Annual psychology lecture in Germany
ThePaul B. Baltes lecture is held annually by theBerlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The lectures commenced in 2008 and are named afterPaul Baltes, theGerman developmentalpsychologist.[1]
Each year the Academy selects a leading international scientist to present the lecture which commemorates Paul Baltes` achievements in psychological research and his contributions to psychology.
The Paul B. Baltes lecture is a joint initiative of the psychology institutes in Berlin and Potsdam (Freie Universität,Humboldt-Universität,Technische Universität,Universität Potsdam,Max Planck Institute for Human Development) and is supported by the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation.
- 2008Michael Posner: "Executive Attention: Its Origins, Development, and Functions"[2]
- 2009Lynn Hasher: "Age-Related Consequences of Attention Regulation and Dysregulation"
- 2010John Nesselroade: "The Person-Oriented Perspective in Psychology"
- 2011Andrew Meltzoff: "The Development of Social Cognition: Imitation, Cultural Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Children"[3]
- 2012Jutta Heckhausen: "A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development"
- 2013 Wendy Rogers: "Human-Robot Interaction: Understanding the Potential of Robots for Older Adults"
- 2014Brent W. Roberts
- 2015Ray Dolan: "Circuits for Social Cognition"[4][5]
- 2016 Diane Poulin-Dubois: "The Developmental Origins of Selective Trust"[6]
- 2017Kevin Warwick: "Neural Implants for Therapy and Enhancement"[7][8]
- 2018Denny Borsboom: "Network Approaches to Psychopathology"[9]
- 2019David Poeppel: "The Auditory System and the Motor System, in Time"[10]
- 2020Nora Newcombe: "Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation"[11][12]
- 2021Peter Hancock: “Time to Think of Time”[13]
- 2022Stephan Lewandowsky: “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”[14][15]
- 2023 Alexandra M. Freund: "Motivation and Aging: The Role of Goals in Adult Development and Aging"[16][17]
- 2024Laura L. Carstensen: "Emotional Well-being and Age: The Role of Shifting Time Horizons"[18]
