Professor Dr. Edgar Erdfelder

Project A12

Lehrstuhl Psychologie III
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
Universität Mannheim

Edgar Erdfelder was born on December 18, 1953. He studied Psychology, German Literature, Linguistics, and History at the Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany. Edgar Erdfelder received a diploma in Psychology in Göttingen in 1980 and earned his Dr. rer. nat. in Behavioural Science at the University of Trier, Germany, in 1986. Two years later, his dissertation was awarded with the Heinz-Heckhausen Prize of the German Psychological Society. He was instructor, assistant professor, lecturer, and senior lecturer at the Universities of Trier and Bonn, Germany, before he took the position of Professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany, in 2001. Since April 2002, he has been Professor of Experimental and Differential Psychology at the University of Mannheim. Prof. Erdfelder was a Visiting Professor in the Program in Cognitive Psychology of the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, in 2003 and at the Alpen-Adria University in Klagenfurt, Austria, in 2005. From 2000 to 2002, he was Consulting Editor of the “Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition”. For several years, he has been serving on the editorial boards of the journals “Experimental Psychology”, “Methodology”, “Methods of Psychological Research – online”, and “Psychology Science”. Currently, Prof. Erdfelder is General Secretary of the German Psychological Society. His research interests include stochastic modelling and measurement of cognitive processes, human memory and judgement, and cognitive aging.

Selected Publications

• Erdfelder, E., Bredenkamp, J. (1998), Recognition of script-typical and script-atypical information: Effects of cognitive elaboration. Memory & Cognition, 26, 922-938.
• Erdfelder, E., Buchner, A. (1998), Process dissociation measurement models: Threshold theory or signal detection theory? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 127, 83-96.
• Erdfelder, E., Buchner, A. (1998), Decomposing the hindsight bias: A processing tree model for separating recollection and reconstruction biases in hindsight. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 24, 387-414.
• Erdfelder, E., Brandt, M. (2000), How good are fast and frugal inference heuristics in case of limited knowledge? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 747-749.
• Erdfelder, E., Musch, J. (2006). Experimental methods of psychological assessment. In M. Eid & E. Diener (Eds.), Handbook of Multimethod Measurement in Psychology (pp. 205-220). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.