Kick-off event
Join us for the official kick-off event of the Center for Interpersonal Dynamics, where we will introduce our newly founded research center with a series of talks and warmly welcome all who are interested.
Programme
| Susanne Bücker | Loneliness in parent-child dyads | Loneliness can arise within relationships, not only within individuals. This talk highlights how loneliness emerges, is maintained, and can be transmitted in parent-child dyads. I show how patterns of responsiveness, emotional availability, and shared regulation shape children's and parents' feelings of connection or isolation. |
| Michael Dufner | Uncovering the emotional basis of motivation: Affective contingencies in the affiliative domain | Affective contingencies capture how strongly people react affectively to motive-specific experiences and represent key emotional foundations of motivation. In this talk, I focus on positive (PACs) and negative (NACs) affective contingencies in the affiliative domain. I will present different approaches to assessing them and summarize research on how these measures relate to motive dispositions, personality, and motivated behavior. |
| Anne Milek | Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Romantic Relationships | Emotions are not only individually experienced but also jointly shaped, particularly within close relationships. This talk presents how romantic partners regulate one another’s emotions and how these interpersonal regulation processes contribute to both individual and relational well-being. |
| Marcel Riehle | Interpersonal expectations as a guide to interpersonal experiences in psychopathology | We never enter social interactions wholly impartially. Instead we have certain expectations about how the interpersonal situation will unfold. The talk explores how such interpersonal expectations relate to interpersonal experiences in the lab and in the daily lives of people with varying forms and degrees of psychopathology. |
| Stefan Westermann | Controlled Spontaneity: Nonverbal Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics in an Interactive Dyadic Paradigm | The interactive MovES paradigm captures the spontaneous unfolding of interpersonal experience and behavior within a game-like environment through agentic and affiliative interactions with virtual co-players. The talk summarizes the current empirical evidence including associations with reallife interpersonal problems, and outlines avenues for future research. |
| Chris Hopwood | Discussant | Professor of Personality Psychology University of Zurich, Switzerland |
