Socio-emotional development across the lifespan and in daily life

We use longitudinal study designs (including ambulatory assessment/experience sampling) to record socio-emotional development processes. We are interested, for example, in the development before, during and after critical life events and in the dynamic fluctuations in affective experience in everyday life.

• Responsible: Professorship of Developmental and Educational Psychology

• Publications: Exemplary publications from this specialisation

  Buecker, S., Denissen, J. A. A., & Luhmann, M. (2020). A propensity-score matched study of changes in loneliness surrounding major life events. Advance online publication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 121(3), 669-690. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000373

  Buecker, S., Horstmann, K. T., Krasko, J., Kritzler, S., Terwiel, S., Kaiser, T., & Luhmann, M. (2020). Changes in daily loneliness for German residents during the first four weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 265, 113541.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113541

  Mund, M., & Buecker, S. (2022). The development of loneliness across the lifespan. PiD - Psychotherapie im Dialog, 23(04), 18-21. https://doi.org/10.1055/a-1711-8142

  Fassbender, I., Hähner, P., Buecker, S., & Luhmann, M. (2021). Perceived characteristics of life events-short-term changes in prosociality and empathy? European Journal of Personality Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211031762

  Luhmann, M., Buecker, S., Kaiser, T., & Beermann, M. (2020). Nothing going on? Exploring the role of missed events in changes in subjective well-being and the Big Five personality traits. Journal of Personality. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12539