Themen für Bachelorarbeiten

Beschreibung: Effort plays a key role in learning, decision-making, and goal pursuit. Yet, measuring how individuals differ in their experience of effort remains a complex and open question. While many cognitive tasks reliably produce group-level effects, they often fail to capture stable
individual differences. This review project will explore how effort is currently conceptualized, what methods are used to measure it (e.g., self-reports, behavioral tasks), and why many commonly used tasks may not be suitable for individual differences research. The project will also discuss possible solutions, such as task redesign or the use of trial-level data. By reviewing current approaches, the goal is to better understand how effort can be studied as a stable trait across individuals and guide future empirical work.

Reference:
Hedge, C., Powell, G., & Sumner, P. (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior Research Methods, 50(3), 1166?1186. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0935-1
Kontakt: Ziqi Zhang, M.Ed., E-Mail

Beschreibung: Soziale Identität leistet einen wichtigen Erklärungsbeitrag, um Verhalten, Einstellungen oder Wohlbefinden in unterschiedlichen Kontexten zu verstehen. In Experimenten kann die soziale Identität mit verschiedenen Techniken manipuliert werden, um kausale Aussagen über deren Wirkung zu treffen. In dieser Bachelorarbeit soll untersucht werden, welche verschiedenen Techniken es zur Manipulation der sozialen Identität gibt und für welche Forschungsfragen diese jeweils eingesetzt werden.

Referenz
Haslam, S. Alexander, Penelope J. Oakes, Katherine J. Reynolds, & John C. Turner. (1999). Social Identity Salience and the Emergence of Stereotype Consensus. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 25, (7): 809?18. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167299025007004.
Kontakt: Sophie Kittelberger, MSc, E-Mail

Beschreibung: Mental effort is a highly explored concept in fields of study related to human behavior. However, disentangling mental effort from task demands, performance, and arousal is not straight forward. For this thesis, you are tasked with identifying and discussing potential psychophysiological measures as indicators of mental effort, exhaustion and/or recovery.

Gieseler, K., Loschelder, D. D., Job, V., & Friese, M. (2021). A preregistered test of competing theories to explain ego depletion effects using psychophysiological indicators of mental effort. Motivation Science, 7(1), 32?45. https://doi.org/10.1037/mot0000183

Thomson, K. S., & Oppenheimer, D. M. (2022). The ?effort elephant? in the room: What is effort, anyway? Perspectives on Psychological Science: A Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 17(6), 1633?1652. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211064896
Kontakt: Tove Hensler, MSc, E-Mail