Oswald Huber

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Oswald Huber (born June 18, 1942 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian psychologist and cartoonist .

After an apprenticeship as a repro photographer, the Huber graduated in 1960, he took in 1966 at a night school in Vienna the Matura after. Then he studied psychology , philosophy and zoology at the University of Salzburg and was established in 1972 with a thesis on decision theory to Dr. phil. PhD . From 1971 to 1989 he was an assistant at the Institute for Psychology there. In 1982 the habilitation followed and from 1983 to 1986 a substitute professor at the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . From 1989 to 2013 he was professor of psychology there. He has been retired since 2013.

He deals with risk decisions and computer simulations of decision-making processes. In contrast to decision-making processes in simple lotteries, he is interested in real-life decision-making situations in which he determines that his test subjects are looking for risk defusing operators.

He published his first cartoons as a student. Today his drawings appear under the abbreviation “OH” in Medical Tribune , FAZ , Werbewoche , Spektrum der Wissenschaft and NZZ am Sonntag, for example .

His textbook The Psychological Experiment , which is also enriched with his cartoons, is one of the standard works of the first semester in psychology studies.

Publications

  • Oswald Huber: On the logic of multidimensional preferences in decision theory (= experience and thinking, volume 49). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-03907-6 , also: Dissertation, University of Salzburg
  • Oswald Huber: Deciding as problem solving. Huber, Bern [ua] 1982, ISBN 3-456-81226-4
  • Oswald Huber: The Psychological Experiment. An introduction. Huber, Bern [et al.] 1987, ISBN 3-456-81527-1 ; 6th edition, Hogrefe, Bern 2013, ISBN 978-3-456-85299-7
  • Oswald Huber: Cartoons. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-924875-92-8
  • Oswald Huber: Do something! Business cartoons. Huber, Bern [ua] 1999, ISBN 3-456-83240-0
  • Oswald Huber: Find yourself! Cartoons for psychologists. Huber, Bern [ua] 1999, ISBN 3-456-83239-7

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personal data
SURNAME Huber, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian psychologist and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg