Welcome to the Center for Social Skills (CeSoS)

Social skills are key qualifications for a fulfilling and successful life. But what exactly are social skills? How can they be assessed and developed? And which social skills are particularly relevant in certain professions?

The Center for Social Skills (CeSoS) deals with these and other questions in the areas of research, training and transfer.

In current projects and collaborations, we are focusing on the further development of social skills in aspiring medical professionals and psychotherapists.

Would you like to learn more about CeSoS or are you interested in a collaboration? Please feel free to  contact us.

CeSoS at the DGPs Congress in Luxembourg

The Center for Social Skills (CeSoS) was involved in six contributions at this year's Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) in Luxembourg. The contributions focused on the behavior-based assessment of individual differences, social dynamics in daily life, and the promotion of social skills.
Simon Breil and Niclas Kuper organized a symposium on assessing individual differences in actual behavior. In it, Simon Breil presented findings on the behavioral expression of social skills in standardized interpersonal simulations from the project Social Skills in Medical Education, and Niclas Kuper compared how well different personality trait measures predict later behavior.
In another symposium on social dynamics and well-being, Lara Kroencke introduced a project on individual differences in affective expectations and reactions to social interactions. Elisa Palme showed how idiographic modeling and cluster analysis can be combined to identify groups of people with similar social dynamics. In addition, Sarah Lindfeld presented a poster on a four-week behavioral intervention to enhance social skills. Leonie Röder presented another poster with results on individual differences in how characteristics of social situations relate to behavior and experience.

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