Since June 2024: Research assistant (doctoral student) in the StraKoSim project at the Institute for Communication Psychology and Media Education (IKM), Department of Media Psychology (Head: Prof. Dr. Stephan Winter), Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau

May - September 2023: Research Assistant (research group 3: social processes), Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media (Head: Prof. Dr. Kai Sassenberg), Tübingen

June 2022: Research Internship at the Center for Cultural and Social Psychology (Head: Prof. Dr. Jozefien De Leersynder), KU Leuven, Belgium.

2018-2024: Bachelor's & Master's Degree in Psychology, at the RPTU, formerly University of Koblenz-Landau.

During studies: Social Work at Jugendwerk Landau; participation in the "MindTheMind" project of the European Federation of Psychology Students (EFPSA) to destigmatize mental illness; statistics tutor.

Publications:

Pummerer, L., Fock, L., Winter, K., & Sassenberg, K. (2024). Conspiracy beliefs and majority influence. The Journal of Social Psychology, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2024.2397491

Presentations:

Fock, L., Winter, S., Pummerer, L., & Imhoff, R. (2025). Blinded by the Lies or Lifting the Blinds? Using Signal Detection Theory to Examine Correlates of Belief in Plausible vs. Implausible Conspiracy Theories. Paper presented at the 75 th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Denver, Colorado, USA. 

Fock, L., Barkela, B., & Winter, S. (2025, February). (Un)sicher und Dominant? Strategien politisierter Wissenschaftskommunikation im Kontext der Schweizer Biodiversitätsinitiative. Presented at the Fachgruppentagung Mediensprache und Mediendiskurse der DGPuK.

Extended Abstract bachelor thesis:

Fock, L., Klebba, L.-J. & Winter, S. (2021) Third-Person Effect & Conspiracy Theories: It's always the others! Publication of an extended abstract about the bachelor thesis in Festzeitschrift Junges Forschen, Universität Koblenz, Volume 5 >> https://www.junges-forschen.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2022/06/Fock_ThirdPersonEffect_Conspiracy.pdf

• Conspiracy Theories in the context of Signal Detection Theory

• Communication of Scientific Uncertainty (by Stakeholders)

• Third Person & False Consensus Effect as well as Majority/Minority Influence