Affect
Projects
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Barnard/Columbia
Personality Study
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Borderline
Personality Disorder (BPD) and Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD) are two relatively
common yet very serious psychiatric disorders. Both can be quite disabling,
due to a pervasive avoidance of social situations (APD) or to
characteristic instability in emotions, interpersonal relationships,
behaviors, and self-view (BPD). Together with Geraldine Downey and
Kathy Berenson from Columbia
University, we are
conducting a study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, that
applies recent developments in social cognition and in emotion research to
the examination of these disorders.
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Contact
Person: Landon Fuhrman
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Differentiation
of Affect and Mixed Emotions
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This
project explores individual differences in the clarity and specificity with
which people label their emotions. we are
interested in the links between emotion differentiation and emotion
regulation and dysregulation. In addition, we are interested in
how emotion differentiation is related to empathic accuracy.
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Contact
Person: Eshkol Rafaeli
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Relationships
Projects
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Attachment
Styles and the Experience of Support and Hindrance in Relationships
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We are investigating
how an individual's attachment style is related to daily emotions and
perceptions of social support and hindrance. The extent to which
individuals in dyadic relationships receive support from-, or provide
support to their partners, as well as cause or experience hindrance within
their relationship, can be central to the way partners interact with one
another. Using both background measures and couples daily diary data, we
are exploring whether attachment styles predict differential exposure or
reactivity to these experiences.
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Contact
Person: Eshkol Rafaeli
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Measuring
Empathic Accuracy with Daily Diary Data
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How
does empathic accuracy (EA) help or hurt a relationship on a day-to-day
basis? Is the accurate perception of a partner's fluctuation in certain
moods more influential than in others? Traditionally, this question has
been examined using lab-based behavioral observations, which provide a
micro view of EA. A counterpart, macro, approach to this question uses rich
daily diary data which allows for drawing out different elements of
empathic mood perception, including bias, discrepancy, pattern, and signal
detection. These statistically and theoretically distinct elements are
potentially central to our understanding of person perception, and actively
enrich the ways in which we can examine the precursors and effects of
empathic accuracy in close relationships.
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Contact
Person: Julie Malyn & Rosara
Torisi
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Skillful
Support Intervention
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Receiving
social support from a romantic partner can have positive effects on intimacy
but also negative effects for self-efficacy and mood. This project aims to
develop a relationship-enhancement intervention with the double goal of
testing several hypothesized processes that could be undermining the
effectiveness of support, as well as creating an empirically-grounded (and
testable) program strengthening intimate dyadic relationships. For this
purpose, we are creating a workshop intervention that gives couples new
tools and understanding, based on prior social support research, to help
them be better skilled at giving support.
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Contact
Person: Eshkol Rafaeli
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