Gerhard Stemmler

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Gerhard Stemmler (born November 11, 1949 in Hamburg ) is a German personality psychologist , psychophysiologist and emotional psychologist .

Life

Gerhard Stemmler studied psychology at the University of Hamburg and worked as a research assistant in the Collaborative Research Center for Psychosomatic Medicine, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy (SFB 115) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf until 1985 . He received his doctorate in 1984 with an experimental thesis on the psychophysiology of emotions. This was followed by a change to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg as a university assistant in the psychophysiology research group of Jochen Fahrenberg and Michael Myrtek at the Psychological Institute. Here he completed his habilitation in 1991 with a thesis on differential psychophysiology. In 1994 he accepted a professorship for Differential Psychology and Psychological Diagnostics from the Philipps University of Marburg , which he held until his retirement in 2015. In addition to his research and teaching activities, he was politically active: President of the DGPA (German Society for Psychophysiology and Its Applications) (1996 to 1997), Vice President of the DGPs (German Society for Psychology) (2010 to 2014), spokesman for the Differential Psychology Section, Personality psychology and psychological diagnostics (2002 to 2004). As a member of the Diagnostic and Test Board of Trustees of the Federation of German Psychological Associations , he was also involved from 2007 to 2010 in quality assurance for psychological tests and aptitude diagnostics. In Marburg he worked for several terms as dean or vice dean and had a lasting influence on the development of the psychology department there.

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At the center of Stemmler's research are the theory of emotions based on psychophysiological and neurobiological experiments and the connection between emotion theory and personality research . His dissertation was preceded by a quote from Wilhelm Wundt : "Accordingly, every feeling corresponds to a physical change depending on its quality and intensity, which, if it is revealed in external symptoms, can serve as an objective characteristic of the feeling."
The dissertation on specificity of emotion patterns such as anger and fear was characterized by the multivariate conception of the experiment, i. H. through numerous psychological and physiological variables, examination conditions and corresponding multivariate statistical methods . This research approach was further developed in his habilitation thesis : Differential psychophysiology: Persons in situations . The alpha-adrenergic, beta-adrenergic and cholinergic cardiovascular activation components could be modeled and used for the structured measurement of the reaction pattern through pharmacological partial blockages on the vegetative system . This multivariate and at the same time vegetative-systemic analysis stands out from international research and is still pioneering today.

In his newly built laboratory in Marburg, cortical and vegetative measurements could be combined in order to record emotion patterns during certain tasks and scenarios and to show how important the situational context is for emotional expressions. This multivariate psychophysiological research has been guided by concepts of personality and neurobiology, e.g. B. with regard to the personality trait extraversion and the underlying dopaminergic systems.

Gerhard Stemmler has published a number of important original works and is the author and editor of textbooks as well as German and international handbooks on emotion psychology.

Fonts

A selection of the fonts:

  • Psychophysiological patterns of emotion . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-8204-5348-2 .
  • The autonomic differentiation of emotions revisited: Convergent and discriminant validation. In: Psychophysiology. Volume 26, 1989, pp. 617-632.
  • Differential Psychophysiology: Persons in Situations . Springer, New York 1992, ISBN 3-642-84655-6 .
  • G. Stemmler, M. Heldmann, CA Pauls, T. Scherer: Constraints for Emotion Specificity in Fear and Anger: The Context Counts. In: Psychophysiology. Volume 38, 2001, p. 275.
  • J. Wacker, M.-L. Chavanon, G. Stemmler: Investigating the Dopaminergic Basis of Extraversion in Humans: A Multilevel Approach. In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Volume 91, No. 1, 2006, pp. 171-187.
  • as editor: Encyclopedia of Psychology: C / IV / 3. Psychology of emotion. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8017-0599-2 .
  • M. Potegal, G. Stemmler, C. Spielberger: International Handbook of Anger: Constituent and Concomitant Biological, Psychological, and Social Processes . Springer, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-387-89676-2 .
  • G. Stemmler, D. Hagemann, M. Amelang, D. Bartussek: Differential Psychology and Personality Research . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021008-0 .
  • L. Schmidt-Atzert, M. Peper, G. Stemmler: Emotional Psychology: A Textbook . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-17-020595-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stemmler, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg