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At this year's graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lasse Elsemüller was awarded the Otto-Selz-Prize for the best master's thesis in psychology. His master thesis is entitled “Bayesian Comparison of Hierarchical Models Using Specialized Deep Learning Architectures”. The thesis was ...

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Kuhlmann receives the 2022 Psychonomic Society's Early Career Award. The award recognizes scientists who have made outstanding scientific contributions to the field of cognitive psychology early in their careers. Congratulations, Bea!

The teaching award of the University of Mannheim for the academic year 2021/ 2022 was handed over to Dr. Lena Nadarevic (at the center) by Prof. Kehnel (on the left). Noah Machunze (on the right) congratulated on behalf of the faculty representation and the student community of psychology. In his ...

On Tuesday, 17 May 2022, Malte F. Zimdahl, CDSS PhD student and research associate in the DFG project “Metamemory and processing Fluency”, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Cues and Processes Underlying Metamemory”. Congratulations, Malte!

Franziska Schäfer has been awarded the “TeaP Selected Poster Award” (3rd place) at this year’s Conference of Experimental Psychologists. She received the price for her poster “Does Making Judgments of Learning Improve Performance for Educationally Relevant Material in Multiple-Choice and ...

we say goodbye to our dear colleague Rahel Mangold, who is retiring after more than 30 years as secretary at our chair. Thank you very much for your many years of support and all the best, Rahel! 

The book “Cognitive illusions: Intriguing phenomena in thinking, judgment, and memory” by our former chair member Prof. Dr. Rüdiger F. Pohl has now been published already in its 3rd edition! Here you can find the link to the book. Congratulations!

Further information via Job Vacancies at the School of Social Sciences.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded a research grant to Dr. Lena Nadarevic for a project on memory for truth-value feedback

On Wednesday, December 01, 2021, Dr. Monika Undorf, Margarete von Wrangell Fellow and research associate at the Chair of Cognitive Psychology and Differential Psychology, successfully completed her postdoctoral lecturer qualification in psychology with a habilitation thesis on “The Role of Fluency ...