Lena Pollerhoff

Lena Pollerhoff completed her master’s degree in clinical psychology and psychotherapy at the TU Dresden. She wrote her master thesis on the development of the social brain across the adult lifespan. Since April 2020, Lena is working on her PhD in the research group Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience at the TU Dresden. Her research focuses on the development of prosocial behavior and social decision-making across the adult lifespan, as well as their associations with empathy, compassion and Theory of Mind.

• Development of prosocial behavior and social decision-making across the whole adult lifespan
• Neurological and behavioral correlates of prosocial behavior and social decision-making
• Computational modeling of decision-making processes

Pollerhoff, L., Stietz, J., Depow, G. J., Inzlicht, M., Kanske, P., Li, S.-C., & Reiter, A. M. F. (2022). Investigating adult age differences in real-life empathy, prosociality, and well-being using experience sampling. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 3450. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-06620-x

Stietz, J., Pollerhoff, L., Kurtz, M., Li, S.-C., Reiter, A. M. F., & Kanske, P. (2021). The ageing of the social mind: Replicating the preservation of socio-affective and the decline of socio-cognitive processes in old age. R. Soc. Open Sci. 8: 210641. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210641