The impact of child-caregiver interactions and attachment on the developing minimal self

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Markus Paulus
• Subject Area: Developmental and Educational Psychology
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 402792340

This project concerns itself with the social factors that contribute to the minimal self. From a developmental perspective, it focuses on parent-child interaction patterns and attachment representations. The project consists of four studies that rely on experimental, cross-sectional, and longitudinal designs, and are carried out with preschoolers and adults. Interdisciplinary cooperations with colleagues from cognitive science and robots are established, and allow for a modelling approach to the empirical results. Overall, the project applies an attachment-theoretical focus and aims at characterizing the nature and extent of social influences on the developing minimal self.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 2134: The active self
• International Connection: Italy, United Kingdom
• Co-Investigators: Professor Dr. Bernhard Hommel; Professorin Dr. Corinna Reck; Professorin Dr. Anna-Lena Zietlow
• Cooperation Partners: Professor Dr. Peter Fonagy; Dr. Guido Schillaci