At the Chair of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging,  we have a deadline for theses every semester in mid-November and mid-May, when possible topics are published here on this page. You can request a topic from the respective list for the following semester (November list -> supervision in the next spring semester, May list -> supervision in the next winter semester).

This website provides an overview of thesis topics that were not allocated during the regular application process. If you are interested in any of these topics, you are welcome to contact us.

Beatrice Kuhlmann:

• Motivations for Senior Citizen Studies (Master Thesis): Motives for studying as a senior citizen (Master's thesis): Based on an already completed survey of senior students at the University of Mannheim, the aim is to code and analyze which motives motivate senior students to study and how these are influenced by demographic factors such as age, gender, educational history, etc. Comparisons with a previous survey and what changes have occurred since then (over a period that includes the Covid-19 pandemic) are also of interest. If you are interested in this topic, please contact us at kuhlmannmail-uni-mannheim.de.

Desirée Schönung:

• Quellen- und Metagedächtnis: The test subjects learn words with sources (e.g. speakers) and make an estimate of how they will remember the source later. These estimates are called Judgments of Source (JOS) and there is still little research in this area. We are interested in whether subjects can predict their source memory, and if so, how well. We are also interested in the extent to which source similarity has an influence. It is already established in source memory research that source memory suffers when the sources are more similar. It is unclear whether source similarity also has an influence on the predictions of source memory. If you are interested in this topic, please contact us at desiree.schoenungmail-uni-mannheim.de.

Registration: To register, you need to submit an application to the supervising person. Once you have completed the application and it has been signed by the supervising person, please send it to Frau Bauer (studienbuero-psychologiemail-uni-mannheim.de). You can find more information here.

Submission: The digital submission of the thesis is sufficient. However, we recommend checking with the supervising person to ensure all requirements are met. Please send your thesis to the reviewing person as well as to Frau Bauer.