Friedrich Wilkening

Friedrich Wilkening (* 1946 in Helpsen ) is a German psychologist and former professor at the University of Zurich .

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Wilkening studied psychology at the University of Tübingen . He completed his studies in 1972 with a diploma. In 1974 he received his doctorate from the University of Düsseldorf with the work Developmental Psychological Experiments on Perception and Judgment Relativity . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt am Main . This was followed by research stays at the universities of Minnesota and California, San Diego . After his return to Germany in 1979, Wilkening became Professor of Psychology at the TU Braunschweig. In 1984 he moved to the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 1992 he held a full chair for general psychology at the University of Tübingen. In 1997 he finally moved to the full professorship of the same name at the University of Zurich , which he held until his retirement in 2012. In addition, he was Research Councilor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of the Swiss National Science Foundation from 2008 to 2016 and Vice President of this department from 2013 to 2015. Since 2016, Wilkening has been the unfaithful person of trust for the ethics committee of the University of Zurich.

Wilkening's main research focus was on the cognitive and developmental psychology of children and adolescents. A sub-focus here was on knowledge psychology.

Fonts (selection)

• with Edgar Heineken: Transfer in sensorimotor learning . Beltz Test GmbH, Weinheim 1976.
• with Edgar Heineken: Response Time and Uncertainty . Beltz Test GmbH, Weinheim 1976.
• with Edgar Heineken: Order tendencies in verbal learning . Beltz Test GmbH, Weinheim 1976.
• Developmental psychological experiments on the relativity of perception and judgment . Hain, Meisenheim am Glan 1976, ISBN 978-3-445-01333-0 (dissertation).
• with Alexandra M. Freund and Mike Martin: developmental psychology compact . 2nd Edition. Beltz, Weinheim 2013, ISBN 978-3-621-27926-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Wilkening in the catalog of the German National Library
• Friedrich Wilkening at his former chair at the University of Zurich