Wolfgang Hell (psychologist)

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Wolfgang Hell (* 1948 in Deckbergen ) is an emeritus professor of psychology .

Career

Hell completed his studies in physics in Frankfurt and Heidelberg in 1974 with a diploma. He then completed a postgraduate course in psychology at the University of Konstanz and received his doctorate on the subject of perceptual psychology in 1977 as a Dr. rer. soc. During his time as a research assistant at the University of Konstanz from 1977 to 1986 , he completed his habilitation in psychology in 1985. He was then professor of general psychology there for one year before moving to the University of Münster as professor of applied and industrial psychology in 1987 , where he worked until his retirement in 2011. One focus of his work was research on thinking and memory illusions.

Functions

Hell is a member of the Science Council of the Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences . Among other things, he deals with psychological explanations for paranormal experiences.

Publications (selection)

  • G. Gigerenzer , W. Hell, H. Blank: Presentation and Content: The Use of Base Rates as a Continuous Variable. In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Volume 14, No. 3, 1988, pp. 513-525.
  • Wolfgang Hell, Gerd Gigerenzer, Siegfried Gauggel, Maria Mall, Michael Müller: Hindsight bias: An interaction of automatic and motivational factors? In: Memory & Cognition. Volume 16, No. 6, 1988, pp. 533-538.
  • Wolfgang Hell, Klaus Fiedler, Gerd Gigerenzer (eds.): Cognitive illusions, failures and mechanisms of judgment, thinking and remembering. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, 1993.
  • Rüdiger F. Pohl, Wolfgang Hell: No Reduction in Hindsight Bias after Complete Information and Repeated Testing. In: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Volume 67, No. 1, 1996, pp. 49-58.
  • Wolfgang Hell: Memory illusions. In: Ernst Peter Fischer (ed.): Memory and memory. Piper Verlag, 1997/98.
  • Catrin Rode, Leda Cosmides , Wolfgang Hell, John Tooby : When and why do people avoid unknown probabilities in decisions under uncertainty? Testing some predictions from optimal foraging theory. In: Cognition. Volume 72, No. 3, 1999, pp. 269-304.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b GWUP - The Skeptics - Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hell. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SkepKon ​​- Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hell. Retrieved June 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wissenschaftskommunikation.de. Accessed June 2, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Hell, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Deck mountains