Emily Willroth’s research focuses on well-being and health across the lifespan.Â
Willroth’s current research examines how different components of well-being (e.g., emotion, life satisfaction, sense of purpose) vary and change across time, both in the short-term from moment-to-moment and in the long-term across the adult lifespan. She applies insights from this research to examine links between well-being and important health outcomes in middle and older adulthood, such as chronic illness, mortality, and dementia risk.Â
Selected PublicationsÂ
- Pfund, G. N., James, B. D., & Willroth, E. C. (2025). Bidirectional relationships between well-being and cognitive function. Psychological science, 36(5), 350-366.
- Britton, K. J., Pfund, G. N., & Willroth, E. C. (2026). Do all components of psychological well-being predict cognitive function?. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 81(6), gbag071.
- Wei, A. Z., Ford, B. Q., & Willroth, E. C. (2026). Retrospective Perceptions of Life Satisfaction Change: Evaluation Strategies and Correspondence With Measured Change. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 52(6), 1550-1562.
- Willroth, E.C., James, B.D., Graham, E.K., Kapasi, A., Bennett, D.A., & Mroczek, D.K. (2022). Well-being and cognitive resilience to dementia-related neuropathology. Psychological Science. Online ahead of print.
- Willroth, E.C., John, O.P., Biesanz, J., & Mauss, I.B. (2020). Understanding short-term variability in life satisfaction: The individual differences in evaluating life satisfaction (IDELS) model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119, 229-248.
- Willroth, E.C., Graham, E.K, & Mroczek, D.K. (2020). Comparing the predictive utility of trait affect and average daily affect for the prospective prediction of health outcomes. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, 103966.
- Willroth, E. C. (2023). The benefits and challenges of a unifying conceptual framework for well-being constructs. Affective Science, 4(1), 41-44.
- Willroth, E.C., Graham, E.K., & Mroczek, D.K. (2022). Challenges and opportunities in preregistration of coordinated data analysis: A template and tutorial. Psychology and Aging, 37, 136-140.
