Social and Emotional Resources for Health (SERH)
Group Leader: Dr. Andrea B. Horn
Group Member: Zilla Huber, M.Sc., Myrto Dolcetti, M.Sc.
Social and Emotional resources are fundamental for the experience of mental and physical health over the lifespan, i.e. healthy aging. Our expertise lies in the investigation of interpersonal regulation in relationships in different life-phases. Social regulatory processes can be more or less adaptive – social relationships have impact on our life; for better, for worse. We aim to contribute to a better understanding of processes underlying the benefits of social resources in contrast to social stress and isolation. The research follows a socio-interpersonal perspective on emotions, stress-responses, and affective wellbeing. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of health-related processes in close relationships (like couples) and to inform innovative interventions.
The main research focus of this group lies on the interplay between intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation and its associations with health over the adult life-span. Embedded in affective and relational science as well as applied perspectives in health and clinical psychology, this research group’s methodological core competence is active and passive dyadic ambulatory assessment in everyday life and over time.
Projects
CoupleSense: Health and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation
Music-assisted Reminiscence Therapy (MRT)
Selected Publications
Dworakowski, O., Meier, T., Mehl, M. R., Pennebaker, J. W., Boyd, R. L., & Horn, A. B. (2024). Comparing the language style of heads of state in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland during COVID-19. Scientific Reports, 14(1):1708.
Meier, T., Mehl, M. R., Martin, M., & Horn, A. B. (2024). When I am sixty-four… evaluating language markers of well-being in healthy aging narratives. PLoS ONE, 19(4):e0302103.
Dworakowski, O., Boyd, R. L., Meier, T., Kuppens, P., Mehl, M. R., Nussbeck, F. W., Horn, A. B. (2023). Twitter language samples reflect collective emotional responses following political leaders’ rhetoric during the pandemic across four countries. Psychology of Language and Communication, 27(1):350-383.
Horn, A. B., & Timmons, A. C. (2023). Mobile Sensing in Relationship Research. In: Mehl, Matthias R; Eid, Michael; Wrzus, Cornelia; Harari, Gabriella M; Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich W. Mobile Sensing in Psychology. Methods and Applications. New York: The Guilford Press, 525-541.
Horn, A. B., Samson, A. C., Debrot, A., & Perrez, M. (2018). Positive humor in couples as interpersonal emotion regulation: A dyadic study in everyday life on the mediating role of psychological intimacy. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 36(8), 2376-2396.