Nils Brandenstein

Nils ­ Brandenstein [âś“]

Research Fellow -  Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-Regulation

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Room: A026
HauptstraĂźe 49
69117 Heidelberg

Research Interests

  • Political Psychology
  • Conspiracy Theories
  • Cognitive processes of belief formation and change
  • Implicit attitudes and stereotypes
  • Sustainable behaviour
  • Statistical modelling and machine learning
Please refer to the lecture index (LSF) for past courses..

Education

10/2017 – 09/2019 Master of Science Psychology (M.Sc.)

Major subject: Organizational Behavior and Adaptive Cognition

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg


10/2013 – 10/2017 Bachelor of Science Psychology (B.Sc.)

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg 


08/2005 – 07/2013 Abitur (higher education entrance qualification, A-level)

Christian-Rohlfs-Gymnasium Hagen


Academic Employment

Since 10/2019 Research Assistant at the Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self-

Regulation Laboratory, Heidelberg University  


Since 10/2019 PhD Student in Political Psychology at the Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Self- 

Regulation Laboratory, Heidelberg University  

Peer-reviewed paper

Brandenstein, N., Montag, C., & Sindermann, C. (2024). To follow or not to follow-Estimating public opinion from Twitter data using network analysis and machine learning. PrePrint. https://osf.io/preprints/osf/nzp25

Brandenstein, N., Ackermann, K., Aeschbach, N., & Rummel, J. (2023). The key determinants of individual greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are mostly domain-specific. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01092-x

Brandenstein, N. (2022). Going beyond simplicity: Using machine learning to predict belief in conspiracy theories. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52, 910-930. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2859

Brandenstein, N., Gebauer, F., & Carbon, C. C. (2019). How do we perceive “aliens”? About the implicit processes underlying the perception of people with alien paraphernalia. Frontiers in Psychology , 10 , 1551. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01551


Poster and conference presentations

Brandenstein, N., Ackermann, K., Aeschbach, N., & Rummel, J. (2023). Predicting individual Greenhouse Gas emissions in everyday life – A machine learning approach. Talk at the ISPP Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada (10.07.2023).

Brandenstein, N (2020). Less than meets the eye? Assessing the predictive power of personal factors regarding belief in conspiracy theories with machine learning. Talk at the 24-hour of Political Psychology Conference, Hagen, Germany (17.01.2020).

Gebauer, F., Raab, M. H., Brandenstein, N., & Carbon, C. C. (2016). Red alert once again: How colors can reinforce political East vs. West thinking, Poster presentation at the 50th Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂĽr Psychologie (DGPs), Leipzig, Germany (18.9.-22.9.2016).

Gebauer, F., Raab, M. H., Brandenstein, N., & Carbon, C. C. (2015). Imagine all the forces: The impact of threatening news coverage on the willingness for first-step military action in the Ukraine Crisis, Oral talk at the World Psychological Forum (WPF), Prague, Czech Republic (17.9.-20.9.2015). * Winner of the best poster award for Political Psychology

Gebauer, F., Raab, M. H., Brandenstein, N., & Carbon, C. C. (2015). Bellicistic press coverage and the willingness to initiate first-step military actions in the resurgence of the East vs. West conflict, Poster presentation at the 9th Conference of the Media Psychology Division of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂĽr Psychologie (DGPs), TĂĽbingen, Germany (9.9.-11.9.2015).


Other

Brandenstein, N. & Carbon, C. C. (2020). Verurteilt auf den ersten Blick? Ăśber die HintergrĂĽnde und Macht des ersten Eindrucks . In-Mind Magazin: Psychologie fĂĽr Alle, Ausgabe 01/2020.

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