CURRICULUM VITAE (short version)
Address
Phone +49 651 201 2052 Telefax+49 651 201 2961 |
Professional Functions | |
| Since 1972 | Full Professor for Psychology at the University of Trier |
| 1973-76, 84-86 | Dean of the Faculty |
| 1979-2003 | Director of the German Institute for Information and Documentation in Psychology (ZPID) Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie |
| 1994-2001 | Director of the Center for Justice Reearch at the University Potsdam |
| 1997-2004 | Founding President of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) |
Credentials | |
| 1982-1985 | Chair 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 |
| 2010 | Life 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