Remembering the personal past in adulthood and old age

• Liao, H.-W., & Westerhof, J. G. (accepted). Positivity effects in self-defining memories between men and women across adulthood: Differences between self-rated affect and content-coded meaning. Cognition and Emotion.
• Liao, H.-W., & Bluck, S. (2023). Recalling self-disruptive events and maintaining self-continuity in adulthood. Psychology and Aging, 38(1), 17-29.
• Hommelhoff, S., Leickert, T., & Liao, H.-W. (2023). Reminiscence about work life in retirement: What is remembered? Why might it matter? Work, Aging and Retirement, 9(3), 312-322.
• Liao, H.-W, Bluck, S., & Glück, J. (2021). Recalling youth: Control over reminiscence bump events predicts life satisfaction in midlife. Psychology and Aging, 36(2), 232-240. 
• Sharma, S., Akerlund, H., Liao, H.-W, & Bluck, S. (2021). Life challenges and resilience: The role of perceived personality continuity. Aging and Mental Health, 25(11), 2090-2099.
• Mroz. E., Bluck, S., Sharma, S., Liao, H.-W. (2020). Loss in the life story: Remembering death and illness across adulthood. Psychological Reports, 123, 97-123.
• Bluck, S., & Liao, H.-W. (2020). Anxiety after remembering stressful academic versus brush with death events: The moderating roles of future time perspective and personal intimacy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34(1), 228-240.
• Liao, H.-W., Bluck, S., & Westerhof, J. G. (2018). Longitudinal relations between self-defining memories and self-esteem: Mediating roles of meaning-making and memory function. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 37(3), 318-341. (Special Issue on Narrative Methods).

Cultivating meaningful lives in adulthood and old age   

• Kim, S. & Liao, H.-W. (2025). Synchronous walking enhanced younger adults’ sentiments toward older adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648251343654 [PDF]
• Matsumoto, Y., Maeda, H., Wan, E., Y, & Liao, H.-W. (2023). On an even playing field of haiku making: An inclusive activity of creative verbal art. Pragmatics and Society. doi.org/10.1075/ps.23037.mat
• Liao, H.-W., & DeLiema, M. (2021). Reimagining senior centers for purposeful aging: Perspectives of diverse older adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 40(11), 1502-1510. 
• Liao, H.-W., Hommelhoff, S., & Carstensen, L. L. (2020). Time perceptions from seconds to lifetimes: How perceived time affects adult development. In A. Gutchess & A. K. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of Cognitive Aging: A Life Course Perspective. Cambridge University Press.
• Giasson, H., Liao, H.-W., & Carstensen, L. L (2019). Counting down while time flies: Implications of age-related time acceleration for goal pursuit across adulthood. Current Opinion in Psychology, 26, 85-89. (Special Issue on Time).
• Liao, H.-W., & Carstensen, L. L. (2018). Future time perspective: Time horizons and beyond. Geropsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 31, 163-167. (Special Issue on Future Time Perspective).
• Ju, I., Bluck, S., & Liao, H.-W. (2018). Future time perspective moderates consumer responses to nostalgic advertising. Geropsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 31, 137-150. (Special Issue on Future Time Perspective)

See also Ongoing Research.