Dr. Sebastian Pusch

Research Associate

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Wildstraße 1
07743 Jena

Room E005

Postal adress:
Humboldtstraße 11
07743 Jena

Consulting hours:
by agreement

E-Mail: sebastian.pusch@uni-jena.de
Telephone: +49 3641 9-45076
Telefax: +49 3641 9-45162

Research Interests

„Partner perception“
Implicit and explicit motive dispositions
Romantic relationships
Personality development

Current Projects

Motivational interdependence in intimate partnerships(funded by the German Research Foundation DFG)
Dynamics of implicit motives in the context of intimate partnerships de (funded by the German Research Foundation DFG)

Curriculum Vitae

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

Publications

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