Strickhouser, J. E., Luchetti, M., Stephan, Y., Sutin, A. R., & Terracciano, A. (2021). Is personality associated with dementia risk? A meta-analytic investigation. Ageing Research Reviews, 67, 101269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2021.101269
- Terracciano, A., Aschwanden, D., Passamonti, L., Toschi, N., Stephan, Y., Luchetti, M., Lee, J. H., Sesker, A., O’Súilleabháin, P. S., & Sutin, A. R. (2021). Is neuroticism differentially associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, and frontotemporal dementia? Journal of Psychiatric Research, 138, 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.03.039
- Aschwanden, D., Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Allemand, M., Stephan, Y., & Terracciano, A. (2020). A systematic review and meta‐analysis of the association between personality and cognitive failures/complaints. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 14(11). https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12565
- Aschwanden, D., Aichele, S., Ghisletta, P., Terracciano, A., Kliegel, M., Sutin, A. R., Brown, J., & Allemand, M. (2020). Predicting cognitive impairment and dementia: A machine learning approach. Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 75(3), 717-728. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-19096
- Hill, P. L., Aschwanden, D., Payne, B. R., & Allemand, M. (2020). Daily cognitive complaints and engagement in older adulthood: Personality traits are more predictive than cognitive performance. Psychology and Aging, 35(3), 317-328. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000452
- Aschwanden, D., Luchetti, M., & Allemand, M. (2019). Are open and neurotic behaviors related to cognitive behaviors in daily life of older adults? Journal of Personality, 87, 472-484. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12409
- Aschwanden, D., Kliegel, M., & Allemand, M. (2018). Cognitive complaints mediate the effect of cognition on emotional stability across 12 years in old age. Psychology and Aging, 33, 425-438. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000246
- Aschwanden, D., Martin, M., & Allemand, M. (2017). Cognitive abilities and personality traits in old age across four years: More stability than change. Journal of Research in Personality, 70, 202-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.08.002
Book chapters
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Aschwanden, D., Allemand, M., & Hill, P. L. (2021). Cognitive methods in personality research. In B. J. Carducci & C. S. Nave (Eds.), The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences: Measurement and Assessment (Vol. 2, pp. 49-54). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
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Aschwanden, D., & Allemand, M. (2020). Promoting cognitive, physical, and social activities for Healthy Aging by targeting personality. In P. L. Hill & M. Allemand (Eds.), Personality and Healthy Aging in Adulthood (Vol. 26, pp. 155-172). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32053-9_10
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Lindner, S., Aschwanden, D., & Allemand, M. (2018). Personality processes. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (pp. 1-4). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_467-1
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Allemand, M., Aschwanden, D., Martin, A., & Gruenenfelder-Steiger, A. E. (2017). Personality trait development in adulthood and old age. In J. Stein (Ed.), Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology (pp. 1-8). San Diego, CA: Elsevier.