Psychodigital Research
Biopsychosocial stress, digital health, and the social psychology of AI in clinical practice and daily life.
The Wekenborg Lab is an interdisciplinary research group at the intersection of medical psychology, biopsychological stress research, and digital health. We investigate how biological mechanisms, including parasympathetic regulation, endocrine reactivity, and inflammatory dynamics, interact with psychological experience and social context.
Our research focuses on how affective states such as stress and exhaustion emerge in everyday life, particularly in occupational contexts, and how these processes contribute to the development and maintenance of psychopathology. We further examine the factors that shape these trajectories across individual, social, and organizational levels.
In parallel, we study how digital technologies and generative AI transform clinical interaction, well-being, and therapeutic processes, with a particular focus on implementation processes among healthcare professionals. We treat AI not only as a methodological tool, but also as an independent subject of psychological inquiry: a social and interactive actor with its own behavioural signatures.
Our research portfolio comprises epidemiological studies, classical psychological laboratory experiments, ambulatory assessment studies in clinical and occupational settings, and large-scale behavioural experiments involving large language models.
We are part of the EKFZ for Digital Health at the Faculty of Medicine, TUD Dresden University of Technology, in Dresden, Germany.
