About
Kiara Roth is a Researcher and Doctoral Student in the Graduate School RTG 2271 (Breaking Expectations) at the Department of Personality and Diagnostics, Faculty of Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg. She is a member of the Psychological Diagnostics research group led by Prof. Dr. Sarah Teige-Mocigemba.
Her educational qualifications include:
- Master of Science in Psychology (research-oriented), University of Cologne, 2017-2020
- Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Luxembourg, 2013-2017
Her primary research interests lie in social psychology, specifically the maintenance of stereotypes through causal attributions in political contexts. She examines how context effects and predictive learning influence the updating of stereotypical expectations when individuals encounter stereotype-incongruent behavior. Her work also explores the role of political identity in intergroup perception.
Her scholarly output includes a 2021 publication in Current Psychology on moral and causal responsibility attributions in environmental decision-making, which demonstrates her interdisciplinary approach combining social, environmental, and moral psychology. This work highlights the impact of social context and affective states on responsibility judgments.
As an academic advisor, Roth has supervised several bachelor's and master's theses on topics related to stereotype maintenance, political identity, and causal attributions. Additionally, she has held leadership roles within her graduate school, serving as PhD spokesperson and Steering Committee member for RTG 2271 since 2021.
Roth is an active contributor to the research environment of the Psychological Diagnostics team at Philipps University of Marburg and the collaborative projects of the Graduate School RTG 2271, which investigates expectation violations and their cognitive and social consequences.