Completed projects


Project Description

InteroSens – Interoceptive Sensitivity and Social Development in Infancy

Project leaderStefanie Höhl (Universität Wien)
Project partnersManos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway University of London), Chiara Turati (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca), Ezgi Kayhan (Universität Potsdam)
Project membersMarkus Tünte (Universität Wien)
Duration2020 - 2024
Contact stefanie.hoehl@univie.ac.at; markus.tuente@univie.ac.at


Bodily signals, such as heartbeat and respiration, are important for the perception of the emotion of other people by providing an information source that is used to distinguish between self and other. However, there are few findings on the development of the perception of bodily signals in infancy and how such a perception is connected and interacts with the development of the understanding of other people’s emotions. In this longitudinal project we investigated the development of bodily signals over the course of the first 18 months of life and their importance for the early understanding of other people’s emotions.

This project was supported by the Austrian Sciene Fund (FWF) – project number 33486-B.


Project Description

Mind the Body – The role of embodied interactions in the construction of a minimal self

Project leaderEzgi Kayhan (Universität Potsdam)
Project partnersManos Tsakiris (Royal Holloway University of London), Birgit Elster (Universität Potsdam), Stefanie Höhl (Universität Wien), Markus Tünte (Universität Wien)
Durationsince 2019
Contactkayhan@uni-potsdam.de

 

In this project, we investigated the emerging sense of self in infancy by focusing on the role of embodied interactions, e.g., through the sensing of internal bodily signals such as the heartbeat, to understand how a sense of self is constructed. 

This research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number KA 4926/1-1.


Project Description

How early mother-infant interaction shapes culture specific visual perception processes - a comparision between Japan and Austria

Project leadersStefanie Höhl (Universität Wien), Moritz Köster (Freie Universität Berlin)
Project partnersShoji Itakura (Doshisha University, Kyoto University, Japan), Daiki Yamasaki (Kyoto University, Japan)
Project membersAnna Bánki (Universität Wien)
Durationsince 2018
Contactstefanie.hoehl@univie.ac.at; moritz.koester@fu-berlin.de

 

Our cross-cultural study in collaboration with Kyoto University investigated how early mother-infant interaction shapes culture specific visual perception processes. Images were shown to Japanese and Austrian mother-infant dyads while the infant's brain activity was recorded with electroencephalography. Our findings help to understand the developmental origins of cross-cultural differences in perception and cognition, already emerging at such an early age. 

This project was partially funded by the Mobility Fellowship of Vienna University in a research partnership with Kyoto University in Japan.


Project description

Financial Socialization of Emerging Adults: The Roles of Parents, Work and Personal Values

Project leaderUlrike Sirsch (Universität Wien)
Project partnersMihaela Friedlmeier (Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA); Oana Negru (Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Beate Schwarz (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland); Maja Zupančič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Durationsince 2016
Contactulrike.sirsch@univie.ac.at

 

Parents play an important role regarding their children’s understanding and skills towards financial matters. This international study was initiated by Mihaela Friedlmeier. The major purpose of the study is to examine predictors for freshmen college students’ financial knowledge and behavior, and how these in turn affect financial well-being and overall life satisfaction.


Project information

Factors of Individuation in Relation to Parents among Austrian and Slovene Emerging Adults, and Its Role in Important Life Adjustments

Project leader
Ulrike Sirsch
Project partners      
Maja Zupančič und Team, Slovenia, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Department of Psychology
Duration2016 - 2017
Contact
ulrike.sirsch@univie.ac.at


This research cooperation (a Science and Technology cooperation between Austria – Slovenia, 2016-2017) deals with aspects of individuation in relation to parents (gaining autonomy while maintaining relatedness to parents) and includes criteria of becoming adult and aspects of emerging adults’ personality.