Research focus

These pages provide an overview of our research activities. Follow the links to learn more about our scientific focus, our Open Science initiative, and our current projects and publications.

Our research activities focus on social psychology, legal psychology, and media psychology.

One research focus is on biases in information processing (e.g., confirmation bias, hindsight bias, in-group bias), which we analyze in various application areas (e.g., in a legal context, in Wikipedia articles).

In a second line of research, we focus on legally relevant aspects of human memory. For example, we investigate the suggestibility, reversibility, and identifiability of false memories. We also investigate the extent to which the requirements for human memory formulated by the highest courts (i.e., what is expected of witnesses in court) are empirically supportable.

In addition, we study the effects of linguistic framing on the perception and evaluation of socially relevant issues (e.g., the climate crisis).