Bachelor/Master Theses

Bachelor theses

Supervision of a Bachelor thesis:

The Cognition & Consumer Behavior Lab (Prof. Dr. Benjamin Scheibehenne) offers supervision of Bachelor theses from various subject areas, concerned with cognitive processes underlying human judgment and decision making.

How can I apply?

There is no structured application process. You can approach the respective research group to discuss potential topics. Additionally, please state your preferred starting period.

Which topics can be chosen?

Topics are in general very much tied to current research at the institute. As such, students have the chance to get first-hand insights into current research and can contribute to generating new knowledge. In general, all topics include an empirical part.

There are two options to get a topic:

Option 1: Offer

A list of currently offered topics can be found under this table. If you are interested in one of the topics listed, please contact the respective supervisor directly.

Option 2: Own topic/Open inquiry

We are open to own topic suggestions and open inquiries. Topic suggestions can be discussed with the potential supervisor.

Please contact Meghana Dharmapalan, Dr. Nico Gradwohl or Prof. Dr. Benjamin Scheibehenne.

Currently offered Bachelor thesis topics:

Perceiving distributions

The events people experience strongly shape their decisions and attitudes. Experiencing extreme weather events is related to attitudes towards climate change (Hoffman et al. 2022), disasters affect the willingness to purchase insurance (Kamiya & Yanase, 2019), and investors may overweight rare extreme positive returns (Blau et al., 2020).

What people experience typically can be described to follow probability distributions: For instance, most of the time there is little or no strong precipitation, but there is a non-zero probability of extreme downpours and flooding. People should pay attention to these extreme events. But under which conditions do they weight them accurately and when do they over- or underweight them? This raises the more general question, how people represent the information they experience from such probability distributions.
The goal of this project is to assess how people represent the information they experience. In the real world, we rarely have control over the underlying distributions. Therefore, we will rely on a combination of experiments and computational models to understand how people represent information from various distributions to make judgments and decisions. Supervisor: Nico Gradwohl

 

 

Master theses

Supervision of a Master thesis:

The Cognition & Consumer Behavior Lab (Prof. Dr. Benjamin Scheibehenne) offers supervision of Master theses from various subject areas, concerned with cognitive processes underlying human judgment and decision making.

How can I apply?

There is no structured application process. You can approach the respective research group to discuss potential topics. Additionally, please state your preferred starting period.

Which topics can be chosen?

Topics are in general very much tied to current research at the institute. As such, students have the chance to get first-hand insights into current research and can contribute to generating new knowledge. In general, all topics include an empirical part.

There are two options to get a topic:

Option 1: Offer

A list of currently offered topics can be found under this table. If you are interested in one of the topics listed, please contact the respective supervisor directly.

Option 2: Own topic/Open inquiry

We are open to own topic suggestions and open inquiries. Topic suggestions can be discussed with the potential supervisor.

Please contact Meghana Dharmapalan, Dr. Nico Gradwohl or Prof. Dr. Benjamin Scheibehenne.

Currently offered Bachelor thesis topics:

Perceiving distributions

The events people experience strongly shape their decisions and attitudes. Experiencing extreme weather events is related to attitudes towards climate change (Hoffman et al. 2022), disasters affect the willingness to purchase insurance (Kamiya & Yanase, 2019), and investors may overweight rare extreme positive returns (Blau et al., 2020).

What people experience typically can be described to follow probability distributions: For instance, most of the time there is little or no strong precipitation, but there is a non-zero probability of extreme downpours and flooding. People should pay attention to these extreme events. But under which conditions do they weight them accurately and when do they over- or underweight them? This raises the more general question, how people represent the information they experience from such probability distributions.
The goal of this project is to assess how people represent the information they experience. In the real world, we rarely have control over the underlying distributions. Therefore, we will rely on a combination of experiments and computational models to understand how people represent information from various distributions to make judgments and decisions. Supervisor: Nico Gradwohl

 

Formal application of a thesis

If you want to register a Bachelor or Master thesis officially, you can find the application document using the following link. Please fill out the application document after consultation with your supervisor and hand in the signed document at the secretary office or send it to celina lang ∂does-not-exist.kit edu / claudia ritter ∂does-not-exist.kit edu.