Abstract In this article I describe the transition of a group university students in Australia into an online learning environment during COVID-19 pandemic disruptions. reflect upon my intersubjective experiences as lecturer unexpected situation urgency and physical distancing. Research has acknowledged synchronous virtual contexts less psychologically distancing than previously thought. argue ...

This research focuses on offspring's perceptions of their parents' usage of conditional regard and autonomy-supportive practices in response to the offspring's experiences of negative emotion. Participants were 174 college students (60% were females). As predicted from self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000), students' perceptions of parents as hinging their regard on students' expression...

Online social network applications explicitly define “friends” with equally weighted links among people. While it is necessary to treat every friend equally from the aspect of expanding friends networks, it is not suitable to do so for context aware services which provide users appropriate information from friend in proper timing. In this paper, we focus on wide spread smartphones and use them ...

The present study investigated whether implicit social motives and cognitive power-sex associations would predict self-reports of aggressive sexual behavior. Participants wrote stories in response to Thematic Apperception Test pictures, which were scored for power and affiliation-intimacy motives. They also completed a lexical-decision priming task that provided an index of the strength of the ...

Satisfied couples report that positive, intimate communication is central to their relationship. We developed the positive reminiscence task, in which couples discuss positive relationship moments to assess communication of positive intimacy. The behavior and heart rate of 28 satisfied and 25 distressed couples were assessed during positive reminiscence and problem solving. As predicted, satisf...

The current study examined the reciprocal associations between friendship attachment and relational experiences. Data came from a longitudinal study that assessed adolescents (N 1⁄4 223, 108 girls) in the 6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grades. Cross-lagged models were fitted with structural equation modeling. Results showed that attachment avoidance was consistently predictive of more friendship excl...

Psychological intimacy in the lasting relationships of heterosexual and same sex women Research suggests that psychological intimacy, defined as the sense that one can be open and honest in talking with a partner about personal thoughts and feelings not usually expressed in other relationships, is important to individual well-being and overall mental health. Studies of gender differences dating...