Klaus Fiedler (psychologist)

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Klaus Fiedler (born September 7, 1951 in Wetzlar ) is a German psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Heidelberg .

Life

Fiedler studied psychology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen from 1970 to 1975 , which he graduated with a diploma. There he was then research assistant until 1980 (until 1978 in a project on computer use in psychology studies, then on psycholinguistics, experimental and social psychology). In 1979 he received his doctorate and from 1980 to 1982 a habilitation grant from the German Research Association (DFG) followed. He then worked as an assistant professor in Giessen until 1987, and in 1984 he completed his habilitation there. This was followed by an appointment to a professorship for cognitive and social cognitive psychology in Giessen. In 1990 he was appointed to the University of Mannheim (professorship for social psychology and microsociology) and in 1992 to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (professorship for social psychology), where he still works today. From 2004 to 2005 he held the Theodor Heuss Professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York City , USA.

He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2002 and of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2003 .

In 2000 he was awarded the Leibniz Prize (sponsorship award for German scientists). In 2000 he also received the German Psychology Prize from the German Society for Psychology . In 2008 he was the first to be funded by a Reinhart Koselleck project of the DFG together with five other researchers.

Research topics

His research topics include cognitive psychological as well as social psychological , basic as well as application-oriented topics, such as: metacognition , adaptive cognition , the role of sampling in inductive thinking, information choice, judgment and decision making, priming , pseudocontingencies , constructal level theory , constructive Memory, emotion and cognition, stereotypes , detection of lies.

Fiedler is also involved in the so-called credibility crisis of research, which shows itself in a low or no replicability of results and calls for scientific standards.

Fonts

  • Klaus Fiedler, Peter Juslin (Eds.): Information sampling and adaptive cognition . Cambridge University Press, New York 2006.
  • Klaus Fiedler (Ed.): Social Communication . Psychology Press, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-84169-428-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum vitae on psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de
  2. ^ Member entry by Klaus Fiedler at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on May 18, 2016.
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Klaus Fiedler. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Communication from the Psychological Institute of Heidelberg University
  5. ↑ A researcher who sets a new trend in: BmBF: New dynamics in research pp. 12-14
  6. ↑ Where are the scientific standards for high quality replication research? Psychological Rundschau (2018), 69, pp. 45-56.
personal data
SURNAME Fiedler, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and professor for social psychology at Heidelberg University
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Wetzlar