Pascal Merz, M.A.
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Since April 2025: Research Assistant/Doctoral Candidate (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Campus Landau); Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education; Department of Media Psychology (Head: Prof. Dr. Stephan Winter)
2021-2025: Research Assistant/Doctoral Candidate (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Campus Landau); Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education; Department of Political Psychology & Communication (Head: JProf. Dr. Christian von Sikorski
2020-2021: M.A., Social and Communication Sciences (University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau); Profile: Political Communication/Political Psychology
2016-2020: B.A., Social and Communication Sciences (University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau); Profile: Work-Education-Business
2013-2016: B.Sc., Business Informatics (dual study program) (Duale Hochschule Stuttgart / Robert Bosch GmbH)
Publications:
Merz, P., & von Sikorski, C. (2025). Who Feels Influenced? Investigating the (Non-)Political Experiences of Young Adults with Social Media Influencers Using a Latent Profile Analysis. Information, Communication and Society. doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2590159
von Sikorski, C., Merz, P., Heiss, R., Bassler, M., Buyny, C., Hildebrand, S., Streller, C., & Wicki, E. (2025). Both AI-generated and Human Influencers Can Correct Misinformation: Investigating the Effectiveness of Corrections for Polarized and Non-Polarized Issues. Computers in Human Behavior. 176. doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2025.108845
Merz, P., & von Sikorski, C. (2025). Social Media Influencers Can Increase Collective Political Beliefs and Actions: Findings from Experiments and a Quasi-Experimental Field Study. Human Communication Research, hqaf024, doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqaf024
von Sikorski, C., Merz, P., Heiss, R., Karsay, K., Naderer, B., & Schmuck, D. (2025). The Political Role of Social Media Influencers: Strategies, Types, and Implications for Democracy—An Introduction. American Behavioral Scientist, Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642251344208
Kubin, E., Merz, P., Wahba, M., Davis, C., Gray, K., & von Sikorski, C. (2024). Understanding news-related user comments and their effects: A systematic review. Frontiers in Communication, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2024.14447457
Christner, C., Merz, P., Barkela, B., Jungkunst, H., & von Sikorski, C. (2024). Combatting climate disinformation: Comparing the effectiveness of correction placement and type. Environmental Communication, 18(6). https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2024.2316757
von Sikorski, C., & Merz, P. (2023). No-go zone for Jews? Examining how news on anti-Semitic attacks increases victim blaming. Communications, 48(4), 539–550. https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2021-0145
von Sikorski, C., & Merz, P. (2022). Die Bedeutung der medialen Kommunikation in Kriegen und Konflikten. In C. Cohrs, N. Knab & G. Sommer (Eds.), Handbuch Friedenspsychologie, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.17192/es2022.0061
- Political & environmental communication
- Social media influencers & politics
- AI & journalism
- (Correction of) political misinformation