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Place of Birth: Nabburg, Bavaria, Germany
About Peter Gollwitzer
- Peter Gollwitzer (born 1950) is a German professor of psychology in the Psychology Department at New York University.
- His research centers on how goals and plans affect cognition, emotion, and behavior. Gollwitzer has developed several models of action control: the Theory of Symbolic Self-Completion (with Robert A.
- Wicklund); the Rubicon Model of Action Phases (with Heinz Heckhausen); the Auto-Motive Model of Automatic Goal Striving (with John A.
- Bargh); the Mindset Theory of Action Phases (MAP); and the distinction between action control by Goal Intentions vs.
- Implementation Intentions (i.e., if-then plans).Gollwitzer’s experimental research based on these models delineates the various underlying psychological mechanisms of action control, and it distills the respective moderators.
- His recent research uses previous insights on action control by if-then planning to develop powerful time and cost effective behavior change interventions; this work is rooted in the mental contrasting theory of goal pursuit as proposed by Gabriele Oettingen.Prior to coming to NYU in 1999, Gollwitzer held the following positions: assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, (1982-1983); junior researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich (1984-1988); and senior researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research (Coordinator of the Intention & Action Group), Munich (1989-1992).
- In 1993 he became the chair of the social psychology and motivation unit at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Gollwitzer received his bachelor's degree from Universität Regensburg (1973), a master's degree from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1977), a Ph.D.
- from the University of Texas, Austin (1981), and a Dr.
- habil.
- degree from Munich’s Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (1987). Gollwitzer is a Fellow of Academia Europaea and of the American Psychological Association as well as a Charter Fellow of the American Psychological Society.
- He has won a Max Planck Research Award (1990) and a TransCoop Award (1994), which is given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is married to Princess Gabriele of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg.
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