Bachelor's/Master's Thesis & Internships
Are you interested in writing your thesis or doing an internship with us? We welcome enthusiastic students who are eager to contribute to our innovative projects and gain valuable experience. Feel free to reach out to us with your ideas and questions. We look forward to collaborating with you and supporting your academic journey.
Call for Bachelor's / Master's Thesis: AlienPsych
This study is about children’s social cognition, in particular, how they actively search for information about other agents. We test whether children can select informative observations that can help them find the answers to questions about small, animated aliens: for example whether they can climb well, or share fairly with their friends. Children play a short game on the computer in which they can select which videos they would like to watch.
Contact: Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz - laura.schlingloff-nemecz@tum.de
Call for Bachelor's / Master's Thesis: MonsterChef
MonsterChef explores the emergence and developmental trajectory of children's understanding of when they should engage in self-guided learning in a task and when they should seek the help of a teacher. The experiment seeks to elucidate the cues and strategies children use at different developmental stages to determine how to pursue their learning goals.
Requirements: German fluency is required to help with data collection. Data collection will start in November 2026.
Contact: Oana Stanciu - oana.stanciu@tum.de
Call for Bachelor's / Master's Thesis: SELF
How do children learn about their own abilities? In this project, we study how 3- to 6-year-old children actively seek information about their own performance in different social situations—such as working alone, cooperating with others, or competing. Using fun game-based experiments, we investigate what kind of information children choose to learn and whether they use this information to guide their future decisions.
This project offers hands-on experience with experimental design, data collection, and analysis, and is ideal for students interested in developmental psychology, cognitive science, and learning.
Requirements: German fluency is needed to help with data collection. Data collection will start in March/April 2026.
Contact: Daniil Serko - daniil.serko(at)tum.de