Kelly Wolfe
Postdoctoral Research Assistant

- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: kwolfe@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Website
Address
- Street
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Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Qualifications
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BSc Psychology, Leiden University (2015)
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MSc Research Methods, University of Edinburgh (2017)
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PhD Psychology, University of Essex (2021)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Research summary
I am interested in how healthy ageing affects personality and cognitive processes, such as learning and decision-making. My past work has focused on whether older adult risk-taking behaviour is due to age-related changes in personality (e.g., risk preference) and/or cognition (e.g., numeracy, working memory, processing speed). I am currently interested in (and working on) collaborative learning in older age, and whether working with another person can be more beneficial to the learning performance of older adults. In addition to the above, I am interested in making research as reproducible and transparent as possible and conducting research in accordance with open science principles. Below are several research topics that I am working on or pursuing.
- Collaborative learning in person and remotely in older age
I am currently investigating whether learning with another person can be more beneficial than learning alone, and under what circumstances. As such, we're studying collaborative learning across different settings, including the type of relationship (e.g., familiar versus unfamiliar partner), in-person and remotely, and type of learning task (i.e., label-image association, stories, Smart Home applications).
- Adapting medication leaflets to optimize older adults' medication management
- Financial decision-making in older age
- Older adults' perception of risk
Recent publications
Buchanan, E.M., Lewis, S.C., Paris, B. et al. (2023). The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Nature Scientific Data, 10, 87 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7
Dorison, C.A., Lerner, J.S., Heller, B.H. et al. (2022). In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries. Affective Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3
Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration. (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (22). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.21110911
Wolfe, K., Crompton, C. J., Hoffman, P., & MacPherson, S. E. (2022, January 31). Collaborative learning of new information in older age: a systematic review. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/tj4w7
Wolfe, K. , Sirota, M., and Clarke, ADF. (2021). Age differences in COVID-19 risk-taking, and the relationship with risk attitude and numerical ability. Royal Society Open Science, 9 (8). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201445
Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C. et al. (2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5, 1089–1110. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x
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The Psychological Science Accelerator's COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
In:
Scientific Data, vol. 10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Collaborative learning in older age: a systematic review
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster (Unpublished) -
Age differences in COVID-19 risk-taking, and the relationship with risk attitude and numerical ability
(19 pages)
In:
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.201445
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)