Sabine Trepte

Since March 2013, Sabine Trepte has been a full professor at the University of Hohenheim and holds the chair for Media Psychology. From 2006 until 2012, she worked as an assistant professor at the Hamburg Media School and the Department of Psychology at the University of Hamburg. In 1997, she received her diploma in psychology in Cologne. She has also completed study programs in Gießen and New York. In 2001, she received her doctorate degree at the school of Journalism and Communication Science of the renowned German University of Music, Theatre and the Media in Hannover. In 2002, she received a post-doc-scholarship for studies at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, C.A. (USA). There she conducted studies investigating international and cultural comparative media use.

Sabine Trepte has published various articles in internationally renowned journals such as Media Psychology, Journal of Media Psychology, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, Computers in Human Behavior, Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, Publizistik and Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft. She has won several prizes and awards for her work.

Her main research in the field of media psychology focuses on privacy and self-disclosure in the social web, psychological processes of knowledge acquisition with political news media, and social identity processes.