Prof. Dr. Manfred Schmitt
Contact us
Prof. Schmitt retired at the end of the 2019 summer semester and has therefore left active university work. He is therefore no longer available to supervise theses or take examinations. Please contact the Diagnostics, Differential and Personality Psychology, Methodology and Evaluation team. For other inquiries, please contact Prof. Schmitt as usual by e-mail.
E-Mail: Manfred.Schmitt@rptu.de
About the person
Curriculum Vitae
- Studied psychology and education at the University of Trier (1974-1978)
- Studied human development at Pennsylvania State University (1978-1979)
- Diploma (Psychology) 1980
- Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) 1988
- Habilitation (venia legendi for psychology) 1996
- Substitute professorship for developmental psychology at Saarland University (1996-1997)
- Professorship for methodology, psychological diagnostics and evaluation research at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (1997-2000)
- Professorship for Social Psychology at the University of Trier (2000-2004)
- Visiting professor as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Davis (2002)
- Chair of Diagnostics and Personality Psychology at the University of Koblenz-Landau (2004-2019)
- Visiting Professor at Portland State University (2008)
- Visiting professor at Virginia Polytechnical Institute (2012)
- Visiting professor at George Mason University (2018)
Research
Research interests
- Social justice
- Emotions
- Social responsibility, helpfulness, solidarity
- Behavioral consistency
- Moderator variables
- Latent state-trait theory
- Person x situation interactions
- Implicit dispositions and automatic behavior control
- Teacher personality and teaching quality
- Psychological factors of plastic avoidance