Course Schedule

Empirical Research Project - Social Psychology (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Yannik Escher

Termin:
wöchentlich | Freitag | 10:15 - 11:45 | 13.10.2025 - 30.01.2026 | C 7.307 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In small groups, students will dive into different areas of social, economic, work and organizational psychology by running their own experiments. Our goal is to investigate processes underlying different phenomena and processes, such as joint decision-making, personnel selection, cognitive-affective biases, team diversity, social perception, or ingroup-outgroup discrimination – to name just a few examples. This course consists of the following 10 parts: (1) discussing relevant empirical literature of social psychology, (2) identifying a research question, (3) deriving hypotheses, (4) getting to know research designs in applied psychology, (5) applying an empirical research design, (6) implementing and conducting an empirical research project, (7) collecting data, (8) analysing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings. As students in this seminar, you will be asked to independently choose your own research question and to develop an appropriate experimental procedure. Please note that this course requires a high(er) degree of personal responsibility and that you must be prepared to manage your own group project independently (with guidance of course).

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