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Writing your final thesis

Requirements for writing a Master's thesis at our Chair

  • Interest in our research topics (everything related to decision science, cognitive science, cognitive psychology, or behavioral research methods)

  • Successful completion of the modules "Empirical research methods in management and economics" or "Consumer Behavior Research Methods" (grade of 2.3 or better)

  • Successful attendance of at least one further module offered by the Chair (for a list of our teaching portfolio see here)

First steps to writing a thesis with us

  • Coordinate the topic of your thesis with your potential supervisor. Reach out via email (attaching your CV and most recent transcripts) and give us a short outline of your proposed thesis topic.

  • You can either reach out with your own novel and innovative research ideas, or choose from our currently open thesis topics listed below.

  • In general, we are also open to supervising Master's thesis that are written in cooperation with a company, providing they are related to our research topics or require the application of thorough research methods.

Currently open thesis topics

 

Currently no open topics. Feel free to approach us with your own novel ideas.

 

 

Complete

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Proposal

SupervisorTitleStudent

Study 

Program

  SebastianEffects of self-confidence on choice confidence in risky choiceMerve ÖnalMMT
  SebastianConfidence and Risk: A literature review on gambling on performance in perceptual and knowledge taksMikhail ShchelkunovMMT
XXSebastianEinfluss auf Kaufentscheidungen: menschliche versus virtuelle Influencer (Bachelor Thesis)Stefanie WinkelmeierBBWL
  SebastianModeling Changes of Mind in Perceptual Decision-Making: An Extension of the dynWEV Framework with Empirical ValidationAylin BayramMMT
  SebastianInvestigating Choice History Effects in Perceptual Confidence JudgmentsŞeyma ÇakırMMT
X SebastianUsing neural networks for Bayesian inference in the cognitive modelling of confidence judgmentsArdelan CiplakMMT
  SebastianModelling the effect of independent discriminability evidence on confidence judgments (Bachelor Thesis)Lisa DieneigerBMT
X SebastianComputational modelling of the magnitude sensitivity effect on confidence in food choicesLea HohensteinMCS
XXThorstenMedia literacy by design: How visual prompts increase the ability to detect distorted news coverageAnn-Christin GahMiM
X ThorstenUnveiling the curtain of dynamic decision making: A mouse cursor analysis of the Balloon Analogue Risk TaskChristoph PirkerMMT
X ThorstenLoss aversion in risky choice for younger and older adultsNur Melis BallıkayaMMT
X ThorstenMetric knowledge in real life: Is it one-dimensional? Cansu ÜnlüMiM
X ThorstenEra-based fine-tuning in AI: Assessing gender bias shifts across time Bilal ImamogluMMT
X ThorstenRisk in bits: Understanding cryptocurrency investors’ risk behavior through a prospect theory lens Lucas PirkerMMT
X ThorstenUnderstanding user responses to XAI: A comparative analysis of explanation methods for spurious model detectionEzgi BecerenMSC
X ThorstenImproving intuitive estimates of carbon emissions with a seeding procedureAnna DreierMSC
X ThorstenUnderstanding cognitive control: How rewards affect stability and flexibility Tania JosephMiM
XXThorstenRevisiting the priority heuristic and the cumulative prospect theory: A conceptual replication through model fitting Krisma AdiwibawaMSC

 

 

Study programs:

MMT: Master in Management and Technology

MCS: Master in Consumer Science

MiM: Master im Management

BMT: Bachelor in Management and Technology

BBWL: Bachelor in Technologie- und Managementorientierte Betriebswirtschaftslehre

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