Two PhD Positions in Digital Communication, Adolescents’ Social Relationships and Well-Being at LMU Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Media and Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, in Munich. The position is part of the four-year DIGIREL research project, “Adolescents’ Social Relationships and Well-Being in the Digital Age: Interstitial Communication Patterns and their Outcomes,” supervised scientifically by Prof. Dr. Ruth Wendt . DIGIREL investigates how adolescents’ interstitial communication patterns—staccato-like se...

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...

PhD position: Online/offline relationships of young people Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is seeking a PhD candidate for the Stronger2gether consortium to investigate how young people's online and offline social relationships are intertwined and how digital experiences can strengthen positive relationships, mental well-being, and flourishing. The project is located within the Department of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences and involves collaboration with students in vocational and special secon...

The Department of Criminology at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg im Breisgau is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the project “Short-Term Mindsets and Crime: Testing and Validating the Theory.” The position sits within an interdisciplinary research program that aims to advance Short-Term Mindsets Theory , a framework that connects diverse predictors of criminal behavior through a temporal mechanism centered on immediate versus long-term outcom...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is seeking a Doctoral Candidate / Scientific Researcher for the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy: Integrating Benefits into the Analysis of Conspiracy Beliefs.” The position is based in the Communication and Media Psychology Group at the Institute of Communication Science. The project, “(How and why) Do conspiracy beliefs blaze the trail to political violence?”, investigates when conspiracy beliefs increase willingness to engage in political violence and how thi...