Doris Bischof-Koehler

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Doris Bischof-Köhler (born August 19, 1936 in Speyer ) is a German psychologist and social scientist . Her focus is on gender research and developmental psychology . Her husband is the psychologist Norbert Bischof .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1955 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Köhler studied psychology at the universities of Tübingen and Munich and received her diploma in 1960.

In the following decades she worked in various research institutions, including at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen and in the Foundation for Basic Research in Human Sciences in Zurich . From 1983 to 1986 she trained as a therapist in systemic marriage and family therapy at the Institute for Marriage and Family in Zurich.

From 1983 to 1997 she was a lecturer for the entire field of developmental psychology at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Zurich , followed in 1988 by a doctorate in social sciences at the University of Konstanz . In the following years she worked as a lecturer at various universities. In 2005 she was appointed adjunct professor for psychology at the University of Munich, where she still works today.

Doris Bischof-Köhler has three daughters (* 1961, 1963, 1964) with her husband Norbert Bischof, with whom she has been married since completing her studies.

research

Doris Bischof-Köhler carried out various researches and experiments on development in early childhood. In the 1990s, for example, she investigated how toddlers perceive themselves and how this perception changes in the first three years after birth ( cognitive mirror examination ). From the age of four, children recognize the subjective character of their own and other people's consciousness content ( theory of mind ) and in the course of this the gender affiliation is also formed. Furthermore, Bischof-Köhler assumes that this will also change the perception of one's own family situation. She assumes that children from around five years of age recognize that the parents act not only according to the needs of the child, but also out of self-motivation. She developed the two-mountain experiment in order to examine more closely to what extent small children perceive this knowledge and see it as a burden.

In addition, she has been researching gender education and gender differences for decades. She examined which evolutionary or innate gender differences exist and which are socially constructed.

Honors

  • 1989 Award of the Science and Society Foundation at the University of Konstanz
  • 2003 German Psychology Prize (together with Norbert Bischof)

Works (selection)

  • Mirror image and empathy. The beginnings of social cognition. Huber, 1989. Reprinted in 1993, ISBN 3456817959
  • Children on a journey through time. Theory of Mind, understanding of time and organization of action. Bern: Huber, 2000, ISBN 3456834195
  • Social development in childhood and adolescence. Attachment, empathy, theory of mind. Kohlhammer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021553-5
  • Naturally different. The psychology of gender differences. Kohlhammer, 2011, ISBN 3170216252
  • With Norbert Bischof: Self-Recognition, Empathy and Concern for Others in Toddlers. In: N. Roughley and T. Schramme (Eds.): Forms of Fellow Feelings (78-106), 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Doris Bischof-Köhler's curriculum vitae on her official website. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Heidi Keller : Laudation for Doris Bischof-Köhler and Norbert Bischof on the Psychology Prize 2003 (PDF). Retrieved June 12, 2015.
  3. ^ Elisabeth Raether : "Do not draw wrong conclusions". And what does biology say? A conversation with the psychologist Doris Bischof-Köhler about the big differences. Interview with Doris Bischof-Köhler from June 9, 2013 from Die Zeit . Retrieved June 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Bishop-Koehler, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Speyer