I study the developmental psychology of self

Yi Lu/ 芦 旖

Yi Lu/ 芦 旖

PhD Student of Developmental Psychology

Cornell University

Hello! My name is Yi.

…prounced as /ee/.

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student working in the Healthy Aging Lab at Cornell University, U.S. Before that, I got my Bachelar’s degree at Peking University in China. My research focus on lifespan development, especially people’s aging process in self-concepts and social relations, and decision-making outcomes.

In parallel to my research, I serve as a member of the Grad Student Committe at Psych Department, Cornell, and work as a mentor for Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), assisting high school students on their first social science project.

Interests
  • Aging Process
  • Self-Continuity
  • Social Interaction
Education

  • PhD student in Developmental Psychology

    Cornell University

  • BSc in Psychology

    Peking University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Peking University
Sep 2017 – Jul 2020 China
  • Undergraduate research on the impact of aging stereotypes on older people’s risky decisions
  • Honor thesis on a cross-cultural comparison study of Chinese and Americans’ self-continuity across age
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Brown University
Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 RI
  • Designed and conducted action experiments using Sketchup, MATLAB Psychtoolbox and movement tracking pad.
  • Analyzed data on hand movement trajectory and reaction performance using MATLAB.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Yale University
Jul 2019 – Oct 2019 CT
Conducted natural language meaning analysis using Meaning Extraction Helper and ZhToken.

Publications

Lu, Gerstorf, & Löckenhoff (2023). Age Differences in Self-Continuity in Germany and the United States: The role of Temporal Direction, Temporal Distance, and Demographics. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

Lu, Chen, Yin, Xu, & Zhang (2020). Viewing time and facial trustworthiness perception: Give it a second thought may not work for older adults . PsyCh Journal.

DOI

Chang, Lu, & Zhang (2019). Subjective Well-being. In D. Gu and M. E. Dupre (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer-Nature..

DOI

Talks

[GSA 2022] Age Differences in Self-continuity Remain Robust in Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Findings suggest that even though future self-continuity was lower during the pandemic, existing age-related differences in temporal …
Nov 2, 2022 10:00 PM — 11:00 PM Indianapolis, IN
Yi Lu, Corinna Löckenhoff
Cognitive Aging: Brain, Attention & Memory [COGST 1101]
Guest talk for the course Cognitive Neuroscience 1101
Jul 30, 2022 1:40 PM — Jul 31, 2022 3:00 AM Cornell University
[GSA 2020] Culture, Age and Self-Continuity Old Chinese Showed Lower Continuity with Their Past and Future Self than Americans
We found in both countries, self-continuity decreased with temporal distance less steeply as age increased; while the age effect …
Nov 4, 2020 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM Philadelphia, PE

Projects

Longitudinal Precursors on Self-Continuity
This study aims to examine the longitudinal predictors of self-continuity (SC). We plan to examine the hypothesis that greater health declines/ life changes in the prior years are associated with lower past and future self-continuity.
Temporal Self-Continuity in response to COVID-19
Findings suggest that while average self-continuity remained resilient to pandemic effects, the tendency to perceive the future as more stable than the past was reduced during the pandemic.
Temporal Self-Continuity across Age and Countries
This study examined the robustness of previously reported age differences in self-continuity in two adult life-span samples collected in Germany and the U.S. Consistent with the prior literature (for a review see Löckenhoff & Rutt, 2016) average self-continuity was positively associated with chronological age (H1).