Jens Forster

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Jens Förster (born March 7, 1965 in Lübbecke ) is a German social psychologist and university professor. In 2001 he was one of the founding professors at Jacobs University Bremen , where he worked until 2007; He then taught as a professor at the University of Amsterdam from 2007 to 2014 and represented the Chair of Social Psychology at the Ruhr University Bochum from July 2014 to September 2017 .

Life

From 1986 Förster studied psychology, German literature and philosophy at the University of Trier and opera singing at the Saarland University of Music, and in 1992 earned a diploma in psychology. In 1994 he received his doctorate in social psychologist Fritz Strack to Dr. rer. nat. From 1996, he attended as a postdoc , the Columbia University in New York and took a teaching position as Theodor Heuss lecturer at the "New School for Social Research". After 1995, Förster had lectureships at the universities of Würzburg , Duisburg and at Jacobs University Bremen. His main areas of research were social information processing , personal judgment, prejudice, creativity, innovation, thought processes, sex and love, self-regulation and motivation.

From 2003 to 2005 he was the spokesman for the section on social psychology of the German Society for Psychology , whose ethics council he also served.

From July 2007 to May 2014 Förster was Professor of Psychology in Amsterdam; there he was also director of the "Kurt Lewin Institute". In April 2013 he was selected for an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in order to establish a “Center for Self-Regulation” at the Ruhr University Bochum from 2014 onwards. At the end of April 2014, the award of this professorship was temporarily suspended due to allegations of manipulation . For the time being, Förster took over a professorship in psychology at the University of Bochum in July 2014. The Humboldt Foundation's selection committee announced its decision to award the Humboldt Professorship for April 2015. On April 20, 2015, Förster announced his resignation from the Humboldt Professorship.

Jens Förster has published over 100 articles in international journals and books. He was a guest on talk shows on topics such as “pigeonhole thinking”.

As a reviewer for the voluntary self-regulation of television, he has been analyzing television programs since 2016 and is also active as a reviewer for numerous specialist magazines, organizations and foundations. From 2005 to 2013 he was “associate editor” of the magazine “Social Cognition”, member of the editorial boards of numerous other magazines and since 2016 has been the editor of the system-theoretical magazine “Systhema”. He is department spokesman for the speakers of the “Positive Psychology of Everyday Life” department of the German Society for Positive Psychological Research.

Research and work

In his doctoral thesis (Förster, 1995) Jens Förster presented his own theory of embodiment (the influence of the body on thoughts and motivation).

He was also one of the pioneers of Tory Higgins' (1998) regulatory focus theory on human self-motivation (see Förster, Higgins & Chen Idson, 1998).

With Ron Friedman he developed the Implicit Affective Cues Theory (Friedman & Förster, 2010), which states that subtle memories of security impede creative thinking, while the activation of ideals promotes creativity.

Together with Nira Liberman, Jens Förster also designed his own model of goal activation, which predicts the dynamic and unconscious inhibition and activation of goals in memory (Förster, Liberman & Higgins, 2005).

The authors had shown similar target activation processes for the suppression of thoughts in their Motivational Inference Model of Post-Suppressional Rebound Theory (MIMO; Liberman & Förster, 2000). Accordingly, a prohibition unconsciously activates the goal of doing or thinking what is forbidden.

In the Novelty-Categorization-Theory (NoveCat; Förster, Marguc & Gillebaart, 2010) Förster and team investigate when people turn to new events.

GLOMOsys (the GLObal versus LOcal processing MOdel, a systems account; Förster & Dannenberg 2010), which describes the connections between abstract and concrete thinking, broad and narrow perception, and creativity and analytical thinking, was awarded the Best Paper Award of the International Social Cognition in 2011 Network excellent.

HaBST (Having and Being a Selfregulatory Theory; Förster 2017) is an alternative model to Erich Fromm's psychoanalytic model on human goals in life.

Förster has also devised numerous approaches for activating prejudice and discrimination, which he also presents in numerous lectures to a broad audience (see Förster, Liberman & Higgins, 2007).

controversy

In September 2012, the University of Amsterdam was informed of anomalies in three studies by Förster. A study by the University of Amsterdam found questionable study results, but no flawless evidence of deliberate data manipulation.

A further investigation on behalf of the independent Dutch body on research integrity "Landelijk Orgaan voor Wetenschappelijke Integriteit" (LOWI), however, came to the conclusion in April 2014 that results had been manipulated and that Förster was the first author responsible. With reference to the investigation report of the LOWI, the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science withdrew the objectionable article on November 24, 2014 .

In April 2014, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation suspended its funding decision to award the Humboldt Professorship in accordance with its foundation rules and at Förster's request until the facts were clarified. In April 2015, Förster finally renounced the funding.

A court of honor proceedings of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) was closed on November 9, 2015 with a settlement without being assigned guilt. In return for the discontinuation of the proceedings, Jens Förster undertook to withdraw two of his publications in the Journal of Experimental Psychology . This has happened with the two articles mentioned there.

After further examination of Förster's publications from 2007 to 2014, the University of Amsterdam asked the respective journals to revoke or to consider revocation in some cases. The article "Sense Creative! The Impact of Global and Local Vision, Hearing, Touching, Tasting and Smelling on Creative and Analytic Thought" has been withdrawn. However, other journals did not withdraw five other controversial articles.

The UVA asked the American Psychological Association to withdraw an article by Gillebaart, Förster, and Rotteveel that appeared in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General . Again, Förster denied the evidence of the statistical analyzes and pointed out what he believed to be massive errors. The APA decided in September 2018 not to withdraw the article.

In 2016, the rector of Tel Aviv University asked mathematician and statistics expert Yaov Benjamini to examine the two articles that Nira Liberman was a co-author (from the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ). Both Liberman and Benjamini are members of Tel Aviv University. Benjamini wrote (according to Förster's information) that he saw "absolutely no reason to withdraw the two articles on the basis of the statistical analyzes".

The social psychologist Klaus Fiedler from the University of Heidelberg emphasized in 2015 that Förster's study had a “strong, substantial core”; he does not doubt that the statement is true in principle. There is already a lot of evidence of this. The realistic type of research that Förster conducts is risky.

Awards

  • Heisenberg grant from the German Research Foundation
  • Thomas M. Ostrom Scholars in Residence Award from Ohio University
  • Charlotte and Karl Bühler Prize of the German Society for Psychology
  • Kurt Lewin Award from the European Association of Social Psychology

Fonts (selection)

  • The influence of expressive behavior on human memory . Bonn: Holos-Verl., 1995
  • Small introduction to stereotyped thinking: About the benefits and disadvantages of prejudice. Munich: DVA, 2007
  • Our autopilot. How we can realize wishes and achieve goals. Learn from motivational psychology. Munich: DVA, 2012
  • What having does with being. The new psychology of consumption and renunciation. Munich: Pattloch. 2015
  • The little crisis killer: 12 ways to master difficult life situations. Munich: Pattloch, 2017
  • Why we do what we do How psychology determines our everyday life. Munich: Droemer, 2018

Artistic activity

Jens Förster received acting lessons from Frank G. Hirschmann. He also studied opera singing with Vera Ilieva and at the Saarbrücken Music Academy with Raimund Gilvan. He also completed training as a speaker / dubbing actor at the POP Academy in Cologne.

He appears as a singer ( tenor ) in the field of song , oratorio and chanson . In the years 1985–2008 he toured Germany with specially written shows ( Perlen & Säue , Casta Diva , Whether there is sparkling wine in Heaven ? , Ticket to Ride , No Man's Rose , Articulated Hoofed Animals are seldom alone ) through Germany. a. at the German National Theater Weimar , the Mainzer Unterhaus , the Glocke Bremen or the Ateliertheater Cologne. In his shows, which he himself called “chanson theater”, he mixed music of all genres with video performances and poetic texts .

Förster released two CDs with chansons, pearls and sows and no man's rose .

Jens Förster wrote several plays that were premiered by the "Théâtre Tête à Tête" under the direction of Frank G. Hirschmann in the Trier cloth factory. These include his psychiatric drama Lydia. Heidin (1994), And all lust wants eternity: a collage about love, death and disgust (1995) and So brICH mein HERRz (1998), an appreciation of historical female figures of the 20th century. All events were awarded by the “Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://dgppf.de/jensfoerster/
  2. ↑ http://www.foliaweb.nl/wetenschap/psychologen-bepleiten-meer-onderzoek-naar-forster/
  3. ↑ https://plus.google.com/101046916407340625977/posts
  4. ↑ Psychologist under fire leaves university to start private practice. In: Retraction Watch. December 12, 2017, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  5. ↑ https://www.systemisch-positive-praxis-koeln.de/ueber-uns/dr-jens-foerster/?file=files/daten/downloads/CV%20Jens%20Förster%202017.pdf
  6. ↑ http://dgppf.de/jensfoerster/
  7. ^ CV of Jens Förster . Website of the Systemic Institute for Positive Psychology (PDF file). Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ Second Humboldt Professorship for the RUB. Ruhr University Bochum, April 18, 2013, accessed on May 1, 2015 .
  9. ^ CV of Jens Förster . Website of the Systemic Institute for Positive Psychology (PDF file). Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  10. ↑ Decision on awarding the Humboldt Professorship to Professor Dr. Jens Förster will be met in April 2015. humboldt-professur.de; accessed on September 22, 2014.
  11. ↑ 7 b. Humboldt Professorship socolab.de; Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  12. ^ Profile at the University of Amsterdam ( Memento from August 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ^ CV of Jens Förster . Website of the Systemic Institute for Positive Psychology (PDF file). Retrieved February 27, 2018.
  14. ^ Forster, J. (1995). The Influence of Expressive Behavior on Human Memory: Theoretical Considerations and Experiments on Motor Congruence Effects. Bonn: Holos.
  15. ↑ Higgins, ET (1998). Promotion and prevention: Regulatory focus as a motivational principle. Advances in experimental social psychology, 30, 1-46.
  16. ^ Forster, J., Higgins, ET, & Idson, LC (1998). Approach and avoidance strength during goal attainment: Regulatory focus and the “goal looms larger” effect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1115-1131.
  17. ↑ Friedman, RS, & Förster, J. (2010). Implicit affective cues and attentional tuning: an integrative review. Psychological bulletin, 136 (5), 875
  18. ↑ Förster, J., Liberman, N., & Higgins, ET (2005). Accessibility from active and fulfilled goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41,220-239.
  19. ^ Liberman, N., & Forster, J. (2000). Expression after suppression: A motivational explanation of post-suppressional rebound. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 190-203.
  20. ↑ Förster, J., Marguc, J., & Gillebaart, M. (2010). Novelty Categorization Theory. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 4/9, 736-755.
  21. ^ Förster, J. & Dannenberg, L. (2010). GLOMOsys: A Systems Account of Global versus Local Processing. Psychological Inquiry, target article, 21, 175-197.
  22. ↑ Förster, J. (2017). Beyond Good and Evil. A self-regulatory perspective on having and being. Beyond Good and Evil. A self-regulatory perspective on Having and Being. In M. Brohm-Badry , C. Peifer & J. Greve (Eds.), Positive Psychological Research in German-speaking Countries: State of the Art, 94-113. Pabst: Lengerich.
  23. ^ Forster, J. & Liberman, N. (2007). Knowledge activation. In ET Higgins & AW Kruglanski (eds.), Social Psychology: Handbook of basic principles (2nd edition; pp. 201-231). New York: Guilford.
  24. ↑ Too good to be true . Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 12, 2014.
  25. ↑ Web presence of the "Landelijk Orgaan voor Wetenschappelijke Integriteit" (LOWI) , English version.
  26. ↑ Investigation report on allegations of manipulation against Prof. Förster (in Dutch, summaries also in English). Version of April 29, 2014 (PDF file, 330kB)
  27. ^ Retraction notice . Social Psychological and Personality Science, November 24, 2014.
  28. ↑ Press release of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of April 30, 2014 , accessed on May 4, 2014.
  29. ↑ Suspected manipulation: Social psychologist waives the renowned research award Der Spiegel from April 22, 2015.
  30. ↑ http://www.socolab.de/main.php?id=66
  31. ^ Honorary court proceedings of the DGPs against Prof. Dr. Jens Förster hired. November 11, 2015, accessed March 25, 2016 .
  32. ↑ Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2009), Relations between perceptual and conceptual scope: How global versus local processing fits a focus on similarity versus dissimilarity.
  33. ↑ Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2011), Local and global cross-modal influences between vision and hearing, tasting, smelling, or touching.
  34. ↑ UvA gaat toch mogelijke fraude psycholoog onderzoeken , NRC Handelsblad , October 4, 2014.
  35. ^ Evaluating the Scientific Veracity of Publications by dr. Jens Förster , Carel FW Peeters, Chris AJ Klaassen & Mark A. van de Wiel , May 15, 2015.
  36. ↑ Press release of the University of Amsterdam June 2, 2015 (English)
  37. ↑ Retired article from 2012 in Social Psychological and Personality Science: Sense Creative! The Impact of Global and Local Vision, Hearing, Touching, Tasting and Smelling on Creative and Analytic Thought , http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1948550611410890
  38. ↑ List of the relevant articles by Jens Förster . Web presence of the Social Cognition Lab Group, Section 12a and 12b, July 20, 2017. Accessed April 24, 2018.
  39. ↑ 14.a. Revocation by Gillebaart, Förster & Rotteveel (2012) rejected by APA . Social Cognition Lab Group website, Section 14.a. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
  40. ^ Social Cognition Lab Group website, Section 12b, July 20, 2017. Accessed July 3, 2018.
  41. ↑ Nira Liberman website (English). Retrieved January 12, 2019
  42. ↑ Yaov Benjamini website (English). Retrieved January 12, 2019
  43. ↑ Too good to be true DIE ZEIT No. 17/2015, April 23, 2015
  44. ↑ http://dgppf.de/jensfoerster/
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  46. ↑ Prize winners 2010
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  48. ↑ a b c d http://www.jensfoerster.de/
personal data
SURNAME Forester, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebbecke