Karl Grammer

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Karl Grammer (* 1950 in Mühlacker ) is a German behavioral scientist and evolutionary biologist .

Career

Grammer studied zoology , anthropology and physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1972 to 1979 . From 1977 he wrote his diploma thesis on the topic of helping and supporting in children's groups at the Human Ethology Research Center of the Max Planck Society (MPG) in Seewiesen, which was then headed by Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt , where he stayed until 1991. His doctoral thesis, which he wrote from 1979 to 1982, was devoted to the topic of competition and cooperation: Intervening in conflicts among kindergarten children . After that he directed a “kindergarten project” there until 1987. From 1985 to 1988 he researched the “strategies of self-portrayal among courting men” in a project. In 1990 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna.

From 1991 to 2008 Grammer headed the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology in Vienna and is Associate Professor at the University of Vienna in the Department of Anthropology. Die Zeit wrote that he wanted to find out "why humans get along so well in an urban environment, although the species has only been at home there for a short time compared to the length of human history."

Grammer has been researching attractiveness since the 1980s , which in his opinion “came to a standstill for thirty years because it was judged to be ethically reprehensible and taboo from the 1960s onwards. It was not until the evolutionary biologists took up the topic in the early 1990s that it was rehabilitated and research got underway again. ”In 1993, Grammer's first book, Signals of Love about Establishing Contact, Choosing a Partner and the Associated Strategies, was published.

From 1994 to 1995 he carried out a comparative behavioral research project at Kyoto University thanks to a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). In 1996 he gave a Mindship seminar in Copenhagen.

In 2001, together with his former students, the brothers Michael and Christian Bechinie, he founded the start-up company digitalmankind research & software development GmbH , which developed computer-aided simulations that are suitable for analyzing human behavior using social science findings. The aim was to create interfaces that obey human behavioral patterns.

In 2002 he received the Zdenek-Klein Prize for integrated research together with his institute colleagues Bernhard Fink and Michaela Atzmüller , as well as the independent American researcher James V. Kohl for their work Human Pheromones: Integrating Neuroendocrinology and Ethology . In 2004 he received the first price in the international tender "Vienna Co Operate 2003" for particularly innovative technological projects of the Vienna Business Agency with the development of software for the analysis of non-verbal behavior, including proxemics . From 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the research group "Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines" at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld (ZIF) with the research topic computer simulation of human communication.

Since 2010 he has been head of the Human Behavior Research Group at the University of Vienna. In 2011 his second book was published with the title Reproduction Machines .

In 2015 he and Elisabeth Oberzaucher received the Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics for his work on Mulai Ismail .

Research priorities

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl Grammer: University of Vienna, department of human anthropology- human behavior research. In: University of Vienna website. Retrieved July 20, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Annette Lessmoellmann: shoving, curls, dredge. In: The time. October 2, 2002, accessed July 20, 2014 .
  3. ^ Franziska K. Müller: It already starts in kindergarten . In: Die Weltwoche . No. 41 , 2006 ( online [accessed July 20, 2014]).
  4. ↑ a b Gabriela Herpell: A question of costs and benefits. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 11, 2010, accessed July 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Mindship International Presentations and Projects by Scholars. (No longer available online.) In: Mindship International website. May 29, 1998, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; Retrieved July 20, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Eva Steinkellner: May I ask? In: Falter . No. 45 , November 7, 2001, pp. 19 .
  7. ↑ Elke Ziegler: Founding Father State . In: profile . No. 26 , June 23, 2003, pp. 18 .
  8. ↑ James V. Kohl, Michaela Atzmüller, Bernhard Fink and Karl Grammer: Human Pheromones: Integrating Neuroendocrinology and Ethology. In: Neuroendocrinology Letters. Volume 2, No. 5, 2001, pp. 309-321, full text
  9. ↑ a b c Prof. Dr. Karl Grammer lecture exposé summer semester 2010. In: University of Mainz website. May 29, 1998. Retrieved July 20, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Homo Sentimentalis: The Evolution of Love. In: Akademie Graz. November 21, 2007, accessed December 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ derStandard.at - "Reproduction success" tested with a mathematical model . Article dated September 18, 2015, accessed November 22, 2015.
  12. ↑ Kristin Lynn Sainani: Q&A: Karl Grammer . In: Nature . tape 526 , 2015, p. 11 , doi : 10.1038 / 526S11a .
personal data
SURNAME Grammer, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German behavioral scientist and evolutionary biologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlacker