Ulrich Weger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3501485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrich Weger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrich |
| FAMILY NAME | Weger |
| SIGNATURE | WEGER U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Witten/Herdecke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5476-0932 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Steiner's trinitarian view and the philosophy of mind: A critique of Kuhn's landscape of consciousness taxonomy
In a recent taxonomy of different philosophies of mind, Robert Lawrence Kuhn classified Rudolf Steiner's view as a mind-body dualism. We argue that this classification is incorrect. Rather, Steiner's view is trinitarian and represents a unification of monism and dualism. Hence, the trinitarian conception of the human being in Steiner not only challenges Kuhn's taxonomic placement of Steiner's view but also, by showing that monism and dualism may …
Active Contemporary Citizenship as a Research Mode
Active citizenship is a form of civil participation in which direct involvement is emphasized over distanced reflection. As such it seems to be in juxtaposition to the role of the researcher who is typically an external spectator and observes, documents, and analyzes phenomena from outside. This quality of remaining in a state of professional distance and scholarly reflection can pose a dilemma when the multitude of problems in the world is obvio…
Teaching systematic self-enquiry in the psychology curriculum
Purpose Psychological research implies studying behavior and mental phenomena; remarkably, during their training, most psychology students have learned to study these domains in other people. At the same time, their excitement about the discipline typically originates from some form of personal experience that may even extend to a certain level of individual expertise that could be better harvested in the curriculum. Design/methodology/approach I…
The Sense of Certainty and the Access to Inner Experience: A Qualitative Investigation
Questions about private experiences such as future-related thinking or anger rumination are standard repertoire in many types of psychological research. Evaluating the quality and reliability of participant reports in response to such questions is, however, a complex endeavor—especially for third-person research where observer and observed are distributed across two different individuals and disparate scales of reference may hence challenge the i…
Looking from within: Comparing first-person approaches to studying experience
Fostering our understanding of how humans behave, feel and think is a fundamental goal of psychological research. Widely used methods in psychological research are self-report and behavioral measures which require an experimenter to collect data from another person. By comparison, first-person measures that assess more subtle facets of subjective experiences, are less widely used. Without integrating such more subtle first-person measures, howeve…
Training naive subjects in using micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry to investigate pain and suffering during headaches
Micro‐phenomenology is a method that generates rich and reliable reports of singular experiences in their pre‐reflective dimension. Usually it is employed using a second‐person interviewer. In this study we attempted to train naïve subjects in using self‐inquiry version of the method. 13 subjects met twice over the course of one week, investigating their experiences of headaches, looking specifically into the pain experience itself, the experienc…
Moral Foundations of Dietary Behavior and Its Linkage to Sustainability and Feminism
In the current article, we explore and compare the moral-foundations-profile of vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters and investigate how it is related to real-world behavior. Results of two surveys demonstrate a link between eating behavior, moral foundations, environmental behavior, and feminist ideals. We demonstrate that vegans place greater value on individualizing foundations (i.e., Harm and Fairness) and meat eaters on binding foundations (…
Towards a re‐conceptualization of flow in social contexts
The antecedents and outcomes of individual‐level flow are well documented in a large body of literature. However, flow does not only occur in isolation ‐ quite to the contrary, recent evidence suggests that social interaction can facilitate the experience of flow. Therefore, we propose a taxonomy, which distinguishes five different flow states according to two global factors: interactional synchrony and self‐other overlap. Solitary flow bears all…
First‐person access to decision‐making using micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry
Micro‐phenomenology is a method for improving first‐person reports of experience. Usually, micro‐phenomenology is conducted using a second‐person interviewer who guides someone investigating an experience. This has the advantage that the interviews can be done with untrained subjects. However, it is possible to perform micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry, a form of self‐interview technique, without a second‐person interviewer. This has several ad…
Perceiving the Other Self: An Experimental First-Person Account of Nonverbal Social Interaction
In psychology, the topics of the self and social perception in nonverbal interaction have been intensively examined but have so far been limited to certain aspects of their interdependence. The self is conceived mostly as a bundle of functions and personality traits that predominantly resist integration, except in the form of mental representations that do not allow conscious access to the processes that generate them. Similarly, in nonverbal int…
The sense of certainty and the reliability of first person reports: An investigation using micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry
The reliability of introspective or first‐person reports has often been questioned. Micro‐phenomenology is a method that has been devised to increase the reliability of such reports. One way of showing that the method actually increases reliability is to test it in experiments where reporting can be checked by an external observer. Though such approaches are highly valuable, the problem remains that the actual experience cannot be investigated di…
Avoiding “False Alarms” and “Misses” in Psychological Theory Building: Complementing the Principle of Parsimony With the Principle of Tentative Affirmation
Scientific parsimony is a reliable safeguard against speculative or ideological theorizing. But it can also hamper the advent of novel ideas and advanced paradigms if misapplied within the context of a conservative thinking style. We illustrate how the principle of parsimony is ideally suited to reduce a particular type of errors-namely the premature acceptance of speculative theories. In a signal-detection framework, such errors are called "fals…
O pensar vivenciado na formação de professores
Analisa-se, neste artigo, um estudo de caso que discute a possibilidade de desenvolvimento do pensar vivenciado na formação de professores. A formação de professores é correntemente conduzida a partir de uma visão reducionista intelectual. Neste estudo, a formação de professores é entendida dentro de uma visão ampliada que inclui o desenvolvimento de forma integrada do querer, sentir e pensar. Ancorados em trabalhos anteriores de Goethe, Schiller…
The animal in you: Animalistic descriptions of a violent crime increase punishment of perpetrator
Criminal acts are sometimes described using animal metaphors. What is the impact of a violent crime being described in an animalistic versus a non-animalistic way on the subsequent retribution toward the perpetrator? In two studies, we experimentally varied animalistic descriptions of a violent crime and examined its effect on the severity of the punishment for the act. In Study 1, we showed that compared to non-animalistic descriptions, animalis…
Towards a re‐conceptualization of flow in social contexts
The antecedents and outcomes of individual‐level flow are well documented in a large body of literature. However, flow does not only occur in isolation ‐ quite to the contrary, recent evidence suggests that social interaction can facilitate the experience of flow. Therefore, we propose a taxonomy, which distinguishes five different flow states according to two global factors: interactional synchrony and self‐other overlap. Solitary flow bears all…
O pensar vivenciado na formação de professores
Analisa-se, neste artigo, um estudo de caso que discute a possibilidade de desenvolvimento do pensar vivenciado na formação de professores. A formação de professores é correntemente conduzida a partir de uma visão reducionista intelectual. Neste estudo, a formação de professores é entendida dentro de uma visão ampliada que inclui o desenvolvimento de forma integrada do querer, sentir e pensar. Ancorados em trabalhos anteriores de Goethe, Schiller…
The animal in you: Animalistic descriptions of a violent crime increase punishment of perpetrator
Criminal acts are sometimes described using animal metaphors. What is the impact of a violent crime being described in an animalistic versus a non-animalistic way on the subsequent retribution toward the perpetrator? In two studies, we experimentally varied animalistic descriptions of a violent crime and examined its effect on the severity of the punishment for the act. In Study 1, we showed that compared to non-animalistic descriptions, animalis…
O pensar vivenciado na formação de professores
Analisa-se, neste artigo, um estudo de caso que discute a possibilidade de desenvolvimento do pensar vivenciado na formação de professores. A formação de professores é correntemente conduzida a partir de uma visão reducionista intelectual. Neste estudo, a formação de professores é entendida dentro de uma visão ampliada que inclui o desenvolvimento de forma integrada do querer, sentir e pensar. Ancorados em trabalhos anteriores de Goethe, Schiller…
Avoiding “False Alarms” and “Misses” in Psychological Theory Building: Complementing the Principle of Parsimony With the Principle of Tentative Affirmation
Scientific parsimony is a reliable safeguard against speculative or ideological theorizing. But it can also hamper the advent of novel ideas and advanced paradigms if misapplied within the context of a conservative thinking style. We illustrate how the principle of parsimony is ideally suited to reduce a particular type of errors-namely the premature acceptance of speculative theories. In a signal-detection framework, such errors are called "fals…
The sense of certainty and the reliability of first person reports: An investigation using micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry
The reliability of introspective or first‐person reports has often been questioned. Micro‐phenomenology is a method that has been devised to increase the reliability of such reports. One way of showing that the method actually increases reliability is to test it in experiments where reporting can be checked by an external observer. Though such approaches are highly valuable, the problem remains that the actual experience cannot be investigated di…
First‐person access to decision‐making using micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry
Micro‐phenomenology is a method for improving first‐person reports of experience. Usually, micro‐phenomenology is conducted using a second‐person interviewer who guides someone investigating an experience. This has the advantage that the interviews can be done with untrained subjects. However, it is possible to perform micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry, a form of self‐interview technique, without a second‐person interviewer. This has several ad…
Perceiving the Other Self: An Experimental First-Person Account of Nonverbal Social Interaction
In psychology, the topics of the self and social perception in nonverbal interaction have been intensively examined but have so far been limited to certain aspects of their interdependence. The self is conceived mostly as a bundle of functions and personality traits that predominantly resist integration, except in the form of mental representations that do not allow conscious access to the processes that generate them. Similarly, in nonverbal int…
Moral Foundations of Dietary Behavior and Its Linkage to Sustainability and Feminism
In the current article, we explore and compare the moral-foundations-profile of vegetarians, vegans, and meat eaters and investigate how it is related to real-world behavior. Results of two surveys demonstrate a link between eating behavior, moral foundations, environmental behavior, and feminist ideals. We demonstrate that vegans place greater value on individualizing foundations (i.e., Harm and Fairness) and meat eaters on binding foundations (…
Towards a re‐conceptualization of flow in social contexts
The antecedents and outcomes of individual‐level flow are well documented in a large body of literature. However, flow does not only occur in isolation ‐ quite to the contrary, recent evidence suggests that social interaction can facilitate the experience of flow. Therefore, we propose a taxonomy, which distinguishes five different flow states according to two global factors: interactional synchrony and self‐other overlap. Solitary flow bears all…
Looking from within: Comparing first-person approaches to studying experience
Fostering our understanding of how humans behave, feel and think is a fundamental goal of psychological research. Widely used methods in psychological research are self-report and behavioral measures which require an experimenter to collect data from another person. By comparison, first-person measures that assess more subtle facets of subjective experiences, are less widely used. Without integrating such more subtle first-person measures, howeve…
Training naive subjects in using micro‐phenomenological self‐inquiry to investigate pain and suffering during headaches
Micro‐phenomenology is a method that generates rich and reliable reports of singular experiences in their pre‐reflective dimension. Usually it is employed using a second‐person interviewer. In this study we attempted to train naïve subjects in using self‐inquiry version of the method. 13 subjects met twice over the course of one week, investigating their experiences of headaches, looking specifically into the pain experience itself, the experienc…
The Sense of Certainty and the Access to Inner Experience: A Qualitative Investigation
Questions about private experiences such as future-related thinking or anger rumination are standard repertoire in many types of psychological research. Evaluating the quality and reliability of participant reports in response to such questions is, however, a complex endeavor—especially for third-person research where observer and observed are distributed across two different individuals and disparate scales of reference may hence challenge the i…
Teaching systematic self-enquiry in the psychology curriculum
Purpose Psychological research implies studying behavior and mental phenomena; remarkably, during their training, most psychology students have learned to study these domains in other people. At the same time, their excitement about the discipline typically originates from some form of personal experience that may even extend to a certain level of individual expertise that could be better harvested in the curriculum. Design/methodology/approach I…
Steiner's trinitarian view and the philosophy of mind: A critique of Kuhn's landscape of consciousness taxonomy
In a recent taxonomy of different philosophies of mind, Robert Lawrence Kuhn classified Rudolf Steiner's view as a mind-body dualism. We argue that this classification is incorrect. Rather, Steiner's view is trinitarian and represents a unification of monism and dualism. Hence, the trinitarian conception of the human being in Steiner not only challenges Kuhn's taxonomic placement of Steiner's view but also, by showing that monism and dualism may …
Active Contemporary Citizenship as a Research Mode
Active citizenship is a form of civil participation in which direct involvement is emphasized over distanced reflection. As such it seems to be in juxtaposition to the role of the researcher who is typically an external spectator and observes, documents, and analyzes phenomena from outside. This quality of remaining in a state of professional distance and scholarly reflection can pose a dilemma when the multitude of problems in the world is obvio…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Phenomenology (philosophy) (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (3 works) · Mind wandering and attention (3 works)