Research
Ongoing and completed research projects.
EGSES24 – 2024 East German State Election Study
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.
Funding: Free State of Thuringia and Volkswagen Foundation
ARAPiS – International students and the Thuringian labour market
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.
Funding: Thuringian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Science and Digital Society
SensipoV – Raising awareness of political bias
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?
Funding: Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)
NetHate – Online hate speech in polarised political controversies
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.
Funding: EU Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (grant no. 861047)
General Political Trust and Involvement – Their Structure and Nature from a Personality Perspective // Doctoral Thesis Dr. Laurits Bromme
Are there stable individual differences in political trust in and involvement with politics? Are these differences linked to personality structure?
Funding: Doctoral scholarship from the Foundation of German Business (sdw). Doctorate obtained at RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau.
Motivated biases in the reception of empirical research findings: The role of social identity and moral values
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.
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG), RO 4248/1-2
VISCOM – Improving the Media Relations of Social Science Research: The Case of the Violent Video Games Debate
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.
Funding: Volkswagen Foundation, funding initiative “Science – Public – Society”