2000
Caskie, G. I. L., Schaie, K. W., Willis, S. L. (2000, November). Invariance of health behavior factors in adults over two occasions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC.
Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2000, November). Stability and change in the structure and function of older women’s social networks. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC.
Rebok, G., Willis, S., & Ball, K. (2000, November). Implementation of multiple multisite cognitive interventions in the ACTIVE trial. In K. Ball & S. Tennstedt, ACTIVE, a clinical trial of cognitive training challenges in the field. Symposium conducted at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC.
Revell, A. J., Caskie, G. I. L., & Willis, S. L. (2000, November). Comparison of methods for examining change in everyday competence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC
Saczynski, J. S., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2000, April). Strategy use and cognitive training effects. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Saczynski, J. S., Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W. (2000, August). Change in levels and maintenance of cognitive training effects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
Saczynski, J. S., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2000, November). Maintenance of cognitive training effects in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC.
Schaie, K. W., Maitland, S. B., & Willis, S. L. (2000, April). Longitudinal studies of cognitive dedifferentiation in older adults. Paper presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2000, July). Cognitive abilities in new generations of elderly people. In B. Johansson, Geropsychology and new generations of elderly people: The psychology of aging in a new millennium. Symposium presented at the International Congress of Psychology meeting, Stockholm, Sweden.
Zanjani, F. A. K., Caskie, G. I. L., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2000, November). Predicting health behavior using cognitive ability, behavioral flexibility and demographic measures. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington, DC.
2001
Caskie, G. I., & Willis, S. L. (2001, November). Accuracy of the “brown bag” method in comparison to actual pharmacy records. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL.
Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2001, November). Individual and collaborative cognitive training with older married couples. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL.
Revell, A. J., Caskie, G. I., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2001, November). Memory functioning questionnaire (MFQ): replication and exploration of factor solutions in older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL.
Roth, A. E., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2001, November). Consistency in congruence types over a fourteen-year period: with cognitive performance and rigidity/flexibility. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2001, July). Interdisciplinary aspects of the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Paper presented at the 17th World Congress of Gerontology, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Willis, S. L. (2001, April). Programmatic interventions with the older driver. Paper presented at the Aging in the Community: Living Arrangement and Mobility Conference, Heidelberg, Germany.
Zanjani, F. A., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2001, November). Predicting health behaviors using developmental predictors. In B. Dugan, Personality and health in late life. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Chicago, IL.
2002
Blaskewicz, J. A., Caskie, G. I. L., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2002, November). Domains of the NEO PI-R and primary mental abilities in the Seattle Longitudinal Study Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Gerontological Association of America, Boston, MA.
Caskie, G. I., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2002, March). Extending neuropsychological assessments into the primary mental ability space. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting, Boston, MA.
Caskie, G. I. L., Zanjani, F. A. K., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K.W., (2002, November). A Comparison of Self-Reported Medication use to Actual Prescription Records. Poster presented at the Gerontological Society of America.
Cho, S., Caskie, G. I. L., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2002, November). Metamemory: Cognitive ability, personality, flexibility, health, and demographic predictors. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA..
Lala, K., Caskie, G. I., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2002, March). Relationship of age, sex, and verbal ability with family contact in adulthood. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting, Boston, MA.
Revell, A. J., Caskie, G. I. L., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2002, November). Quality of life in Alzheimer’s Disease (QOL-AD) Scale: Exploration of Factor Solutions in Non-demented Elders. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, Boston, MA.
Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2002, August). Cognitive functioning: Baby boomers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
2003
Blaskewicz, J. A., Willis, S. L., &. Schaie, K. W. (2003, November). Relation of training gain to subsequent dementia ratings in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.
Caskie, G. I. L., Lala, K. E., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2003. November). Stability of perceptions of family environments: Family of origin and current family. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA
Ghisletta, P., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2003, November). Cognitive aging as a system of complex static and dynamic relationships. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.
Zanjani, F. A. K., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2003a, November). The relationship between concurrent preparations for mortality and six latent cognitive abilities. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.
Zanjani, F. A. K., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2003b, November). Predicting mortality using eight health behavior domains. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Diego, CA.
2004
Boron, J. B., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2004, April). Cognitive training effects on everyday problem solving in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the biennial Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Caskie, G. I. L., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2004, November). Relationship of cardiovascular disease to change in cognitive ability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington DC.
Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2004, July). Midlife cognitive functioning and cognitive decline in old age. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Development, Ghent, Belgium.
Zanjani, F. A. K., Schaie, K. W., &. Willis, S. L. (2004, April). Do health behaviors affect cognitive change similarly across abilities? Poster presented at the biennial Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
2005
Boeltner, J. M., Caskie, G. I. L., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2005, November). Predicting the congruence in multiple reports of family contact for adult parent-offspring and sibling pairs. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Orlando, FL.
Boron, J. B., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2005, November). Patterns of cognitive change in inductive reasoning in older adults: Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Orlando, FL.
Gearhart, S. M., Caskie, G. I. L., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2005, March). Cardiovascular disease and change in activity level. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Eastern Psychological Association. Boston, MA.
Day, H. R, Schaie, K. W. & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Associations between personality and body mass index in cross-sectional sample from the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Societyof America, Orlando, FL.
Kimbler, K. J., Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Measurement utility and correlates of older adults’ perceived marital quality. Poster session to be presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, FL
Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Spouses’ inductive reasoning training: 18-month follow-up. In C. Berg & J. Strough (Chairs), Cognition in Social Context. Symposium session presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, FL.
Neely, T. L., Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Spouses’ interactive verbal behavior during collaborative training. In K. Cichy & K. Fingerman (Chairs), A picture tells a thousand words: Observation studies in gerontological research. Symposium session presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, FL
Ryan, L., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Work environment perceptions: An examination of reliable change and predicting health status and satisfaction. Poster presented at the 58th Annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America.. Orlando, FL.
Turiano, N.A., Boron, J. B., Schaie, K. W. & Willis, S. L. (2005, March). The effects of cognitive training on speed and accuracy in inductive reasoning ability in older adults. Poster presented at the annual meeting of Eastern Psychological Association. Boston, MA.
Willis, S. L. (2005, March). Intellectual functioning in adulthood: Growth, maintenance, decline and modifiability. Symposium session presented at the annual meeting of the American Society on Aging. Philadelphia, PA.
Wolfson, T., Ayotte, B., Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Relation between medication type and functional ability in older adults. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, FL.
Woodhead, E., Margrett, J. A., & Willis, S. L. (2005, November). Congruence of older couples’ current family environment ratings: Do partner specific variables make a difference? Poster s presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Orlando, FL.
2006
Boron, J. B., Turiano, N., Willis, S. L., & Schaie. K. W. (2007, November). Facet-level personality predictors of cognitive ability in adulthood: Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Boron, J. B., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2006, November). Association of individual characteristics with differential trajectories of cognitive change. Paper preented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Ryan, L. H, Yu, F., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2006, November), Possible protective and risk factors for individual differences in verbal memory and inductive reasoning: The Seattle Longitudinal Study. Paper presented at the annual meting of theGerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX
Ryan, L. H., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2006, November). Influence of work environment in midlife on cognitive outcomes in old age: The Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, TX.
Willis, S.L. (2006, March). Cognitive training. American Geriatrics Society Cognitive Vitality Conference. March, 2006. Philadelphia, PAWillis, S., (2006, September). Midlife change and cognitive risk. Center for Aging Research, Karolinska Institute, Stockhom, Sweden.
Willis, S. L. (2006, Aprl). Everyday functioning and cognition. University of Alabama Gerontology Center. April 30, 2006.
Willis, S. L. (2006, May). Cognitive training. Friedman Conference on Modifiers of Cognitive Aging. Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Willis, S. (2006, September). Clinical implications of longitudinal research on adult cognitive development. Department of Psychology, University of Goteborg, Sweden.
Willis, S. L., Caskie, G, I. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2006, November). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallax, TX.
Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2006, April). Clinically meaningful outcomes of differential cognitive change trajectories in inductive reasoning ability in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA
Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W., Hofer, S. H., &. Hoffman. L. (2006, July). Midlife predictors of cognitive impairment in old age. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavior Development, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Benjamin, S. A, Ryan, L. H., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2007, March). Predictors of BMI: Health behaviors, health status, diseases and demographic factors: Findings from the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Cardi, M., Munk, S. N., Zanjani, F., Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W. (2007, November). Health behavior risk factors across age as predictors of cardiovascular disease diagnoses. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Jones, M. L., Ryan, L. H., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2007, March). Predictors of adult offspring current family environment perceptions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Munk, S. N., Cardi, M., Zanjani, F., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2007, November). Assessing diagnostic risk by smoking classification across the lifespan: Where do former smokers belong? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Ryan, L., Boron, J. B., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2007, November). Impact of retirement, continued employment, and perceptual speed on memory and reasoning ability in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2007, March). Cognitive development in adulthood: Implications for policy and practice. Invited lecture, annual meeting of the Washington State Psychological Association, Seattle, WA.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2007, June). The Seattle Longitudinal Study.Invited lecutre at Max Planck Institute, Rostock, Germany.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2007, November). Bedingungen für ein aktives Altern [Conditions for an active old age]. Invited lecture, biennial meting of the Swiss Gerontological Sosciety, Bern, Switzerland.
Stoner, R. M., Ryan, L. H., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2007, March). Health behavior, disease, health status, and demographic predictors of health care costs: Findings from the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Willis, S. L.(2007, June) Midlife: Risks adn resources. Invited lecture at Jacobs Center for Lifelong Learning, Jacobs Univrsity, Bremen, Germany.
Willis, S. L. (2007, September). Cognitive interventions. Invited lecture at REgional Alzheimer’s dDisease Research Conference, Univerisyt of California, Irvin, CA.
Willis, S. L. (2007, September). The ACTIVE Project. Paper preseted at te 8th Annual Age oom Academy, International Longevity Center, New York, NY.
Willis, S. L. (2007, October). Variability in midlife cogntion: Outcome in old age. Invited presentation at the National Institute on Aging Cognitive Aging Summit, Washington, DC
Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2007, November). Variability in midlife cognition: Outcomes in old age. Invited lecture at the University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W., & Hoffman, L. (2007, November). Predictors of midlife cognitive change in memory. Paperpresented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Zanjani, F. Schoenberg, S., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2007, November). Presence of risky health behaviors among adults with diabetes .Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
Zanjani, F., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2007, November). Mental health/substance abuse and cognitive change relationships with behavioral and mental health, Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA.
2008
Boron, J. B., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2008, April). Effects of facet-lvel personaliy on cognitive ability in adulthood: Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aing Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Pierre, S. T., Schaie, K. W., Ryan, L. H., & Stiehler. B. J. (2008, March). Performance on cognitive abilities by age and family history of dementia. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Eastrn Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Ryan, L. H., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L.(2008, April). Cognitive function and owrk experiences in young adulthood: Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2008, May). The Seattle Longitudinal Study: Past , presnt and futurw. Colloquium presentation at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2008, October). The Seattle Longitudinal Study: Methods and results. Workshop presented fo the Special Topic Group on Work and Aging of the German National Sience Foundation, Herrsching, Germany.
Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2008, December). The Seattle Longitudinal Study: Pas, present and future. Invited lecture presented at the meeting of the International Society for the Study of Intelligence, Decatur, GA.
Stiehler, B. J., Ryan, L. H., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2008, April). Differential decines in cognitive abilities for APOE allele types in the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA.
238. Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W., Aylward, E. A., & Mahurin, R. K. (2008, January). Midlife cognitive change and structural MRI findings in old age: The Seattle Longitudinlal Study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychology Society, Waikaloa, HI.
2009
Aylward, E. A., Willis, S. L., Schaie, K. W., Weaver, K., & Liang, O. (2009, Febuary). Association of midlife cognitive decline. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Atlanta, GA.
Hoppman, C., Gerstorf, D.. Willis, S., & Schaie, K. W. (2009, November). Spousal interrelations in life satisfaction within the SLS: High similarities in levels and change over time. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
Ryan, L., Blaskewicz-Boron, J., Schaie, K. W., & Willis, S. L. (2009, November). The impact of personality facets andl late life work experiences on health in older adults. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
Stiehler, B. J., Gerstorf, D.. Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2009, November). Genetic and lifestyle influences on cognitive decline: APOE ε4, personality and well-being. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
Yu, L., Ryan, L., Schaie, K. W., Willis, S. L., & Kolakowki, A. M. (2009, November). Factors associated with cognition in adults using data from the Seattle Longitudinal Study. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.
Zanjani, F., Willis, S. L., & Schaie, K. W. (2009), November). Alcohol consumption and cognitive change in mid to late life. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Atlanta, GA.