Dietrich Dörner

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Dietrich Dörner (born September 28, 1938 in Berlin ) is a German psychologist and professor emeritus at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg .

Services

Dörner worked, among other things, in the field of artificial intelligence with the modeling and simulation of emotions, and the organization of intentions and actions. His "EMO project" became known, in which an emotional robot was programmed and simulated; the follow-up project is called " PSI ". Dörner also worked with a simulation of populations (“mice”) in which all individuals were designed according to his theory.

Dörner developed psychological theories of human action and feeling and tested them by implementing them in simulation software and compared the results with the actions of real people. For this purpose he developed the "Tanaland" experiment , with the help of which human influence in complex systems can be examined. It was about a fictional African region whose influencing factors were changed by development aid. This had the following consequences:

  1. The later implementation in software forces the development of clear theories, because only a clearly formulated theory can be implemented in software.
  2. The psychological theory can be tested and thus evaluated. In this way, incorrect or incomplete approaches are quickly exposed and a process of gradual improvement of the theory is initiated.

On the basis of his research on solving complex problems , he put forward the thesis that performance in established intelligence tests are not sufficient to successfully manage complex problem situations, but rather "operational intelligence" is necessary. In doing so, he triggered a long-standing discourse in differential psychology as to whether there is an independent ability to solve complex problems . In particular, the work of Heinz-Martin Süß has provided strong evidence against the concept of "operational intelligence".

Awards and memberships

Fonts (selection)

  • Lohhausen. How to deal with uncertainty and complexity. Eds. Dietrich Dörner, Heinz W. Kreuzig, Franz Reither and Thea Stäudel. Verlag Hans Huber, Chair of Psychology II d. University of Bamberg 1981, ISBN 3-456-82531-5 .
  • The Logic of Failure - Strategic Thinking in Complex Situations. Rowohlt , Reinbek 1989, ISBN 3-499-61578-9 . (12th edition: 2003) It includes a description of the "Tanaland experiment".
  • Blueprint for a soul. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-61193-7 .
  • The mechanics of the soul wagon. Huber, Bern 2002, ISBN 3-456-83814-X .

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Dörner, D. (1989). The logic of failure: strategic thinking in complex situations. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt.
  2. ↑ Dörner, D. (1986). Diagnostics of operational intelligence. Diagnostica, 32, 290-208.
  3. ↑ Funke, J., Buchner, A., Dörner, D., Süß, H.-M., & Vollmeyer, R. (1999). Discussion on the topic “Complex Problem Solving”. Psychologische Rundschau, 50 (4), 229–233. doi : 10.1026 // 0033-3042.50.4.229
  4. ↑ Suess, H.-M. (1996). Intelligence, knowledge and problem solving: Cognitive prerequisites for successful behavior in computer-simulated problems]. Göttingen: Hogrefe. ISBN 978-3-8017-1089-7
  5. ^ Membership directory: Dietrich Dörner. Academia Europaea, accessed June 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Member entry of Dietrich Dörner at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Dörner, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German emeritus psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin