Completed doctorates at the Department of Social Sciences
2024
Leist Larissa |Cognitive Science| Auditory interference in human cognition: Theoretical foundations and neurocognitive mechanisms underlying the irrelevant sound effect in children and adults
Jennifer Bloise |Political Science| The human-animal relationship as an object of learning and research in the context of political education - A didactic reconstruction of students' lifeworld perceptions
Nico Seifert |Sociology| Walking alone on empty streets: Reconsidering the effects of social isolation and loneliness on mental health
Eva Bartaguiz |Sports Science| Influence of the Vergence-Accodomation-Conflict on the Eyes, Wellbeing and the Ability to Concentrate
Patrick Berndt |Sport Science| Velocity Based Training: Adaptation of velocity-based load control for resistance training with submaximal movement speed
Felix Hekele |Cognitive and Developmental Psychology| Virtual Possibilities: Exploring the Role of Emerging Technologies in Work and Learning Environments
Omar Jubran |Cognitive and Developmental Psychology| Mental chronometry in the virtual world: How hand movements may paint the future of experimental psychology
Stefen Müller |Pedagogy| On the importance of workload in the study process - workload assessment to support individual and institutional aspects of studying
Vera Eymann |Cognitive Science| Divergent and Convergent Thinking - Investigating underlying Neural Mechanisms and the Significance for Creativity and Intelligence
Janika Kutz |Cognitive Science| Human-Centered Industrial Artificial Intelligence: Approaches to Designing Acceptable and Trustworthy AI-based Services in Production
Tatiana Pashkova |Psycholinguistics and Language Development| Majority English of Heritage Speakers
Nils Beese |Cognitive Science| The Virtual Experience - Examining Visual, Auditory and Haptic Capabilities and Aspects of Spatial Cognition and User Experience in Virtual Reality
Kathrin Krause |Political Science| The Influence of Opposition on Public Policies "An Empirical Analysis of the Policy Fields Health, Labor and Social Affairs in the Federal Republic of Germany
Johannes Artz |Political Science| Governing in a state of emergency: The democratic constitutional state of the Federal Republic of Germany during the challenge of the RAF, international terror and the corona pandemic
2023
Andreas Au |Political Science| Concept-based cultural policy - an empirical analysis of differences, causes and effects in municipal practice
Eberhard Hüster |Pädagogik| Diagnosis and promotion of professional competence in the recording and interpretation of technical drawings among technicians
Steffen Ronft |Psychology| Exploring effects of lighting in physical and virtual spaces
Ulrike Krein |Pedagogy| School leadership under the conditions of digitalization
Lars Henrich |Pedagogy| Individual professionalization processes in digital learning
Bianca Tokarski |Pädagogik| Higher education between academic institutions and the continuing education market
Tristan Wiedemann |Pädagogik| Affirmation and subversion of intersex existences at school
2022
Phil Kolbe |Sociology| Tracking in the educational system and inequalities
Petra Ludowicy |Psychology| Neural correlates of feedback enhanced learning
Simone Morvilius |Sports Science| Mapping job satisfaction structures in the socio-technical model of the bus driver occupational group
Martin Fink |Sociology| On the problem of the transition of general practitioners in the federal state of Hesse: What factors influence the desire for practice handover/takeover coaching?
Jan Hellriegel |Pedagogy| Media competence as a subject of programs at adult education centers
Melanie Biafora |Psychology| Demonstrating Perception without Awareness: Double Dissociation between Priming and Masking
Sabrina Gallner |Pädagogik| Between Potentials for Change and Inertial Forces - Inhibiting and Promoting Factors of Competence-oriented Testing at Universities
Guilia Maria Bradaran Jamili |Sociology| On the image of the bus driver - An explorative mixed-method study
Carlo Dindorf |Sports Science| Towards interpretable, AI-based, explorative and decision-support systems in the context of biomechanical data
Florian Wolff |Pedagogy| Competence requirements for company training personnel in industrial-technical professions using the example of the digital transformation to Industry 4.0
Julia von Versen |Cognitive and Developmental Psychology| Investigation of the development of auditory, phonological and visual processing in primary school children with unimpaired and impaired written language acquisition
2021
Laura Marie Marzen |Psychology| Effectiveness of the computer-based training program LAUTARIUM in children with reading and spelling difficulties: a randomized controlled trial
Joshua Berger |Sports Science| An evaluation of the applicability and effectiveness of whole-body electromyostimulation
Eva-Maria Glade |Pedagogy| The perception of the professional role of school teachers under the use of digital media in the classroom - A qualitative analysis of the professional self-image of teachers
Marita Konerding |Cognitive and Developmental Psychology| The grapho-phonological training program Lautarium for reading and spelling difficulties - effects in intervention and prevention
Angela Karin Ulrich |Pedagogy| Stress and coping in adolescents in the career choice phase
Marco Backfisch |Sport| Performance of youth soccer players in sports motor speed strength diagnostics
Ann-Kathrin Beck |Cognitive and Developmental Psychology| Neural mechanisms of visual categorization
Amina Hadziomerovic |Pedagogy| The Role of Higher Education Experience in Students Adult IdentityFormation
Melanie Müller |Political Science| Opposition party behavior and minority government support - challenges, strategies and trade-offs
Lisa Reithmann |Philosophy| Self-care in times of digital transformation - a path according to Michel Foucault
Carolin Schultz |Pedagogy| The interplay of emotional experience and motivational aspects in collaborative situations
Bastian Steinmüller |Pedagogy| Educational regions - theory, model and empirical analysis
2020
Philipp Blandfort |Psycholinguistics and Language Development| Computational approaches to subjective interpretation of multimedia messages
Helge Staff |Political Science| The Political Economy of Private Security. How European States Privatize, Regulate, and Produce Domestic Security
Lukas D. Herr |Political Science| The President as Communicator-in-Chief: Presidential Rhetoric, American Exceptionalism, and Executive Agency in US Military Intervention Policy during the Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya Wars
Alexandra Hoffmann |Psychology| The iterative development and evaluation of the gamified stress management app Stress-Mentor
Marcus Müller |Political Science| NO BLANK CHECK: The US Congress, President Obama and Parliamentary Oversight of the War on International Terrorism, 2009-2017
René Wegener |Sports Science| On the genesis and development of trend sports in the face of economic paradigm shifts and digital information possibilities
Christoph Zangerl |Sports Science| Dynamic knee stability - its variation under different loads, its relationship with the biomechanics of the hip joint and effects of training interventions
Anna Thomas |Sport Science| Predictive relevance of performance-motivational characteristics in youth sports - A longitudinal study
Stephan Becker |Sport Science| A multi-perspective analysis of the header kick in soccer
Wolfgang Teufl |Sport Science | Validation and initial applications of a magnetometer-free inertial sensor based motion capture system for the human lower body
Monika Pauls |Sports Science | Correlation of dynamic knee joint stability with upper body control and hip surrounding muscle strength
Ricarda Bolten-Bühler |Pedagogy| The media habitus of teachers in adult education - biographical consideration of individual media pedagogical professionalization
André Haese |Psychology| The role of perceptual information for episodic memory in children and young adults: Electrophysiological and behavioral correlates of recollection and familiarity
2019
Steffen Lange |Philosophy| The Metaphor in Metaphysics - An Investigation into the Metaphysical Concept of Arthur Schopenhauer's Philosophy
Thomas Howard Morris |Pedagogy| Facilitating self-directed learning in adult and vocational education
Max Sprenger |Cognitive and Developmental Psychology| Bio-psycho-social Health of Students at the TU Kaiserslautern
Michelle Scheer |Pedagogy| Distance learning project - Sustainable competence development through self-directed appropriation processes and experienced effects
2018
Sabine Schreiber-Costa |Pedagogy| Sustainable further education success in prevention through systemic-constructivist educational concepts - a comparative evaluation study
Rüdiger Barney |Sport Science| Internal and external factors influencing the development of educational characteristics of children's and youth sports schools in the GDR
Tobias Rüttenauer |Sociology| Environmental Inequality in Germany
Bärbel Schümann |Pedagogy| Retention of skilled workers in the healthcare sector - An empirical study from an educational and social science perspective
2017
Sabine Hammer: |Sport Science| Heavy Physical Work and Health: Subjective Perspectives of Craftsmen in Rail Vehicle Maintenance
Martina Pauly |Philosophy| From Institution to Non-Profit Organization - Reform of the Protestant Church in Germany under the Guiding Principle of Non-Profit Governance
2016
Andreas Schmitt |Psychology| What makes a letter a letter? New evidence for a letter-specific processing strategy
Marion Riese |Pedagogy| Validation of a competence model for physiotherapy
Ingrid Kleinert |Sociology| Structural change in the automotive industry: Changes in the innovation systems of the German automotive industry due to electromobility
Alexander Prölß |Psychology| Evaluation of the computer-based phonological training program Lautarium for the promotion of written language acquisition
2015
Patricia de Brito Castilho Wesseling |Psychology| Getting ready to read: Promoting children's emergent literacy through shared book reading in a German context
Sebastian Gaub |Philosophy| Genealogy of epigenetic evolution
Christian Vogel |Pädagogik| Start-up support for migrants, determinants of target group-appropriate, competence-oriented start-up advice and further training
Simone Wanken |Pädagogik| Exceptional educational careers - interpretations of learning rationales of vocationally qualified persons in the transition to continuing academic education
Katharina Sebastian |Psychology| Event cognition at the workplace: perceiving, understanding and practicing assembly tasks
Christiane Stroh |Pädagogik| The Outcome Orientation as a Challenge for German Universities - The Development of a Competence Model for a Bachelor Program 'Integrative Social Sciences' based on the German Qualifications Framework
Erik vom Hövel |Pädagogik| Emotional education or emotional technique? An investigation into the rediscovery of emotions in adult education
Kazunari Hata |Philosophy| The imagination as a method of Goethe's poiesis-like natural science in the mirror of 18th century philosophy
Sönke Roterberg |Philosophy| Philosophy of language in embryogenesis
Lars Kilian |Pedagogy| Successful school development in the system
2014
Susanne Ulm |Pedagogy| Conditional factors for participation in catch-up literacy - a reconstruction of success and failure factors from the perspective of functionally illiterate women
Marisete Welter |Psychology| Creativity, intelligence and giftedness: a study with primary school children
Andrea Prölß |Psychology| Effects of acoustic environmental conditions on working memory performance in children and adults: Experimental studies on the Irrelevant Sound Effect
Barbara Estner |Psychology| Stimulus-response-compatibility of auditory stimulus features: timbre, pitch and number
Filipp Schmidt |Psychology| Perceptual grouping in rapid visumotor processing
Anke Haberkamp |Psychology| Enhanced information processing of phobic natural images in participants with specific phobias
Florian Böller |Political Science| Self-Assertion versus Subordination: The US Congress and the Democratic Control of Military Intervention Policy since the End of the East-West Conflict
Corinna Christmann |Psychology| The role of stimulus complexity in auditory research of speech and non-speech on the behavioral and electrophysiological level
2013
Gunjan Kehra |Psychology| Visual Processing in reading and dyslexia
Kirstin Bergström |Psychology| Effects of English language immersion in daycare on linguistic and cognitive development in 2- to 6-year-old children - a longitudinal study
Robin Malloy |Pedagogy| Reflection on the relevance of emotional-archetypal interpretation patterns in the context of adult education and theoretical development of a didactic concept of 'emotional-archetypal interpretation learning' using the example of an executive seminar on dealing with affective disorders
Lars Ludwig |Psychology| Extended artificial memory. Toward an integral coginitive theory of memory and technology"
Sebastian Werle |Political Science| Identifying and explaining change: Theory and empiricism of (non-)change in US security policy based on Significant Laws (1960-2010)
Florian Tüg |Philosophy| Technology and technical artifact - an investigation into the ontological status of technical artifacts
Virna López |Pedagogy| Exploring higher education in Honduras: towards a new learning concept with contributions of biology of knowledge
2012
Frederick Schulz |Pedagogy| Designing helpful peer feedback in university teaching
Ettore Barbagallo |Philosophy| Living Organism and Otherness in Hegel. Between Natural Philosophy and Logic
Sebastian Zart |Sport| Process-oriented kinematic analysis of movement patterns using the example of the penalty kick situation in soccer
Ulrike Oehmen |Pädagogik| Permanent employees and freelance lecturers in continuing vocational training in the healthcare sector - empirical study on commitment, motivation and competence
Elke Schmidt |Pedagogy| Images of age in adult education
Andreas Schmid |Political Science| Administrative reform in the political system - an empirical analysis and evaluation based on the reform of the budget and accounting system of public administrations
Bettina Schumacher |Psychology| Deficient basic functions of reading in developmental dyslexia
Guido Heckmann |Sociology| The influence of the organizational model on the effectiveness of variant management in the commercial vehicle industry
2011
Marcelo Wesseling |Philosophy| Jürgen Habermas' transcendental-pragmatic epistemological realism
2010
Zhongxing Wang |Philosophy| The Human and Technology. A study on Martin Heidegger with the interpretation of his concept 'Building, Living, Thinking' and a reflection on the nature of architecture
Sonja Radatz |Pedagogy| How organizations learn to learn
Wolf Gawin |Sports Science| Application of accelerometry for movement analysis in highly dynamic sports using the example of badminton
Petra Hemmerling |Psychology| Perception of compensatory behavior of aging employees - approaches to age-oriented personnel development
Renate Weiß-Kreidler |Pedagogy| Adult education and development cooperation. The example of HIV education in a society characterized by orality in northern Mozambique
Ayele Abebe |Pädagogik| Influences of Individual and Contextual Factors in Improving the professional Development of TVET Teachers in Ethiopia
2009
Jens Kohne |Philosophy| Knowledge as a mental state? - A Study on Oxford Realism
Georg Werckmeister |Philosophy| Hegel's Absolute Conclusion as the Basic Logical Structure of Objectivity
David Sirakov |Political Science| Bridging, Dissociation and Translation. Executive Autonomy and Relations between Russia and the United States from 2001-2008
Christine Schneider |Pedagogy| The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in the school development process - an investigation into organizational learning and the practical contribution: Development and implementation of the BSC at a commercial vocational school, the Peter-Paul-Cahensly-Schule in Limburg/Lahn
Alexander Förster |Sociology| Lifestyles as an instrument for market and brand segmentation - a case study in a Franco-German company in the automotive industry
