eventEmpirical Research Project - Economic Psychology & Decision-Making [Empirical Research Project - Economic Psychology & Decision-Making] (S)
person Hannes Petrowsky

Next appointment: 14. October at 12:15

Dates

weekly | Wednesday | 12:15 - 13:45 | 12.10.2026 - 29.01.2027 | C 40.162 Seminarraum

Curriculum context

Combined academic performance
Preregistration (20%)
Scientific video (30%)
Academic paper (50%)
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.
(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.

Organizational information

Seminar
Full presence
2
centralized lottery procedure with participant limit
13

Registration

centralized lottery procedure with participant limit

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

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

Content

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Empirical Research Project - Economic Psychology & Decision-Making
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In small groups, students will dive into different areas of economic psychology and decision-making by running their own experiments. Our goal is to investigate processes underlying different phenomena and constructs relevant to (economic) decision-making, such as anchoring, cognitive fluency, loss aversion, status quo preferences, or other cognitive biases — 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.

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

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