Functions
Assistant professor in Psychology
In detail
André Melzer is Assistant Professor in Psychology and study programme director of the Bachelor in Psychology (BAP) at the University of Luxembourg. He received a doctoral degree in Psychology from the University of Trier (Germany) in 2002 (summa cum laude). Before he joined the University of Luxembourg in 2008, Dr. Melzer worked in departments of Psychology at the University of Trier and the Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf (Germany). He was also a research associate at the interdisciplinary Institute for Multimedia and Interactive Systems, a Computer Science department at the University of Luebeck (Germany).
Dr. Melzer’s research mainly focuses on the use and effects of interactive media, with a particular emphasis on video games and their implications. Based on theories of media psychology and social psychology, his fields of research cover video games and morality, gender roles and gender stereotypes in the media, children’s media use, and parental mediation. The latter aspect also includes issues of social engineering and the psychological aspects of data security. Dr. Melzer is head of the Media and Experimental Laboratory (MExLab), where he also conducts most of his experimental studies.
Within the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, Dr. Melzer is interim Head of the research group on Health Promotion and Aggression Prevention. Dr. Melzer has predominately published in the fields of interactive media use and media effects in children, adolescents and adults. He has also published on social psychological mechanisms in social engineering. His previous work on implicit and explicit memory focuses on, but is not limited to, memory for commercial information.
