Finkenauer is a professor of youth studies at Utrecht. She also leads its Dynamics of Youth research theme. She asks how close partners can bring out good and bad acts in each other. [1]
She uses many kinds of research. They include social, clinical, lab, body, and child studies. Her main focus is how close ties can help or hurt young people. She studies trust, self-control, secrets, divorce, and harm in the home. [1]
Finkenauer helped write Bad Is Stronger Than Good. The review draws on many parts of psychology. It finds that bad events often have more force than good ones. [2] Her work on close ties fits that claim well. [1] [2]
Her work is close to management, but it does not study firms. It can help with trust, harm, and repair in work ties. Yet a family is not a team. Trust her most on close ties and self-control. Claims about firm systems need proof from work. [1]