Thomas Mussweiler

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Thomas Mussweiler (born July 6, 1969 in Wittlich ) is a German social psychologist .

Life

After studying psychology in Trier and Worcester, MA, USA , he received his doctorate in 1997 at the University of Trier and qualified as a professor five years later at the University of Würzburg . From 1995 to 1998 he worked there as a research assistant on the DFG project “Judgment and Memory”. With a postdoctoral fellowship from the German Research Foundation, he carried out a research stay at Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management in Chicago until 2000 . From 2000 to 2004 he was head of an Emmy Noether junior research group at the University of Würzburg. From 2002 to 2003 he represented there a professor of labor , operational and organizational psychology . From 2005 he held a professorship for social psychology at the University of Cologne . From 2015 to 2016, Mussweiler was also Vice-Speaker of the “University of Cologne Center of Excellence for Social and Economic Behavior” (C-SEB). Since 2016 he has been teaching and researching at the London Business School , where he currently holds seminars for executives on the subject of "High Performance People Skills for Leaders".

research

His research areas include social cognition , judgment and decision-making processes for anchor heuristics , automatic behavior, self-judgments, stereotypes and comparison processes. The selective accessibility model (SAM) established by him and examined experimentally explains the emergence of assimilation and contrast effects in judgment decisions and social comparisons. However, independent studies from 2019 failed when attempting to confirm the basic assumptions of the selective availability model.

In 2001 he was appointed to the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . He was a member of the Junge Akademie from 2001 to 2006.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Thomas Mussweiler: Comparison processes in social judgment: Mechanisms and consequences . In: Psychological Review . tape 110 , no. 3 , June 2003, p. 472-489 , doi : 10.1037 / 0033-295X.110.3.472 .
  • Thomas Mussweiler, Kai Epstude: Relatively fast! Efficiency advantages of comparative thinking . In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General . tape 138 , no. 1 , January 2009, p. 1-21 , doi : 10.1037 / a0014374 .
  • Thomas Mussweiler, Katja Rüter, Kai Epstude: The man who wasn't there: Subliminal social comparison standards influence self-evaluation . In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology . tape 40 , no. 5 , August 2004, p. 689-696 , doi : 10.1016 / j.jesp.2004.01.004 .
  • Adam D. Galinsky, Thomas Mussweiler: First offers as anchors: The role of perspective-taking and negotiator focus . In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . tape 81 , 2001, p. 657-669 , doi : 10.1037 / 0022-3514.81.4.657 .
  • Thomas Mussweiler, Jens Förster: The sex → aggression link: A perception-behavior dissociation . In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . tape 79 , 2000, pp. 507-520 , doi : 10.1037 / 0022-3514.79.4.507 .
  • Thomas Mussweiler, Fritz Strack: The use of category and exemplar knowledge in the solution of anchoring tasks . In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . tape 78 , no. 6 , May 2000, pp. 1038-1052 , doi : 10.1037 / 0022-3514.78.6.1038 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C-SEB
  2. ^ London Business School
  3. ^ High Performance People Skills for Leaders. Retrieved July 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Mussweiler: Comparison processes in social judgment: Mechanisms and consequences . In: Psychological Review . tape 110 , no. 3 , June 2003, p. 472-489 , doi : 10.1037 / 0033-295X.110.3.472 .
  5. ^ Adam JL Harris, Fi BN Blower, Sophie A. Rodgers, Sandra Lagator, Elise Page: Failures to replicate a key result of the selective accessibility theory of anchoring. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General . July 11, 2019, ISSN  1939-2222 , doi : 10.1037 / xge0000644 ( apa.org [accessed August 28, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Member entry by Thomas Mussweiler (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on June 11, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Mussweiler, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German social psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittlich