Larissa Knoechelmann
Postdoctoral Researcher
Short Vita
I have been a PostDoc at HU Berlin since October 2024. Before that, I did my PhD in Social Psychology in Marburg and studied Psychology in Münster (B. Sc.) and Intercultural Psychology in Osnabrück (M. Sc.). I am interested in how personality traits of people are related to affective polarization and how to enable constructive political exchange despite political differences.
What my discipline can contribute to this research initiative
Political psychology connects psychology and political science – we study human thinking, feeling and acting in a political context: Why do people feel attached to certain ideologies, parties or opinion camps? Which people engage for civic society or go to demonstrations? How can prejudices against people with different political opinions be reduced? To answer such questions, we use various research methods such as interviews, surveys and experiments and carry out statistical analyses with large data sets.
