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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"interpersonal closeness"”.
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Assessing Associations Among Interpersonal Closeness, Fear Of Intimacy, Secure Attachment, And A Maternally Warm Rearing Style
Decades of evidence suggest that maternal warmth contributes to prosocial outcomes later in life. This survey study examined specific social outcomes in 241 college students and found that, while their perceived maternal warmth was correlated with a number of social outcomes, the relationships were …
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Not the Pearls but the Thread: Using fNIRS Hyperscanning to Investigate Real-Life Social Interactions
… active social engagement at both the intra- and interpersonal levels. In line with these directions, the present thesis is based on five experimental studies encompassing both methodological and conceptual investigations. On one side, Chapter 2 presents two experimental studies aimed at improving …
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Common Time: Music, Empathy, and a Politics of Care
… interviews revealed that engagement in interpersonal processes aligned with a capabilities-informed approach which emphasised social reciprocity, well-being, and flourishing. Moreover, evaluations of the activities through pre- and post-program measures supported a hypothesis of …
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Evaluating Others’ Relevance: Dimensions, Levels, and Interdependence
… and 6, I examine the link between relevance and interpersonal closeness. Close others may be especially likely to influence decisions and goal pursuit—and possibly, more likely to both facilitate and threaten goals. I show that threat and opportunity appraisals negatively and positively relate to …
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Adult Attachment Orientation and Physical Distance: Do Threat Primes Alter Perceptions of Interpersonal Proximity?
… to examine whether adult romantic attachment and interpersonal threat bias people’s perceptions of physical distance within a social context. Across three separate studies, I assessed the interactive effects of attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, and threat on perceptions of distance. In the …
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Coping, adjustment, and self-concept among siblings of the chronically mentally ill
… coping, perceived social support, premorbid interpersonal closeness with the mentally ill sibling, subjective burden, time since onset of the illness, frequency of contact with the mentally ill sibling, perceived controllability of the consequences of events related to the mentally ill …
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Joint Laughter Between Patient and Therapist: Exploring the Function of These Moments and Their Relationship to the Working Alliance in Short-Term Psychotherapy
… behavior with the possibility of promoting interpersonal closeness or creating distance. Attitudes toward the role of laughter in psychotherapy vary among psychodynamically-oriented clinicians and research has mostly focused on the kinds of humor and interventions that provoke laughter …
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Designing for Connection with Inner Processes
… design of systems that support human connection, interpersonal understanding, and reflection. Through a series of design iterations, I weigh approaches to eliciting inner processes, choosing media to externally, evocatively represent them, and encouraging perspective-taking behavior by guiding …