Theses (BSc/MSc Psychology)

In addition to the supervision by first and second supervisors, our tutors are available to all students who are writing their thesis in the field of social psychology to answer any questions they may have.

Ende, L., Reinhard, M.-A., & Göritz, L. (2023). Detecting greenwashing! The influence of product color and product price on consumers’ detection accuracy of faked bio-fashion. Journal of Consumer Policy, 46, 155–189. doi.org/10.1007/s10603-023-09537-8

Reinhardt, N., Reinhard, M-A., & Bittner-Fäthke, G. (2023). The correlation between Honesty-Humility and attitude toward counterfeit luxury. Italian Journal of Marketing, 2023, 503–519. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43039-023-00082-3

Harhoff, N., Reinhardt, N., Reinhard, M.-A., & Mayer, M. (2023). Agentic and communal narcissism in predicting different types of lies in romantic relationships. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1146732.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1146732 

Reinhardt, N., Trnka, L.-M. & Reinhard, M-A. (2022). The correlation of honesty-humility and learning goals with academic cheating. Social Psychology of Education, 26, 211–226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-022-09742-2 

Stolz, C., Reinhard, M.-A., & Ende, L. (2022). Mean girls, queen bees and iron maidons? Female leadership and accusations of workplace bullying. Open Psychology, 4, 249–264. https://doi.org/10.1515/psych-2022-0127  

Marris, A., Reinhardt, N., & Schindler, S. (2022). the Role of Just World Beliefs in Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic . social justice research. doi.org/10.1007/s11211-022-00388-1.

Mariss, A.*, Wenzel, K.*, Grünberg, C., & Reinhard, M.-A. (2022). who wants to learn harder? The relationship between conservatism and liberalism, desirable difficulties, and academic learning. Social Psychology of Education.doi. org/10.1007/s11218-021-09681-4 * shared first-authorship.

Schindler, S., Wagner, L. K., Reinhard, M.-A., Ruhara, N., Pfattheicher, S., & Nitschke, J. (2021). Are criminals better lie detectors? Investigating offenders' abilities in the context of deception detection. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35, 203-214. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3755

Benz, D. & Reinhard, M.-A. (2021). Sadder and Less Gullible?-Investigating Depressive Realism Effects in Judgments of Veracity. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 40, 404-421. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2021.40.5.421

Ridder, J. & Reinhard, M.-A. (2021). When the toaster knows what you are up to: The effect of mentalization on the uncanny valley effect.Psychreg Journal of Psychology, 5, 40-41. https://doi.org/gf53

Schindler, S., & Trede, M. (2021). Does social exclusion improve detection of real and fake smiles? A replication study. Frontiers in Psychology , 12, 626087. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626087

Volz, S., Reinhard, M.-A., Müller, P. (2020). Why don't you believe me? Detecting deception in messages written by nonnative and native speakers. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 256- 269. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3615

Wagner, L., Schindler, S., & Reinhard, M.-A. (2017). The positive facet of self-compassion predicts self-reported use of and attitudes toward desirable difficulties in learning. Frontiers in Psychology , 8 , 1353. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01353

Weber, J., & Reinhard, M.-A. (2017). Be Empathic. The Influence of Empathy on Attitude Formation in the German Refugee Debate. International Journal of Psychological Studies, 9, 62-70. https://doi:10.5539/ijps.v9n1p62

*Student author:s are marked in bold.