Fields of Study and Course Offerings
General Psychology
Teaching content
General Psychology explores generalities in basic psychological functions such as cognition, perception, learning, memory, thinking, problem solving, knowledge and psychomotility.
Classes offered during the winter term
Lecture: General Psychology I (1st undergraduate semester)
Follow-up seminar: General Psychology II (3rd undergraduate semester)
Research colloquium (3rd graduate semester)
Project work (1st and 3rd graduate semester)
Classes offered during the summer term
Lecture: General Psychology II (2nd undergraduate semester)
Follow-up seminar: General Psychology I (2nd undergraduate semester)
Final colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Project work (2nd graduate semester)
Scientific research
You may find more information about the department and current research here .
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Teaching content
Introduction to Industrial and Organizational psychology (I/O): coverage of the history of I/O, job analysis, selection, performance appraisal, training and development, work motivation, workplace stress, team processes, leadership, and change management
Selected topics in industrial psychology: Individual requirements, conditions, and consequences of work; interventions at work (e.g., classes covering stress in the workplace, occupational health, and professional socialization)
Organizational behaviour: structures and processes relevant to work in organizations and
businesses (e.g., courses covering leadership and leader-follower dynamics; teamwork and team processes).
Biological Psychology and Neuropsychology
Teaching content
Cognitive neuroscience attempts to link cognition with neuroscientific data. The observed cognitive functions include: perception, attention, memory, learning, emotion, motivation, motor control,
executive functions and consciousness. Neuroscientific methods, including neurophysiological,
neuroimaging, neurochemical, and neuroanatomical techniques, as well as the neuropsychological approach are used to examine the biological principles of human behaviour and cognitive disorders.
Classes offered during the summer term
Follow-up seminars: Biological Psychology (2nd undergraduate semester)
Graduate seminars: Cognitive Neurosciences
Final colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Project work (2nd graduate semester)
Scientific research
You can find more information about the department and our current research here.
Differential Psychology and Psychological Assessment
Teaching content
The department’s faculty offer classes covering differential psychology and research practice at the beginning and psychological assessment and evaluation towards the end of the undergraduate course.
Differential psychology examines interindividual differences in intelligence, temperament,
character, mentality, interests, and needs as well as their cause and effect. It is the foundation for psychological assessment, which finds application in a variety of fields, e.g. assessing occupational aptitude, personnel selection, vocational counselling, and diagnosing personality disorders within clinical psychology.
Lecture: Differential Psychology (3rd undergraduate semester)
Follow-up seminars: Differential Psychology (4th undergraduate semester)
Scientific research
You may find more information about the department and current research here.
Developmental Psychology
Teaching content
The department teaches on the description and explanation of developmental processes in various areas of human experience and behaviour across the life span. A main topic of research and
teaching on the MSc-level is infant development, specifically communicative and social-cognitive development (theory of mind).
Scientific research
You may find more information about the department and current research here.
Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Teaching content
Students are taught about essential disorders (ICD-10: F0-F6, incl. binge eating and narcissistic
personality disorder). Classes cover diagnostics and classification following ICD-10, epidemiology, etiology (cause), risk and safety factors, and psychological therapy.
Classes offered during the summer term
Advanced seminars: Clinical Psychology (6th undergraduate semester)
Graduate seminars: Intervention research and intervention procedures
Final colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Project work (2nd graduate semester)
Scientific research
You may find more information about the department and current research here.
Educational Psychology
Teaching content
The main goal of educational psychology is to optimize pedagogical interactions by examining and describing learning processes and prevailing conditions in parenting and schooling situations. We observe learning and teaching methods as well as behaviour in pedagogical contexts, e.g. school and home. Learning disorders and disabilities are also taken into account.
Other contents covered are counselling, communication, training, fanatical thinking, feeling and acting, and self-regulation strategies for the setting, approaching, and relinquishing of goals.
Classes offered during the winter term
Lecture: Educational Psychology (3rd undergraduate semester)
Basic seminars: Educational Psychology (3rd undergraduate semester)
Advanced seminars: Educational Psychology (5th undergraduate semester)
Graduate lecture and seminars: Educational Psychology
Research colloquium (3rd graduate semester)
Classes offered during the summer term
Advanced seminars: Educational Psychology (5th undergraduate semester)
Graduate lecture and seminars: Educational Psychology
Final colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Scientific research
You may find more information about the department and current research here.
Psychological Methods and Statistics
Teaching content
Psychological methodology is concerned with the improvement, generalisation, and study of the methodical repertoire used in the acquisition of psychological knowledge. While being a field of study in its own right, it also provides the methodological framework for other psychological
disciplines. The department teaches statistics, data collection methods, and data analysis.
Lecture and seminars: Statistics I (1st undergraduate semester)
Classes offered during the summer term
Lecture and seminars: Statistics II (2nd undergraduate semester)
Seminars: Data Analysis II (2nd undergraduate semester)
Graduate seminars: Psychological Methods and Statistics
Final colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Scientific research
You may find more information about the department and current research here.
Social Psychology
Teaching content
Social psychology investigates the influence that the presence of and interaction with others has on our thinking, feeling, and behaviour and how we, as individuals, make sense of others' thinking, feeling and behaviour.
Introductory classes focus on the central topics of social aspects of person perception, self-concept, and self-esteem, social identity, social categories and groups, intragroup dynamics and group
performance, intergroup processes, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and conflict, social roles, norms, culture and conformity, attitude formation, change and persuasion, interpersonal
attractiveness and relationship formation, aggression, prosocial behaviour and cooperation.
Advanced classes focus on processes of person perception and impression formation as well as
basic mechanisms underlying the formation and activation of group prejudice and stereotypes.
Classes offered during the winter term
Lecture and tutorial: Introduction to Social Psychology (1st undergraduate semester)
Graduate lecture and seminars: Current Research in Social, Developmental, and
Personality Psychology
Research colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Project work (graduates)
Classes offered during the summer term
Follow-up seminars on various topics of Social Psychology (2nd undergraduate semester)
Graduate seminars: Current Research in Social, Developmental, and Personality Psychology
Lecture: Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology (graduate elective course)
Seminar: Building Walls – Identity Creation and Rhetoric in Politics (graduate elective course)
Research colloquium (undergraduates and graduates)
Project work (graduates)
Scientific Research
Our research focusses on investigating basic mechanisms of person perception, memory and
impression formation and how these mechanisms are affected by social group memberships
and associated stereotypes and prejudice.
You may find more information about the department and current research here.