200107 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Arbeit, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (2021W)

Course title: Me, myself and I: Understanding and designing the research on self-representation and decision biases

The seminar is designed to give an overview of some of the recent and ground-breaking research paradigms on self-representation in relation to decision biases in the field of psychology ranging from social cognition to social psychology with an aim to guide participants to be able to understand, analyze, and apply given research topics and explore research questions to accommodate their own research interests. The seminar is suitable for master students who are in the process of deciding the master project topics, or for those who would like to build a collaborative work on self-representation and decision biases. The seminar consists of three parts: research paper presentations (understanding the topics), topic discussions (analyzing the research contents), and writing a mini-research proposal (creating own research questions to test new ideas/re-test existing ideas via new methods). Course materials are short lectures at the beginning of each class, and research articles that will be available to download from the University library. To ensure the quality of end product of the seminar, there will be a two- to three-person team work for discussions, presentation, and proposal reviews. Towards the end of the seminar, each participant reviews a team member’s proposal and the final proposal will be submitted after incorporating the feedback from the reviewer team member.