Lecture Series for Young Researchers & Students

As a science, psychology occupies a unique position because it brings together individual experience, social contexts, and empirical research within an academic framework. This makes it ideally suited to examining social structures and their influence on human thought, behavior, and experience, as well as to understanding the resulting challenges and problems.

As part of this lecture series, young researchers will present their current research topics and demonstrate how psychological research can be used to examine pressing social issues of our time. From a critical perspective, they will examine—among other things—the psychological mechanisms behind racial prejudice, a lack of understanding for those affected by environmental disasters, power structures in the workplace, and clinical disorders, placing them within the context of social structures.

The event will take place on June 25, 2026, starting at 1:00 p.m. in Room Fl55, Fliednerstraße 21. Further information on the schedule and the individual presentation topics can be found here: [PDF].

The event is “Open Doors”—anyone interested is warmly invited to join at any time, even on the spur of the moment, for individual presentations that particularly interest them!