Prof. Peter M. Gollwitzer - Curriculum Vitae#


Long CV(info)

Present and Previous Positions
  • 1973: B.A., Universitaet Regensburg
  • 1977: M.A., Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
  • 1981: Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
  • 1982-1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Psychology of Motivation, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
  • 1984-1988: Junior Researcher, Department: Psychology of Motivation, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich
  • 1988: Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
  • 1989-1992.Senior Researcher, Department: Intention and Action (Head), Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich
  • since 1999: Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Program, New York University
  • since 1993: Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology and Motivation (Chair), University of Konstanz

Field of Scholarship

Psychology of Action
  • Deliberation, implementation, action, and evaluation mindsets: Information processing at different phases of goal pursuit.
  • Goal intentions versus implementation intentions: Differential effects on cognition, affect, and behavior.
  • Differences in conscious vs. non-conscious goal pursuit.
  • The willful control of unwanted automatic thoughts, feelings, and actions.
  • Emotional states of mind: Effects on action control.
  • Persistence in goal pursuit: Effective self-regulatory thoughts.
  • Affective consequences of goal implementation: The speed of goal pursuit.
  • Neuropsychological aspects of action control: e.g., effects of implementation intentions in frontal lobe patients.
  • Health promoting behaviors: The role of goals and plans.
  • Flexibility/rigidity in goal pursuit.

Self and Identity
  • Symbolic self-completion: Various forms of self-symbolizing as a consequence of self-definitional incompleteness.
  • Social reality of self-symbolizing: Effects of public recognition of self-definitional symbols.
  • Social interaction: Interpersonal insensitivity as a consequence of self-symbolizing.
  • Intentions as symbols: Negative effects on action initiation.
  • Identity conflicts: Motivational versus volitional crises.
  • The willful pursuit of identity: A life-span perspective.


Honours and Awards

Max Planck Society
  • Max Planck Society, "Intention and Action," 1989-1992.
  • Max Planck Research Award, 1990, Max Planck Society (Germany).
German Research Foundation
  • TRANSCOOP Award for International Research Cooperations, 1994, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany).
  • German Research Foundation, "The Willful Control of Stereotypes I," 1994-1996.
  • German Research Foundation, "The Willful Control of Stereotypes II," 1996-1998.
  • German Research Foundation, "The Willful Control of Stereotypes III," 1998-2003.
  • German Research Foundation, "Implementation Intentions: Their Impact on Action Control and Mental Control," 2005-2008.
  • Federal Ministry for Education and Research, "A self-regulation intervention to faciliate rehabilitation in stroke patients" (with Joachim Liepert and Gabriele Oettingen), 2007-2010.
  • German Research Foundation, "The Limits of Action Control by Implementation Intentions", 2008-2011.
  • German Research Foundation, "A Self-Evaluation Model of Upward Counterfactual Thinking", 2009-2011.
University of Konstanz Research Fund
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Goal Effects on Social Judgments", 1994-1996.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Mind-set Effects on Social Judgments", 1995-1996.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Volition I", 1996-1998.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Volition II", 1999-2000.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Goal Pursuit", 2001-2002.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Flexible Tenacity I", 2003-2004.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Flexible Tenacity II", 2005-2006.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Zielorientiertes Handeln: Vorsätze, Bewusstseinslagen und relevante Aspekte verwandter Forschungsansätze", 2007-2008.
  • University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Wirksamkeit und Grenzen von Vorsätzen sowie relevante Aspekte verwandter Forschungsansätze", 2009-2010.
Lion Foundation
  • Lion Foundation (with Prof. A. Nadler, Tel Aviv University), "The Role of Social Identity in Personal Identity," 1997-2000.
  • Lion Foundation (with Prof. A. Nadler, Tel Aviv University), "Helping Relations as Power Relations," 2001-2002.
NIH
  • NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship, Dr. H. Grant-Pillow "Individual Differences in Goal Setting and Goal Implementation," Sponsor (with Gabriele Oettingen), 2001-2004.
  • NIH, Nonconscious forms of self-regulation, 2003-2005.
  • NIH, A Theory-Based Intervention to Change Physician Behavior (with Peter Jensen and Gabriele Oettingen), 2003-2007.
  • NIAAA, Mechanisms of Behavior Change Initiation (MOBCI) for Drinking Behavior (with Jon Morgenstern, Gabriele Oettingen, Joy Hirsch), 2009-2012.
Center for Research on Intentions and Intentionality
  • Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Intentions and Intentionality, University of Konstanz, 2000-2005.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-doctoral Fellowship, Dr. Anna-Lisa Cohen "Implementation Intentions and Prospective Memory," Sponsor, 2003-2005.
NSF
  • NSF-Predoctoral Scholarships (3 years each): sponsor for Christie Kawada, 2001, Ken Fujita, 2002, Elizabeth Parks, 2003, and Dan Kirk, 2004.
Leibniz Association
  • Self-Regulation Skills and Life Success as part of the ZEW Leibniz Research Network Noncognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences.
American Associations
  • Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, since 1998.
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association, since 2002.
  • Nominee, Classic Contributions to Social Psychology in the 1980s and 1990s, Psychological Inquiry, 2003.

Award winning supervised and co-supervised dissertations
  • Roman Trötschel, "Den Verlust vor Augen, die Einigung im Sinn. Zur Realisierung prosozialer Verhandlungsziele durch Vorsätze." Förderpreis der Stiftung "Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an der Universität Konstanz", 2002.
  • Faby Gagne, "Mindset and relationship illusions." Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award, 2003
  • Thomas L. Webb, "Motivational and volitional aspects of self-regulation." British Psychological Society, Social Psychology Section Outstanding PhD Award, 2004
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