Martin Irle
Martin Irle (born January 26, 1927 in Witten ; † October 26, 2013 ) was a German social psychologist .
Life
From the winter semester 1948/49 Irle studied sociology , psychology and pedagogy at the University of Göttingen . Professors Johannes von Allesch and Kurt Wilde were important teachers . Interest in Kurt Lewin's work developed early on. In 1952 he passed his diploma examination in psychology . From 1954 he was head of the psychological service of the German Human Resources Association in Frankfurt, one year later he received his doctorate. rer. nat.
In 1956 he took over the management of the industrial sociology department at the George Washington Institute for Comparative Social Research in Stuttgart, and in 1957 he became a research assistant at the Institute for Empirical Sociology at the Mannheim Business School. Five years later he completed his habilitation in sociology and social psychology at the Mannheim Business School. In 1964 he was appointed full professor, in 1969 he became the Theodor Heuss Professor at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. This was followed by a visiting professorship in 1973 at the Political Science Department of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1986 Irle turned down a call to the Free University of Berlin , and in 1992 he retired .
From 1964 until his retirement in 1992, Irle held the chair for social psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim . From 1968 to 1983 he headed the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 24 he initiated for “Social and Economic Psychological Decision Research ” of the German Research Foundation . Together with Hubert Feger , Carl Friedrich Graumann and Klaus Holzkamp , he founded the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie in 1970 . From 1976 to 1978 he was President of the German Society for Psychology .
His friendship with Leon Festinger (1919–1989), who had studied with Kurt Lewin, had a particular impact on Irle's socio-psychological work. Martin Irle had two children. His daughter Eva Irle is professor of psychopathology and neuropsychology at the Center for Psychological Medicine at the University of Göttingen.
Irle was a member of the SPD local association in Weinheim for over four decades - until his death .
Fonts (selection)
- BIT. Occupational Interest Test . Verlag für Psychologie, Göttingen 1955 (2nd edition, together with W. Allehoff, 1988)
- Social Systems - a critical analysis of the theory of formal and informal organizations. Publishing house for psychology, Göttingen 1963
- (Ed.): Texts from experimental social psychology. Luchterhand Verlag, Neuwied 1969
- Power and decisions in organizations - study against the line-staff principle . Academic Publishing Company, Frankfurt a. M. 1971
- Textbook of social psychology . Hans Huber publishing house, Bern 1975
- (together with Volker Möntmann (Hrsg.)): Leon Festinger: Theory of cognitive dissonance . Bern 1978: Verlag Hans Huber
- (as editor): Attractiveness of decision alternatives and certainty of judgment . Huber, Bern 1978
- Studies in Decision Making. Social Psychological and Socio-Economic Analyzes. de Gruyter, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-11-008087-7 .
- (together with Fritz Strack): Psychology in Germany: a report on the state of research and teaching . Verlag für Chemie, Weinheim 1983
- Social Psychology Course. Luchterhand Verlag, Neuwied 1988, ISBN 3-472-75106-1 .
- (together with Dieter Frey (Ed.)): Theorien der Sozialpsychologie, Vol.1, Cognitive Theorien . Huber, Bern 2002, 2nd completely revised and expanded edition ISBN 3-456-82038-0
- (Ed.): Methods and Applications in Market Psychology. 1983, Hogrefe Verlag ISBN 3-8017-0189-1 .
- (together with Dieter Frey (ed.)): Theories of Social Psychology, Vol. 2, Social Learning, Interaction and Group Processes. Huber, Bern 2002, 2nd completely revised and expanded edition
- (together with Dieter Frey (Ed.)): Theories of Social Psychology, Vol. 3, Motivation and Information Processing. Huber, Bern 2002, 2nd completely revised and expanded edition
Quotes
"Nobody has done so much for social psychology in Germany as Martin Irle."
"At the end of the seventies, Martin Irle made a casual assessment on the A4 corridor, which turned out to be a clairvoyant sign: Surveys are quasi-experiments with self-selection of the test subjects without replication."
Honors
The European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) honored Martin Irle with the Jean-Paul Codol Award at its conference in Würzburg in 2005:
“... in particular the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 24 on the subject of 'decision-making behavior' initiated by Professor Irle developed into a new generation of German social psychology and thus one of the most successful Collaborative Research Centers in the history of the German Research Foundation (DFG). As long-time spokesman for the SFB 24, Professor Irle promoted the networking of young researchers with the most internationally outstanding social psychologists at the time, such as Leon Festinger , Henri Tajfel or Harold Kelley, and in this way helped his employees to achieve extraordinary careers. Many of these now occupy top scientific positions in research and teaching. Professor Irle has thus contributed to the global visibility of German and European social psychology - this is also the verdict of the jury. "
The German Society for Psychology honored Irle's work with a prize named after him. The Martin Irle Prize honors psychological scientists who, as mentors, have enabled and motivated students, doctoral candidates and post-doctoral candidates to embark on a scientific career in psychology. The Martin Irle Prize is endowed with prize money of 1,000 euros and was first awarded on the occasion of the 50th congress of the German Society for Psychology in Leipzig in 2016.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Johannes von Allesch in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
- ↑ Entry on Kurt Wilde in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis (accessed on July 28, 2015)
- ↑ www.newschool.edu ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; English
- ↑ www.stonybrook.edu ( Memento of the original dated June 29, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; English, PDF file
- ↑ spdnet.sozi.info ( memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.uni-wuerzburg.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.gesis.org ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; PDF file
- ↑ www.uni-mannheim.de ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , see also www.easp.eu
Web links
- Literature by and about Martin Irle in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mourning for Professor emeritus Dr. Martin Irle. Press release from the University of Mannheim on October 30, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Irle, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Witten |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 26, 2013 |