Dr. Marcel Meuer
Academic Career
- Since 2021 Research associate at the Chair of Psychology Research Methods and Evaluation, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
- 2021 - 2024 Research associate at the Chair of Media Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
- 2020 – 2021 Research associate at the Chair of Media Psychology, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
- 2017 – 2020 Research associate at the Chair of Social and Legal Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
- 2014 – 2017 Master of Science, Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
- 2011 – 2014 Bachelor of Science, Psychology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
Research interests
- Collective Biases in Wikipedia: Hindsight Bias and Black Sheep Effect
- Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Mentality
Links
Publications
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Imhoff, R., Meuer, M., Oeberst, A., & Mokros, A. (2024). Gibt es organisierten rituellen Kindesmissbrauch? The Inquisitive Mind, 2-2024. https://de.in-mind.org/article/gibt-es-organisierten-rituellen-kindesmissbrauch
Oeberst, A. & Meuer, M. (2023). Von der Verzerrung zur Verschwörung und zurück: Verzerrte Informationsverarbeitung als Quelle und Folge von Verschwörungsglauben. In R. Imhoff (Hrsg.), Die Psychologie der Verschwörungstheorien – Von dunklen Mächten sonderbar belogen… (S. 21-40). Hogrefe.
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Meuer, M., Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (2023). How do conspiratorial explanations differ from non-conspiratorial explanations? A content analysis of real-world online articles. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2903 [Accepted Manuscript][Open materials and data]
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Meuer, M., Nestler, S., & Oeberst, A. (2022). What determines hindsight bias in written work? One field and three experimental studies in the context of Wikipedia. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000445 [Accepted Manuscript] [Open materials and data]
Meuer, M.,Oeberst, A., & Imhoff, R. (2021). Believe it or not – No support for an effect of providing explanatory or threat-related information on conspiracy theories’ credibility. International Review of Social Psychology, 34(1): 26. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.587 [Open materials and data]
Meuer, M., Nestler, S., & Oeberst, A. (2021). Debiasing media articles – Reducing hindsight bias in the production of written work. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(3), 435-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2020.12.006 [Accepted Manuscript] [Open materials and data]
Meuer, M., von der Beck, I., Nestler, S., & Oeberst, A. (2021). What drives increases in hindsight impressions after the reception of biased media content? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 27(3), 461-472. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000353 [Accepted Manuscript] [Open materials and data]
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Meuer, M., & Imhoff, R. (2021). Believing in hidden plots is associated with decreased behavioral trust: Conspiracy belief as greater sensitivity to social threat or insensitivity towards its absence? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. [Open materials and data]
