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Claudia Haase

Claudia Haase

  • Associate Dean for Well-Being, SESP
  • Associate Professor, Human Development and Social Policy
  • Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Psychology
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Affective Science
  • Director, Life-Span Development Laboratory
  • Co-Director, Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue
  • Co-Director, Chicago Consortium on Longevity

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)

Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue

Chicago Consortium on Longevity

Research Interests

Life-span development, emotion, relationships, well-being, health, responsible technology

Biography

Claudia studies pathways towards happy, healthy, and meaningful development across the lifespan 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-subject 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, a Dorothy Ann and Clarence L. Ver Steeg Distinguished Research Fellowship Award, 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

  • Finalist, Fletcher Prize for Excellence in Research Mentorship, Northwestern University, 2026
  • Karl Rosengren Faculty Mentoring Award, Northwestern University, 2025
  • Karl Rosengren Faculty Mentoring Award, Northwestern University, 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, 2024
  • Fletcher Prize for Excellence in Research Mentorship, Northwestern University, 2022
  • Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2017

Selected Publications

Blaushild, N. L., Muskin, M., Stephens, J. E., Haase, C. M., & Spillane, J. P. (2025). The emotional dimensions of educational change: A review and interdisciplinary framework for future research. Educational Researcher, 54, 422-429.

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.

Schreiber, A., Martínez, M., Li, Y., Williams, T., Alexander, N., Mittal, V. A., & Haase, C. M. (2026). Disrupted physiological coregulation in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis: Findings from a dyadic interaction study. Emotion, 26, 420-432.