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Dr. Tabea Meier
Tabea Meier, Dr.
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Stampfenbachstrasse 73, CH-8006 Zürich
Research and Innovation Interests
Emotion, health and well-being across the lifespan, healthy aging
Emotion regulation and co-regulation in close relationships
Real life and laboratory-based assessment of language use and emotion (experiences, behaviors, physiology) in dyadic interactions
Computerized text analysis: Update of the German version of LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count):"DE-LIWC2015"
Research group leader at the Gerontopsychology unit, Department of Psychology: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/dev/geronto/team/Tabea-Meier.html
For more information on her research, please visit her personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/drtabeameier
ZORA Publication List
Publications
2026
Meier, T., Huber, Z. M., Dworakowski, O., Haase, C. M., Boyd, R., & Horn, A. B. (2026).
Everyday conversations of younger and older couples: Age differences in we-ness, emotions, and conversation topics
Psychology and Aging, 41, 241–255. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000971
2025
Chen, W.-Y., Chuang, Y.-S., Lotsos, A. N., Meier, T., & Haase, C. M. (2025).
The more similar, the better? Associations between latent semantic similarity and emotional experiences differ acrosscConversation contexts
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 44, 961–984. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X251343096
Huber, Z. M., Hegi, L., Römer, M., Elsaesser, L., Dworakowski, O., Hering, A., Meier, T., Mérillat, S., Kliegel, M., & Horn Wintsch, A. (2025).
Ressourcen der Resilienz und Weisheit: Qualitative Analysen Modifizierten Expressiven Schreibens im Rahmen einer Studie zur Förderung des Gesunden Alterns während der COVID-19-Pandemie
Psychotherapie im Alter, 22, 189–202. https://doi.org/10.30820/1613-2637-2025-2-189
2024
Meier, T., Otero, M., Su, S. X., Stephens, J. E., Yu, C.-W., & Haase, C. M. (2024).
Unraveling the Experience of Affection Across Marital and Friendship Interactions
Affective Science, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-024-00277-7
Meier, T., Stephens, J. E., & Haase, C. M. (2024).
Changes in Emotion Regulation across the Life Span
In A. C. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in Emotion and Mental Health (pp. 159–183). Elsevier, Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95604-8.00011-3
Meier, T., Stephens, J. E., & Haase, C. M. (2024).
Emotion regulation in romantic relationships
In J. J. Gross & B. Q. Ford (Eds.), Handbook of emotion regulation (pp. 167–173). Guilford Press. https://www.guilford.com/books/Handbook-of-Emotion-Regulation/Gross-Ford/9781462549412/contents
Dworakowski, O., Meier, T., Mehl, M. R., Pennebaker, J. W., Boyd, R. L., & Horn, A. B. (2024).
Comparing the language style of heads of state in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland during COVID-19
Scientific Reports, 14, 1708. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51362-7
2023
Entwistle, C., Horn, A. B., Meier, T., Hoemann, K., Miano, A., & Boyd, R. L. (2023).
Natural emotion vocabularies and borderline personality disorder
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 14, 100647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100647
Dworakowski, O., Boyd, R. L., Meier, T., Kuppens, P., Mehl, M. R., Nussbeck, F. W., & Horn, A. B. (2023).
Twitter language samples reflect collective emotional responses following political leaders’ rhetoric during the pandemic across four countries
Psychology of Language and Communication, 27, 350–383. https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2023-0017
2022
Dworakowski, O., Huber, Z. M., Meier, T., Boyd, R. L., Martin, M., & Horn, A. B. (2022).
You Do Not Have to Get through This Alone: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Psychosocial Resources during the COVID-19 Pandemic across Four Countries
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 15699. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315699
Dworakowski, O., Huber, Z. M., Meier, T., Boyd, R. L., & Horn, A. B. (2022).
Emotion regulation across the lifespan: age differences in intrapersonal and interpersonal strategies for the adjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic in four countries
Aging & Mental Health, 26, 2048–2053. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1972933
Horn, A. B., & Meier, T. (2022).
Language in close relationships
In M. Dehghani & R. L. Boyd (Eds.), Handbook of language analysis in psychology (pp. 102–124). The Guilford Press. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-08338-003
2021
Meier, T., Milek, A., Mehl, M. R., Nussbeck, F. W., Neysari, M., Bodenmann, G., Martin, M., Zemp, M., & Horn, A. B. (2021).
I blame you, I hear you: Couples’ pronoun use in conflict and dyadic coping
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38, 3265–3287. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211029721
Meier, T., Boyd, R. L., Mehl, M. R., Milek, A., Pennebaker, J. W., Martin, M., Wolf, M., & Horn, A. B. (2021).
(Not) Lost in Translation: Psychological Adaptation Occurs During Speech Translation
Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12, 131–142. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619899258
2020
Meier, T., Boyd, R. L., Mehl, M. R., Milek, A., Pennebaker, J. W., Martin, M., Wolf, M., & Horn, A. B. (2020).
Stereotyping in the digital age: Male language is “ingenious”, female language is “beautiful” - and popular. PLoS ONE, 15, e0243637.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243637
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