Viktor Sarris
Viktor Sarris (born December 1, 1939 in Cologne ) is a professor emeritus for psychology, especially general psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His focus is on psychophysics and perceptual psychology as well as the history of psychology.
Life
Sarris studied psychology, psychiatry and philosophy at the universities of Hamburg and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1959 . He completed this in 1965 as a qualified psychologist. It was 1966 on the psychophysics and the adaptation level theory at the University of Hamburg Dr. phil. doctorate and habilitation in 1970 at the University of Düsseldorf on perception and judgment: reference systems in psychophysics .
Sarris is the son of the animal psychologist and educator Emanuel Georg Sarris (1899–1971) and the educationalist Irmgard Sarris (1917–2015).
He taught at the University of Düsseldorf (1971–1972) and the JW Goethe University at the Max-Wertheimer Chair for Psychology (1973–2005). He declined offers to the universities of Mainz (1970), Hagen (1976) and Greifswald (1992, founding professorship).
In his work he mainly dealt with psychological methodology, psychophysics in humans and animals, perceptual psychology and the history of psychology. He researched cognitive psychophysics (" relational psychophysics ") at different ages in humans and animals. He has also published works on the life and work of Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler in Germany and the USA.
Works (selection)
- Perception and judgment . Göttingen, 1971/1975.
- (with A. Parducci (Ed.)): Perspectives in Psychological Experimentation: Toward the Year 2000 . Hillsdale, NJ, 1984 (German translation: 1987, 2nd ed.).
- Experimental psychology internship (3 volumes). Weinheim, 1985; Lengerich, 1995 (2nd edition).
- Methodological foundations of experimental psychology (2 vols.). Munich, 1990 & 1992.
- (with S. Reiss): Brief Guide to Experimental Psychology. Munich, 2005/2012.
- Relational Psychophysics in Humans and Animals: A Comparative-Developmental Approach . London, 2006.
- Bridging the gap between Gestalt psychology and psychophysics . In K. Noguchi (Ed.), Tokyo, 2007.
- Relational psychophysics: Messages from Ebbinghaus' and Wertheimer's work. Philosophical Psychology, 23, 207-216.
- Max Wertheimer in Frankfurt and thereafter . In L. Spillmann (Ed.), Cambridge, Mass, 2012.
Web links
- Literature by and about Viktor Sarris in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Viktor Sarris of the Institute of Psychology and the U3L at the JW Goethe University Frankfurt
Individual evidence
- ^ DGPs: Directory of Members. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
- ^ DGPs: Max Wertheimer: Life and Work. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarris, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German university professor, professor of psychology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |