Markus Bühner

Markus Bühner (* 1969 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale ) is a German psychologist and professor for psychological methodology and diagnostics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Live and act

Bühner studied psychology at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg until 1996 , graduated with a diploma and received his doctorate in 2000 . In the following years he worked as a research assistant at the Philipps University in Marburg as well as in Munich and Lübeck until he accepted a junior professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2005 . In 2007 he completed his habilitation at the Philipps University of Marburg with the habilitation thesis "Are working memory and attention distinct functions?" This was followed by professional positions in Marburg (2009) and at the University of Graz (2009–2011).

Since 2011 he has held the chair for psychological methodology and diagnostics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. There he was also Vice Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Education and Managing Director of the Department of Psychology.

Bühner was and is also active as an expert and an active member of various professional associations (e.g. Diagnostic and Test Board of Trustees, spokesman for the DPPD specialist group of the German Society for Psychology ). From 2015 to 2019 he was chairman of the Psychology Faculty Conference . Since 2018 he has been 1st Vice President of the German Society for Psychology .

Scientific focus

At the beginning of his scientific career, Bühner dealt intensively with the effects of exercises in concentration and attention tests, as well as with cognitive-psychological questions and research in the field of psychological diagnostics (measurement of concentration, attention, working memory and intelligence).

Bühner's scientific work after completing his doctorate was also shaped by an interest in understanding connections and differences between performance in cognitive tests. In various scientific papers he tested structural models consisting of a wide range of cognitive tasks. An essential finding of this work was to show that intelligence and working memory are strongly overlapping, yet distinct constructs.

Bühner dealt with questionnaire items that increase artificially psychometric parameters such as Cronbach's Alpha due to the very identical content , but which may severely limit the validity of the content. In the recent past, the focus of his work group has increasingly been on the collection of psychologically relevant data about electronic devices in everyday life and the application of machine learning methods to psychological issues.

Works (selection)

• The importance of mental operation and material in assessing concentration test performance. A contribution to the validity of strike-through tests (also dissertation), Kovač Verlag, Hamburg, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8300-0342-7
• Introduction to test and questionnaire construction, Pearson Munich, 2001, ISBN 978-3-86894-033-6
• with Matthias Ziegler: Basics of psychological diagnostics . Düsseldorf: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-16710-7
• with Matthias Zieger: Statistics for Psychologists and Social Scientists , Pearson, Hallbergmoos, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86894-130-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Markus Bühner in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Markus Bühner on the website of the University of Munich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Prof. Dr. Markus Bühner - Chair for Psychological Methodology and Diagnostics - LMU Munich. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} German Society for Psychology: Prof. Dr. Markus Bühner. Retrieved August 29, 2019 . 
3. ^ DGPs: Board of Directors. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .