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  • Thesis Opportunity: Sense of Agency in Infants’ Vocalizations as a Predictor of Later Language Development

    Are you interested in how babies learn to communicate before they can talk? Join our research project to explore how infants’ early vocalisations shape the path to language.

    This thesis investigates how distinct indicators of infants’ early vocal development relate to vocabulary size at age two. Students will support remote data collection using a well-established parental questionnaire (Communicative Development Inventories – CDI; German adaptation) to assess toddlers’ language skills. The project will examine how variation in vocabulary outcomes can be explained by early vocal development indices.

    Some indices of early vocal development derived from experimental tasks are already available, while others can be derived by coding video recordings of mother–infant interactions using a combination of manual and automated annotation methods.

    Supervision: Dr. Laura Diprossimo & Prof. Dr. Joscha Kärtner, Department of Psychology

    You will learn

    • Remote data collection methods for parental questionnaires (CDI; German adaptation)
    • Advanced analytical skills in R (Generalised Linear Mixed-Effects Models)
    • Potentially, how to code early communicative behaviour using ELAN

    Application Requirements

    This thesis project is suitable for BSc or MSc students interested in language acquisition, early communication, or developmental research methods.

    Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Interested students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible by sending a short motivation statement (in English) to Dr. Laura Diprossimo: l.diprossimo@uni-muenster.de

    The ideal candidate is expected to join the project by January 31st, 2025.

    Although the communication and the thesis write-up will be in English, please be assured that your level of English will not hinder any part of the thesis process.

  • Thesis Opportunity: Parental emotion socialization and child emotion regulation in Germany and China 

    Are you interested in how kids learn to understand, express, and regulate emotions? Do you wonder how culture impacts the learning process? Join our research project to explore parents’ emotion socialization and child emotion regulation in Germany and rural China.

    This thesis investigates (1) various emotion-related practices of parents when interacting with their 7- to 9-year-old children (e.g., discussions about emotions, responses to emotional displays); and (2) how the practices are influenced by cultural factors and in association with child emotion regulation. Students will work with German families to support in-person data collection using questionnaires and four laboratory tasks. Students will also support the behavioral coding of the marble maze task for child emotion regulation.

    Data collection and coding for the marble maze task at the Chinese site are already available, providing students an opportunity to engage in cross-cultural comparisons of child emotion regulation and socialization processes between German and Chinese cultures. 

    Supervision: Dr. Danhua Zhu & Prof. Dr. Joscha Kärtner, Department of Psychology

    You will learn

    • In-person data collection methods for parent-child behavioral interactions
    • Behavioral coding of parent-child interactions using ELAN

    Application Requirements

    This thesis project is suitable for BSc or MSc students interested in social and emotional development, parenting, culture, or developmental research methods.

    Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Interested students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible by sending a short motivation statement (in English) to Dr. Danhua Zhu (danhua.zhu@uni-muenster.de).

    The ideal candidate is expected to join the project between March and May of 2026. Data collection is expected to be completed by July 2026. Further details can be discussed.

    Although the communication will be in English, please rest assured that your English proficiency will not hinder the whole thesis process.