Welcome!

As a part of the Department of Communication of the University of Vienna, the Vienna Advertising and Media Psychology (AdMe) Research Group deals with the impact of modern media environments on people's thinking, behavior, and opinions. The research focus of our group includes areas such as marketing communication, advertising effectiveness, hybrid forms of advertising, political advertising, as well as the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral effects of mass media more generally. Working with quantitative and qualitative social science methods, we integrate scholarship from communication science, social psychology, political science, and marketing.


NEWS

 

  • October 15, 2024
    Successful PhD defense! We are very proud to announce that Helena Knupfer just defended her dissertation entitled Right-Wing Terrorism in the Media: Contents, Effects, and Correlates with distinction ("summa cum laude").

    Congratulations, Dr. Helena!
  • October 7, 2024
    New publication available! The article Mitigating product placement effects induced by repeated exposure: Testing the effects of existing textual disclosures in children's movies on disclosure awareness (doi:10.1515/commun-2023-0080) by Ines Spielvogel, Alice Binder, and Jörg Matthes is now available as advance online publication in Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research.
  • October 1, 2024
    The dates and topics of this semester's research colloquium are now available. As usual, we invite everyone to join us on interesting debates. Please also check who's given a talk at our colloquium in the past years.
  • October 1, 2024
    New AdMe members!     Starting today, we are super happy to welcome Sofie Vranken as a Postdoctoral Researcher within our ranks. Sofie joins us from KU Leuven and already has prior AdMe experience, as she was a visiting scholar at our Department in 2021 and 2022.
    At KU Leuven, Sofie studied Communication Sciences on Bachelor (BSc: 2017), Master (MSc: 2018) and doctoral level (PhD: 2023). She completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Kathleen Beullens in October 2023. Prior to joining AdMe and the University of Vienna, she was postdoctoral researcher at KU Leuven's Media Psychology Lab.

    Welcome to Vienna, dear Sofie!

    Further, a very warm welcome to Agnes Sophie Bergström, who will support our ERC-funded project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets (DIGIHATE) as a research assistant.
  • September 17, 2024
    Two new AdMe positions!     We are currently looking to hire two predoctoral researchers to join our team. If you are interested in working within our research group, please check the University of Vienna's Recruiting Portal here and here for further details. The deadline for applications for both positions is October 8, 2024.