Carla Grosche, M.Sc.

• Since 04/2022 PhD Student (Research Fellow & Lecturer)
  Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away:  Nostalgic Deprivation as a Driver of Political Thinking and Behavior
  Psychology of Communication and Media Use , Institute of Communication Science, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena
• 05/2021 - 02/2022 Research Assistant
  Deparment of Social Psychology, University of Leipzig
   
• 03/2021 – 05/2021 Research Stay 
  Internship: Coalition Formation and Recategorization Processes in Political Protest (Centre for Social Cognitive Studies)
  Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Polen
  
  
• 12/2019 – 04/2021 Research Assistant  
  Institute for Social Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, University of Leipzig
  
  
• 10/2018 – 09/2019 Research Assistant
  Cultural adaptation of an internet-based health intervention for refugees
  Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Psychotherapy, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg
  
  
• 02/2017 – 05/2017 Research Internship
  Effects of Oxytocin on Social Trust 
  Department of Biological and Differential Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg

Education 

• 10/2019 – 03/2022 M.Sc. Psychology
  University of Leipzig
  
  
• Since10/2018 B.A. Sociology
  Abert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, University of  Leipzig
  
  
• 10/2015 – 05/2019 B.Sc. Psychology
  Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

Grosche, C., & Rothmund, T. (2025). Yesterday, all our troublesseemed so far away—(Re)conceptualizing nostalgic deprivation as a predictor forradical-right support. Political Psychology, 00, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70057External link

Bojarskich, V., Grosche, C., Ziemer, C.-T., & Rothmund, T. (2025). Solidarity with Ukraine? How fear- and moral-based motivations explain the psychological tug-of-war in the German public. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000813External link

Finn, C., Heinze, A.-S., Grosche, C., [...], Rothmund, T. (2024). Die Ergebnisse der Landtagswahlen 2024 in Ostdeutschland als Herausforderung für Politik und Demokratie. Erkenntnisse aus einer Bevölkerungsbefragung in Thüringen, Sachsen und Brandenburg. KomRex. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.27080.94727

Hamann, K., Bertel, M., Ryszawska, B., Lurger, B. Szymanski, P., Rozwadowska, M., Goedkoop, F., Jans, L., Perlaviciute, G., Masson, T., Hofer, A., Held, J., Gutschi, C., Grosche, C., Fritsche, I., Favaro, T., Eisenberger, I., Corcoran, K. & Athenstaedt, U. (2023). An interdisciplinary understanding of energy citizenship: Integrating psychological, legal, and economic perspectives on a citizen-centred sustainable energy transition. Energy Research & Social Science, 97, 102959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102959

Hess, F. M. & Grosche, C. (2022). Wir gegen die Anderen. Gruppenprozesse, Bedrohungsgefühle und Konflikte zwischen Gruppen als Treiber von Radikalisierungs- und Polarisierungstendenzen. Ligante. Fachdebatten aus der Präventionsarbeit, 5, 16-23.

Hamann, K., Bertel, M., Ryszawska, B., Lurger, B. Szymanski, P., Rozwadowska, M., Goedkoop, F., Jans, L., Perlaviciute, G., Masson, T., Hofer, A., Held, J., Gutschi, C., Grosche, C., Fritsche, I., Favaro, T., Eisenberger, I., Corcoran, K. & Athenstaedt, U. (2022). Energy Citizenship as a Viable Concept: An Interdisciplinary Understanding to Unfold the Potential of Legal, Economic, and Psychological Perspectives on the Citizenship-Based Energy Transition. European Union’s Horizon 2020.

• 24 Hours of Political Psychology Conference, Wien (19.09.2024): The Effects of Temporal Loss vs. Future Frames in Political Campaigns on Nostalgic Deprivation and Right-Wing Populist Appeal
• 53. DGPs-Kongress, Wien (16.09.2024): Once Upon a Time…? The Influence of Temporal Discontinuity and Nostalgic Deprivation on Right-Wing Populist Appeal
• EASP Small Group Meeting "CONSPIRACY_FX: consequences of conspiracy theories",  Univerity of Kent, Canterbury, UK (28-29. Juni 2024)
  Investigating the Role of Nostalgic Deprivation and Conspiracy Beliefs for Political Thinking and Behavior in Times of Social Change
• EASP Small Group Meeting "Identity fragility: Psychological antecedents and consequences of living in permanent crisis and political instability", Sizilien, Italien (18.-20.04.2024): Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away:  Measuring Nostalgic Deprivation as a Predictor for Radical-Right Support - Empirical Evidence from Germany and US 
• ISJR 19th Biennial Conference in München (24.07.2023): Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away – Measuring Nostalgic Deprivation. 
• ISPP 46th Annual Meeting in Montréal, Kanada (10.07.2023): Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away – Measuring Nostalgic Deprivation. 
• EASP General Meeting 2023 in Krakau, Polen (01.07.2023): Yesterday, all our troubles seemed so far away – Measuring Nostalgic Deprivation. 
• 26. Workshop on Aggression, Jena, (10.-12.11.2022)
• Strategietagung "Perspektiven einer sozialpsychologischen Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Deutschland", Jena (13.- 15. Oktober 2022) 
• 52. DGPs-Kongress, Hildesheim (13.09.2022): The Function of Political Ingroups for Dealing with Personal Lack of Control.

Chaired Symposia

• What makes Radical Right-Wing Ideology Psychologically Appealing to Individual Voters? (2024, September 16th). 53rd DGPs Congress. Vienna, Austria.
• Social Identity and Change. ISPP 46th Annual Meeting in Montréal, Kanada, 09. - 11. Juli 2023. 
• Make our Past Great Again – Nostalgia in Political Identities. EASP General Meeting 2023 in Krakau, Polen, 30. Juni - 04.Juli 2023. 

• Travel Bursary, University of Kent
  EASP Small Group Meeting on Consequences of Conspiracy Theories (06/2024) 
• German Academic Exchange Service Congress Scholarship
  EASP Small Group Meeting on Fragile Identities (04/2024)
• IMPULSE Conferences 2023, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena: ISPP Montréal, Kanada (07/2023)

• WS 2024/2025: Seminar - Kommunikations- und Medienpsychologie: Eine kommunikationspsychologische Perspektive auf Rechtsradikalisierung
• WS 2024/2025: Seminar Forschungspraxis experimentelles Arbeiten
• SS2024: Seminar Forschungspraxis experimentelles Arbeiten 
• WS 2023/2024: Seminar - Kommunikations- und Medienpsychologie: Eine kommunikationspsychologische Perspektive auf Rechtsradikalisierung
• WS 2023/2024: Seminar Forschungspraxis experimentelles Arbeiten 
• SS 2023: Deskriptivstatistische Analysen in R 
• WS 2022/2023: Seminar - Kommunikations- und Medienpsychologie: Eine kommunikationspsychologische Perspektive auf Rechtsradikalisierung
• WS 2022/2023: Seminar Forschungspraxis experimentelles Arbeiten
• SS 2022: Seminar Differentielle Kommunikationspsychologie