JACQUI SMITH
Professor, Psychology.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Research Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics.
Dr. Smith’s research deals with the potential and limits of development and change during adulthood and old age. She uses experimental and survey methodologies to investigate age-cohort differences and age-related change in cognitive functioning, self-regulation, and well-being. Her current research focuses on psychological vitality in the Third and Fourth Age (65 to 100+), psychological predictors of longevity, individual differences in intra-person psychological dynamics, and the application of intelligence, cognition, and life knowledge (wisdom) during adulthood.
Funded Aging Projects
- Life Events, Depression, and Cognition in Older Age: An Intraindividual Approach (NIA)
- A Web-Based Survey of Daily Experienced Well-Being in Older Couples (NIA)
- Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging (NIA)
- Health and Retirement Study Yrs 23-28 (NIA)
- Survey Measures of Subjective Well-being: Age, Appraisal, and Cognition Effects (NIA)
- Health Literacy and Health Disparities Among the Elderly (NIA)
- Experienced-based and Subjective Well-being Survey Toolkits for Older Adults (NIA)
- Harmonization of Longitudinal Cross-National Surveys of Aging (NIA)
Publications
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