Benjamin P. Lange

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Benjamin P. Lange (* 1978 in Kassel ) is a German psychologist , linguist , communication scientist and media scientist . The publicist and university professor is known, among other things, for his media appearances in which he presents topics and a. from the field of psychology and other social sciences .

Life and education

Lange obtained the general university entrance qualification with a focus on biological technology in Kassel. After doing community service in a Kassel day care center for seniors, he studied German Philology / German Philology (with a focus on linguistics as well as in the areas of communication and media), English Philology / English Studies, psychology and biology at the University of Kassel ; He wrote his thesis in 2008 on communicative aspects of human partner choice. From 2008 to 2011, Lange also completed a doctorate in psychology at the University of Kassel, which he completed with an empirical linguistic and communication psychology work with Harald Euler with a doctorate in psychology. Since 2015, Lange has been working part-time as a naturopath for psychotherapy and communication coach. In 2018 he completed his habilitation to obtain the Facultas Docendi in the field of psychology at the University of Würzburg with the thesis "Speech, communication and media psychological phenomena from a life-history theoretical perspective" with Frank Schwab for Dr. habil .; He gave his inaugural lecture on language, communication and media from a biopsychosocial perspective. This was followed by the award of the Venia Legendi and the title of Privatdozent in the field of psychology. Lange is a member of the German Society for Psychology and the German Society for Journalism and Communication Studies .

Research and Teaching

Lange conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface between psychology, linguistics, communication studies and media studies. He has already devoted himself to art and general cultural studies as well as medical / clinical topics. Lange has been working as a scientist and lecturer / lecturer since 2008, u. a. in the fields of psychology as well as linguistics and communication science. In addition to the University of Kassel, his positions include the University and the Frankfurt am Main Clinic, the University and the Göttingen Clinic as well as the Fresenius University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt. Lange is currently working as a media psychologist at the University of Würzburg at the Human-Computer-Media Institute, where he was chairman of the institute's ethics committee for several years. He teaches there, among other things, in the media communication course . Lange teaches a wide range of subjects, including psychology, linguistics and communication studies, with a focus on the areas of basics of psychology, psycholinguistics, new / social / digital media and basics of communication, including media communication. Together with Carsten Niemitz and Nils Seethaler, he organized the 11th MVE annual conference in Berlin in 2010.

Media activities and public appearances

For several years, Lange has appeared in the media, including television, as a commentator and expert on psychological, but also linguistic, communication and media studies topics. The focus is on human communication (online communication, verbal and non-verbal communication) and (online) partner selection as well as other areas of human social behavior. He had his first media appearance in 2007 as a student. In the meantime, Lange also pursued journalistic activities himself. Since 2010 he has also been working in an advisory capacity behind the scenes in various media productions. Long media activities include the magazine Glamor , Swiss radio , programs on RTL , the television program nano , productions of the Hessischer Rundfunk , the German press agency , Men's Health , the television program "The Experiment with Linda Zervakis ", the satire program Walulis , the German wave , the Westdeutsche Rundfunk , including television broadcasts quark and Planet knowledge , as well as several productions of the Bavarian radio Symphony Orchestra , among others for ARD-alpha .

Publications (selection)

  • BP Lange, M. Schmitt, F. Schwab: Too cute not to buy? The effect of the child schema on the evaluation of advertising. In: Journal of Business and Media Psychology. Vol. 10, No. 1, 2019, pp. 14-27.
  • BP Lange: Human culture from a biopsychosocial-life-history-theoretical perspective . In: G. Jüttemann (Ed.), Menschliche Höherentwicklung. Lengerich: Pabst Publishers, 2019, pp. 145–160.
  • BP Lange, S. Kouros, F. Schwab: Well said! Aspects of the fluency of the news language: An empirical comparison of the linguistic fluency of the news broadcasts of ARD, ZDF, SAT.1 and RTL. In: Media & Communication Studies. Vol. 67, No. 1, 2019 ( doi : 10.5771 / 1615-634X-2019-1-45 ).
  • BP Lange, MTP von Andrian-Werburg, DC Adler, E. Zaretsky: The name is the game: Nicknames as predictors of personality and mating strategy in online dating. In: Frontiers in Communication. Vol. 4, 3, 2019 ( doi : 10.3389 / fcomm.2019.00003 ).
  • BP Lange, F. Schwab: Game on: Sex differences in the production and consumption of video games . In: J. Breuer, D. Pietschmann, B. Liebold, BP Lange (Eds.), Evolutionary psychology and digital games: Digital hunter-gatherers . New York, NY: Routledge, 2018, pp. 193-204.
  • P. Wühr, BP Lange, S. Schwarz: Tears or fears? Comparing gender stereotypes about movie preferences to actual preferences. In: Frontiers in Psychology. Vol. 8, 428, 2017 ( doi : 10.3389 / fpsyg.2017.00428 ).
  • BP Lange, C. Hennighausen, M. Brill, F. Schwab: Only cheap talk after all? New experimental psychological findings on the role of verbal proficiency in mate choice. In: Psychology of Language and Communication. Vol. 20, No. 1, 2016, pp. 1–22 ( doi : 10.1515 / plc-2016-0001 ).
  • BP Lange, HA Euler, E. Zaretsky: Sex differences in language competence of three- to six-year old children . In: Applied Psycholinguistics. Vol. 37, No. 6, 2016, pp. 1417-1438. ( doi : 10.1017 / S0142716415000624 ).
  • BP Lange, E. Zaretsky, HA Euler: Pseudo names are more than hollow words: Sex differences in the choice of pseudonyms . In: Journal of Language and Social Psychology , Vol. 35, No. 3, 2016, pp. 287-304. ( doi : 10.1177 / 0261927X15587102 ).
  • BP Lange: Communicative gender differences from an evolutionary perspective . In: Communications from the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory , Vol. 36, 2015, pp. 83-100.
  • BP Lange, S. Schwarz (ed.): The human psyche between nature and culture . Lengerich: Pabst Publishers, 2015.
  • BP Lange, E. Zaretsky, S. Schwarz, HA Euler: Words won't fail: Experimental evidence on the role of verbal proficiency in mate choice . In: Journal of Language and Social Psychology , Vol. 33, No. 5, 2014, pp. 482-499. ( doi : 10.1177 / 0261927x13515886 ).
  • BP Lange, HA Euler: Writers have groupies, too: High quality literature production and mating success . In: Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences , Vol. 8, No. 1, 2014, pp. 20-30. ( doi : 10.1037 / h0097246 ).
  • BP Lange, S. Schwarz: Evolutionary psychological perspectives to explain cultural achievements . In: G. Jüttemann (ed.), The development of the psyche in the history of mankind. Lengerich: Pabst Publishers, 2013, pp. 164–175.
  • BP Lange, S. Schwarz, HA Euler: The sexual nature of human culture . In: The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture. Vol. 4, No. 1, 2013, pp. 76-85.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h PD Dr. habil. Benjamin P. Lange - Vita , accessed on January 5, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d PD Dr. habil. Benjamin P. Lange - Media Activities and Public Appearances , accessed January 5, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c d e f PD Dr. habil. Benjamin Lange - Media Psychology , accessed January 5, 2019
  4. ↑ a b c d studio guest: Benjamin Lange - Sendungen - Planet Wissen , accessed on January 5, 2019
  5. ↑ PD Dr. habil. Benjamin P. Lange - Research , accessed January 5, 2019
  6. ↑ Benjamin P. Lange - PD Dr. habil. - University of Wuerzburg, Würzburg - JMU - Media Psychology , accessed on January 6, 2019
  7. ^ Benjamin Lange - University of Würzburg - Academia.edu , accessed on January 6, 2019
  8. ↑ Dr. Benjamin Lange. University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt , Faculty of Economics (accessed on February 4, 2019).
  9. ↑ teaching. Homepage Dr. Benjamin P. Lange (accessed January 5, 2019).
  10. ↑ 11th annual meeting of the MVE list - human behavior in ... , accessed on February 5, 2018
  11. ↑ MVE Conference 2010 in Berlin: Program - MVE list , accessed on February 5th, 2018
  12. ↑ Journalistic activities. Homepage Dr. Benjamin P. Lange (accessed February 4, 2019).
personal data
SURNAME Lange, Benjamin P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and linguist, communication and media scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel