The thesis is a helpful tool for demonstrating your ability to perform psychological research, as well as specialising in a topic that matches your interests and future ambitions. Below, you find a few examples of theses that our bachelor's and master's students have written over the past few years.
Bachelor theses
Below are some examples of completed Bachelor's theses within our section:
- Banach, N. (2021) Fear Appeal Message as an Intervention to Increase Risk Awareness, Attitude Change and Promote Self-Protective Action to Prevent Future ZoonosesThe present study widens the scope by focusing on zoonoses in general and investigates the effectiveness of two intervention conditions.
- Eberhardt, L. (2020) Augmented Reality in daily policing: effects on citizens’ willingness to cooperate, legitimacy perceptions and privacy concernsThis research aimed to assess possible consequences which arise when the police implement Augmented-Reality glasses in daily policing. Specifically, citizens' willingness to cooperate, their legitimacy perceptions, and privacy concerns were assessed
- Erber, J. (2022) Erring in suspect interviews: The effects of multiple errors on the relationship formation and perceived humaneness (Interviewee’s perspective)This study explores the effect of multiple communication errors made by the law enforcement officer on established rapport, the suspect’s trust in the interviewer, perceived humaneness, and the willingness to provide information in suspect interview
- Hülscher, L.M. (2022) The Effect of Guilt Presumptions and Evidence Strength within Police Interviews: Presuming a Suspect's Guilt and the Strength of Evidence and its Influence on Interviewer's Ultimate JudgmentsThis study investigated the impact of guilt presumptions and evidence strength within investigative interviews.
- Kommander, S. (2021) The Effectiveness of Denial of the Victim and Denial of Responsibility on Influencing Perceptions of Guilt and Empathy in the Context of Sexual AssaultThis study explored the two suspect behaviours: denial of the victim and denial of responsibility and their effectiveness in altering perceptions of empathy and guilt.
- Papke, A. (2022) The Role of Trust and Perceived Risk in the Relationship between Privacy and Security Values, and Emotions towards Smart Home DevicesThis paper investigates the influence of personal security and privacy values on emotions towards smart home devices considering the role of trust and perceived risk.
- Simon, J. (2022) Protect your password so it can protect you: improving password strength through coping messagesInspired by Protection Motivation Theory, this experimental study was set up to understand the impact of three coping messages (i.e., self-efficacy, response efficacy, and self-efficacy and response efficacy combined) to improve password composition
Master theses
Below are some examples of completed Master's theses within our section:
- Banach, N. (2022) Reducing Speciesism: An Intervention Towards Changing People’s Attitudes and Behavioural IntentionsTwo studies were conducted to explore the effectiveness of an intervention, a video about switching roles between humans and animals, on participants’ attitudes and behavioural intentions to reduce the hurting of animals.
- Benken, M.S.A. von den (2021) Environment and Fear: Their Effect on Drone Acceptance, Information Needs, and Privacy ConcernThe current study investigated how environment and fear influence privacy concerns, information needs and drone acceptance.
- Niggemeier, L. (2022) Evaluating Spectrum - Assessment of an intervention for offenders of intimate partner violenceThis research analyses practitioners’ reflections on a structured intervention named Spectrum which has been piloted in England. Spectrum is targeted at male perpetrators having committed intimate partner violence.
- Polman, S. (2021) The Influence of Evidence Disclosure Timing and Strength on Statement-Evidence Inconsistencies, Within-Statement Inconsistencies and Information Disclosure by Mock SuspectsIt was investigated whether the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) has an effect on the disclosure of novel investigative information by the suspect and the perceived rapport by the suspect between interviewer and interviewee
- Renes, D.L. (2023) Exploring Co-offending in Residential Burglary through Virtual Reality : A Novel ApproachThis paper aims to extend the use of virtual reality (VR) as a method to explore co-offending in residential burglary.
- Rispa Hoyos, M.L.F. (2022) A safe space for everyone? Relationship between the making of judgment errors and Secondary Victimization in interviews with victims of sexual assault in PeruThe main objective of this research is to study the effect of judgment errors on Secondary Victimization, Willingness to provide information, Rapport, and Trust in the police in victims of sexual violence when filing a report.
- Van der Klok, N. (2023) Temporal Dynamics of Behavioural Change in Crisis Negotiation: An Empirical Exploration of the Revised Behavioural Influence Stairway ModelThe purpose of this study was to empirically explore the functioning of the revised Behavioural Influence Stairway Model (revised BISM), a widely taught negotiation method for suicide crises.
- Walterscheid, M.K. (2022) Nudging Decision-Making for Purchasing Secure Domestic IoT: Labels and Framing EffectsThis study aimed to find effective ways to affect decision-making of consumers in order to nudge them into purchasing safe devices.
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