Hans-Joachim Kornadt

Hans-Joachim Kornadt (born June 16, 1927 in Stargard in Pomerania ) is a psychologist and emeritus professor of educational psychology and educational science. His main area of ​​research is motivation research with a focus on the development and socialization of social motives, particularly aggression.

education

After graduating from high school in 1947, Hans-Joachim Kornadt studied law , psychology and physiology in Marburg, which he finished in 1952 as a psychologist . In 1956 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. at Heinrich Düker with the thesis "Experimental investigations on qualitative changes in reproductive content". From 1957 to 1961 he worked as a research assistant at the Psychological Institute of the University of Würzburg . From 1961 he was a professor of psychology at the University of Education in Saarbrücken and a lecturer at the University of Würzburg and the University of Saarland .

Teaching and Research

In 1964 Hans-Joachim Kornadt became professor for psychology at the University of Education in Saarbrücken . In 1968 he became a professor for educational psychology and educational science at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken , after a call to a social-psychological chair at the University of Bochum was rejected . He taught there until his retirement in 1995. In the 1980s he was on numerous research stays and as a visiting professor in Japan and Indonesia . From 1997 to 2005 he was the Senate Commissioner of the University of Erfurt for the development of the educational science faculty.

Research on the motivation of aggression

As part of a research project to develop and validate an aggression- thematic perception test , Kornadt turned to aggression research early on. Over the years, this gave rise to a motivational theory of aggressiveness and the inhibition of aggression, which was empirically based on TAT research. Based on the motivational theories of McClelland and Heckhausen , an (enduring) aggression motive is assumed as a complex system of anger-affect, frustration-attributions, values ​​and goals as well as specific (aggression) inhibitions. The individual motive for aggression is therefore based on both biological components (extent of the individual anger-affect tendency is viewed as genetically determined) and on socio-cultural components (attributions, values ​​and goals that are traced back to socialization experiences). In 1982, Kornadt presented an elaborated scheme for the development of different types of aggression (smotivation) in his two-volume work Aggressionsmotiv und Aggressionshemmung.

Cross-cultural research

In the mid-1960s, Kornadt carried out a research project on the cultural adaptability of the school system in Kenya and Uganda on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and the University of Saarland (Kornadt, 1968 & 1970). The results of this cross- cultural study showed, among other things, the lack of a simple transfer of the European education system in these countries with their living conditions and needs that are completely different from Europe. Encouraged by the experiences during the study visits to Africa and by the results of these studies as well as by his membership in the advisory board of the Federal Minister of Development, Kornadt then increasingly turned to cross-cultural issues. The motivational theory of aggression described above played an important role here. In a large cross-cultural project in Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia and Japan in the 1980s, he examined the cultural determinants of the development of the motive for aggression and the inhibition of aggression. It was shown that the early mother-child relationship can be considered the most important predictor for the development of aggression. This, in turn, is strongly shaped by cultural values ​​and norms, for example in a very symbiotic mother-child relationship in Japan compared to a mother-child that emphasizes more recognition of the individuality of the child and thus the respective independence of mother and child Relationship in western cultures. Kornadt gives a comprehensive overview of the results of this research project in the book "Aggression: The Role of Education in Europe and East Asia", published in 2011. In 2007, the series of the Encyclopedia of Psychology (Hogrefe-Verlag) published three extensive volumes on comparative cultural psychology, which Kornadt edited together with Gisela Trommsdorff.

Memberships

Hans-Joachim Kornadt was a member of the Science Council for several years . From 1977 to 1997 he was a member or chairman of the board of trustees of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs for the development of university entrance tests. From 1982 to 1984 he was President of the German Society for Psychology . For several decades he was also a member or chairman of various scientific advisory boards in ministries and research institutes, such as the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt am Main or the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo. In addition, Kornadt was, among other things, deputy chairman of the state university structure commission in Saxony-Anhalt, chairman of the structural advisory board and the founding commission for the Psychological Institute of the University of Halle and Senate representative of the University of Erfurt for the establishment of the educational science faculty and for the redesign of teacher training. He was also a long-term member of the Board of Trustees of the German Institute for International Educational Research (until 2012), as well as chairman of the advisory board of the Federal Foreign Languages ​​Competition and member of the Board of Trustees for Education and Talent (until 2013).

German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences

In 1989, Kornadt and Gisela Trommsdorff founded the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences in Tokyo, to which German and Japanese social scientists belong in roughly equal proportions. In particular, the company would like to contribute to broadening knowledge of current cultural, social and psychological characteristics and processes in Japan and Germany. The Society's meetings, which take place every two years in Germany and Japan, have so far resulted in seven conference volumes with mainly psychological and sociological contributions.

Honors

• 1988 German-Japanese Research Prize (A. v. Humboldt / JSPS)
• 1995 Saarland Order of Merit
• 1998 honorary membership of the German Society for Psychology
• 2006 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 2009 honorary doctorate from the University of Erfurt

Fonts

• Teaching goals, school performance and performance assessment. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1975.
• as Ed .: Aggression and frustration as a psychological problem. Volume 1, Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1981.
• Aggression motif and aggression inhibition. Volume 1: Empirical and theoretical investigations on a motivational theory of aggression and on construct validation of an aggression TAT ; Volume 2: Aggression TAT and other aggression-related procedures. Huber, Bern 1982.
• as Ed .: Aggression and frustration as a psychological problem. Volume 2, Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1992.
• Aggression: The Role of Education in Europe and East Asia. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011.
• Psychological functions of religion in youth - A historical and cultural perspective. In: G. Trommsdorff, X. Chen (Ed.): Values, religion, and culture in adolescent development. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY 2012, pp. 46-65.
• with LH Eckensberger and WB Emminghaus: Cross-cultural research on motivation and its contribution to a general theory of motivation. In: HC Triandis, WJ Lonner (ed.): Handbook of cross-cultural psychology. Vol. 3: Basic processes. Allyn and Bacon, Boston 1980, pp. 223-321.
• with E. Voigt: Situation and development problems of the school system in Kenya. Part 2: Empirical contribution to the social-psychological function of the school. Klett, Stuttgart 1970.
• with G. Trommsdorff (ed.): German-Japanese encounters in the social sciences: restart of scientific cooperation in society- related research. University Press Konstanz, Konstanz 1993.
• with B. Mayer (Ed.): Psychology - Culture - Society. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010.
• with G. Trommsdorff: Parent-child relations in cross-cultural perspective. In: L. Kuczynski (Ed.): Handbook of dynamics in parent-child relations. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA 2003, pp. 271-306.
• with G. Trommsdorff (ed.): Encyclopedia of Psychology: Subject area C Theory and Research. Series VII: Comparative Cultural Psychology. Volume 1: Theories and methods in comparative cultural and cultural psychological research ; Volume 2: Experiencing and acting in a cultural context ; Volume 3: Fields of application of comparative cultural psychology. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2007.

Self-presentation

• Kornadt. (Self-presentation). In: HE Lück (Ed.): Psychology in self-portrayals. Volume IV, Pabst Science Verlag, Lengerich 2004, pp. 193-213.

Web links

• Homepage of H.-J. Kornadt

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 6 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken February 9, 1995, p. 95–96 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 213 kB ; accessed on June 12, 2017]).