Claudia Haase
Claudia M. Haase is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working in Robert W. Levenson's laboratory at the Institute of Personality and Social Research at UC Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Jena, Germany and has done additional work at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and the University of California, Irvine. Her research has been funded by the German Research Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. Her primary research interest is emotion and motivation in human development across the life span. In an ongoing research project she examines three questions: (a) How can people influence their own well-being? (b) Does happiness make people lazy? and (c) Are negative emotions always detrimental to well-being? Other research interests include the adjustment of aspirations, the timing of developmental tasks, and the impact of social change on development in adolescence and young adulthood. Please find more information on her website.