Friedrich Hoeth

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Friedrich Hoeth (born August 24, 1931 in Wuppertal ; † June 1, 1981 in Olfen ) was a German psychologist and Gestalt theorist

Hoeth was one of the students and employees of the gestalt psychologist Edwin Rausch at the University of Frankfurt . In 1965 he received his doctorate from Rausch with a perceptual psychological research work on stroboscopic alternative movements (see Phi phenomenon ). In 1975 Hoeth received a professorship for psychology at the Technical University of Darmstadt and in 1978 followed a call to the University of Dortmund, where he taught until his death. His main research interests included the formation and role of social values , prejudices and stereotypes , including their role in psychological diagnostics , in survey research and in exam situations at universities.

Hoeth was a reviewer in Kurt Guss's habilitation process (Gestalt theory and epistemology) and supervised a number of doctoral students, including Hans-Jürgen Walter (psychotherapy) and Hellmuth Metz-Göckel (memory psychology), who made a name for themselves in the continuation of the gestalt psychological research and application tradition did.

In 1978 Hoeth was one of the co-founders of the International Society for Gestalt Theory and Its Applications (GTA).

Publications by and about Friedrich Hoeth

  • (with Edwin Rausch, Wilfried Reisse & Isolde Meyer) Communication structure and group performance. Affective tensions and reduced performance as a result of incorrect expectations of group members. Psychological Research, 28 (1965), 598-615.
  • (with Genoveva Kucklick & William E. Simmat) Experimental investigations into the problem of the "good" impression. Journal for Experimental and Applied Psychology, 12 (1), 1965, 59–85.
  • Legality of stroboscopic alternative movements. Frankfurt, Waldemar Kramer publishing house: 1966
  • (with Renate Büttel and Hugo Feyerabend) Experimental studies on the validity of personality questionnaires (PDF file; 1.94 MB). Psychologische Rundschau, 18 (1967), 169-184.
  • Variability and constancy as phenomenological categories . Gestalt Theory 1 (1/1979), 19-25.
  • On the social psychology of the university examiner. Group Dynamics 10 (1979), 231-248.
  • To discuss the concept of conciseness. Gestalt Theory 3 (3-4 / 1981), 200-206.
  • (with Viktoria Tholey) Social stereotypes: Analysis of social values ​​taking into account their importance for psychological diagnostics and empirical-psychological survey research. Stuttgart: Enke 1983 ( ISBN 3-432-93281-2 ).
  • (with Siegfried Preiser) Areas of application of social psychology: company. Erlangen: FIM Psychology.
  • Paul Tholey : Friedrich Hoeth (obituary). Gestalt Theory 3 (3-4 / 1981), 163-166.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See also the entry on Friedrich Hoeth in the list of " Gestalt People ".
  2. ↑ published in 1966 under the title legality in stroboscopic alternative movements
  3. ^ Paul Tholey (1981): Obituary for Friedrich Hoeth. Gestalt Theory, 3 (3/4), 163–166.
personal data
SURNAME Hoeth, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and Gestalt theorist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1981
Place of death Darmstadt