Linked Lives

The interdisciplinary research initiative 'Linked Lives' explores how individuals differ in the ways they select their social relationships, how they shape them and how they develop in response to them. It unites biology, psychology, statistics, data science and the philosophy of science to merge theoretical and empirical insights on individual differences in social interactions across disciplines, species and types of social relations. By combining complementary expertise, this interdisciplinary approach promotes methodological innovations and opens up novel avenues for multimethod assessment and analysis of individual differences in social behaviour.

Building on established interdisciplinary collaborations and in line with the strategic research profiles of the Universities of Münster and Bielefeld, the initiative pursues a long-term perspective to fundamentally advance the understanding of individuality in social context.