Dana Kotter-Gruehn

Bio

Dr. Dana Kotter-Gruehn is a teaching professor and serves as the director of undergraduate advising in the Psychology department at NC State University. She obtained her B.S. and M.S. in Psychology from Dresden University of Technology (Germany) and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the Free University, Berlin (Germany). Trained at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, she is a lifespan developmental psychologist with a research focus on psychosocial development in adulthood. Dr. Kotter-Gruehn is committed to fostering students’ academic, cognitive, and personal growth through advising, mentorship, and teaching. She is involved in course, curriculum, and program development centered around students’ critical career skills. She co-developed and co-teaches the Psychology department’s teaching practicum for Ph.D. students and conceptualized and oversees the department’s Undergraduate Learning Assistant program.

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Academic Advising

Area(s) of Expertise

• Psychosocial development in adulthood and old age
• Social cognition: Self-perceptions of aging, age stereotypes, ageism, stigmatization
• Well-being and self-regulation in the context of successful aging
• Curriculum, program, and course development within Psychology, centered around critical career skills
• High-impact practices that improve student preparedness for graduate school

Publications

• Availability and Perceived Importance of High-Impact Practices for Psychology Graduate Program Admission , TEACHING OF PSYCHOLOGY (2024)
• Dialogue on subjective aging , The psychology of later life: A contextual perspective (2020)
• Prevalence and Correlates of Food Insecurity and Homelessness Among University Students , JOURNAL OF COLLEGE STUDENT DEVELOPMENT (2020)
• The role of university students' wellness in links between homelessness, food insecurity, and academic success , JOURNAL OF SOCIAL DISTRESS AND THE HOMELESS (2020)
• Feeling old today? Daily health, stressors, and affect explain day-to-day variability in subjective age , Psychology & Health (2015)
• Looking Beyond Chronological Age: Current Knowledge and Future Directions in the Study of Subjective Age , Gerontology (2015)
• The Combined Effects of Daily Stressors and Major Life Events on Daily Subjective Ages , The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (2015)
• The aging self , Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging (2015)
• Changing negative views of aging: Implications for intervention and translational research , Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics (2014)
• Objective and subjective nearness to death , Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (2014)