Research Articles
2024
Verhaeghen, P., Aikman, S. N., & Mirabito, G. (in press). Mindfulness interventions in older adults for mental health and wellbeing: A meta-analysis. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Feng, R., Mishra, V., Hao, X., & Verhaeghen, P. (in press). The association between mindfulness, psychological flexibility, and rumination in predicting mental health and well-being among university students using machine learning and structural equation modeling. Machine Learning with Applications
Mirabito, G., Koganti, L. S., & Verhaeghen, P. (in press). One-year follow-up of a remote delivered Koru Mindfulness intervention for college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of American College Health.
Pierce, M., Mirabito, G., & Verhaeghen, P. (2024). Mind the app: more time spent on headspace leads to beneficial day-to-day changes in mindfulness, depression, anxiety and stress in college students. Cogent Mental Health, 3, 2400878.
Jones, M. & Verhaeghen, P. (2024). Acquired substance-dependent compulsivity but not general compulsivity predicts increased substance use. Discover Psychology, 4
Verhaeghen, P. (2024). Thriving in openness, care, and compassion: How virtue and compassion for self and others relate to flourishing. Journal of Happiness Studies
2023
Weiss-Cowie, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Duarte, A. (2023). An updated account of overgeneral autobiographical memory in depression. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews.
Verhaeghen, P. (2023). Mindfulness and academic performance: Meta-Analyses on interventions and correlations. Mindfulness, 14, 1-12.
Mirabito, G., & Verhaeghen, P. (2023). Changes in state mindfulness are the key to success in mindfulness interventions: Ecological momentary assessments of predictors, mediators, and outcomes in a four-week Koru mindfulness intervention. Psychological Reports.
2022
Verhaeghen, P., & Aikman, S. N. (2022), The I in mindfulness: How mindfulness relates to aspects of self and psychological wellbeing. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice.
Caswell, J.R., & Duggirala, A. N., & Verhaeghen, P. (2022). Letting go as an aspect of rumination and its relationship to mindfulness, dysphoria, anxiety, and eudemonic well-being. Behavioral Sciences.
Jin, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Rahnev, D. (2022). Across-subject correlation between confidence and accuracy: A meta-analysis of the Confidence Database. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29, 1405-1413.
Karl, J. A., Verhaeghen, P. Aikman, S. N., Stolem, S., Lassen, E. R., & Fischer, R. (in press). Misunderstood Stoicism: The negative association between stoic ideology and well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies.
Miller, J. T., & Verhaeghen, P. (2022). Mind full of kindness: Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence as vehicles for compassion. BMC Psychology.
Mirabito, G., & Verhaeghen, P. (2022). Remote delivery of a Koru Mindfulness intervention for college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of American College Health.
Mirabito, G., & Verhaeghen, P. (2022). The effects of mindfulness interventions on older adults’ cognition: A meta-analysis. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 78, 394-408.
Verhaeghen, P., & Aikman, S. N. (2022). Police as threat: The influence of race and the summer of Black Lives Matter on implicit and explicit attitudes towards the police. Journal of Community Psychology, 50, 3354-3370.
Verhaeghen, P., & Mirabito, G. (2022). The curious case of inner speech in self-regulation: A rejoinder to Morin (2922). International Journal of Personality Psychology.
2021
Hokett, E., Arunmozhi, A., Campbell, J., Verhaeghen, P, & Duarte, A. D. (2021). A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual differences in naturalistic sleep quality and episodic memory performance in young and older adults. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 127, 675-688.
Verhaeghen, P., & Mirabito. G. (2021). When you are talking to yourself, is anybody listening? The relationship between inner speech, self-awareness, wellbeing, and multiple aspects of self-regulation. International Journal of Personality Psychology, 7, 8-24.
Saelzler, U. G., Verhaeghen, P. , Panizzon, M. S., & Moffat, S. D. (2021). Intact circadian rhythm despite cortisol hypersecretion in Alzheimer’s disease: A meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology.
Sedek, G., Verhaeghen, P. Lengsfeld, K., & Rydzewska, K. (2021). Using stories to assess linear reasoning abolishes the age-related differences found in formal tests. Thinking and Reasoning.
Taylor, J., Weiss-Cowie, S., Hopton, Z., Verhaeghen, P., Dotson, V. M., & Duarte, D. (2021). Depression and episodic memory across the adult lifespan: A meta-analytic review. Psychological Bulletin, 147, 1184-1214.
Verissimo, J, Verhaeghen, P. Goldman, N., Weinstein, M., & Ullman, M. T. (2021). Aging yields improvements as well as declines across attention and executive functions. Nature Human Behavior.
Verhaeghen, P. (2021). Mindfulness as attention training: Meta-analyses on the links between attention performance and mindfulness interventions, long-term meditation practice, and trait mindfulness. Mindfulness, 12, 564-581.
Verhaeghen, P. (2021). There is virtue in mindfulness: The relationship between the mindfulness manifold, virtues, and eudemonic wellbeing. Personality and Individual Differences.
Verhaeghen, P., & Mirabito. G. (2021). When you are talking to yourself, is anybody listening? The relationship between inner speech, self-awareness, wellbeing, and multiple aspects of self-regulation. International Journal of Personality Psychology, 7, 8-24.
2020
Bopp, K. L., & Verhaeghen, P. (2020). Aging and N-Back performance: A meta-analysis. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 7, 229-240.
Dotson, V., McClintock, S. M., Verhaeghen, P., Kim, J. U., Draheim, A. A., Szymkowicz, S. M., Gradone, A. M., Michalak, H. R., & De Wit L. (2020). Depression and cognitive control across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neuropsychology Review, 30, 461-476.
Karl, J. A., Méndez Prado, S. M., Gračanin, A., Verhaeghen, P., …Fischer, R. (2020). Is dispositional mindfulness a cultural universal? Examining the cross-cultural validity of the Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire across 16 countries. Mindfulness, 11, 1226-1237.
Pehlivanoglu, D., Duarte, A., & Verhaeghen, P. (2020). Multiple identity tracking strategies vary by age: An ERP study. Neuropsychologia, 17.
Verhaeghen, P., & Aikman, S. N. (2020). How the mindfulness manifold relates to the five moral foundations, prejudice, and awareness of privilege. Mindfulness, 11, 241-254.
Verhaeghen, P. (2020). The examined life is wise living: The relationship between mindfulness, wisdom, and the moral foundations. Journal of Adult Development, 27, 305-322.
2019
Pehlivanoglu, D., & Verhaeghen, P. (2019). Now you feel it, now you don't: Motivated attention to emotional content is modulated by age and task demands. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 19, 1299-1316.
Verhaeghen, P. (2019). The mindfulness manifold: Exploring how self-preoccupation, self-compassion, and self-transcendence translate mindfulness into positive psychological outcomes. Mindfulness, 10, 131-145.
Verhaeghen, P., Geigerman, S., Yang, H., Montoya, A. C., Rahnev, D. (2019). Resolving age-related differences in working memory: Equating perception and attention makes older adults remember as well as younger adults. Experimental Aging Research, 45, 120-134.
2018
Trani, A., & Verhaeghen, P. (2018). Foggy windows: Pupillary responses during task preparation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1747021817740856.
Verhaeghen, P., Aikman, S., Doyle-Portillo, S., Bell,C., & Simmons, N. (2018). When I saw me standing there: First-person and third-person memories and future projections, and how they relate to the self. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 30(4), 438-452.
Strunk,J., Morgan, L., Reaves, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Duarte, A. (2018). Retrospective attention in short-term memory has a lasting effect on long-term memory across age. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, gby045.
Verhaeghen, P. (2018). Once more with feeling: The role of familiarity in the aesthetic response. The Psychological Record, 63, 379-384.
2017
Verhaeghen, P., Trani, A. N., & Aikman, S. N. (2017). On Being Found: How Habitual Patterns of Thought Influence Creative Interest, Behavior, and Ability. Creativity Research Journal, 29(1), 1-9.
Aikman, S. N., Doyle-Portillo, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Simmons, N. (2017). The Effect of Instruction Point of View on Self-efficacy for Performing Breast Self-exams. American Journal of Health Education, 48(1), 1-10.
Verhaeghen, P. (2017). The Self-Effacing Buddhist: No (t)-Self in Early Buddhism and Contemplative Neuroscience. Contemporary Buddhism, 18(1), 21-36.
2016
Geigerman, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Cerella, J. (2016). To bind or not to bind, that's the wrong question: Features and objects coexist in visual short-term memory. Acta Psychologica, 167, 45-51.
Reaves, S., Strunk, J., Phillips, S., Verhaeghen, P., & Duarte, A. (2016). The lasting memory enhancements of retrospective attention. Brain Research.
Verhaeghen, P. (2016). Minding the mind: Meditation as skills training for attention. In T. Strobach and J. Karbach (eds.), Cognitive training: An overview of features and applications (pp. 127-136). New York: Springer.
2015
Verhaeghen, P. (2015). Good and Well: The Case for Secular Buddhist Ethics. Contemporary Buddhism, 16(1), 43-54.
2014
Karbach, J., & Verhaeghen, P. (2014). Making working memory work: A meta-analysis of executive-control and working memory training in older adults. Psychological Science, 25, 2027-2037.
Pehlivanoglu, D., Jain, S., & Ariel, R., & Verhaeghen, P. (2014). The ties to unbind: Age-related differences in feature (un)binding in working memory for emotional faces. Frontiers in Psychology.
Price, J., Colflesh, G. J. H., Cerella, J., &Verhaeghen, P. (2014). Making working memory work: The effects of extended practice on focus capacity and the processes of updating, forward access, and random access. Acta Psychologica
Verhaeghen, P., Joormann, J., & Aikman, S. N. (2014). Creativity, mood, and the examined life: Self-reflective rumination boosts creativity, brooding breeds dysphoria. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
2013
Duarte, A., Hearons, P.,Jiang, Y., Delvin, M. C., Newsome, R., & Verhaeghen, P. (2013). Retreospective attention enhances visual working memory in the young but not the old: An ERP study. Psychophysiology, 50, 465-476.
Verhaeghen, P. & Zhang, Y. (2013). What is still working in working memory in old age: Dual tasking and resistance to interference do not explain age-related item loss after a focus switch. Journals of Gerontology, 53.
2012
Verhaeghen, P., Martin,M., & Sedek, G. (2012). Reconnecting cognition in the lab and cognition in real life: The role of compensatory social and motivational factors in explaining how cognition ages in the wild. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 19, 1-12.
Zhang, Y., Verhaeghen,P., Cerella, J. (2012). Working memory at work: How the updating process alters the nature of memory encoding. Acta Psychologia, 139, 77-83a.
2011
Basak, C., &Verhaeghen, P. (2011). Aging and switching the focus of attention in working memory: Age differences in item availability, but not item accessibility. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.
Lange, E. B., Cerella, J., & Verhaeghen, P. (2011). Ease of access to list items in short-term memory depends on the order of the recognition probes. Journal of Experimental Psychology; Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 608-620.
Basak, C., &Verhaeghen, P. (2011). Three layers of working memory: Focus-switch costs and retrieval dynamics as revealed by the N-count task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 204-219.
Verhaeghen, P., Aikman,S., & Van Gulick, A. E. (2011). Prime and prejudice: Co-occurrence in the culture as a source of automatic stereotype priming. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 501-518.
Wasylyshyn. C., Verhaeghen, P., & Sliwinski, M. (2011). Aging and task switching: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 26, 15-20.
Verhaeghen, P. (2011). Aging and executive control: Reports of a demise greatly exaggerated. Current Directions in Psychological Sciences, 20, 174-180.
2010
Lange, E. B., Verhaeghen, P., & Cerella, J. (2010). Dual representation of item positions in short-term memory: Evidence for two access modes. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 22, 463-479.
Titz, C., & Verhaeghen, P. (2010). Aging and directed forgetting: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 25, 405-411.
2009
Zhang, Y., & Verhaeghen, P. (2009). Glimpses of a one-speed mind: Focus-switching and search for verbal and visual, and easy and difficult items in working memory. Acta Psychologica, 131, 235-244.
Bopp, K. L., &Verhaeghen, P. (2009). Working memory and aging: Separating the effects of content and context. Psychology and Aging, 24, 968-980.
Lange, E. B., & Verhaeghen, P. (2009). No age differences in complex memory search: Older adults search as efficiently as younger adults. Psychology and Aging, 24, 105-115.
2008
Vaughan, L., Basak, C., Hartman, M. & Verhaeghen, P. (2008). Aging and working memory inside and outside the focus of attention: Dissociations of availability and accessibility. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 15, 703-724.
Schwartz, K., & Verhaeghen, P. (2008). ADHD and Stroop interference from age 9 to age 41: A meta-analysis of developmental effects. Psychological Medicine, 38, 1607-1616.
2007
Zhang, Y., Han, B., Verhaeghen, P., & Nilsson, L-G.(2007). Executive functioning in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: MCI has effects on planning, but not on inhibition. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 14, 557-570.
Bopp, K. L., & Verhaeghen, P. (2007). Age-related differences in control processes in verbal and visuo-spatial working memory: Storage, transformation, supervision, and coordination. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 62, 239-246.
Verhaeghen, P., & Hoyer, W. J. (2007). Aging, focus switching and task switching in a continuous calculation task: Evidence toward a new working memory control process. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 14, 22-39.
2006
Verhaeghen, P., Palfai, T., & Johnson, M. P. (2006). Verbal labeling as an assimilation mnemonic for abstract visual stimuli: The sample case of recognition memory for Chinese characters. Memory & Cognition, 34, 795-803. (misc)
Verhaeghen, P., Cerella, J, & Basak, C. (2006). Aging, task complexity, and efficiency modes: The influence of working memory involvement on age differences in response times for verbal and visuospatial tasks. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 13, 254-280.
2005
Verhaeghen, P., & Basak, C. (2005). Aging and switching of the focus of attention in working memory: Results from a modified N-Back task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (A), 58, 134-154.
Bopp, K. L.,& Verhaeghen, P. (2005). Aging and verbal memory span: A meta-analysis. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 60B, 223-233.
Verhaeghen, P., Joormann, J., & Khan, R. (2005). Why we sing the blues: The relation between self-reflective rumination, mood, and creativity. Emotion, 5, 226-232.
2004
Verhaeghen, P., Cerella, J, & Basak, C. (2004). A working memory workout: How to change to size of the focus of attention from one to four in ten hours or less. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 1322-1337.
Hoyer, W. J., Stawski, R. S., Wasylyshyn, C., & Verhaeghen, P. (2004). Adult age and Digit Symbol Substitution Performance: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 19, 211-214.
2003
Basak, C., & Verhaeghen, P. (2003). Subitizing speed, subitizing range, counting speed, the Stroop effect, and aging: Capacity differences, speed equivalence. Psychology and Aging, 18, 240-249.
Singer, T., Verhaeghen, P., Ghisletta, P., Lindenberger, U.,& Baltes, P. B. (2003). The fate of cognition in very old age: Six-year longitudinal findings in the Berlin Aging Study (BASE). Psychology and Aging, 18, 318-331.
Verhaeghen, P., Borchelt, M., & Smith, J. (2003). The relation between cardiovascular and metabolic disease and cognition in very old age: Cross-sectional and longitudinal findings from the Berlin Aging Study. Health Psychology, 22, 559–569.
Verhaeghen, P., Steitz, D. W., Sliwinski, M. J., & Cerella, J. (2003). Aging and dual-task performance: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 18, 443-460.
Schum, J. L., Jorgensen, R. S., Verhaeghen, P., Sauro, M., & Thibodeau, R. (2003). Trait anger, anger expression, and ambulatory blood pressure: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 26, 395-415. 25. (misc)
Verhaeghen, P. (2003). Aging and vocabulary scores: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 18, 332-339.
2002
Verhaeghen, P., Cerella, J., Semenec, S. C.; Leo, M. E., Bopp, K. L., &. Steitz, D. W. (2002). Cognitive efficiency modes in old age: Performance on sequential and coordinative verbal and visuo-spatial tasks. Psychology and Aging, 17, 558-570.
Verhaeghen, P. (2002). Age differences in efficiency and effectiveness of encoding for visual search and memory search: A time-accuracy study. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 9, 114-126.
Verhaeghen, P., & Cerella, J. (2002). Aging, executive control, and attention: A review of meta-analyses. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 26, 849-857.
2000
Verhaeghen, P., Geraerts, N., & Marcoen, A. (2000). Memory complaints, coping, and well-being in old age: A systemic approach. The Gerontologist, 40, 540-548.
Verhaeghen, P., & Kliegl, R. (2000). The effects of learning a new algorithm on asymptotic accuracy and execution speed in old age: A reanalysis. Psychology and Aging, 15, 648-656.
Verhaeghen, P., Palfai, T., Cerella, J., Buchler, N., Johnson, M. P., D'Eredita, M., Green, D. R., Hoyer, W. J., & Makekau, M. (2000). Age-related dissociations in time-accuracy functions for recognition memory: Utilizing semantic support versus building new representations. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 7, 260-272.
1999
Verhaeghen, P. (1999). The effects of age-related slowing and working memory on asymptotic recognition performance. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 6, 201-213.
1998
Verhaeghen, P., Vandenbroucke, A., & Dierckx, V. (1998). Growing slower and less accurate: The effects of age on time-accuracy functions for recall from episodic memory. Experimental Aging Research, 24, 3-19.
Verhaeghen, P., & De Meersman, L. (1998). Aging and negative priming: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 13, 435-444.
Verhaeghen, P., & De Meersman, L. (1998). Aging and the Stroop effect: A meta-analysis. Psychology and Aging, 13, 120-126.
1997
Verhaeghen, P., Kliegl, R., & Mayr, U. (1997). Sequential and coordinative complexity in time-accuracy function for mental arithmetic. Psychology and Aging, 12, 555-564.
Verhaeghen, P., & Salthouse, T. A. (1997). Meta-analyses of age-cognition relations in adulthood: Estimates of linear and non-linear age effects and structural models. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 231-249.
1996
Verhaeghen, P., & Marcoen, A. (1996). On the mechanisms of plasticity in young and older adults after instruction in the method of loci: Evidence for an amplification model. Psychology and Aging, 11, 164-178.
1994
Verhaeghen, P., & Marcoen, A. (1994). The production deficiency hypothesis revisited: Adult age differences in strategy use as a function of processing resources. Aging and Cognition, 1, 323-338.
1993
Verhaeghen, P., Van Ranst, N., & Marcoen, A. (1993). Memory training in the community: Evaluations by participants and effects on metamemory. Educational Gerontology, 19, 523-532.
Verhaeghen, P., & Marcoen, A. (1993). Memory aging as a general phenomenon: Episodic recall of older adults is a function of episodic recall of the young. Psychology and Aging, 8, 380-388.
Verhaeghen, P., & Marcoen, A. (1993). More or less the same? A memorability analysis on episodic memory tasks in young and older adults. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 48, P172-P178.
Verhaeghen, P., Marcoen, A., & Goossens, L. (1993). Facts and fiction about memory aging: A quantitative integration of research findings. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 48, P157-P171.
1992
Verhaeghen, P., Marcoen, A., & Goossens, L. (1992). Improving memory performance in the aged through mnemonic training: A meta-analytic study. Psychology and Aging, 7, 242-251.
1990
Verhaeghen, P., & Marcoen, A. (1990). Memory aging and the increasing diversity hypothesis: Empirical evidence. Psychologica Belgica, 30, 167-176.
Books
2017
Verhaeghen,P. ( 2017). Presence: How mindfulness and meditation shape your brain and mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
2014
Verhaeghen, P.(2014). The elements of cognitive aging: Meta-analyses of age-related differences in processing speed and their consequences. New York: Oxford University Press.
Verhaeghen, P., & Hertzog,C. (2014). The Oxford handbook of emotion, social cognition, and everyday problem solving during adulthood. New York: Oxford University Press.
2012
Sedek, G., Verhaeghen, P.,& Martin, M. (Eds.) (2012). Social and motivational compensatory mechanisms for age-related cognitive decline. Psychology Press.