Julius Kuhl

Julius Kuhl (born July 27, 1947 in Duisburg ) is a German professor of differential psychology .

Life

Kuhl studied 1967-1972 Psychology at the University of Bochum , in 1976 with the work of computer simulation and experimental verification of models of achievement motivation doctorate and in 1982 with the work motivation, conflict and action control habilitation .

Since 1986 Kuhl has acted as head of the department for experimental personality psychology at the University of Osnabrück .

In 2012 the German Society for Psychology awarded him the prize for his scientific life's work. For 2020 he was awarded the Dr. Awarded the Margrit Egnér Foundation .

On October 24, 2015, he was adopted into retirement.

Act

Julius Kuhl did research for several years in the USA (Stanford, Michigan ) and at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research ( Munich ).

The focus of his research is voluntary action control. In his action control theory he has described various strategies with which goal realization can be promoted under difficult circumstances. His research on situation orientation has identified a personality trait that is characterized by a tendency to delay action and to brood . According to this, position-oriented people differ from action-oriented people in that they have a lower ability to regulate emotions . With the PSI theory , Kuhl tried to create a comprehensive theory of volitional action control and to integrate theories from many psychological sub-disciplines. Kuhl has developed a diagnostic tool, the EOS potential analysis, with the help of which motivation and self-control skills can be recorded.

Works (selection)

• Motivation, conflict and action control , Springer, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-540-12423-3 .
• Motivation and Personality: Interactions of Mental Systems , Hogrefe, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-8017-1307-5 .
• The art of self-motivation: Practical use of new findings from motivation research (with Jens-Uwe Martens), Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 978-3-170-18184-7 .
• The cold war in the head: How psychology connects science and religion , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 978-3-451-28622-3 .
• Motivate successfully: Employee personality and motivation techniques (with David Scheffer ), Hogrefe, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8017-1779-7 .
• Free Selfhood: Authenticity and Regression (with Andreas Luckner ), Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-45171-7 .
• Textbook of Personality Psychology: Motivation, Emotion and Self-Control , Hogrefe, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8017-2239-5 .
• The power from the self: Seven PsychoGyms for the unconscious (with Maja Storch ), Huber, Bern 2012, ISBN 978-3-456-85012-2 .
• Spiritual intelligence: Belief between me and self , Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2015, ISBN 978-3-451-34753-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Julius Kuhl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV . Homepage of the University of Osnabrück. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
2. ↑ Awards and Honors 2012 . Homepage of the German Society for Psychology. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
3. ↑ press release . Homepage of the University of Osnabrück. Retrieved January 12, 2016.