Wolfgang Schönpflug

Wolfgang Schönpflug (* 31 March 1936 in Berlin ) is a German psychologist and emeritus professor at the Free University of Berlin .

Career

After graduating from the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg , Schönpflug studied psychology at the Free University of Berlin and the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg . With a Fulbright grant he received in 1958 a first degree from the University of Kansas , and later the Diploma in Frankfurt, where he in 1962 also to Dr. phil. nat. PhD. He then worked as a research assistant to Edwin Rausch and Heinz Heckhausen . After his habilitation at Heckhausen in 1967 with a thesis on the activating effect and the valence of sensory stimuli , he became Professor of General Psychology at the Free University of Berlin in 1974 . Schönpflug has retired since September 2003 .

Schönpflug is particularly interested in the systematics and history of psychology .

Schönpflug is married to the psychologist Ute Schönpflug and has two sons with her.

Psychology: General psychology and its branches into developmental, personality and social psychology - a textbook for basic studies. Urban & Schwarzenberg , Munich 1983, most recently at Weltbild , Augsburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8289-5208-9 (with Ute Schönpflug)
Introduction to Psychology . Beltz , Weinheim 2006, ISBN 3-621-27486-3

↑ Emeritus and retirement . FU-Nachrichten, newspaper of the Free University Berlin, No. 11/12, 2003, accessed on January 11, 2009

personal data
SURNAME	Schönpflug, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German psychologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 31, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin