Claudia Haase
Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, School of Education and Social Policy
Claudia Haase is the preeminent scholar examining the role of emotions in intimate relationships. By studying emotions in real time, using facial coding, physiological monitoring and other research methods, she has opened the burgeoning field of affective science, where she is renowned for her work examining the relationship between emotions and marital conflict, health, aging, mental illness, parent/child conflicts and more.
Over the last two years Haase has published 20 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and five book chapters. In addition, she is a co-investigator on a National Institute on Aging grant to examine “Emotion, Aging and Decision-Making.” In addition to leading the Life Span Development Lab, she is co-founder of the Chicago Consortium on Healthy Aging with Joe Mikels, funded by the Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust, and a core faculty member in Northwestern’s Center for Culture, Brain, Biology and Learning. In 2023, she was one of the key organizers of Connections, a PhD preparation and community-building program for people who are marginalized in higher education.
She is associate editor for three journals and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Behavioral Development, the International Journal of Psychology, and Psychology and Aging.