You apply with approx. 1 DIN A4 page on your desired topic and briefly present your ideas on the following aspects:

• What are you studying?
• Why are you interested in this work?
• How do you define the terms mentioned in the call for proposals for the topic? What literature have you already read?
• What would you like to find out in and with your work? Why?

After an initial discussion of your ideas, the topic will be assigned.

Participation in one of the preliminary discussion dates is obligatory. The dates for the current semester are:

• Date 1: Monday, 5 February 2024, 13:00 in H4.113
• Date 2: Thursday, 14 March 2024, 12:00 via Zoom (you will receive the link by email)

After the preliminary discussion and subsequent careful research and reading of the literature, you will prepare an exposé (max. 8 A4 pages), which will serve as the basis for your thesis. The synopsis includes

• the problem definition
• the aim of your thesis
• the research question (including the associated hypotheses, if applicable)
• an overview of the literature you will use to address the research question

You will then receive detailed feedback.

The subject area of psychology offers a KOMO course with information and exercises on the topics of literature research, formulation of the research question and exposé. You will be given access during the preliminary meeting.

• We need 8 weeks to assess your work. If your grade must be entered in PAUL by a certain date, please calculate the date for the submission of your thesis yourself.
• Please make sure that you submit your thesis in the semester for which you have been promised supervision.
• We will provide the second assessor.

When collecting data, you may be able to work together with other thesis writers under the same lecturer.

Before collecting data, please be sure to observe the guidelines for dealing with people and data in qualification theses summarised on the subject area's homepage!

Empirical work: Your thesis consists of

• a theoretical part: theoretical background of your work, aims of your work, research question(s), hypotheses
• and an empirical part: chosen methods, results of data collection and analysis, discussion of your results against the theoretical background of the thesis

Literature-based thesis: Your thesis consists of

• the introduction to the research question, the processing of the research question and the discussion of the processing of the research work

You can find all the important information about submitting your thesis here. A purely digital submission is possible in our groups. Please note the further requirements of the ZPS.