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210109 SE M7: Political Psychology (2025W)
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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- Anmeldung von Do 04.09.2025 08:00 bis Mo 22.09.2025 08:00
- Anmeldung von Do 25.09.2025 08:00 bis Di 30.09.2025 08:00
- Abmeldung bis Mo 20.10.2025 23:59
Details
max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Note that, due to personal reasons, there will be a break between the first session (in class, on October 6) and the following sessions (in class, starting October 27). Still, the session on October 6th is the official start to the course.
In addition to the meetings shown here, you are required to sign up for one 30-minutes 1:1 coaching on your final paper, taking place on January 21 OR January 28, 2026.Note: This course requires a high level of commitment and self-organization. In the first session, you’ll join one of six groups, with which you’ll be collaborating throughout this course. Moreover, you’re expected to find, read, and apply academic literature and work extensively on reading and writing between the seminars.While the workload in this course may be higher than in previous courses, I designed the course to prepare you for your Master’s thesis and future career steps as well as possible. Hence, if you want to commit to this course, you can expect a lot of feedback, knowledge, skills, and hopefully fun in return.
- Montag 06.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 27.10. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 03.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 10.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 17.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 24.11. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 01.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 15.12. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 12.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 19.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
- Montag 26.01. 09:45 - 11:15 Hörsaal 3 (H3), NIG 2. Stock
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
There are three different kinds of meetings in this course.There are three different kinds of meetings in this course.
First, there will be one in class session on October 6 for the entire class, providing you with information, introduction, and a first overview. Participation is mandatory and no-shows will be deregistered.
Second, the main part of the course will come as 10 in-class sessions. As you’ll be required to critically evaluate evidence, the first of these in-class meetings will recap the foundations of methodology with a focus on causal evidence. The next session will cover some political psychology interventions more generally. The following sessions will discuss six different societal crises, focusing on literature about how interventions may prompt citizens to address them. In between, we’ll have one in-person session to discuss everyone’s proposal (see assessment) and a final in-person session to recap and discuss open questions. The main part of the “crisis sessions” will be group work, in which one group will summarize the assigned readings, whereas the other groups will be asked to present their pitches of interventions (see assessment). For these meetings, you will be asked to read the literature in advance. Depending on the session, we may add additional exercises––you don’t need to worry about them, that’s my job.
Third, there will be one mandatory 1:1 session. You’re required to sign up for one slot to discuss your final paper with me. You can schedule a meeting on January 21 or January 28. All meetings for this final session will be held online.Note that, due to personal reasons, there will be a break between the first session (in class, on October 6) and the following sessions (in class, starting October 27). Still, the session on October 7th is the official start to the course.
First, there will be one in class session on October 6 for the entire class, providing you with information, introduction, and a first overview. Participation is mandatory and no-shows will be deregistered.
Second, the main part of the course will come as 10 in-class sessions. As you’ll be required to critically evaluate evidence, the first of these in-class meetings will recap the foundations of methodology with a focus on causal evidence. The next session will cover some political psychology interventions more generally. The following sessions will discuss six different societal crises, focusing on literature about how interventions may prompt citizens to address them. In between, we’ll have one in-person session to discuss everyone’s proposal (see assessment) and a final in-person session to recap and discuss open questions. The main part of the “crisis sessions” will be group work, in which one group will summarize the assigned readings, whereas the other groups will be asked to present their pitches of interventions (see assessment). For these meetings, you will be asked to read the literature in advance. Depending on the session, we may add additional exercises––you don’t need to worry about them, that’s my job.
Third, there will be one mandatory 1:1 session. You’re required to sign up for one slot to discuss your final paper with me. You can schedule a meeting on January 21 or January 28. All meetings for this final session will be held online.Note that, due to personal reasons, there will be a break between the first session (in class, on October 6) and the following sessions (in class, starting October 27). Still, the session on October 7th is the official start to the course.
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
Course components: You will be assessed based on four course components:
1. Group work (30% of the final grade)
2. Abstract (10% of the final grade)
3. Written proposal (20% of the final grade)
4. Final paper (40% of the final grade)Assessment scale:
For each assignment, you can get the grades: 1 (Excellent), 2 (Good), 3 (Satisfactory), 4 (Sufficient), 5 (Insufficient/fail). I’ll round the grades (e.g., 3.0-3.4 or lower will become a 3, 3.5-3.9 will become a 4). To receive the final course grade, I’ll weight the rounded grades for the four course components. This will result in the following final course grades:
1 (Excellent),
2 (Good),
3 (Satisfactory),
4 (Sufficient),
5 (Insufficient/fail).To pass the course, you must pass all the single components. That is, if you fail on one of the assignments, you will fail the entire course.
1. Group work (30% of the final grade)
2. Abstract (10% of the final grade)
3. Written proposal (20% of the final grade)
4. Final paper (40% of the final grade)Assessment scale:
For each assignment, you can get the grades: 1 (Excellent), 2 (Good), 3 (Satisfactory), 4 (Sufficient), 5 (Insufficient/fail). I’ll round the grades (e.g., 3.0-3.4 or lower will become a 3, 3.5-3.9 will become a 4). To receive the final course grade, I’ll weight the rounded grades for the four course components. This will result in the following final course grades:
1 (Excellent),
2 (Good),
3 (Satisfactory),
4 (Sufficient),
5 (Insufficient/fail).To pass the course, you must pass all the single components. That is, if you fail on one of the assignments, you will fail the entire course.
Prüfungsstoff
If you want more information on the course, please email me and I’ll send you the syllabus.
Literatur
If you want more information on the course, please email me and I’ll send you the syllabus.
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Fr 05.09.2025 16:26
1. To develop your ability to find, process, and evaluate information on citizens’ responses to crisis situations. What information is reliable and how can different sources of information be combined?
2. To develop your knowledge of and ability to critically evaluate interventions in political psychology and adjacent fields. What evidence is needed for an intervention to be successful?
3. To develop your reading, writing, presentation, and social skills. These skills matter for political psychologists, political scientists, and citizens in society and the work life.General overview:
The crisis is real. Western democracies face a series of societal crises, including climate change, inflation, wars, a pandemic, the so-called “migration crisis”, etc. While each of these crises has complex and diverse causes, there is a deeply human aspect in all of them. After all, societies are just a more or less organized bunch of humans. Humans––or citizens, as they are called in society––are directly affected by these crises, such that they get sick, die, fight, feel threatened, get excluded or discriminated. But can humans also play a role in addressing or even preventing these crises?
The idea that citizens can and should play a role is not new. Citizens can mitigate climate change by how they travel, they can assist migrants, and they can protest or donate. But citizens are also busy, narrow-minded, disinterested, sometimes anxious and often tired. The discipline political psychology studies how human factors––their identities, emotions, norms, evolution, genetic dispositions, personality etc.––interacts with politics. In this course, you’re invited to read, discuss, and apply knowledge from this and adjacent disciplines to build interventions (i.e., attempts to make citizens adhere to norms, behave prosocially, or be less hostile). We cover basic methodology in political psychology and core interventions, and discuss how they get applied to contemporary crises.
Your participation will be assessed on a combination of group work, oral participation, and the development of a final paper. With this class, I hope that you learn more about the potential and limits each citizen brings to our crises-ridden times.