Her research interests include Social Cognition across the lifespan and lifespan differences and continuities in autobiographical memory, reminiscence, and the life story. She studied at The Max Planck Institute for Human Development, in Berlin, the home of the Berlin Wisdom Paradigm. She has published extensively on the topic of wisdom (click here to read a selection of these papers). She is now Director of the Lifestory Lab at The university of Florida.