Detlef Fetchenhauer
Detlef Fetchenhauer (born April 26, 1965 in Aachen ) is a German psychologist and sociologist . He holds a chair for economic and social psychology at the University of Cologne . His research areas are evolutionary psychology , trust , prosocial behavior and antisocial behavior , justice , determinants of life satisfaction and lay economic theories.
Professional career
After High School at Aachen Couven-Gymnasium, he studied at the University of Cologne Diploma - Psychology and also acquired in the subject sociology a Master Accounts. In the subsequent doctorate he dealt with insurance fraud .
After completing his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Criminology at the Ruhr University Bochum and at the University of Groningen (Department of Social and Organizational Psychology and Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS)). He also spent several research stays at Cornell University in Ithaca , New York .
In 2004 Fetchenhauer received his current professorship at the University of Cologne. From 2006 to 2013 he was director of the Institute for Economic and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne, which merged with other chairs to form the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology in 2013.
Detlef Fetchenhauer is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of German Economy (IW) . He is also a lecturer at the IW Academy and the Management Academy of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association .
In addition to his scientific books, he also published a volume of poetry in 2016 ( The long way - poems between stroking and scratching ). Detlef Fetchenhauer has three grown sons. He lives in Cologne.
Publications (selection)
- Psychology . Vahlen, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-8006-3940-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- with Vanessa Köneke, H. Müller-Peters: Understanding and preventing insurance fraud . Gabler, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8349-3138-2
- with David Dunning , JE Anderson, T. Schlösser and D. Ehlebracht: Trust at zero acquaintance: More a matter of respect than expectation of reward . Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- with David Dunning: Why so cynical? Asymmetric feedback underlies misguided skepticism regarding the trustworthiness of others . In: Psychological Science, February 2010: 21 (2), pp. 189-193
- with T. Groothuis and J. Pradel: Not only states but traits - Humans can identify permanent altruistic dispositions in 20s . In: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2010: 31, pp. 80-86
- The long way. Poems between stroking and scratching . deutsche lyrik verlag, Aachen, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8422-4483-2
- Insurance fraud: a theoretical and empirical analysis of fraudulent behavior against an anonymous victim . Nomos-Verl.-Ges., Baden-Baden 1998, ISBN 978-3-7890-5496-9
Web links
- Website of Detlef Fetchenhauer at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Cologne
- Literature by and about Detlef Fetchenhauer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fetchenhauer, Detlef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aachen |