myStudy - Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Dates

weekly | Wednesday | 10:15 - 11:45 | 12.10.2026 - 29.01.2027 | C 40.162 Seminarraum

Curriculum context

Module

28335000 Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Assessment

[29726] Empirical Research Project in Applied Psychology

Form of assessment

Combined academic performance

Examiner

Hannes Petrowsky

Elements of assessment:

Preregistration (20%)
Scientific video (30%)
Academic paper (50%)

Dates

Date of assessment: Monday, 15.03.2027
Resit date: No resit date will be offered to this assessment, because it is didactically inseparably connected with one of the associated courses. A resit will only be possible, if the module is available again.

Notices

(1) Finish an extensive preregistration document in your study group. (2) Create an entertaining scientific video about your group research. (3) Write a scientific paper on the study you conducted (APA7, approx. 4,000 words). | Anzeige von Anmeldebeginn und -ende systembedingt. Selbständige Anmeldung nur zum Prüfungstermin und nicht zum Wiederholungstermin möglich.

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Organizational information

Type of course

Seminar

planned way of execution

Full presence

Hours per week per semester

Registration process

centralized lottery procedure with participant limit

Maximum number of participants

Registration

Lottery procedure

centralized lottery procedure with participant limit

Time period

Registration does not begin until 02.10.2026 at 08:00. It ends on 12.10.2026 at 23:59.

Special features

The registration is restricted to the following fields or courses of study:

Leuphana Bachelor / Minor Psychology and Society / alle Semester
Leuphana Bachelor / Minor Studium Individuale / alle Semester
Leuphana Bachelor / Major Studium Individuale / alle Semester

Persons

Teaching staff

Hannes Petrowsky

Content

Language of instruction

Englisch

Native Title

Empirical Research Project - Social Psychology

Tags

none

Content and concept

In small groups, students will dive into different areas of social and societal psychology by running their own experiments. Our goal is to investigate processes underlying different societally relevant phenomena and constructs, such as cooperation, social value orientation, interpersonal perception, or social identity — 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) analyzing the data, (9) evaluating the results, and (10) presenting the findings.

Objective

Students will gain knowledge in extracting research questions and in transferring those research questions into an empirical study. Students will extend their overall research skills in specified areas of research. They will improve their social competencies by working in small groups to conduct a research project within one semester. En route to completing the group research project successfully, students will learn how to coordinate, organize, and lead teams to complete the research project on time.

Evaluation

This course has not been registered for teaching evaluation yet.

Further information on teaching evaluation: https://www.leuphana.de/en/teaching/quality-management/evaluation/course-evaluation.html