Arndt Bröder

Arndt Bröder (born April 30, 1968 in Sankt Goar ) is a German cognitive psychologist . He is Professor of General Psychology at the University of Mannheim .

Life

Bröder grew up in Koblenz and attended the Staatl. Max-von-Laue-Gymnasium and passed the Abitur in 1987. After studying psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (diploma 1995) he received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1999 . In 2005 he completed his habilitation at the University of Bonn. After a position as Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (2005), he received calls as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (2005-2006) and as Professor of General Psychology the University of Bonn (2006–2010). Bröder has been researching and teaching at the University of Mannheim since 2010 .

research

Bröder researches strategies and mechanisms of decision-making as well as the conditions under which people apply simplifying strategies ( heuristics ). In this context, he has dealt critically with the theory of the "adaptive toolbox" and the take-the-best heuristic as well as the recognition heuristic . Other key areas of work are the methodology and modeling of memory processes and their influence on decision-making processes.

Publications

Monographs and Chapters (German)

• Decide with the adaptive toolbox. An empirical research program. Pabst, Lengerich 2005.
• Design of experiments and experimental internship. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2011.
• with BE Hilbig: Judging and deciding . In J. Müsseler & M. Rieger (eds.). General Psychology. (3rd edition, pp. 619-659). Springer, Heidelberg 2017.

Memberships

• German Society for Psychology (DGPs) and Section General Psychology
• Psychonomic Society
• European Association for Decision Making (EADM)
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
• Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences eV ( GWUP )

Awards

• Heinz Heckhausen Young Scientist Prize of the DGPs (2000)

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Mannheim
• Publication list of the ZPID

Individual evidence

1. ^ Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods. Retrieved August 9, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Arndt Bröder: Decide with the adaptive tool box. An empirical research program. Pabst, Lengerich 2005.
4. ↑ Awards and Honors - Earlier Years. DGPs, accessed March 23, 2018 .