Bernd Rohrmann

Bernd Rohrmann (born August 24, 1940 in Świdnica ) is a German psychologist .

Life

He studied psychology (with additions in sociological methodology and linguistics) in Marburg , Hamburg and Mannheim , where he obtained his diploma in 1965 , his doctorate in 1974 (Faculty of Social Sciences) and his habilitation in 1983 . In 1989 he became a private lecturer at the University of Mannheim . Until 1991 he was a lecturer and head of a social science advisory team in Germany, as well as visiting lecturer in Austria, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand. From 1993 to 2009 he taught as an Associated Professor at the University of Melbourne . He has been running Roman Research Road since 2010 . He carries out numerous empirical research projects (strong emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and applicability of findings). He has also worked as a consultant to government agencies, courts and corporations, and has participated in expert hearings.

His areas of interest are environmental psychology, applied social psychology and research methodology. Main areas are linguistic structures of texts, evaluation of virtual environments; Effects of environmental factors (e.g. background noise and noise); Risk perception / communication / management; Choice of residence and satisfaction; energy-saving apartments; Decision-making processes and decision-support technologies; Teaching quality. Methodological interests are answer scales, survey methodology, evaluation research and conceptual framework conditions. Several projects are designed as intercultural studies (in collaboration with researchers from New Zealand, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Buenos Aires) to enable international comparisons. He was married to Elsabea Rohrmann and is the father of Tim Rohrmann .

Fonts (selection)

• Psychometric and text statistical studies on syntactic variables. With 99 tables . Buske, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-87118-180-3 (also dissertation, Mannheim 1973).
• The aircraft noise project of the German Research Foundation. An interdisciplinary study of the effects of aircraft noise on people. Short report . Boldt, Boppard 1974, ISBN 3-7646-1612-1 .
• Aircraft noise and its effect on people. Methods and results of research. Consequences for environmental protection . Huber, Bern / Stuttgart / Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-456-80529-2 .
• Psychological research and environmental policy decisions. The example of noise (= contributions to psychological research. Volume 3). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1984, ISBN 3-531-11716-5 .
• as editor with Ortwin Renn : Cross-cultural risk perception. A survey of empirical studies (= Technology, risk, and society. An international series in risk analysis. Volume 13). Kluwer, Dordrecht 2000, ISBN 0-7923-7747-8 .

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