Contact
Department of Social and Legal Psychology
JGU Mainz
Binger Str. 14-16
Room 01-105
55122 Mainz
frenken@uni-mainz.de
Phone: +49 6131 39-39295
Consultation hour by appointment via email
| Since 04/2018 | Research associate at the Department of Social and Legal Psychology (University of Mainz) |
| 10/2017 – 03/2018 | Adjunct lecturer at the Department of General Experimental Psychology (University of Mainz) |
| 10/2017 | M.Sc. Psychology (University of Mainz) |
- Conspiracy theories and conspiracy mentality
- Political and societal attitudes
- Stereotypes & shooter bias
- Criminology
- Bachelor seminars “current topics in social psychology”
- Bachelor seminars “selected topics and practical application of legal psychology”
- Bachelor seminars “Fields of Activity in Legal Psychology”
- Bläsi, J., Frenken, M., Farkhari, F., & Kazarovytska, F. (in press). Commemorating or closing? A mixed-methods approach to understanding perpetrator memory in Germany. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology. [Open materials and data]
- Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2025). Law and order, magical spirits, and false flag operations: On the co‐occurrence of authoritarianism, spirituality, and conspiracy beliefs and their association with support of violent protests. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70034 (Open Access) [Open materials and data]
- Frenken, M., Reusch, A., & Imhoff, R. (2024). “Just Because It’s a Conspiracy Theory Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You”: Differentiating the Correlates of Judgments of Plausible Versus Implausible Conspiracy Theories. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(6), 684-696. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241240506 [Accepted Manuscript] [Open Materials and Data]
- Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2023). Don’t trust anybody: Conspiracy mentality and the detection of facial trustworthiness cues. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(2), 256-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3955(Open Access) [Open materials and data]
- Frenken, M., Bilewicz, M., & Imhoff, R. (2023). On the relation between religiosity and the endorsement of conspiracy theories: The role of political orientation. Political Psychology, 44(1), 139-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12822 (Open Access) [Open materials and data]
- Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Malevolent intentions and secret coordination. Dissecting cognitive processes in conspiracy beliefs via diffusion modeling. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 103, 104383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104383 [Accepted manuscript] [Open materials and data]
- Imhoff, R., Bertlich, T., & Frenken, M. (2022). Tearing apart the “evil” twins: A general conspiracy mentality is not the same as specific conspiracy beliefs. Current Opinion in Psychology, 101349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101349 [Accepted manuscript]
- Frenken, M., Hemmerich, W., Izydorczyk, D., Scharf, S., & Imhoff, R. (2022). Cognitive processes behind the shooter bias: Dissecting response bias, motor preparation and information accumulation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104230 [Accepted manuscript] [Open materials and data]
- Frenken, M., & Imhoff, R. (2021). A uniform conspiracy mindset or differentiated reactions to specific conspiracy beliefs? Evidence from Latent Profile Analyses. International Review of Social Psychology, 34(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.590 (Open Access) [Open materials and data]
- Frenken, M., & Berti, S. (2018). Exploring the switching of the focus of attention within working memory: A combined event-related potential and behavioral study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 126C, 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.01.012 [Accepted manuscript] [Open materials and data]
