Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten
Leitlinien und Tipps:
- Wichtig: Generelle Regelungen für Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten (PDF)
- Ein Leitfaden für Bachelorarbeiten (PDF) (Stand März 2020)
- Ein Leitfaden für Masterarbeiten (PDF) (Stand März 2020)
Bachelorarbeitsthemen:
--
Masterarbeitsthemen:
-
The association between future thinking, hopelessness, and suicidality
Hopelessness about the future is a critical element in suicidal behavior. Prior research indicates that hopelessness is closely associated with a lack of positive future thinking rather than present negative future thinking. Although hopelessness in suicidal individuals is a multifaceted construct, evidence suggests that a deficiency in positive future thinking may be more significant than the presence of negative future thinking. However, the evidence is mixed, and the field lacks a meta-analytic aggregation of the available data on the association between future thinking, hopelessness, and suicidality. To address this gap, we aim to conduct a comprehensive meta-analysis through an international collaboration with Dr. David J. Hallford at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. We are seeking an eligible master’s student to join this important project.
Interested students should have good to very good English skills, be highly reliable, have a keen interest in meta-analyses, and be prepared to commit to a one-year project to complete their thesis. Applicants should contact Dr. Matthias Pillny at matthias.pillny"AT"uni-hamburg.de by September 1st, 2024.
-
An eye for danger: Do changes in attention contribute to the persistence of threat expectations?
Have you ever felt relieved after realizing that a situation was not as bad as it seemed? Experiencing negative events in unfamiliar situations may lead to expecting future threats. But when those situations turn out to be safe, the threat expectations are replaced with more reasonable assumptions. Yet, in some cases, threat expectations are resistant to change. Persistent threat expectations are behind a number of mental health issues, including paranoid beliefs and pathological anxiety. Therefore, psychologists strive to discover the cognitive mechanisms that explain them. It has been suggested that changes in attention make people treat safe events as exceptions, leaving threat expectations intact. In this project, you will help tackle this question by investigating changes in attention that occur when a stimulus predicting a threatening event is suddenly followed by a safe outcome. You will conduct an experiment, combining threat extinction and eye-tracking, in healthy participants with different levels of paranoia. Are you interested? Then contact Dr. David Torrents-Rodas (david.torrents.rodas"AT"uni-hamburg.de).
-
Is it in the eyes? An eye-tracking study on the origins of paranoid beliefs.
The face is the mirror of the soul, and as such, we look at other people’s faces to guess their intentions. Avoiding eye contact may prevent us from establishing whether we can trust other people, thus giving rise to paranoid beliefs. In this project, you will investigate whether reduced attention to relevant facial features, such as the eyes, leads to excessive threat expectations in individuals prone to paranoia. To this aim, you will conduct an experiment in a group of healthy participants with different levels of paranoia. You will use eye-tracking to measure participants’ allocation of attention, while they learn which of different faces are followed by an aversive stimulus and which are harmless. Are you interested? Then contact Dr. David Torrents-Rodas (david.torrents.rodas"AT"uni-hamburg.de).