Tobias Rothmund

Tobias Rothmund is Professor for Psychology in Communication and Media Use in the Institute of Communication Science at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, a position held since 2018. Rothmund's research spans political psychology and communication science, with work on disinformation, misinformation, and the psychological factors that shape how people engage with political information online. Additional lines of inquiry include political trust, online incivility, nostalgia and radical-right support, and the use of large language models to study political rhetoric. Rothmund has also published on social justice perceptions of environmental stressors such as aircraft noise distribution.