Rudolf H. White

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Rudolf H. White (2017)

Rudolf H. Weiß (born June 10, 1936 in Neustadt an der Aisch ) is a German psychologist . In addition, between 1975 and 2015 he was a member of the municipal council and deputy mayor of his home town of Auenwald .

Life

Rudolf H. Weiß studied psychology, education and philosophy at the universities of Bamberg , Munich and Würzburg from 1956 to 1963 . He earned a degree as a psychologist and a PhD afterwards to Dr. phil. He then became a research assistant at the Psychological Institute of the University of Würzburg; The focus of his work was on talent and intelligence research. After that, as a school psychologist, from 1967 to 1970 he set up and expanded the educational counseling center in Schwäbisch Hall. From 1970 to 1977 he was a study professor at the Institute for Educational Planning and Study Information (IBS) in Stuttgart; As a senior school psychologist, he was responsible for educational counseling and scientific support for model schools in Baden-Württemberg. He then worked at the Stuttgart Oberschulamt for school psychology, counseling teacher training and advanced training for addiction prevention teachers, as well as carrying out empirical research. His activity at the Stuttgart Oberschulamt ended in 2001. From the beginning of the 1990s until 1998, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture in Saxony, he conducted courses for teachers of all types of schools on the prevention of addiction and violence and on advisory teacher training. His research activities related to intelligence diagnostics as well as media usage and media effects research.

Research and work

As an intelligence diagnostician, Weiss has taken up and revised the English-language intelligence tests from Cattell for the German-speaking area. The basic intelligence test CFT has been developed and newly developed by him for different age groups (CFT 1, CFT 1-R, CFT 20, CFT 20-R, CFT 3) and in different versions (e.g. expanded to include a vocabulary and number sequence test) been. This test family is one of the most examined intelligence tests in the German-speaking area. The CFT 20-R has been adapted for ten EU countries as well as Mexico. There is also a PC version for the Arabic language and an edition for people with intellectual disabilities. Weiss conducted critical research on the so-called Flynn effect and described it as a statistical artifact.

Since 1988 he has been researching the effects of the media , in particular the effects of horror and violence on young people, initially focusing on violent video consumption and later on computer games . Since 2009 he has been a member of the board of the association “Media Violence - International Research and Consulting eV” and has published several studies in this context. The Saxon Youth Study (1993) , which was commissioned by the Saxon Ministry of Culture , was developed in this context .

In 2008 he published together with Günter L. Huber of the University of Tuebingen and Werner Hopf, a psychologist in the school counseling Upper Bavaria-East, the Tübingen study violence in the media and youth violence or Media Violence and Youth Violence - A 2-Year Longitudinal Study . The authors of this longitudinal study come to the conclusion that the consumption of media violence has a greater effect on students' later propensity for violence than other risk factors. Therefore, in his lectures on the subject of media violence creates violence, Weiß calls for the “outlawing of inhuman violent media ” and “blood-drenching computer games” that “border on virtual fascism”. These conclusions have been criticized in circles of the computer game industry.

Honors

On July 26, 2019, Rudolf H. Weiß was awarded the Staufer Medal for special services to the state of Baden-Württemberg by State Secretary Winfried Klenk on behalf of Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann .

On January 25, 2015, he received the silver badge of honor of the municipal council from Mayor Karl Ostfalk of the municipality of Auenwald for outstanding services to the municipality. In May 2012 he was awarded a stele and a certificate for 30 years of voluntary work in the municipal council and as 2nd mayor by the municipal assembly of Baden-Württemberg .

Works (selection)

Intelligence and talent research

  • RH Weiß: Scientific support for the model schools in Baden-Württemberg: Conception of the Institute for Educational Planning and Study Information Stuttgart (IBS); first experience; Materials. Neckar-Verlag, 1972.
  • RH White: Basic Intelligence Test Scale 3 (CFT 3). Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1971.
  • RH White: Basic Intelligence Test Scale 2 (CFT 2). Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1972.
  • RH White, B. White: Basic intelligence test, scale 2 (CFT 20-R) revision (CFT 20-R). Hogrefe, Göttingen 2006.
  • RH Weiß, Jürgen Osterland, Raymond B. Cattell: Basic intelligence test scale 1 (CFT 1). Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig 1977.
  • RH Weiß, J. Osterland: Basic intelligence test eSkala 1 (CFT 1-R) revision. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2013.
  • RH White: Vocabulary and number sequence test (WS + ZF-R) revision. 2. Revised and enlarged edition. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2019.
  • RH white: Basic intelligence test, scale 2 (CFT 20-R) revision. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2019.

Media research

  • RH Weiß: Horror Violence Video Consumption among Adolescents. In Helmut Lukesch (ed.): When violence becomes entertainment. S. Roderer Verlag, Regensburg 1990, pp. 47-91.
  • RH Weiß: Fascinated by violence: horror - violence - video consumption among young people; Emotional reactions - personality - identification of perpetrator / victim - possibilities for intervention. Youth Protection Campaign , Baden-Württemberg State Office, 1991, ISBN 3-923970-16-1 .
  • RH Weiß: Violence, media and aggressiveness in students. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-8017-1247-8 .
  • WH Hopf, G. Huber, RH Weiß: Media Violence and Youth Violence. A 2-Year Longitudinal Study. In: Media Psychology. Hogrefe, Göttingen 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Candidates presented by the Independent Voter Community Auenwald eV for the municipal elections in Baden-Württemberg 2009 on June 7, 2009.
  2. ↑ ... and Dr. Rudolf Weiß, formerly Oberschulamt Stuttgart, ... ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-tuebingen.de
  3. ↑ RH Weiß: Is IQ diagnostics still up to date - or: What is it about the 'Flynn effect'? In: I. Hertzstell, S. Blaschke, I. Loisch, C. Hanckel (eds.): From the Nuremberg funnel to the laptop. School between cognitive and social-emotional learning. Congress report of the 16th Federal Conference for School Psychology 2004 in Nuremberg. Deutscher Psychologen Verlag, Bonn 2006, pp. 340–357.
  4. ↑ Homepage of the association "Media Violence - International Research and Advice eV"
  5. ↑ RH Weiß: Violent media consumption and right-wing radicalism among schoolchildren in Baden-Württemberg and Saxony - causal analysis of a suspected connection or “How does that get into these heads?” Presentation at the 36th conference of experimental psychologists (36th TeaPP) on April 30th 1994 in Munich. (1994/95).
  6. ^ Theories, Methods, and Applications. In: Journal of Media Psychology. Volume 20, No. 3/2008.
  7. ↑ Researchgate : Media violence creates violence. A new longitudinal study on impact research.
  8. ↑ Should first-person shooters be banned? In: Focus . No. 31, 2016 ( focus.de ).
  9. ↑ Debate 01, The pros and cons of «Killergames», October 30, 2008: Media violence creates violence - A new longitudinal study on impact research. Rudolf H. Weiß ( medienheft.ch ).
  10. ↑ Media psychologist Weiß: Outlaw killer games: In his lecture at the Burgstetten elementary school, media psychologist Rudolf Weiß gave a lecture on killer games and how to deal with those who play them. He spoke of social ostracism and blood-drenched computer games. May 6, 2009, ( derwesten.de ).
  11. ↑ Peter Wark: Bordering on virtual fascism. In: Backnanger Kreiszeitung. April 10, 2010 ( mediengewalt.eu PDF).
  12. ↑ The dangers of violent games are irresponsibly played down. Press release of March 13, 2009 ( premiumpresse.de ).
  13. ↑ Thesis paper with conclusions on the lecture by Rudolf H. Weiß at the conference of "Sichtwechsel eV" in Berlin with the general topic "Mediatization of Childhood" from October 19-20, 2009 (October 19, 2:45 pm) about youth protection issues Consequences from longitudinal studies on the effects of media violence . ( mediengewalt.eu PDF).
  14. ↑ Stefan Höltgen: The doctors and the bad gamer cattle. In: Telepolis . August 9, 2010 ( heise.de ).
  15. ^ Shane Fenton: La parole à l'accusation: Rudolf Weiß. ( gamingsciece, 27/6/2013 ).
  16. ^ Ottmar Letzgus: Staufer Medal for Rudolf Weiß. A persistent fighter against killer games. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . November 1, 2019 ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de ).
  17. ^ Wolfgang Gleich: Staufer Medal for Rudolf White. Longstanding local council received high distinction from the state of Baden-Württemberg. In: Backnanger Kreiszeitung . November 5, 2019 ( bkz.de ).
personal data
SURNAME White, Rudolf H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch