Paul B. Baltes Lecture

The Paul B. Baltes lecture is held annually by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The lectures commenced in 2008 and are named after Paul Baltes, the German developmental psychologist. ^[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.

The Lectures

• 2008 Michael Posner: "Executive Attention: Its Origins, Development, and Functions" ^[2]
• 2009 Lynn Hasher: "Age-Related Consequences of Attention Regulation and Dysregulation"
• 2010 John Nesselroade: "The Person-Oriented Perspective in Psychology"
• 2011 Andrew Meltzoff: "The Development of Social Cognition: Imitation, Cultural Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Children" ^[3]
• 2012 Jutta Heckhausen: "A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development"
• 2013 Wendy Rogers: "Human-Robot Interaction: Understanding the Potential of Robots for Older Adults"
• 2014 Brent W. Roberts: "Human Sociogenomics"
• 2015 Ray Dolan: "Circuits for Social Cognition" ^{[4] [5]}
• 2016 Diane Poulin-Dubois: "The Developmental Origins of Selective Trust" ^[6]
• 2017 Kevin Warwick: "Neural Implants for Therapy and Enhancement" ^[7]
• 2018 Denny Borsboom: "Network Approaches to Psychopathology" ^[8]
• 2019 David Poeppel: "The Auditory System and the Motor System, in Time" ^[9]
• 2020 Nora Newcombe: "Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation" ^{[10] [11]}
• 2021 Peter Hancock: “Time to Think of Time” ^[12]
• 2022 Stephan Lewandowsky: “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy” ^{[13] [14]}
• 2023 Alexandra M. Freund: "Motivation and Aging: The Role of Goals in Adult Development and Aging" ^{[15] [16]}
• 2024 Laura L. Carstensen: "Emotional Well-being and Age: The Role of Shifting Time Horizons" ^[17]

References

1. "Margret M. And Paul B. Baltes Foundation".
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14. Max Planck Institute for Human Development (2024-05-22). Paul B. Baltes Lecture 2022 by Stephan Lewandowsky . Retrieved 2024-10-07– via YouTube.
15. "Motivation and Aging: The Role of Goals in Adult Development and Aging". www.bbaw.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-07.
16. Max Planck Institute for Human Development (2024-05-22). Paul B. Baltes Lecture 2023 by Alexandra M. Freund . Retrieved 2024-10-07– via YouTube.
17. "Emotional Well-being and Age: The Role of Shifting Time Horizons". www.bbaw.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-10-07.