Melanie Jacobsen

Melanie Jacobsen completed her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin and her Master’s degree in Work, Organizational, and Health Psychology at both the Freie Universität Berlin and KU Leuven. Her master’s thesis centered around misogynistic online ideologies as conspiracy theories and predictors of the belief in these ideologies. She joined the Weizenbaum Institute as a researcher in February 2025 and is part of the research group “Well-being in the Digital World“. The main topics of her dissertation are the impacts of online incivility on well-being and behavioral outcomes of online incivility as well as the impacts of gendered influencer content on societal attitudes.

• Psychological and Behavioral Consequences of Online Incivility
• Online Misogyny
• Empirical Research (Quantitative)
   

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• Jacobsen M.E., Krause H.-V., Baumann A. & Krasnova H. (2025). All Faith Lost? Exposure to Incivility on Social Networking Sites and its Effects on Mental Health. ICIS 2025 Proceedings. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2025/is_good/is_good/13/ 

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• Jacobsen M.E. (2026, February 27). Aestheticizing Antifeminism: Investigating the Impact of Tradwife Content on Antifeminist Beliefs (Research in Progress) [Presentation]. 24 Hours of Political Psychology Conference, University of Vienna, Vienna. https://24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at/

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• Jacobsen M.E. (2025, December 15). All Faith Lost? Exposure to Incivility on Social Networking Sites and its Effects on Mental Health [Conference Presentation]. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2025, Nashville.

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• Jacobsen M.E. (2026, Mai 09). Hass im Netz - Wie lässt sich noch miteinander reden? Bürgerdialogformat am Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften [Bürgerdialog]. Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften. University of Potsdam, Potsdam

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• Jacobsen M.E. (2026, Mai 30). Hass im Netz - Wie lässt sich noch miteinander reden? Bürgerdialogformat auf dem Stadtfest Velten [Bürgerdialog]. Stadtfest Velten. University of Potsdam, Velten

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• Heger K., Jacobsen M.E., Iglesias Keller C., Mysegades C., Stolze M. & Zech H. (2026). Stellungnahme zum Referentenentwurf eines Gesetzes gegen digitale Gewalt (GgdG-E) [Positionspapier]. Weizenbaum Policy Paper #21. https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.pp/21

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• Jacobsen M.E. (2026, January 27). Wie funktioniert Forschung? Das Beispiel von Incivility und sozialen Medien - Schüler*innenvortrag an der Universität Potsdam [Presentation]. University of Potsdam, Potsdam

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• Jacobsen M. (2025, July 16). Wie funktioniert Forschung? Das Beispiel von Incivility und sozialen Medien - Schüler*innenvortrag an der Universität Potsdam [Presentation]. University of Potsdam, Potsdam

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• Doctoral Representative (2025-2026). Weizenbaum Institute