Michael Schwibbe

Michael H. Schwibbe (born November 23, 1948 in Brilon ) is a German psychologist and cultural anthropologist .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1967 at the humanistic branch of the Leopoldinum in Detmold, Schwibbe studied psychology at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . There he obtained his doctorate in 1981. rer. nat. at the biological faculty. After his assistantship at the Psychological Institute, he moved to the German Primate Center (DPZ) in Göttingen, took over the function of the IT / Communication department and received several teaching assignments from the Georg-August University. He completed his second degree in cultural anthropology in Göttingen in 1989 with a doctorate as Dr. phil.

Schwibbe has published more than ninety publications in international journals on psychophysiology , psycholinguistics , primatology and cultural anthropology . He is a founding member of the Society for Primatology GfP (1988) and the German Society for the History and Theory of Biology (1991) and acts as editor of the international journals "Primate Report" and "Lemur News". In 1985 Schwibbe organized the congress of the "International Primatological Society (IPS)" in Göttingen. At the German Primate Center, the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Munich and Leipzig, he organized exhibitions and lectures on the evolution of hominids as part of the Leibniz Association WGL . In 1994 Schwibbe published a census of primates in human hands in Europe and North Africa. From 1985 to 2007 he was chairman of the IT working group of the Leibniz Association. He had a seat and a vote on the DPZ's supervisory board between 1986 and 1995.

Publications

• with G. Schwibbe: Judgment and Treatment of People of Varied Attractiveness. 48 Psychological Rep. 11, cited by the Supreme Court of the USA in Opinion 481 U, p. 279, 1987.
• as co-author: Peak Centered Power Spectra: Successful attempt to calculate efficient parameters in the Alpha range of EEG. In: Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 52, 1981, pp. 497-500.
• The picture of the woman in Wilhelm Busch. A content-analytical comparison to picture novels, Schwänken, fairy tales and legends. Goltze, Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-88452-846-7 .
• with G. Altmann: The Menzerath Law in Information Processing Systems. Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1989, ISBN 3-487-09144-5 .
• as co-author: On the emotional content of nouns, adjectives and verbs. In: W. Hager, M. Hasselhorn (Hrsg.): Handbuch Deutschsprachiger Wortnormen. Hogrefe, Göttingen / Bern 1994, pp. 272–284. (summarized in the Semantic Atlas)
• with D. Zinner: Effects of temporal sampling patterns of all-occurrence recording in behavioral studies: Many short sampling periods are better than a few long ones. In: Ethology. 103 (3), 1997, pp. 236-246.
• with SS Singer: Right or left, hand or mouth: General-specific preferences in marmosets and tamarins. In: Behavior. 136, 1999, pp. 119-145.