Peter Vorderer

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Peter Vorderer

Peter Vorderer (* 1959 in Mannheim ) is a German psychologist and sociologist as well as a university professor for media and communication studies.

Life and work

After graduating from high school , Vorderer studied psychology and sociology at the University of Heidelberg from 1980 to 1987 and studied sociology at the University of Mannheim from 1982 to 1989, which he completed in 1987 with a diploma in psychology and in 1989 as a diploma in sociology . He also studied social psychology at New York University and the University of Michigan from 1983 to 1984 . During his time in Heidelberg, Vorderer was a close associate of the psychologist and literary studies Norbert Groeben . Groeben and Vorderer advocate the further development of the research direction in empirical literary studies. Vorderer was involved in the development of the Heidelberg method for the structure-laying technique. He initially retained this focus of work during his time as a research assistant at the Institute for Communication, Media and Musicology at the Technical University of Berlin . In 1992 he received his doctorate in media studies. From 1993 to 1994 he was a substitute professor for psychology at the University of Toronto . This was followed by professorships for media studies at the Institute for Journalism and Communication Research at the University of Music and Theater Hanover from 1994 to 2002 and for communication studies from 2002 to 2007 at the Annenberg School for Communication and for psychology from 2004 to 2007 at the College of Letters , Arts and Sciences from the University of Southern California . During this time, Vorderer developed into the leading international representative of entertainment research. Between 2007 and 2010 he was Front Professor and Chairman of the Communication Studies Department at the Free University of Amsterdam and Scientific Director of the Center for Advanced Media Research Amsterdam. In 2010 he took over the professorship for media and communication studies at the University of Mannheim. From 2014 to 2015 he was President of the International Communication Association . In July 2015, he was appointed "Yangtze River Scholar" at Jiaotong University in Shanghai. He has been a Fellow of the International Communication Association since June 2016.

Publications (selection)

  • Peter Vorderer, Norbert Groeben: Reader Psychology - Reading Motivation - Reading Effect. Aschendorff, Münster 1988, ISBN 3402043017 .
  • Peter Vorderer, Roland Mangold, Gary Bente: Textbook of Media Psychology. Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen u. a. 2004, ISBN 3801714896 .
  • Peter Vorderer, Jennings Bryant: Playing Video Games: Motives, Responses, and Consequences. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, New Jersey 2006, ISBN 0-8058-5322-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Music and Drama Hanover: biography of Peter Vorderer
  2. Press release from the University of Mannheim
  3. ^ University of Mannheim - curriculum vitae. Retrieved August 5, 2017 .