Teaching

This lecture provides a brief introduction to empirical methods in social psychology, enabling students to understand various applied phenomena in social psychology, touching on environmental, political, health and consumer psychology.

• 04/2025 – 07/2025
• 04/2021 – 07/2022
• 04/2020 – 07/2021

This lecture provides a basic introduction to social psychology, examining how cognition, affect, and behavior are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Key topics include social influence, attitude formation, aggression, prosocial behavior, and conflict resolution.

• 10/2024 – 02/2025
• 10/2023 – 02/2024
• 10/2022 – 02/2023
• 10/2021 – 02/2022
• 10/2020 – 02/2021

This lecture gives an in-depth introduction to social psychology, examining how cognition, affect, and behavior are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Key topics include social influence, attitude formation, aggression, prosocial behavior, and conflict resolution, as well as applied areas like political, environmental, and health psychology.

• 10/2022 – 02/2023

This course provides an introduction to environmental psychology as the discipline that studies interactions between people and their natural and built environments. Students immerse themselves in self-selected topics and conduct a scientific project with real-world relevance (e.g., a workshop on communicating climate change).

• 10/2022 – 02/2023
• 10/2018 – 02/2019

This course includes reflection on internships and the applicability of psychological knowledge within different roles and professions. It contributes to students’ professional development and career planning.

• 10/2024 – 02/2025
• 10/2019 – 02/2020
• 04/2019 – 07/2019
• 10/2017 – 02/2018
• 10/2016 – 02/2017

The courses build on each other over two semesters: The empirical practical course teaches the basics of scientific work by carrying out a clearly defined study; this knowledge is then used in the scientific project work to carry out your own project.

• 04/2025 – 07/2025 Topic: Fear of Missing Out / Shared Academic Identity
• 10/2024 – 02/2025 Topic: Self-Objectification / Color and Attractiveness
• 04/2022 – 07/2022 Topic: Sexism / Covid and Ambivalence / Norms in the WEPT
• 10/2021 – 02/2022 Topic: (Mouse-)Tracking Ambivalence Online
• 04/2021 – 07/2021 Topic: Conspiracy Beliefs / Vegetarian Stereotypes
• 10/2020 – 02/2021 Topic: Homogeneity perception regarding animals
• 10/2019 – 02/2020 Topic: Interventions against food waste
• 04/2018 – 07/2018 Topic: The role of empathy in lying
• 10/2017 – 02/2018 Topic: Ambivalence in food choice
• 10/2016 – 07/2017 Topic: Meat consumption and existential threat
• 10/2015 – 07/2016 Topic: Habitual behavior and existential threat

In this course, students deepen their understanding of key theories, research questions and findings in social psychology. This involves the critical evaluation and synthesis of theories and empirical findings in presentations and discussions.

• 04/2017 – 07/2017 Topic: Theorizing on existential threat
• 04/2016 – 07/2016 Topic: Theorizing on existential threat

This course provides students with an introduction to empirical research. It focuses on methods for planning, conducting and analysing behavioural observations.

• 04/2025 – 07/2025
• 04/2015 – 07/2015
• 04/2015 – 07/2015