Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Berlin
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Psychology , sociology , medicine , history , economics , computer science and mathematics
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Management: Ute Frevert , Ralph Hertwig , Ulman Lindenberger , Iyad Rahwan
Homepage: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (short MPIB ; english Max Planck Institute for Human Development ) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society based in Berlin .

The institute is located in the southwest of Berlin in the Wilmersdorf district , directly on the northern border with the Dahlem district and is therefore also included in the Dahlem science location . A large number of other scientific institutions are located there, such as the Free University of Berlin , with which the MPIB works.

research

The research focus of the institute is the development and education of the human being, here primarily basic research is carried out. The term education is broadly defined and includes formal educational processes as well as development processes from toddler to old age.

The TIMS study and the PISA studies are considered to be the best-known research projects, and their results have received a lot of media and political attention.

history

The institute goes back to an initiative by Hellmut Becker , who in 1961 presented his memorandum Plan for an Institute for Educational Research to the Max Planck Society . In November 1962, the Berlin Senate decided to establish an institute for research in the field of education in the Max Planck Society . In 1963 Becker was appointed founding director and the Institute for Educational Research was founded in the Max Planck Society . In 1971 it was given its current name.

Directors

The founding director was Hellmut Becker, who retired in 1981 . In 1964 Friedrich Edding (em. 1977), Dietrich Goldschmidt (em. 1982) and Saul B. Robinsohn († 1972) were appointed first-generation directors. Peter M. Roeder (em. 1995) followed as the second generation of directors in 1973 and, from 1973, initially as a member of the management committee, Wolfgang Edelstein (em. 1997) in 1981 . This was followed by Paul B. Baltes in 1980 , Karl Ulrich Mayer in 1983 , Jürgen Baumert (em. 2010) in 1996 and Gerd Gigerenzer (em. 2017) as the third generation of directors in 1997 . Furthermore, Ulman Lindenberger was appointed directors in 2004 , Ute Frevert in 2007 , Ralph Hertwig in 2012 and Iyad Rahwan in 2019 .

organization

The institute belongs to the humanities, social and human sciences section of the Max Planck Society . The institute's approximately 350 employees are interdisciplinary in four research areas, a Lise Meitner group and three research groups.

Research areas

Lise Meitner Group

  • Lise Meitner Group Environmental Neurosciences (Head: Simone Kühn)

Research groups

  • Max Planck Research Group iSearch | Search for information, ecological and active learning among children (head: Azzurra Ruggeri)
  • Max Planck Research Group Neural Foundations of Learning and Decision-Making (Head: Nicolas Schuck)
  • Max Planck Research Group Naturalistic Social Cognition: Development and Evolution Theory Perspectives (Head: Annie E. Wertz)

There are also two centers:

  • Research at the Harding Center for Risk Literacy , which opened in 2009, focuses on the vision of the responsible citizen who knows how to deal with the risks of a modern technological world in an informed manner. The director of the Harding Center is Gerd Gigerenzer .
  • The Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research , founded in 2014, is the result of the collaboration between the Max Planck Society and University College London, which began in 2011 . The Max Planck UCL Center researches the causes of mental illness and the causes of individual differences in cognitive development. The directors are Ray Dolan for University College London and Ulman Lindenberger for the Max Planck Society.

literature

  • Institute for Educational Research in the Max Planck Society / Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max Planck Institute for Human Development) , in: Eckart Henning , Marion Kazemi : Handbuch zur Institutgeschichte der Kaiser-Wilhelm- / Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Funding for Science 1911–2011 - Data and Sources , Berlin 2016, 2 volumes, volume 1: Institutes and research centers A – L ( online, PDF, 75 MB ), pages 163–178 (chronology of the institute).
  • Jan-Martin Wiarda: What does the consultation with the advisor do? About the consequences of policy advice for science using the example of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development . Dissertation, Faculty of Culture, Social Sciences and Education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2015 ( online, PDF, 2.47 MB )
  • Ulrike Thoms: History of the Max Planck Institute for Educational Research in Berlin , in: Stephan Moebius , Andrea Ploder (ed.): Handbook of the history of German-speaking sociology. Wiesbaden: Springer 2016, 1–17.

Web links

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b history of the institute . Website of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, accessed on May 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b timetable . Website of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, accessed on May 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ About us . Harding Center for Risk Literacy website, accessed May 20, 2017.
  4. ^ About the Center . Website of the Max Planck UCL Center for Computational Psychiatry and Aging Research, accessed on May 20, 2017.

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 5.7 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 13.8 ″  E