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.

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.

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

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