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Rachele Mazzini

Rachele Mazzini

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7687-9152

  • Øster Farimagsgade 5

    1014 København K

Personal profile

Short presentation

PhD candidate in Psychology at the University of Copenhagen since February 2023 (currently Research Assistant and Lecturer), researching romantic relationships and specifically how partners navigate dis-honesty.

Primary fields of research

  • Romantic relationships: couple well-being, dyadic coping and interpersonal emotion regulation, daily partner interactions
  • Dishonesty: (prosocial) lying, withholding information, infidelity and cheating behaviour
  • Personality and individual differences
  • Cross-cultural differences and adaptation processes

Current research

My PhD project focuses on dishonesty in romantic relationships. Across three main studies, it aims at exploring the nature and effects of dishonesty on intimate relationships, following a mixed-method approach:

  1. An in-depth, large-scale qualitative analysis to understand the nature, experiences, and consequences of dishonesty in romantic relationships. 
  2. The development of a measure of dishonesty in romantic relationships.
  3. The examination of how dishonesty unfolds in daily couple interactions, its interplay with other relational processes, and its short- and long-term effects on both invidivuals and couples.

Teaching

Elective course Dating, Mating, and Close Relationships

Keywords

  • Faculty of Social Sciences
  • Romantic relationships
  • Dishonesty
  • Dyadic Analysis
  • Personality Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • 1 Journal article