Keynote Speakers &
Roundtable Panelists
Keynote Speakers
Guy Bodenmann, University of Zurich, Zurich
Niall Bolger, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York
Benjamin Karney, University of California, Los Angeles
Aleksandra Łuszczyńska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw
Guy Bodenmann, University of Zurich, Zurich
Title of talk: The role of behavioral observation for dyadic behavior change
Guy Bodenmann is a Full Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Zurich.
Previously, he was the director of the Institute for Family Research and Counseling at the University of Fribourg for 14 years, serving as Associate Professor of Clinical Relationship Psychology from 2001 to 2008 and as Assistant Professor from 1999 to 2001.
His research emphasizes the interplay between stress and relationships, the impact of relationships on psychological disorders, relationship conflicts and child development, and preventing relationship distress. He pioneered the concept of dyadic coping – how couples manage stress together – and developed the widelyused Dyadic Coping Inventory (DCI). He is the author of over 25 books and more than 300 scientific publications.
As cognitive-behavioral therapist, couple therapist, trainer, and supervisor, Bodenmann developed the 3-phase method, an integral component of the copingoriented approach for couple therapy, as well as the Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET), an evidence-based relationship education program to strengthen relationships.
Niall Bolger, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York
Title of talk: Unified Analysis Model for Indistinguishable and Distinguishable Dyads
Niall Bolger is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. He is an expert on using intensive longitudinal methods to study interpersonal processes in social and health psychology. With J-P Laurenceau, he co-authored Intensive Longitudinal Methods: An Introduction to Diary and Experience Sampling Research (Guilford Press, 2013). He has taught the Psychology Department graduate statistics sequence at Columbia for the past two decades. He also teaches workshops with Laurenceau on Intensive Longitudinal Methods and Dyadic Data Analysis.
Benjamin Karney, University of California, Los Angeles
Title of talk: Relationship Maintenance vs. Goal Pursuit: The Tension in Couples' Social Support Interactions
Benjamin Karney is a Professor and Chair of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an adjunct behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation. His research examines intimate relationships, especially marriage, and focuses on how relationships are facilitated or constrained by the contexts in which they take place. Currently, he leads the Los Angeles Project on Newlywed Development (LAPOND), a longitudinal study of low-income couples, and co-directs (with Thomas Bradbury) the UCLA Marriage and Close Relationships Lab. He has received the Berscheid-Hatfield Award for Distinguished Mid-Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research, and has twice received the National Council on Family Relation’s Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award for outstanding family science.
Aleksandra Łuszczyńska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw
Title of talk: Different, but similar: Power, effort, competence, closeness, and breadth of tasks as dimensions of between-dyads differences
Aleksandra Luszczynska is professor of psychology at SWPS University (Poland), leading CARE-BEH Center. She investigates the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions or policies promoting healthy and sustainable diet as well as active lifestyle (cf. BETTER4U, LIKE-A-PRO, OBCT, MELIORA, CO-CREATE EU Horizon projects). Regularly listed among 2% of best-cited researchers, Dr Luszczynska published >200 papers, cited >26,000 times.
Roundtable Panelists
The interactive roundtable discussion will include:
Nina Knoll, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Nina Knoll is a Full Professor and head of the Division Health Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin. Nina Knoll’s research interests focus on individual and dyadic health behavior change interventions and coping with disease and functional limitations. In her third-party funded research, she has conducted randomized controlled trials, prospective longitudinal- and daily diary studies with individuals and couples. Between 2013 and 2019 she was Co-PI and Speaker of the Focus Area DynAge, a multi-disciplinary, trans-institutional research platform that initiated and supported interdisciplinary research into disease in human aging. From 2019 to 2023 she served as Vice Dean Research of the Department of Education and Psychology at Freie Universität Berlin.
Guy Bodenmann, University of Zurich, Zurich
Niall Bolger, Columbia University in the City of New York, New York
Benjamin Karney, University of California, Los Angeles
Aleksandra Łuszczyńska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw
Jeffry Simpson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Jeffry A. Simpson, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Teaching Professor and current Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on adult attachment, social influence, and how developmental and relationship experiences are related to adult outcomes, including health.
