News from the Psychology Department

Enrollment for summer semester 2022

Applause for the new students at HMKW in the summer semester 2022.

A warm welcome to HMKW: HMKW's first bachelor's and master's degree students will be ceremonially enrolled at all three campuses during the first days of April. The Cologne campus made the start, Berlin had its ceremony today. Frankfurt will welcome their students tomorrow.

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Study on advertising breaks

Prof. Dr. Sven Dierks, Prof. Dr. Eva-Maria Eick. Photos by Werner Siess

In a study, HMKW professors Dr. Eva-Maria Eick and Dr. Sven Dierks from the Psychology Department used the emotion recognition tool TAWNY to reveal the effects of an advertising interruption on viewers.

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Awarding of the "Germany Scholarships"

Logos of the Deutschlandstipendium and HMKW

The winners of the Deutschlandstipendium starting in the winter semester 2021/22 have been announced: Congratulations to two Bachelor's and two Master's students from different HMKW degree programs and all three HMKW locations!

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Enrolment for the winter semester 2021/22

Raising a toast to a new chapter in life

Finally back on site: For the first time since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, the enrollment ceremonies for the winter semester 2021/22 are taking place on campus at HMKW in Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt Main - in compliance with the 3G rule. HMKW Cologne made the start on October 1.

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From theory to practice: Collaboration with the AI startup Streem.ai

Collaboration with AI startup Streem.ai (Photo: Format/Pexels)

Last semester, Prof. Maika Rawolle supervised the master module “Human and Organizational Resource Management” which is made up of 50% theoretical parts and 50% project work. The students could choose from different project topics and were invited to  the artificial intelligence startup Streem.ai where they took the role of consultants. The results were presented to Streem.ai founders Avi ElranAbou George and Gary Abela and were a great success.

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