Fritz Strack

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Fritz Strack (born February 6, 1950 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German social psychologist and university professor .

Fritz Strack

Scientific career

Fritz Strack studied psychology at the University of Mannheim and at Stanford University . He received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Mannheim under Martin Irle . After a stay as a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , he completed his habilitation in 1989 at the University of Mannheim and worked as a senior scientist at the then Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich from 1990 to 1991 .

Strack was Professor at the University of Trier from 1991 to 1995 and Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Würzburg from 1995 to 2016 and held the Chair of Psychology II there. From 1997 to 2014 he was the Executive Director of the Würzburg Institute for Psychology.

Fritz Strack was co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie (now Social Psychology ), editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and associate editor of the US journal Psychological Science .

From 2005 to 2008 he was President of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (now the European Association of Social Psychology ).

In 2004, Strack donated the Oswald Külpe Prize of the University of Würzburg and in 2015 the Martin Irle Prize of the German Society for Psychology .

research

Strack dealt with topics such as social cognition , judgment and decision-making processes, emotions as well as automatic and controlled processes of behavior control. It was about the interaction of emotions, subjective experience and thought processes in the control of human behavior. Strack's study (with Leonard Martin and Sabine Stepper) on the influence of facial expression on the assessment of the humor of caricatures is considered to be an important contribution to testing the facial feedback hypothesis and a classic study of the embodiment research area . Other topics included research into the cognitive processes involved in anchor heuristics , priming and assessing one's own well-being . In addition, he and Roland Deutsch developed a two-system model of human behavior ( reflective-impulsive model ) , for which the authors were awarded the theoretical innovation prize of a US scientific society.

Awards

Scientific Advisory Boards

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://science.sciencemag.org/content/316/5827.cover-expansion
  2. ↑ http://www.spsp.org/annualawards/wegner-theoretical-innovation-prize
  3. ↑ http://www.pmigconference.com/ostrom-award
  4. ↑ Member entry of Fritz Strack (with picture) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ https://www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/organisation/ir-2014-05-07
  6. ↑ http://www.sesp.org/content.asp?contentid=142
  7. ↑ Announcing the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize Winners , accessed on September 13, 2019, English
  8. ↑ http://www.iast.fr/
personal data
SURNAME Strack, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Landau in the Palatinate