PERSOC provides input materials on the topic of Personality and Social Relationships. As to now, these materials are available only in German.

Aims

The material provided serves as a basic introduction into concepts, research and methods of Personality and Social Relationships. It is structured in modules that can be flexibly chosen for introduction purposes or more advanced information on specific topics. Target audience could be graduate students and young scientists planning to engage in research on Personality and Social Relationships.

Structure

1. Basic module: Introduction into PERSOC model and background

• Focus on the interface of personality and social relationships
• (Brunswik’s) lens model: Dispositions, behaviour and other signals, interpersonal perception
• Social Relations Model: Components of behaviour and interpersonal perception
• PERSOC framework as a theoretical integration of different approaches

2. Complementary conceptual modules

a interactionism
b personality-congruent information processing
c dual process models

3. Methodological and statistical modules

a Social Relations methods and analyses
b APIM analyses
c behaviour assessment
d implicit – explicit personality assessment

4. Applied modules

The PERSOC framework can be fruitfully applied to a variety of research areas. The applied modules provide an overview over typical research questions in the specific areas, and integrate them into the PERSOC framework. Moreover, PERSOC serves to identify new exciting research questions and desiderata to be met by future research.

a. Personality and interpersonal attraction
b. Accuracy of interpersonal perception
c. Personality and friendship
d. Personality and close relationships
e. Personality and family relationships

Material (so far: German only)

1. Basic module: Introduction into PERSOC model and background

  • PERSOC-Grundkonzepte (pptx - pdf):

Bedeutung des Zusammenspiels von Persönlichkeit und sozialen Beziehungen; wesentliche Klassen beteiligter Variablen; Komponenten; integratives Rahmenmodell; Übersicht Anwendungen

2. Complementary conceptual modules

3. Methodological and statistical modules

  • Vertiefung Social Relations Analysen (pptx - pdf):

Grundideen Social Relations Model (SRM); Voraussetzungen Designs; mögliche Analysen; Softwarelösungen

4. Applied modules

  • Partnerschaft und Persönlichkeitsentwicklung (pptx - pdf):

Welchen Einfluss kann eine Partnerschaft auf die Entwicklung der Persönlichkeit haben? Zu dieser Frage gibt es relativ wenig Forschung; die relevanten Forschungsergebnisse werden hier zusammengefasst und innerhalb des Persoc-Rahmenmodells diskutiert.