Wolfgang Schönpflug
Biographic Data
| ID | 2819026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Schönpflug |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Schönpflug |
| SIGNATURE | SCHÖNPFLUG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8275-3123 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Self-report on motivation
Teo et al. (2021, p. 217) have asked me "to locate [myself] epistemologically and politically and identify [my] position in...institutional and departmental struggles...to allow a reader to contextualize [my] reconstructions." Therefore, I provide information on my political and scientific orientation, my position at the Free University of Berlin, and my relationship to Klaus Holzkamp. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Beyond narratives
In 2 articles, this journal has presented critical psychology (CP), which emerged in Germany during the 1980s, as an exemplary paradigm that committed itself to both scientific and political objectives and became a victim of Cold-War confrontations. The presentation was mainly based on narratives and writings circulating within CP itself. I have reexamined the case using archival materials and supplementary literary sources. This allows for a mor…
Son, father, student and professor, experimental psychologist, clinician and historian, immigrant, mountaineer
Reviews the book, Facets of an Academic's Life: A Memoir by Michael Wertheimer (2020). Michael Wertheimer's memoir contains 234 pages of richly illustrated text, reconstructing a life of more than 9 decades, and complemented by a 311-page appendix that contains an elaborated curriculum vitae, a complete publication list, an account of the author's scientific work, and a documentation of his artistic efforts (music, poetry, some painting). Both te…
Professional psychology in Germany, National Socialism, and the Second World War
Hundreds of positions for psychologists were established after the National Socialists seized power in 1933. It has accordingly been asserted that professional psychology in Germany experienced significant growth during the National Socialist period. An analysis of archival materials and of a recent collection of biographies indicates otherwise, however. German psychology, in fact, declined because of systematic persecution and a surge of emigrat…
Lärm und Motivation
Science in a communist country
The XXIInd International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Leipzig in 1980 is a case that illustrates the mutual relationship between science and politics, specifically of the role of science in a communist state. We focus first on the situation of the discipline of psychology within the (East) German Democratic Republic (GDR). Second, we provide a detailed description of the interactions between the International Union of Psychological Science (IU…
Psychologie in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik: Wissenschaft zwischen Ideologie und Pragmatismus
Fritz Heider - My Academic Teacher and His Academic Teachers
In the summer of 1958 at the University of Kansas, Heider offered a seminar based on the galley proofs of his forthcoming book The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. Personal memories of the seminar are reported, and an attempt is made to reconstruct the European background of Heider's work. It is argued that the warm reception of Heider's book was partly the result of his revival of philosophical ideas that had served as starting points for …
Stumpf's cognitive-evaluative theory of emotion
Stumpf's cognitive-evaluative theory of emotion
As a historical contribution to the current cognition-emotion debate in psychology, this article seeks (a) to bring to the readers' attention the largely ignored tradition of cognitive emotion theory within introspective psychology by reviewing what is probably the most clearly formulated cognitive emotion theory of this period, that proposed by Carl Stumpf, and (b) to point out the relevance of Stumpf's contributions to the psychology of emotion…
Lärm und Motivation.
Scaling of attitude items under stress
The purpose of this experiment was to explore psychological mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of extremization of judgments (accentuation) under stress. Specifically the question was raised whether accentuation was due to some change of the internal representation of the objective scale (the personal reference scale, Upshaw, 1969). In the case of no indication for such a change a further analysis of accentuation concerning the nature of respon…
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Scaling of attitude items under stress
The purpose of this experiment was to explore psychological mechanisms underlying the phenomenon of extremization of judgments (accentuation) under stress. Specifically the question was raised whether accentuation was due to some change of the internal representation of the objective scale (the personal reference scale, Upshaw, 1969). In the case of no indication for such a change a further analysis of accentuation concerning the nature of respon…
Lärm und Motivation.
Stumpf's cognitive-evaluative theory of emotion
Stumpf's cognitive-evaluative theory of emotion
As a historical contribution to the current cognition-emotion debate in psychology, this article seeks (a) to bring to the readers' attention the largely ignored tradition of cognitive emotion theory within introspective psychology by reviewing what is probably the most clearly formulated cognitive emotion theory of this period, that proposed by Carl Stumpf, and (b) to point out the relevance of Stumpf's contributions to the psychology of emotion…
Fritz Heider - My Academic Teacher and His Academic Teachers
In the summer of 1958 at the University of Kansas, Heider offered a seminar based on the galley proofs of his forthcoming book The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. Personal memories of the seminar are reported, and an attempt is made to reconstruct the European background of Heider's work. It is argued that the warm reception of Heider's book was partly the result of his revival of philosophical ideas that had served as starting points for …
Psychologie in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik: Wissenschaft zwischen Ideologie und Pragmatismus
Lärm und Motivation
Science in a communist country
The XXIInd International Congress of Psychology (ICP) in Leipzig in 1980 is a case that illustrates the mutual relationship between science and politics, specifically of the role of science in a communist state. We focus first on the situation of the discipline of psychology within the (East) German Democratic Republic (GDR). Second, we provide a detailed description of the interactions between the International Union of Psychological Science (IU…
Professional psychology in Germany, National Socialism, and the Second World War
Hundreds of positions for psychologists were established after the National Socialists seized power in 1933. It has accordingly been asserted that professional psychology in Germany experienced significant growth during the National Socialist period. An analysis of archival materials and of a recent collection of biographies indicates otherwise, however. German psychology, in fact, declined because of systematic persecution and a surge of emigrat…
Son, father, student and professor, experimental psychologist, clinician and historian, immigrant, mountaineer
Reviews the book, Facets of an Academic's Life: A Memoir by Michael Wertheimer (2020). Michael Wertheimer's memoir contains 234 pages of richly illustrated text, reconstructing a life of more than 9 decades, and complemented by a 311-page appendix that contains an elaborated curriculum vitae, a complete publication list, an account of the author's scientific work, and a documentation of his artistic efforts (music, poetry, some painting). Both te…
Self-report on motivation
Teo et al. (2021, p. 217) have asked me "to locate [myself] epistemologically and politically and identify [my] position in...institutional and departmental struggles...to allow a reader to contextualize [my] reconstructions." Therefore, I provide information on my political and scientific orientation, my position at the Free University of Berlin, and my relationship to Klaus Holzkamp. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Beyond narratives
In 2 articles, this journal has presented critical psychology (CP), which emerged in Germany during the 1980s, as an exemplary paradigm that committed itself to both scientific and political objectives and became a victim of Cold-War confrontations. The presentation was mainly based on narratives and writings circulating within CP itself. I have reexamined the case using archival materials and supplementary literary sources. This allows for a mor…
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