Wolfgang Mack (psychologist)
Wolfgang Mack (born December 24, 1961 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German psychologist .
Life
He studied psychology (diploma) at the University of Würzburg (1983–1990) and psychology ( doctorate ) at the University of Munich (minor subjects: empirical pedagogy and sociology), doctorate in 1995 and habilitation at the University of Frankfurt am Main in 2002. From 1991 to 1994 he scholarship from the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in the Developmental Psychology Department (Director: Franz Emanuel Weinert ). From 1995 to 1996 he was a research associate at the DFG Innovation College "Formal Models of Cognitive Complexity" at the Institute for Psychology at the University of Potsdam . From 1996 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Psychology, Developmental Psychology Unit in Frankfurt am Main . From 2003 to 2004 he was a professor for educational psychology at the Institute for Educational Psychology at the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 2005 to 2007 he was a research assistant in the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center / Research College 435 “Knowledge Culture and Social Change” at the University of Frankfurt am Main. From 2008 to 2013 he taught as a university professor for psychology in the field of general and educational psychology at the FernUniversität in Hagen . Since 2013 he has been a university professor for general psychology at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich .
His main research interests are action memory, memory disorders, action psychology, numerical cognition, various questions from the area of stress and stress research and philosophical problems in psychology (philosophy of mind, theoretical psychology).
Fonts (selection)
- Intelligence and acquisition of expertise. Empirical studies on skills development among car mechanics . Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-631-49169-7 .
- with Kurt Röttgers : Social life and soul life. Links to the thoughts of Georg Simmel . Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-45170-9 .
- as editor with Gerson Reuter : Social roots of self-consciousness. Psychological and philosophical contributions . Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004576-4 .
- with Thomas Gil : Functions of the Soul . Göttingen 2015, ISBN 3-525-45244-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Mack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Mack
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mack, Wolfgang. In: Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online. De Gruyter. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mack, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Mergentheim |