Research Group 'Reasoning, Rationality and Science' The research group 'Reasoning, Rationality and Science' is coordinated by Prof. Dr. Dunja Šešelja and Prof. Dr. Christian Straßer, both based at the Institute for Philosophy II, Faculty for Philosophy and Educational Science. We are looking for a research assistant (m/f/x) with documented research experience to investigate how complex group-level phenomena, such as belief polarization and fragmented consensus, emerge from deliberation and argumentative exchange among (boundedly) rational agents. The Ruhr-Universität Bochum is one of Germany's leading research universities, addressing the whole range of academic disciplines. * Research Focus: Investigate the interaction between topic properties (e.g., question difficulty, diagnosticity of evidence) and social dynamics (network topology, communication norms).
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