what we do
The Interpersonal Relationships Lab at the University of Maryland conducts cutting-edge, award-winning research on interpersonal relationships and social interaction. We conduct creative and methodologically rigorous research that involves undergraduate and graduate students.
Current areas of interest include the impact of worldviews on relationships, accuracy and bias in interpersonal perception, loneliness, belonging, memory about relationships and social interaction, and future-oriented thinking about relationships and social interaction. We study romantic relationships, friendships, coworker relationships, and relationships across social group boundaries. We also study social interaction, including interactions involving close relationship partners, acquaintances, and strangers.
We use multiple methods to rigorously address our research questions, including laboratory experiments, dyadic studies, longitudinal studies, daily experience studies, and field interventions.
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We use multiple methods to rigorously address our research questions, including laboratory experiments, dyadic studies, longitudinal studies, daily experience studies, and field interventions.
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