Edgar Erdfelder

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Edgar Erdfelder (born December 18, 1953 in Göttingen ) is a German psychologist . He is Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Differential Psychology at the University of Mannheim and has been Vice-Rector for Research and Young Scientists there since 2018 .

Life

Edgar Erdfelder studied psychology, German literature and history at the University of Göttingen and graduated with a diploma in psychology in 1980. He then did his doctorate at the University of Trier and obtained his doctorate with his dissertation The development of psychometric intelligence over the life span: Aspects of a general psychological approach . From 1984 to 2001 he held various positions at the Psychological Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn , where he also completed his habilitation in 2000.

From 2001 to 2002 he was professor for psychological methodology at the University of Giessen . Since April 2002 he has been professor and holder of the chair for cognitive psychology and differential psychology at the University of Mannheim .

At the University of Mannheim, Erdfelder was Dean of Studies for the Faculty of Social Sciences from 2004–2011 and has been Vice Rector for Research and Young Academics since 2018 . From 2016–2019 he was the spokesman for the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim and academic director of the Center of Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS). In addition, from 2017–2018 he was spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group "Statistical Modeling in Psychology" (SMiP).

research

His main research interests are memory research (in particular episodic memory , memory and judgment deceptions , source memory ), cognitive aging and the methodological foundations of experimental psychology .

Together with Axel Buchner , Franz Faul and Albert-Georg Lang, he has been developing the G * Power computer program since 1992 for the calculation of power analyzes for many different statistical tests. Since then, the software has been used in many psychological work, which was made possible by the free usage options.

Publishing activities

  • Co-editor of Frontiers of Psychology, Section Quantitative Psychology and Measurement (since 2018)
  • Managing editor of the Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology (since 2017) and prior to that (2007-2017) co-editor
  • Managing editor of the journal Experimental Psychology (2007-2010)

Erdfelder has also worked on numerous other editorial boards for psychological journals.

Academic functions

Awards and honors

  • Member of the Wilhelm Wundt Society (since 2017)
  • Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (since 2016)
  • Teaching Award of the University of Mannheim (2016)
  • Memory & Cognition Best Paper Award 2015
  • Appointment as Fellow of the Psychonomic Society (2014)
  • Heinz Heckhausen Young Scientist Prize (1988) for his dissertation

Publications (selection)

  • Edgar Erdfelder: Pitfalls of Statistical Significance: Scientific Journals and the Replication Crisis . In: Research & Teaching . tape 23 , 2018, ISSN  0945-5604 , p. 114–115 ( uni-mannheim.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  • Daniel W. Heck, Edgar Erdfelder: Linking process and measurement models of recognition-based decisions . In: Psychological Review . tape 124 , 2017, ISSN  0033-295X , p. 442-471 , doi : 10.1037 / rev0000063 .
  • Monika Undorf, Edgar Erdfelder: The relatedness effect on judgments of learning: A closer look at the contribution of processing fluency . In: Memory & Cognition . tape 43 , no. 4 , 2015, ISSN  1532-5946 , p. 647–658 , doi : 10.3758 / s13421-014-0479-x (English).
  • Edgar Erdfelder, Tina-Sarah Auer, Benjamin E. Hilbig, André Aßfalg, Morten Moshagen: Multinomial Processing Tree Models . In: Zeitschrift für Psychologie / Journal of Psychology . tape 217 , no. 3 , 2009, ISSN  0044-3409 , p. 108-124 , doi : 10.1027 / 0044-3409.217.3.108 .
  • Franz Faul, Edgar Erdfelder, Albert-Georg Lang, Axel Buchner: G * Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences . In: Behavior Research Methods . tape 39 , no. 2 , 2007, ISSN  1554-3528 , p. 175-191 , doi : 10.3758 / BF03193146 (English).
  • Edgar Erdfelder, Martin Brandt, Arndt Bröder: Recollection Biases in Hindsight Judgments . In: Social Cognition . tape 25 , no. 1 , 2007, ISSN  0278-016X , p. 114-131 , doi : 10.1521 / soco.2007.25.1.114 .
  • Edgar Erdfelder (Ed.): General psychology and deductivist methodology: with 22 tables . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-46210-7 .
  • Edgar Erdfelder, Franz Faul, Axel Buchner: GPOWER: A general power analysis program . In: Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers . tape 28 , no. 1 , 1996, ISSN  1532-5970 , p. 1-11 , doi : 10.3758 / BF03203630 .
  • Edgar Erdfelder, Rainer Mausfeld, Thorsten Meiser, Georg Rudinger (eds.): Handbook of quantitative methods . Beltz, Weinheim 1996, ISBN 3-621-27280-1 ( uni-mannheim.de [accessed October 27, 2019]).
  • Erdfelder, Edgar: The development of psychometric intelligence over the life span: Aspects of a general psychological approach . P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0996-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFG approves new graduate college at the University of Mannheim. May 18, 2017, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ For example, according to the Web of Science, one of the leading articles from 2007 has already been cited over 12,000 times: https://citations.springer.com/item?doi=10.3758/BF03193146
  3. ^ Website of Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder. Editorial activity and participation in editorial boards. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Review boards members term of office 2008 - 2011 (PDF) DFG, January 10, 2012, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Review boards members term of office 2012 - 2015 (PDF) DFG, June 1, 2016, accessed on October 28, 2019 .
  6. ^ DGPs: Board of Directors 2004-2006. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  7. ^ Members of the Wilhelm Wundt Society eV Wilhelm Wundt Society, accessed on October 27, 2019 (German).
  8. ^ Association for Psychological Science: APS Fellows. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Martin Odermatt: University of Mannheim - teaching prizes awarded. In: Forum. 2016, accessed October 31, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Awards and Honors - Earlier Years. German Society for Psychology, accessed October 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Erdfelder, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 18th December 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen