Dates
| weekly | Wednesday | 12:15 - 13:45 | 12.10.2026 - 29.01.2027 | C 40.162 Seminarraum |
Curriculum context
Scientific video (30%)
Academic paper (50%)
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.
Organizational information
Registration
Registration ends on 12.10.2026 at 23:59.
Persons
Content
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
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