Tilmann Betsch
Tilmann Betsch (born December 8, 1963 in Berlin ) is a German social psychologist and university professor .
Life
After graduating from high school in Waiblingen , Betsch first studied political science , German and sociology at the University of Stuttgart from 1983 . He interrupted his studies for community service , then studied sociology and psychology at the University of Mannheim from 1986 . After his degree in sociology in 1991, followed in 1995 promotion to Dr. phil. at the University of Heidelberg , with the work The Routine Model of Action Selection . Until his habilitation in 2001 in Heidelberg, he was employed as a research assistant to Klaus Fiedler and Martin Weber .
From 2001 to 2002 Betsch took over the professorship for social psychology at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken , in 2003 he followed the call to the chair for social, organizational and economic psychology at the University of Erfurt , which he had already represented from 2002 to 2003.
Research priorities
Betsch mainly deals with the psychology of judgment and decision-making. He expanded his research area to include the development of decision-making and judgment skills.
Publications (selection)
- with Joachim Funke and Henning Plessner: Thinking: judging, making decisions and solving problems. Heidelberg 2011: Springer Medicine. ISBN 978-3-642-12473-0 .
- with Henning Plessner and Cornelia Betsch : Intuition in judgment and decision making. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ 2008, ISBN 978-0805857412 .
- with Arno Scherzberg , Helge Peukert , Alexander Thumfart , Peter Walgenbach , Gerhard Wegner : Klugheit. Term - Concepts - Applications , New Political Science Series , Volume 8, Tübingen 2008: Mohr-Siebeck. ISBN 978-3161496905
- with Arno Scherzberg, Hermann-Josef Blanke , Arno Waschkuhn , Peter Walgenbach and Gerhard Wegner: Smart decision-making: disciplinary foundations and interdisciplinary connections. , New Political Science Series, Volume 4, Tübingen 2006: Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 978-3161489884
- with Jeannette Schmid : Aggression . Special issue of the journal for social psychology (Vol. 30, 1999). ISSN 0044-3514
- The routine model of action selection . Aachen 1995: Shaker. ISBN 3-8265-0967-6
Web links
- Professor Betsch's website at uni-erfurt.de
- Tilmann Betsch in the Who is Who of the University of Erfurt (has not been updated since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Betsch, Tilmann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist and sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |