Dr. Michael Prentice
Dr. Michael Prentice
Postdoctoral Researcher
Room: 00.002
Campus Hubland Nord
Oswald-Külpe-Weg 82
E-Mail: michael.prentice[*at*]uni-wuerzburg.de
Phone.: 0931/31 88519
Consultation hours: by arrangement via e-mail.
Summary
- since 2025: Postdoctoral Researcher and Instructor, Department of Media Communications, University of Würzburg
- 2022-2025: Instructor, Departments of Psychology and Biology, University of Tübingen
- 2023-2024: Postdoctoral Researcher, Everyday Media Lab, Leibniz Institute for Knowledge Media
- 2020-2023: Senior Postdoc, Rationality Enhancement Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen
- 2015-2019: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Teacher-Scholar, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Departments of Psychology and Engineering, Wake Forest University
- 2015-2016: Senior Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg
- 2015: PhD in Social and Personality Psychology, University of Missouri (Distinguished Dissertation in the Social Sciences)
- 2010: MA in Social and Personality Psychology, York University, Canada
- 2008: BA, double major, Psychology and Philosophy, Knox College, Illinois, USA
Brief Research Interests
- Human-AI interaction and technology perceptions
- Values, life goals, and materialism
- Basic psychological needs
- Moral psychology and character development pedagogy
- Well-being and well-doing
