Current psychological theories on daily social interactions emphasize individual differences yet are underspecified regarding contextual factors. We aim to extend this research by examining how two context factors shape social interactions in daily life: how many relationships people maintain and how densely people live together. In Study 1, 307 German participants (Mage = 39.44 years, SDage = 14.14) ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
127 (2024), 4, S. 920–935
| Yannick Roos, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
Social interactions are crucial to affective well-being. Still, people vary interindividually and intraindividually in their social needs. Social need regulation theories state that mismatches between momentary social desire and actual social contact result in lowered affect, yet empirical knowledge about this dynamic regulation is limited. In a gender- and age-heterogenous sample, German-speaking ...
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Emotion
24 (2024), 3, S. 878–893
| Michael D. Krämer, Yannick Roos, Ramona Schoedel, Cornelia Wrzus, David Richter
People have a need to form and maintain fulfilling social contact, yet they differ with respect to with whom they satisfy the need and how quickly this need is deprived or overly satiated. These social dynamics across relationships and across time are theoretically delineated in the current article. Furthermore, we developed a questionnaire to measure individual differences in three aspects of such ...
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Current Psychology
43 (2024), S. 20899–20919
| Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter
Mobile sensing is a promising method that allows researchers to directly observe human social behavior in daily life using people's mobile phones. To date, limited knowledge exists on how well mobile sensing can assess the quantity and quality of social interactions. We therefore examined the agreement among experience sampling, day reconstruction, and mobile sensing in the assessment of multiple aspects ...
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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
6 (2023), 3, S. 1-12
| Yannick Roos, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter, Ramona Schoedel, Cornelia Wrzus
Humans possess a need for social contact. Satisfaction of this need benefits well-being, whereas deprivation is detrimental. However, how much contact people desire is not universal, and evidence is mixed on individual differences in the association between contact and well-being. This preregistered longitudinal study (N = 190) examined changes in social contact and well-being (life satisfaction, depressivity/anxiety) ...
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Journal of Research in Personality
98 (2022), 104223
| Michael D. Krämer, Yannick Roos, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus