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In this experiment, we want to replicate the illusory truth effect.

In this experiment, we want to replicate the illusory truth effect with auditory material.

Past research on decision making has shown that people are often unable to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information. This is especially the case when different probabilities need to be considered in order to make the best decision. In this study, we seek to investigate whether voice similarity affects decision making.

In this study, we seek to investigate whether voice similarity affects decision-making processes.

In the first experiment, we want to investigate whether the illusory truth effect also occurs when the trivia statements are initially presented auditorily, but the truth judgment is made about written statements.

The scope of this project is to determine whether a deep neural net, which is trained to perform a speaker validation task, can predict how dissimilar voices are rated by humans.

The study investigates the role that the five senses – vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell – play in remembering beloved objects from different stages of life (i.e. early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence).

Numerous studies have shown multiple influences of familiarity on human perception and judgment. In this study, we used a deep learning encoder trained on a speaker verification task to generate voiceprints. In addition, we used these voiceprints to calculate the similarity between each speaker in our dataset and used the mean of these cosine similarities as a representation of the averageness of the voice.

Numerous studies have shown multiple influences of familiarity on human perception and judgment. In this study, we used a deep learning encoder trained on a speaker verification task to generate voiceprints. We are using those voiceprints to calculate the cosine similarity between participants and speakers in our dataset. In this experiment we will examine if similar voices inspire more sympathy and trustworthiness.

The purpose of this study is to measure the reliability of voice similarity ratings and to perform a attenuation correction of our Voice Similarity project.

The scope of this project is to determine whether a deep neural net, which is trained to perform a speaker validation task, can predict how dissimilar a voice is perceived compared to one's own voice.

The scope of this project is to determine whether a deep neural net, which is trained to perform a speaker validation task, can predict how dissimilar a voice is perceived compared to one's own voice.

Two experiments investigated the effects of an instructional video’s setting on learners’ retention and application of the video content. Experiment 1 explored competing hypotheses based on theoretical assumptions about whether an authentic setting would serve as a distraction or as a cue for the instructor’s expertise. Participants (N = 59) watched a video about floral diagrams and floral formulas that was either shot in a greenhouse (authentic setting) or in front of a white wall (neutral setting). Results showed a beneficial effect of the authentic setting on retention, but not on the application of the video content. Experiment 2 aimed to replicate and extend these findings by investigating whether reinstating the authentic setting as a contextual cue during the test phase would further improve test performance. After watching a video that was either shot in an authentic or a neutral setting, participants (N = 149) worked on the retention and application test while a screenshot of the authentic or the neutral setting was presented as a background. Contrary to our expectations, the effect of setting on retention did not replicate and there was no evidence for context effects, despite using the same learning materials and a comparable sample as in Experiment 1. Findings are discussed with regard to potential boundary conditions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)

The use of computer conferences as "Virtual Seminars" has become a convenient way to allow spatially separated participants to interact under the purpose of acquiring specific knowledge in the area of distance education. In order to facilitate orientation, to indicate social meanings, and to structure the communicative processes, two different types of spatial metaphors have been applied in interface design of these telematic settings: large-scale metaphors depicting extended geographical areas (campus-sites, buildings) and small-scale metaphors depicitng rooms. Their adequateness crucially depends on the correspondence between the real world domain and software domain. Possible obstacles for this match stem from a lack of providing interactivity, from cluttering the interface with pseudorealistic details and from the specifities of the asynchronous and text-based communication modes.

Previous research has focused on visitors’ experiences at historic sites such as concentration camp memorial sites. As such sites usually hold both, a historic dimension and physical attributes resembling the site’s history, it is an open question whether it is either the historic dimension, the physical attributes, or the interplay of both that fosters the effects on visitors. In addition, to the best of my knowledge there is no theoretical framework about the impact of historic places from a psychological perspective yet. The goal of this thesis was to address these research gaps. I summarized the literature and derived a theoretical framework about the impact of historic sites. To investigate the impact of becoming aware of a site’s historic dimension on affective and cognitive outcomes, I conducted three empirical studies. The studies’ setting was the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien in Tübingen, a former women’s clinic, in which a multitude of crimes were committed during the period of National Socialism (NS). Today the building offers no physical traces of its former history. By providing different prior information to the participants, their awareness of the historical dimension was systematically manipulated. The results reveal that history awareness has a substantial influence on the participants’ personal mood, but the additional information about the place’s NS history did not add much to this effect. The results indicate further that history and place awareness influences the perceived valence of related NS photos in a negative way and influences the interpretation of these photos. Also, there is partial evidence that the awareness of a site’s NS history has a negative effect on the evaluation of the site itself. However, history awareness did not influence the description or the recognition memory performance of related historic photos. This dissertation begins with situating the topic within the current sociocultural discourse, and then postulates a theoretical framework about the impact of historic places from a psychological perspective. This is followed by an overview of the conducted empirical studies. In the final section, the results are discussed and located in the theoretical framework, strengths and limitations are pointed out, and outlooks and ideas for further research are presented.