Claudia Haase is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and (by courtesy) Psychology at Northwestern University. She is the incoming Associate Dean for Well-Being at Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy, Co-Director of Northwestern’s Center for Responsible Technology, Policy, and Public Dialogue, and Co-Director of the Chicago Consortium on Longevity. She is also an Associate Editor for Affective Science and Cognition and Emotion.
Professor Haase and the Life-Span Development Lab she directs at Northwestern University examine pathways toward happy, healthy, and meaningful development across the life span with a focus on emotions in individuals and dyads. Their research combines insights and paradigms from life-span developmental, affective, and relationship science. Prof. Haase uses multiple methods (autonomic physiology, behavioral observations, subjective emotional experience ratings, linguistic markers), age-diverse samples (from adolescence to late life), diverse study designs (experimental and longitudinal), and single-subjects and dyadic approaches (studying married couples, youth and caregivers, and friends). 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. Our work has been published in PNAS, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Affective Science, Emotion, Psychological Medicine, and many other outlets.