Past Projects
COUGO 2024-2025 | Research-driven change in couples
In couple therapy, the relationship is often said to be the client – but what does that mean? Reflecting on change in couples from a systemic perspective, this theoretical project aims to integrate knowledge from couple therapy and relationship science to emphasize the best practices for identifying couples’ goals for change.
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VISBE 2023-24 | Attention and Social Behavior
Humans constantly use their visual attention to interact. Two people often make eye contact while talking or jointly look at objects around them for common reference. Yet, despite this important role, attention has been investigated primarily from a neurocognitive perspective, aiming to reveal the effects of social stimuli on attention. While this approach has generated great knowledge on the mechanisms of attention, it has hindered an understanding of the role that attention has on fundamental social processes. Francesca Capozzi and Alan Kingstone are working on this review project to showcase the impact of social attention on human social behavior and discuss ways the study of attention may inform social psychology investigations and theory.
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GAZEDY 2022 | Gaze behavior in couple life
Life as a couple has a fundamental impact on human well-being, especially during major personal challenges, such as loss, illness or immigration experience. In collaboration with Marina Doucerain, from the CIEL laboratory, we sought to examine non-verbal communication, more specifically gaze behaviors, in interviews of couples who had experienced immigration The results allowed us to see that gaze behaviors act as fundamental indicators of affective processes. Therefore, studying non-verbal behaviors in future research could promote a better understanding of interpersonal processes.
Here is the link for the poster.
