Alois Wacker

Alois "Ali" Wacker (born May 7, 1942 in Ratingen ) is a German psychologist and emeritus professor of social psychology at the University of Hanover .

Life

Wacker studied psychology and sociology at the University of Cologne , the TU Berlin and the Ruhr University Bochum . In 1969 he passed the final exam as a qualified psychologist. From 1970 to 1976 he was research assistant at the psychological seminar at the Technical University of Hanover . There he received his doctorate in 1976 and completed his habilitation in 1977. In 1978/79 and 1982/83 he was a deputy professor at the University of Bremen , and since 1981 he has been a professor of social psychology and its methods at the University of Hanover . In 2007 he retired .

Wacker's main interest is in the social psychology of work and unemployment .

Unemployment. Social and psychological requirements and consequences , Frankfurt am Main, Cologne: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1976, ISBN 3-434-00277-4 (2nd edition 1977, 3rd edition 1983)
The development of the understanding of society among children (as publisher), Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus-Verlag, 1976, ISBN 3-593-32179-3
From shock to fatalism? Social and psychological effects of unemployment (as ed.), Frankfurt / Main, New York: Campus-Verlag, 1978, ISBN 3-593-32255-2 (2nd edition 1981).

personal data
SURNAME	Wacker, Alois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wacker, Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychologist and emer. university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 7, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ratingen