Roy Builder
Roy F. Baumeister (born May 16, 1953 ) has been professor of social psychology at the University of Queensland in Australia since 2016 , with a focus on sexuality, self-control, self-assertion mechanisms, motivation and aggression.
From 1970 until his doctorate in 1978 he studied at Princeton University , in Heidelberg and at Duke University . He then spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley . In 1984 he became an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University and worked there until 1989. During this period, he was a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin from 1986 to 1987.
Roy Baumeister is one of the very few researchers in the world who has dealt scientifically with unrequited love .
In 2015 Baumeister was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Fonts (selection)
Baumeister published over 400 texts
- Your Own Worst Enemy: Understanding the Paradox of Self-Defeating Behavior (1993)
- Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (1997)
- Social Psychology and Human Nature (2007)
- Losing Control: How and Why People Fail at Self-Regulation (1994)
- The Social Dimension of Sex (2001)
- Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love (1992)
- Masochism and the Self (1989)
- Identity: Cultural Change and the Struggle for Self (1986)
- Escaping the Self: Alcoholism, Spirituality, Masochism, and Other Flights from the Burden of Selfhood (1991)
- Meanings of Life (1991)
- The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life (2005)
- Self in Social Psychology: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology) (2000)
- Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (2 Volume Set) (2007)
- Social Psychology and Human Sexuality: Key Readings (Key Readings in Social Psychology) (2001)
- Self-Esteem: The Puzzle of Low Self-Regard (The Plenum Series in Social / Clinical Psychology) (Hardcover) (2012)
- Public Self and Private Self (Springer Series in Social Psychology) (2011)
- Handbook of Self-Regulation: Research, Theory, and Applications research (2016)
- Is There Anything Good About Men ?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men (2010)
- Free Will and Consciousness: How Might They Work? (2010)
- Advanced Social Psychology: The State of the Science (2010)
As co-author:
- Psychology of Self-Regulation: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes (Sydney Symposium in Social Psychology)
- Human Sexuality: Meeting Your Basic Needs
- Do Emotions Help or Hurt Decision Making ?: A Hedgefoxian Perspective
- Time and Decision: Economic and Psychological Perspectives on Intertemporal Choice
- Are We Free? Psychology and Free Will
- with John M. Tierney : The Power of Discipline , Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39360-5 (American original edition: Willpower. Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength , Penguin Book Press, New York 2011)
Web links
- Literature by and about Roy Baumeister in the catalog of the German National Library
- Roy Builder. In: Official website of the university. University of Queensland, accessed December 6, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Roy Baumeister: Vita. (doc; 216 kB) (No longer available online.) April 23, 2011, p. 43 , archived from the original on July 3, 2011 ; accessed on August 11, 2011 (English, source: The Baumeister / Tice Lab ). 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Builder, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Builder, Roy F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American social psychologist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1953 |