Publications *indicates student or postdoctoral fellow authors Recent Publications 2025 Zhang, S., Gao, S., & Fingerman, K. L. (in press) Social contact is associated with momentary verbal communication of emotion and well-being in older adults. Nature Communication Psychology. Birditt, K.S., Newton, N., Turkelson, A.*, Polenick, C. & Fingerman, K. L. (in press). Other people’s problems: Links between own and close social partner life stress and rumination in daily life among older adults. Psychology and Aging. Stephenson, J.*, Turkelson, A., Fingerman, K.L., Birditt, K.S., (in press). I love you no matter what: Negative relationship quality and daily encounters in the parent-child tie and their implications for daily mood across the lifespan. Family Process. Ng, Y. T.*, Chopik, W. Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (in press). Daily support to close friends and mood among older men and women. Research on Aging. Zhou, Z.*, Gao, S.*, Richards, N. E.*, & Fingerman, K. L. (in press). Daily sleep, social encounters, and momentary loneliness in late life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences. Brown, C. J.*, Rook, K. S., Charles, S. T., & Fingerman, K. L. (in press). The advantages of seeing the silver lining: How valuing emotions moderates the link between ambivalent ties and daily health. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf124 Choi, N. G., Longley, M., Smith, K., Goldstein, L., Corum, A., & Fingerman, K. (in press). Community stakeholder feedback for development of a volunteer-coached behavioral activation for youth in a low-resource community. Children and Youth Services Review. Huo, M., Kim, K., Fingerman, K. L., & Zarit, S. H. (in press). Empathy and support exchanges in couples coping with early-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Aging and Mental Health. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2326958 Gao, S.*, Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L., (2025) When helping helps: Benefits of daily advice provision on mood among older adults with life problems. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. Editor’s Choice Fingerman, K. L., Birditt, K. S., Fiori, K., Hall, J., Huxhold, O., Rauer, A., Sandstrom, G., & Sprecher, S. (2025). More than an acquaintance less than a friend: Fringeships in everyday life. Review of General Psychology.https://doi.org/10.1177/1089268025135754 Zhang, S.*, Zhou, Z.*, Ng, Y. T.*, Li, J. J., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L., (2025). Everyday language and cognitive functioning in late life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf084 Fingerman, K. L., Zhou, Z.*, Haley, W. E., & Zarit, S. H. (2025). Young adult caregivers for older family members: Setting a new research agenda. Innovations in Aging, 9 (4), igae112. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igae112 Huo, M., Leger, K. A., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2025). Empathy is associated with older adults’ social behaviors and verbal emotional expressions throughout the day. Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82550-0 Tidwell, C. A., Danvers, A. F., Pfeifer, V.A., Abel, D. B., Alisic, E., Beer, A….. Fingerman K.L… Mehl, M. R. (2025). Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in word use. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 128(2), 367-391. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000534 37 authors, authorship *Authors in alphabetical, except first 3 and final authors Silverstein, M., Fingerman, K.L., & Suitor, J. J. (2025). Fifty years of intergenerational research support by the National Institute of Aging. The Gerontologist (Special Edition 50th Anniversary of the National Institute of Aging), 65 (3). https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaf003 2024 Fingerman, K. L., Zhou, Z.*, Huo, M., Luong, G., & Birditt, K. S. (2024). Enduring bonds: Duration and contact in close relationships in late life. The Gerontologist, 64(4), gnad091. Kim, Y.*, Ang, S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2024). Older adults’ and family caregivers’ technological arrangements and risk of institutionalization. Work, Aging, & Retirementm 10(1), 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waad005 Ng, Y. T.*, Han, S. H., Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K.S. (2024). Do friends get under the skin?. Everyday social encounters and cardiovascular functioning among Black and White adults in the United States. Health Psychology, 43(2), 142-153. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001341 Zhou, Z.*, Birditt, K. S., Leger, K. A., & Fingerman, K. L. (2024). Daily worry, rumination, and sleep in late life. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 179, 111622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111622 Freedman, V., Agree, E., Seltzer, J., Birditt, K., Fingerman, K. L., Friedman, E., Lin, I.F., Margolis, R., Park, S., Patterson, S., Polenick, C., Reczek, C., Reyes, A., Truskinovsky, Y., Wiemers, E., Wolf, D., Wolff, J., Wu, H., Zarit, S. (2024). The changing demography of late-life family caregiving: A research agenda to understand future care networks for an aging U.S. population The Gerontologist, 64(2), doi: 10.1093/geront/gnad036 Zhou, Z.*, Zhang, S.*, Kim, Y. K., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2024). Need to belong, daily social engagement, and transient loneliness in late life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(1), 115–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231211617 Fingerman, K. L., Zhou, Z*., & Gao, S.* (2024). Intergeneratonal ties in later life. Current Opinion in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2023.101743 2023 Lee, S., Ng, Y. T.*, Charles, S. T., Almeida, D. M., & Fingerman, K. L. (2023). Who has active lifestyles? Sociodemographic and personality correlates of activity diversity in two samples of adults. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 78(4), 659-669. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac192 Ng, Y. T.*, Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (2023). Friendships and emotional well-being in the context of race and aging. The Gerontologist, 63(7), 1129-1139. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnad007 Brown, C. J.*, Jeon, S., Ng, Y. T.*, Lee, S., Fingerman, K. L., & Charles, S. T. (2023). Switching it up: Activity diversity and cognitive functioning in later life. Psychology and Aging, 38(6), 483–493. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000770 (Editor’s choice) Zhang, S.*, Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (2023). Detecting narcissism from older adults’ daily language use: A machine learning approach. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 78(9), 1493-1500. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbad061 Leger, K. A., Charles, S. T., Brown, C. J.,* & Fingerman K. L. (2023). Physical activity and daily stress processes in older adulthood. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 78(1), 20–29. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac113 Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Burr, J. A., & Fingerman, K. L. (2023). Financial problems in established adulthood: Implications for depressive symptoms and relationship quality with parents. Journal of Adult Development, 30, 167-177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-022-09409-4 2022 Wood, K. A.*, Kim, Y. K.*, Ng, Y. T*., Huo, M., Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Black and White young adults’ support to midlife parents. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Science [Special issue], 77(11), 20722-2077. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab205 Zhang, S.*, Kim, Y. K.*, Fingerman, K. L., Birditt, K. S., & Charles, S. T. (2022). Narcissism, social experiences, and mood in late life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Science, 77(8), 1442-1453. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac019 Fingerman, K. L., Kim, Y. K.*, Zhang, S.* Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M. M., & Birditt, K.S. (2022). Television viewing, physical activity, and loneliness in late life. The Gerontologist, 62(7) 1006-1017. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab120 Bui, C. N.*, Kim, K., & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Support now care later: intergenerational support exchanges and older parents’ care expectations. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 77(7), 1315–1324. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac059 Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M., Han, S. H., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Older adult’s marital status, conversation frequency, and well-being in everyday life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(3), 499-512. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab112 Kim, Y. K.* & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Daily social media use, social ties, and emotional well-being in later life. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(6), 1794-1813. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075211067254 Fingerman, K. L., Kim, Y. K.*, Zhang, S.*, Ng, Y. T.*, Birditt, K.S. (2022). Late life in the living room: Room decor, functional limitations, and personality. The Gerontologist, 62(4), 519-529. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab093 (Editor’s choice article) 2021 Xie, B., Shiroma, K.*, De Main, A. S., Davis, N. W., Fingerman, K. L, Danesh, V. (2021). Living through the COVID-19 pandemic: Community-dwelling older adults’ experiences. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 33(4-5), 380-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2021.1962174 Birditt, K. S., Turkelson, A.*, Fingerman, K. L., Polenick, C., & Oya, A.* (2021). Age differences in COVID-19 related stress, life changes, and social ties during the COVID-19 pandemic: Implications for psychological well-being. The Gerontologist, 61(2), 205-216. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa204 Fingerman, K. L., Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M., Birditt, K.S., Charles, S. T., & Zarit, S. (2021). Functional limitations, social integration, and daily activities in late life. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 76(10), 1937-1947. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab014 Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Burr, J. A., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Adult children’s daily experiences with parental advice: The importance of life problems and relationship quality. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences, 76(9), 1745–1755. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa169 PMCID: PMC8557851 Stokes, J. E., Kim, Y. K.*, Kim, K., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Grieving a grandparent: The importance of gender and multigenerational relationships. Journal of Marriage and Family, 83(3), 754–768. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12750 Napolitano, L., Furstenberg, F., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). How families give and receive: A cross-class qualitative study of familial exchange. Journal of Family Issues, 42(9), 2159–2180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X20968608 Kim, Y. K.*, Kim, K., Fingerman, K. L., & Umberson, D. J. (2021). Racial differences in early parental death, midlife life problems, and relationship strain with adult children. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 76(8), 1617–1628. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa232 Huo, M., Ng, Y. T.*, Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Empathy and coping: Older adults’ interpersonal tensions and mood throughout the day. Gerontology. 67, 101–111. https://doi.org/10.1159/000511418 Ng, Y. T.*, Huo, M., Gleason, M. E., Neff, L.A., Charles, S. T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2021). Friendships in old age: Daily encounters and emotional well-being. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science, 76(3), 551-562. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa007 Fingerman, K. L., & Pillemer, K. (2021). Continuity and changes in attitudes, health care and caregiving for older adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science, 76(4), e187-e198. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa231 Fingerman, K. L., Ng, Y. T.*, Zhang, S.*, Britt, K.*, Colera, G.*, Birditt, K. S., & Charles, S. T. (2021). Living alone during COVID-19: Social contact and emotional well-being among older adults. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa200 OLDER NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS Xie, B., Charness, N., Fingerman, K. L., Kaye, J., Kim, M. T., & Khurshid, A. (2020). When going digital becomes a necessity: Ensuring older adults’ needs for information, services, and social inclusion during COVID-19. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1771237 Fuentecilla, J. L.*, Huo, M., Birditt, K. S., Charles, S. T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Interpersonal tensions and pain among older adults: The mediating role of negative mood. Research on Aging, 42(3–4), 105–114. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027519884765 Polenick, C. A., Kim, Y., Depasquale, N.*, Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Midlife childrens and older mothers depressive symptoms: Empathic mother–child relationships as a key moderator. Family Relations, 69(5), 1073-1086. doi:10.1111/fare.12466 Huo, M.*, Fuentecilla, J. L., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Does empathy have a cost?: Older adults and social partners experiencing problems. The Gerontologist, 60(4), 617–627. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnz065 Fingerman, K.L., Birditt, K. S., & Umberson, D. (2020). Mobile technologies and social connection in late life. Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging (pp. 67-74). Committee for Mobile Technology for Adaptive Aging. Washington DC: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. https://doi.org/10.17226/25878 Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, & Birditt K. S. (2020). A decade of research on intergenerational ties: Technological, economic, political, and demographic changes. Journal of Marriage and Family: Decade Review, 82, 383-403. Xie, B., Charness, N., Fingerman, K. L., Kaye, J., Kim, M. T., & Khurshid, A. (2020). When going digital becomes a necessity: Ensuring older adults’ needs for information, services, and social inclusion during COVID-19. Journal of Aging & Social Policy. doi: 10.1080/08959420.2020.1771237 Fuentecilla, J. L.*, Liu, Y., Huo, M.*, Kim, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H. & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Midlife adults’ daily support to children and parents: Implications for diurnal cortisol. Journal of Aging and Health. doi: 10.1177/0898264319863994 Huo, M.*, Fuentecilla, J. L.*, Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Empathy and close social ties in late life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75(8), 1648–1657. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz044 Birditt, K.S., Polenick, C. A.*, Luong, G., Charles, S.T., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Daily interpersonal tensions and well-being among older adults: The role of emotion regulation strategies. Psychology and Aging. Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, & Birditt K. S. (2020). Mothers, fathers, daughters, and sons: Gender differences in intergenerational ties. Journal of Family Issues, 4(9), 1597-1625. doi/10.1177/0192513X19894369 Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, Charles, S. T., & Umberson, D. J. (2020). Variety is the spice of late life: Social integration and activity in life. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 75, 377-388. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz007 Kim, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Typology of parent-child ties within families: Associations with psychological well-being. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 448–458. doi:10.1037/fam0000595 PMCID: PMC7145731 Lee, H. J.*, Kim, K., Bangerter, L. R., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Aging parents’ and middle-aged children’s evaluations of parents’ disability and life problems. Journal of Adult Development, 27, 135–146. doi:10.1007/s10804-019-09336-x Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Burr, J. A., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Middle-aged adults’ daily sleep and worries about aging parents and adult children. Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 621–629. doi:10.1037/fam0000642 Huo, M.*, Napolitano, L., Furstenberg, F. F. Jr., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Who initiates the help older parents give to midlife children. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 75, 907–918. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz098 Wang, H.*, Kim, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Middle-aged children’s coping strategies with tensions in the aging parent-child tie. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 90, 234–254. doi:10.1177/0091415018822079 Lee, J. E., Kim, K., Cichy, K. E., & Fingerman, K. L. (2020). Middle-aged children’s support for parents-in-law and marital satisfaction. Gerontology, 66(4), 340–350. https://doi.org/10.1159/000505589 2019 Kim, Y.,* Kim, K., Boerner, K., Birditt, K. S., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2019). Recent parental death and relationships between midlife adults and their own children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 81, 616–630. doi:10.1111/jomf.12549 2018 Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M.*, Graham, J. L.*, Kim, K., & Birditt, K. S. (2018). A family affair: Family typologies of life problems and midlife well-being. The Gerontologist, 58, 1054-1064. doi:10.1093/geront/gnx131 Huo, M.*, Graham, J. L.,* Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Aging parents’ disabilities and daily support exchanges with middle-aged children. The Gerontologist, 58, 872–882. doi:10.1093/geront/gnx144 Heid, A. R., Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., Birditt, K. S., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). Relationship tensions and mood: Adult children’s daily experience of aging parents’ stubbornness. Personal Relationships, 25, 87-102. doi: 10.1111/pere.12229 Jensen, A. C., Whiteman, S. D., & Fingerman, K. L. (2018). “Can’t live with or without them”: Transitions and young adults’ sibling relationships. Journal of Family Psychology, 32, 385–395. doi:10.1037/fam0000361 Hartnett, C. S., Fingerman, K. L., & Birditt, K. S. (2018). Without the ties that bind: Young adults who lack active parental relationships. Advances in Life Course Research, 35, 103-113. 2017 Fingerman, K. L., Huo, M., Kim, K., & Birditt, K. S. (2017). Coresident and noncoresident young adults’ daily experiences with parents. Emerging Adulthood, 5, 337–350. doi:10.1177/2167696816676583 Birditt, K. S., Manalel, J. A., Kim, K., Zarit, S. H., & Fingerman, K. L. (2017). Daily interactions with aging parents and adult children: Associations with negative affect and diurnal cortisol. Journal of Family Psychology, 31, 699–709. doi:10.1037/fam0000317 PMCID: PMC5608619 2016 Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y.-P.*, Kim, K.*, Fung, H. H., Han, G., Lang, F. R., Lee, W.*, & Wagner, J. (2016). Parental involvement with college students in Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. Journal of Family Issues, 37, 1384-1411. 2012 Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y. P., Birditt, K. S., & Zarit, S. (2012). Only as happy as the least happy child: Multiple grown children’s problems and successes and middle-aged parents’ well-being. The Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 67, 184-193. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbr086 PMCID 3410695. PMCID: 3410695 Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y. P., Wesselmann, E. D., Zarit, S., Furstenberg, F., & Birditt, K. S. (2012). Helicopter parents and landing pad kids: Intense parental support of grown children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 74, 880-896. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2012.00987.x PMCID: Journal in Process Fingerman, K. L., Gilligan, M., VanderDrift, L., & Pitzer, L. M. (2012). In-law relationships before and after marriage: Husbands, wives, and their mothers-in-law. Research on Human Development, 9, 106-125. PMCID: 3686301 2011 Fingerman, K. L., Pitzer, L. M., Chan, W., Birditt, K. S., Franks, M. M., & Zarit, S. (2011). Who gets what and why: Help middle-aged adults provide to parents and grown children. The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 66B, 87-98. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbq009 PMCID: 3031309 2010 Fingerman, K. L. & Charles, S. T. (2010). It takes two to tango: Why older people have the best relationships. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 19, 172-176. doi: 10.1177/0963721410370297
