Paul B. Baltes Lecture

The Paul B. Baltes lecture is held annually by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The lectures commenced in 2008 and are named after Paul Baltes, the German developmental psychologist.
Each year the Academy selects a leading international scientist to present the lecture which commemorates Paul Baltes` achievements in psychological research and his contributions to psychology.
The Paul B. Baltes lecture is a joint initiative of the psychology institutes in Berlin and Potsdam and is supported by the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation.

The Lectures

2008 Michael Posner: "Executive Attention: Its Origins, Development, and Functions"
2009 Lynn Hasher: "Age-Related Consequences of Attention Regulation and Dysregulation"
2010 John Nesselroade: "The Person-Oriented Perspective in Psychology"
2011 Andrew Meltzoff: "The Development of Social Cognition: Imitation, Cultural Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Children"
2012 Jutta Heckhausen: "A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development"
2013 : "Human-Robot Interaction: Understanding the Potential of Robots for Older Adults"
2014 Brent W. Roberts: "Human Sociogenomics"
2015 Ray Dolan: "Circuits for Social Cognition"
2016 : "The Developmental Origins of Selective Trust"
2017 Kevin Warwick: "Neural Implants for Therapy and Enhancement"
2018 Denny Borsboom: "Network Approaches to Psychopathology"
2019 David Poeppel: "The Auditory System and the Motor System, in Time"
2020 Nora Newcombe: "Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation"
2021 Peter Hancock: “Time to Think of Time”
2022 Stephan Lewandowsky: “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”
2023 : "Motivation and Aging: The Role of Goals in Adult Development and Aging"
2024 Laura L. Carstensen: "Emotional Well-being and Age: The Role of Shifting Time Horizons"