Dr. Julia Schnepf

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Email: julia.schnepf

Office hours: by arrangement

Room: building 5 / B 112

Academic Career

  • since 09/2022 PostDoc at the Department of Media Psychology (University of Hagen)
  • 09/2018 – 04/2022 Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Koblenz-Landau)
  • 04/2017 – 07/2018 M.A. in Political Science and Economics (Heidelberg University)
  • 10/2013 – 02/2017 B.A. in Political Science and Psychology (Heidelberg University)

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Research Stays

  • 06/2022 Erasmus+ and Research stay abroad at the chair of Dr. Alon Zoizner, Department of Communication Science at the University of Haifa, Israel
  • 02/2022 – 04/2022 Research stay abroad at the chair of Prof. Dr. Sarah Martiny, Department of Social Psychology at the Arctic University Tromsø, Norway

Research Topics

  • media framing, policy framing
  • language and social psychology
  • political psychology

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Selected publications

  • Schnepf, J. & Christmann, U. (in press). “Domestic drama”, “Love killing” or “Murder”: Does the framing of femicides affect readers’ emotional and cognitive responses to the crime? Violence Against Women.

    Schnepf, J. (2022). Does perceived scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines increase vaccination willingness? Results of an experimental study with German respondents in times of a national vaccine shortage. PloS One, 17(9), e0273441. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273441

    Schnepf, J., & Groeben, N. (2022). The COVID-19 Framing Dataset: How Secondary Data Can Be Used to Explore Paradoxical Attitudes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 10(1). http://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.62

    Schnepf, J. & Christmann, U. (2022). “It’s a war! It’s a battle! It’s a fight!”: Do militaristic metaphors increase people’s threat perceptions and support for COVID-19 policies? International Journal of Psychology. 57(1), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12797

    Menzel, C., Loy, L. S., Reese, G., & Schnepf, J. (2021). Egoism is no excuse for our changing climate. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Advance online publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2021.10.005

    Schnepf, J.*, Lux A.*, Jin, Z.*, & Formanowicz, M.* (2021). Left out – Feelings of social exclusion incite individuals with high conspiracy mentality to reject complex scientific messages, Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 40(5-6), 627-652. *shared first authorship. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X211044789

    Schnepf, J., Christmann, U., & Groeben, N. (2021). Housing policy reframed? How conceptual framing affects support for social housing policies in Germany, German Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2021.1941897

  • Registered Reports

    Schnepf, J., Reese, G., Bruckmüller, S., Braun, M., Rotzinger, J., & Martiny, S. E. (revise & resubmit). Justice is in the eye of the perceiver: How comparison framing affects our perception of global inequality through social emotions and justice sensitivity. Registered Report Peer Community. Preprint at: PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n72cp

09.04.2024