CURRICULUM VITAE (short version)


Address
FB I - Psychologie
Universität Trier
D - 54286 Trier 

Email 

Phone +49 651 201 2052 

Telefax+49 651 201 2961



Professional Functions

Since 1972Full Professor for Psychology at the University of Trier
1973-76, 84-86Dean of the Faculty
1979-2003Director of the German Institute for Information and Documentation in Psychology (ZPID)
1994-2001Director of the Center for Justice Reearch at the University Potsdam
1997-2004Founding President of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)

Credentials

1982-1985Chair of the Advisory Board to the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development and Research in Education at Berlin (1983 -1996)
since 1992 Fellow of the Berlin Center for Advanced Studies
1993 Election as a member of the Europea Academy of Science
1994 Max Planck Award for Research about Justice
1995 Election as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Academy of Science
1997-2002 President of the International Society for Justice Research
2000 Election as a member of the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina
2010Life Time Award  by the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR)



  • Research Fields
    1. The Psychology of Justice:
    ·    the justice motive
    ·    justice and self-interest
    ·    perceptions and experience of injustice
    ·    responses to observed victimization
    ·    social inequality,
    ·    theory of relative privilegation
    ·    theory of existential guilt
    ·    (in-)justice of employment policies
    ·    (in-)justice of environmental policies
    ·    justice issues in German reunification
    2. Mediation in social conflicts
    3. Pro-environmental commitments and attributions of responsibility
    4. Social and moral emotions and their regulation: hostility, indignation, 
        envy, jealousy, guilt etc.
    5. Responsibility, prosocial commitments, altruism in social systems
    6. Experiences of loss, perceptions of losses, and coping strategies
    7. Development and socialization
    8. Scientometric studies in Psychology

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