Günter Debus

Günter Debus (born September 1, 1939 in Gönnern , Marburg-Biedenkopf district ) is a German psychologist.

Life

Günter Debus studied psychology at the Philipps University of Marburg and the Free University of Berlin (FU) from 1960 to 1965.

From 1965 he was a research assistant, initially at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , and from 1971 at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . He obtained his doctorate in 1969 in Gießen. rer. nat. via the methodology of the description of the state of mind. In 1976, he completed his habilitation in Düsseldorf with a thesis on the dependence of the temporary threshold shift (TTS) on central factors (emotion, attention, activation).

From 1978 until his retirement in 2004 he was Professor of Psychology at RWTH Aachen University . There he was Vice Dean from 1992 to 1994 and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy from 1994 to 1996.

Research and Teaching

Research priorities

• Adjectival description of the state (activation, feelings): methodology and theory
• Experimental pharmacopsychology: paradigms and models, history
• Experimental stress research: emotional stress, noise
• Traffic research: Automated driving columns, acquisition of driving skills, accidents in fog
• Spatial cognition: Experimental analysis based on behavior and EEG data

Focus of teaching

• Biological psychology
• Experimental methodology
• Work psychology and ergonomics

Publications (selection)

• G. Debus: About the effects of acoustic stimuli with different emotional valences. Hain, Meisenheim 1978.
• W. Janke, G. Debus: Adjective List (EWL). Hogrefe, Göttingen 1978.
• G. Debus: Pharmacopsychology. In: A. Schorr (Hrsg.): Hand dictionary of applied psychology. Deutscher Psychologen Verlag, Bonn 1993, pp. 514-518.
• G. Debus, G. Erdmann, KW Kallus (Ed.): Biopsychology of stress and emotional reactions. Approaches to interdisciplinary research. Hogrefe, Göttingen 1995.
• G. Debus, D. Heller, M. Wille, E. Dütschke, M. Normann, L. Placke: Risk analysis of mass accidents in fog. In: Report of the Federal Highway Research Institute. Issue M 169, 2004.
• K. Gramann, H. Müller, B. Schönebeck, G. Debus: The Neural Basis of Egocentric and Allocentric Reference Frames in Spatial Navigation: Evidence from spatio-temporal coupled Current Density Reconstruction. In: Brain Research. 1118, 2006, pp. 116-129.
• W. Janke, M. Schmidt-Daffy, G. Debus (Eds.): Experimental Emotion Psychology. Pabst, Lengerich 2008.

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Debus in the catalog of the German National Library