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