Doctoral Candidate in Conspiracy Beliefs, Political Violence, and Experimental Psychology Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is advertising a doctoral candidate/scientific researcher position in the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” (FOR 5901). The project focuses on conspiracy beliefs and is situated within the psychology of communication and media use. The position is associated with Professor Tobias Rothmund and offers doctoral research within a German Research Foundation-funded research unit. The work will examine conspiracy beliefs in the context of communication and media use, c...

RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau invites applications for a four-year Research Associate position in the Department of Political Psychology at the Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education (IKM) in Landau. The role is part of a German Research Foundation-funded international comparative project on the evaluation of political apologies. The project investigates how people assess reactions by victim groups to apologies for collective violent crimes, why rejection of an apology may trigg...

PhD opportunity in Social Psychology at Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), Trier, Germany. The Social Influence Lab led by Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg is recruiting for a PhD position within the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” . The project topic focuses on negative emotions and conspiracy beliefs , making this a strong fit for applicants interested in social psychology, belief formation, emotion, and contemporary social influence processes. Applicants should have an MSc in psych...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München’s Department of Media and Communication is recruiting two PhD researchers for the ERC-funded DIGIREL project, “Adolescents’ Social Relationships and Well-Being in the Digital Age: Interstitial Communication Patterns and their Outcomes.” The five-year project is based in Munich and is supervised scientifically by Prof. Dr. Ruth Wendt. DIGIREL investigates how adolescents’ interstitial communication—the staccato-like interplay between digital and non-digital ...

Graduate School of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (GSBS) at the University of Konstanz is a structured doctoral programme bringing together researchers and doctoral candidates across six disciplines: economics, linguistics, political science and public administration, psychology, sociology and statistics. The programme is designed for research on behaviour from both micro and macro perspectives. At the micro level, it focuses on determinants and processes that shape individual behaviour; at...