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Empirical Research Project - Creating Happiness (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Meikel Soliman

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 17.10.2022 - 03.02.2023 | C 40.162 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The course "Empirical Research Project – Creating Happiness" will enable students to experience all steps of a research process in applied psychology research, addressing a research question within the topic of “Happiness”. Topic Some say, the sole purpose of life is finding happiness. Indeed, almost everyone wants to be happy – at least nobody wants to be unhappy. However, as we know and research painfully illustrates, becoming or being happy is quite a challenge. Why is this the case? One could argue that two factors make it quite challenging to find happiness – our minds and society. First, extant research illustrates that our minds make predictable mistakes when it comes to imagining what will make us happy. We are pretty bad at imagining a future that is highly different from the present. For instance, after a delicious Christmas feast, we are full and can’t imagine eating again. Even though, based on experience, we know that ice-cream will come out three hours later. This illustrates that our mind is stuck in the present, making it difficult to predict what will make us happy in the future. Second, society often tells us what should make us happy. As it turns out, society is not always right. Research shows that while most of us would choose material goods, we should choose experiences instead. Similarly, we expect that spending money on ourselves will make us happy. Research underlines, over and over again, that spending money on others will make us even happier. In this research project, we will take a closer look at happiness and dissect what will (really) make us happy. Course This course consists of the following 10 parts: (1) discussing relevant theories of humor, (2) identifying a research gap and finding interesting research questions, (3) deriving hypotheses, (4) getting to know research designs, (5) applying research methods and designs, (6) implementing and conducting a research project, (7) collecting data, (8) analyzing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Psychology and Society - Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Empirical Research Project - Hybrid Work Models (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Christian Otto, Sabine Remdisch

Inhalt: Topic: The course will offer a deep dive into hybrid work. Our goal is to explore the conditions that create successful hybrid work and to assist companies in creating successful future work models. Students will gain insight into the success factors and effects of hybrid work. They will learn about the conditions and frameworks for successful organization of dislocated work culture and about the challenges and prerequisites for hybrid work, e.g. how to share ideas and how to provide collaborative, tangible tools and infrastructure. Course: This course consists of the following 10 parts: (1) discussing relevant literature of work psychology and organizational behavior research, (2) identifying a research question, (3) deriving hypotheses, (4) getting to know research designs in applied work psychology, (5) applying an empirical research design, (6) implementing and conducting an empirical research project, (7) collecting field data, (8) analysing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Psychology and Society - Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Empirical Research Project - Imitation in social contexts (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Mareike Westfal

Termin:
wöchentlich | Montag | 16:15 - 17:45 | 17.10.2022 - 03.02.2023 | C 6.320 Seminarraum

Inhalt: Individuals imitate a variety of different behaviors, including gestures, simple movements, facial expressions, and emotions. Imitation is also considered a crucial learning mechanism through which children's personalities develop and through which children adapt to society. Beyond this, imitation serves an important social function insofar as it binds people together more strongly by encouraging prosocial behavior. For example, imitation fosters helping, reciprocal liking, empathy, and acceptance of other people's perspectives, which is why imitation is often referred to as social glue. In this research project, we will look at imitation and its mechanisms from different angles. In small groups students will develop different hypotheses and investigate them in their own experiments. The goal is to investigate the processes underlying imitation and the social constructs involved. This course consists of the following 10 parts: (1) discussing relevant empirical literature, (2) identifying a research question, (3) deriving hypotheses, (4) getting to know research designs, (5) applying an empirical research design, (6) implementing and conducting an empirical research project, (7) collecting data, (8) analyzing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Psychology and Society - Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Empirical Research Project - Social Cognition (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Oliver Genschow

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 12:15 - 13:45 | 17.10.2022 - 03.02.2023 | C 6.316 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In small groups, students will dive into different areas of social cognition by running their own experiments. Our goal is to investigate processes underlying different of different societal-relevant phenomena and constructs, such as human imitation, belief in free will, or trust in science—to name just a few examples. This course consists of the following 10 parts: (1) discussing relevant empirical literature of social and cognitive 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) analyzing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Psychology and Society - Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Empirical Research Project on Mimicry: Social perspective (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Weronika Trzmielewska

Inhalt: Within small groups students will get acquainted into different areas of mimicry and social cognition by running own experiments. Mimicry is defined as the subtle imitation of an interaction partner’s various behaviors in a social situation. Such mimicry behavior fulfills an important social function as it installs a social bond between interaction partners by creating a generally prosocial orientation. The goal is to investigate not yet tested prosocial consequences of being mimicked/replicate previous key studies. This course consists of the following 10 parts: (1) discussing relevant theories of social psychology (mostly: mimicry and it’s social consequences) (2) identifying a research gap and finding interesting research questions, identifying of a need of replication (3) deriving hypotheses, (4) getting to know research designs, (5) applying research methods and designs, (6) implementing and conducting a research project, (7) collecting data, (8) analyzing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Psychology and Society - Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Empirical Research Project: Psychology of Entrepreneurship (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Michael Gielnik

Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 10:15 - 11:45 | 17.10.2022 - 03.02.2023 | C 4.111 Seminarraum

Inhalt: In this empirical research project, the students design and implement a research project in the field of the psychology of entrepreneurship. The course has five parts: (1) discussing relevant theories in the field of psychology of entrepreneurship, (2) identifying a research gap and formulating a research question, (3) designing and implementing a quantitative study, (4) analyzing the data based statistical procedures, and (5) writing a research paper.

Leuphana Bachelor - Minor Psychology and Society - Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology