Renate Volbert

Renate Volbert (* 1957 ) is a German psychologist and legal psychological expert. She completed her studies in psychology in 1982 at Bielefeld University . She did her doctorate in 1990 at the Technical University of Berlin with a dissertation on "Homicides in the case of enrichment". She has been an adjunct professor at the Free University of Berlin since 2009 . In addition, she has held the professorship for legal psychology at the Psychological University Berlin since 2015.

Among other things, she has dealt with memories and their psychological evaluation. Accordingly, false memories (recovered memory) of traumatic events can also be generated. People with dissociative tendencies and good imagination are more likely than others to generate fake memories because they better integrate information from external sources into autobiographical narratives. According to Volbert, it is extremely problematic to derive connections between traumatic experiences and dissociative symptoms on the basis of not externally confirmed self-reports about traumatic experiences.

In 2019 Volbert was awarded the Alfred Binet Prize .

Fonts

• with M. Steller and A. Galow: The credibility report. In: H.-L. Kröber, D. Dölling, N. Leygraf, H. Saß: Manual of forensic psychiatry. Volume 2: Psychopathological foundations and practice of forensic psychiatry in criminal law . Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7985-1745-5 , pp. 623-689.
• Assessments of statements about trauma. Memories and their psychological evaluation. Huber, Bern 2004.
• D. Busse, R. Volbert, M. Steller: Stressful experience of children in main negotiations. (= Row right ). Federal Ministry of Justice, Bonn 1996.
• R. Volbert, V. Pieters: On the situation of child witnesses. Empirical findings on the causes of pollution and on reform measures. (= Row right ). published by the Federal Ministry of Justice. Forum Verlag Godesberg, Bonn 1993.
• R. Volbert (1992). Homicides in the context of acts of enrichment. Biographical and situational development conditions. (= New Criminological Studies. Volume 9). Dissertation. Fink, Munich 1992.
• R. Volbert, M. Steller: Handbook of legal psychology. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2008.

Web links

• Prof. Dr. phil. Renate Volbert. at the Institute for Forensic Psychiatry at the Charité. (forensik-berlin.de)