Tobias Rothmund

EGSES24 – 2024 East German State Election Study

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

A longitudinal survey of 1,200 people in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg before and after the 2024 state elections – on the causes and consequences of voting behaviour.

SensipoV – Raising awareness of political bias

Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0100

How well do people recognise their own and others’ political bias when dealing with scientific evidence – and can raising awareness of it reduce susceptibility to misinformation?

ARAPiS – International students and the Thuringian labour market

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

What determines whether international graduates of the University of Jena find work and stay in Thuringia? An interdisciplinary project on labour market transitions, employers’ recruitment strategies and perceived barriers.

Intervention map against online hate – a guide through the jungle of measures

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100

This interactive intervention map provides a structured overview of the many areas in which intervention and prevention against online hate take place, and helps users find suitable measures.

Motivated biases in the reception of empirical research findings: The role of social identity and moral values

Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Why do people reject scientific findings when they touch on their identity or their moral convictions? A DFG project using the example of the debate about violent video games.

VISCOM – Improving the Media Relations of Social Science Research: The Case of the Violent Video Games Debate

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Why does media coverage of research on violent video games so often diverge from the scientific evidence? A Volkswagen Foundation project on communication between social science, journalism and the public.

NetHate – Online hate speech in polarised political controversies

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0100

How does hate speech emerge in polarised political debates online? And how can it be addressed both preventively and in the aftermath? A sub-project of the European Marie Skłodowska-Curie network NETHATE.

General Political Trust and Involvement – Their Structure and Nature from a Personality Perspective // Doctoral Thesis Dr. Laurits Bromme

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Are there stable individual differences in political trust in and involvement with politics? Are these differences linked to personality structure?

About

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Tobias Rothmund is Professor for Psychology of Communication and Media Use at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, where he is the director of KomRex (Centre for Research on Right-Wing Extremism, Democracy Education and Societal Integration). He is a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence Imaginamics at the University of Jena and a member of the distributed DFG Research Unit Beyond Cracy.

His research combines social psychological and communication science perspectives on political thinking, feeling and behaviour. His work focuses on differing conceptions of social justice, political biases and ideologies, misinformation and conspiracy myths, as well as political radicalisation and the dynamics of polarisation.

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