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Personality Psychology and Assessment
Offers for theses
Personality Psychology and Assessment 

Offers for theses

Below you will find the research areas of our professorship. The topics listed are only examples of possible work and correspond to the main research areas of the staff members.

Please address your request exclusively to Dr. Sarah Mandl (sarah.mandl@psychologie.tu-chemnitz.de).

Please include the following information in your e-mail:

  • Type of work (Bachelor thesis, Master thesis, research internship)
  • Planned time period of the work  
  • Topic requests

Research area:
Aptitude diagnostics in the areas of training, studies and career

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Anja Strobel

  • Need for cognition in the suitability context
  • Significance of requirements analyses
  • Influence of different types of questions in the interview (leading questions, open/closed questions)

Research area: Moral behavior

Contact person:  Prof. Dr. Anja Strobel

  • Relationship between moral action and need for cognition
  • Antecedents of moral action

Contact person:  Dipl.-Psych. Magdalena Reineboth

  • Moral behaviour in organizations: DFG-funded project FIDES
  • Development of a Situational Judgment Test for the assessment of moral decision-making and action

Contact person:  PD Dr. Diana Armbruster

  • Correlation of moral judgment processes with personality and biological factors
  • Evaluation of moral judgments of artificial intelligences

 

Research area: Need for Cognition

Contact person: Prof. Dr. Anja Strobel

  • Need for Cognition in the school context
  • Need for cognition in the context of aptitude
  • Need for cognition in the context of moral behavior
  • NFC and well-being
  • NFC as a resource for coping with challenging life events

Contact person: Dr. Julia Grass

  • Need for cognition and cognitive development/intelligence
  • Need for cognition in the context of well-being

Contact person: M.Sc. Psych. Johanna Bruchmann

  • Need for cognition as a resource for well-being at school
    • Differences between different types of schools
  • Need for cognition as a resource for coping with mental and physical stress in school-age children and adolescents
    • The role of NFC in dealing with psychological stress
    • The role of NFC for dealing with chronic illnesses

Contact person: M.Sc.Psych. Inga Hermine Hoff

Development and possibilities of promoting cognitive motivation in socially relevant contexts

  • In the context of occupational health: Cognitive motivation as a resource for coping with work demands
  • In the study context against the background of social identity
    • Attitudes towards the joy of thinking
    • Cognitive motivation as a possible resource for first-generation students

Research area: Responsibility in hybrid societies

Contact person: Dr. Sarah Mandl

  • (Social) perception of embodied digital technologies (EDTs) depending on their characteristics and different personality variables of the users
  • Moral decisions of artificial agents (e.g. EDTs, AI)

Please note that specific topics are assigned according to availability and depending on the current research projects of the professorship