Gabrielle Pfund (she/her) splits her time as a postdoctoral researcher in the Lifespan Personality and Health lab at Northwestern University and the WELLab at WashU. During her graduate training, her research focused on the measurement, development, and implications of sense of purpose across the adult lifespan. Thanks to the ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship, Gabrielle was able to spend three months in Switzerland learning about personality processes and successful aging while at the University of Zurich. This experience sparked her interest in the bi-directional associations between personality and health across the lifespan, leading her to her current research endeavors. In her free time, she enjoys reading (generally fiction), Pure Barre, as well as spending time with her friends and dogs–and especially her friends with dogs. CV
- The when and why of short-term within-person sense of purpose variability
- Bi-directional relationship between sense of purpose and social relationships
- Correlated change between personality, wellbeing, and health
Pfund, G. N., Hofer, M., Allemand, M., & Hill, P. L. (2022). Being social may be purposeful in older adulthood: a measurement burst design.The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry,30(7), 777-786.
Pfund, G. N., Bono, T. J., & Hill, P. L. (2022). Purpose as a predictor of satisfaction across relationship domains during the first semester of university. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(3), 570-591.
Pfund, G. N., Ratner, K., Allemand, M., Burrow, A. L., & Hill, P. L. (2021). When the end feels near: sense of purpose predicts well-being as a function of future time perspective. Aging & Mental Health, 26(6), 1178-1188.
Pfund, G. N., Bono, T. J., & Hill, P. L. (2020). A higher goal during higher education: The power of purpose in life during university. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 6(2), 97-106.
Pfund, G. N. (2020). We meet again: The reintroduction and reintegration of purpose into personality psychology. In The Ecology of Purposeful Living Across the Lifespan (pp. 11-28). Springer, Cham.
Pepperdine University: BA in Psychology, Hispanic Studies (2018)
Washington University: MA & PhD in Psychological & Brain Sciences (2021, 2022)