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Claudia Haase

Claudia Haase

  • Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
  • Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
  • Faculty Member, Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience
  • Faculty Affiliate, Buffett Institute for Global Studies
  • Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences
  • Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research
  • Associate Editor, Cognition and Emotion
  • Associate Editor, Affective Science

Contact

claudia.haase@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Organization or Lab

Life-Span Development Laboratory

Academic Area

Human Development and Social Policy
Technology, People and Policy

Affiliated Center(s)

Institute for Policy Research

Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences

Research Interests

Life-span development, emotion, relationships (e.g., couples, parent-child relationships, friendships), well-being, health.

Biography

Claudia Haase studies pathways towards happy and healthy development across the life span with a focus on emotions in individuals and couples. Her research combines insights and paradigms from affective, life-span developmental, and relationship science. Her work uses multiple methods (e.g., autonomic physiology, behavioral observations, subjective emotional experience assessments, linguistic markers, neuroimaging), age-diverse samples (e.g., from adolescence to late life), diverse study designs (e.g., experimental, longitudinal), and single-subjects and dyadic approaches (e.g., in couples, parent-child, and friendship dyads). Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the Retirement Research Foundation, and a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.

Education

  • Postdoc, Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
  • PhD, Psychology, University of Jena, 2007
  • Diploma, Psychology, University of Jena, 2003

Awards and Honors

  • 2024 – Outstanding Professor Award, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
  • 2024 –Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award, Northwestern University
  • 2022 – Fletcher Prize for Excellence in Research Mentorship
  • 2017 – NARSAD Young Investigator Grant

Select Publications

Haase, C. M. (2023). Emotion regulation in couples across adulthood. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 5, 399-421.

Haase, C. M., Holley, S., Bloch, L., Verstaen, A., & Levenson, R. W. (2016). Interpersonal emotional behaviors and physical health: A 20-year longitudinal study of long-term married couples. Emotion, 16, 965-77.

Hittner, E. F., Stephens, J. E., Turiano, N. A., Gerstorf, D., Lachman, M. E., & Haase, C. M. (2020). Positive affect is associated with less memory decline: Evidence from a 9-year longitudinal study. Psychological Science, 31, 1386-1395.

Martínez, M., Cai, T., Yang, B., Zhou. Z., Shankman, S. Mittal, V. A., Haase, C. M., & Qu, Y. (2024). Depressive symptoms during the transition to adolescence: Left hippocampal volume as a marker of social context sensitivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121 (37) e2321965121.

Meier, T., Otero, M., Su, S. X., Stephens, J. E., Yu, C.-W., & Haase, C. M. (2025). Unraveling the experience of affection across marital and friendship interactions. Affective Science, 6, 104-116.

Yu, C.-W. F., Haase, C. M., & Chang, J.-H. (2023). Habitual expressive suppression of positive, but not negative, emotions consistently predicts lower well-being across two culturally distinct regions. Affective Science, 4, 684-701.