Dr. Sebastian Pusch

• 2020
  PhD in Psychology (summa cum laude)
  Thesis: "Motivational Interdependence in Couple Relationships"
  
  
• since 06/2020
  Research associate at the Department of Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment at the Friedrich Schiller University JenaDFG-Project "Motivational Interdependence in Intimate Relationships"
   
• 06/2016 - 05/2020
  Research associate at the Department of Personality Psychology and Psychological Assessment at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  DFG-Project "Dynamics of implicit motives in intimate partner relationships"
  
  
• 11/2014 - 04/2016
  Student assistant at the Department of Pedagogical Psychology at the Institute of Education Science
  (BMBF-Project: "Zukunftsmarkt 65plus")
  
  
• 10/2014 - 05/2016
  Master studies of Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  
  
• 03/2014 - 09/2014
  Student assistant at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors at the TU Dortmund
  
  
• 10/2010 - 09/2014
  Bachelor studies of Psychology and Philosophy at the Technical University Dortmund

in press

Schönbrodt, F. D., Zygar, C., Nestler, S., Pusch, S., & Hagemeyer, B. (in press). Measuring motivational relationship processes in experience sampling: A reliability model for moments, days, and persons nested in couples. Behavior Research Methods.

2020

Pusch, S., Schönbrodt, F.D., Zygar-Hoffmann, C., & Hagemeyer, B. (in press). Perception of communal motives in couples: Accuracy, bias, and their associations with relationship length. Journal of Research in Personality.

Pusch, S., Schönbrodt, F. D., Zygar-Hoffmann, C., & Hagemeyer, B. (2020). Truth and wishful thinking: How inter-individual differences in communal motives manifest in momentary partner perceptions. European Journal of Personality, 34, 115-134. doi:10.1002/per.2227

Zygar-Hoffmann, C., Pusch, S., Hagemeyer, B., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2020). Motivated behavior in intimate relationships: Comparing the predictive value of motivational variables. Social Psychological Bulletin, 15(2), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.2873

2019

Pusch, S., Mund, M., Hagemeyer, B. & Finn, C. (2019). Personality development in emerging and young adulthood: A study of age differences. European Journal of Personality, 33, 245-263. doi:10.1002/per.2181

2018

Zygar, C., Hagemeyer, B., Pusch, S., & Schönbrodt, F. D. (2018). From motive dispositions to states to outcomes: An intensive experience sampling study on communal motivational dynamics in couples. European Journal of Personality, 32, 306-324. DOI: 10.1002/per.2145