Professor Dr. Klaus Fiedler

Project A13

Psychologisches Institut
CRISP: Abteilung für Sozialpsychologie
Universität Heidelberg

Klaus Fiedler was born 1951 in Wetzlar, Germany, and received his academic degrees from the University of Giessen: diploma in psychology 1975, doctor phil 1979 and habilitation 1984. His professional career started as a research assistant in a research project on computer-assisted instruction. Then he worked as a research assistant and later as an assistant professor at the University of Giessen in diverse areas, such as language psychology, methodologicy and social cognition. In 1990 he moved from Giessen to the University of Mannheim, where he received a permanent professor position in microsociolog and social psychology. Since 1992 he is full professor of psychology at the University of Heidelberg, responsible for research and teaching in social psychology. Klaus Fiedler is a member of various scientific organizations, such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychology (DGPs), the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, in which he served as an executive committee member between 1996 and 2002. He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science and of the Leopoldina (Halle). Klaus Fiedler has received several scientific awards, particularly the Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Award 2000. He was invited to work as a Theodor-Heuss Professor at the New School in New York, and he has been invited to the Center for Advanced Studies in Stanford. In addition to administrative functions - repeatedly as director of the Psychology Department in Heidelberg - he served as Associate Editor of several international journals (European Journal of Social Psychology, Psychological Review, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology), and he was successful in raising research funding in the range of several million Euros. He is the author and editor of several books, the most recent of which (Sampling and adaptive cognition) was just published by Cambridge University Press.

Selected Publications:

• Fiedler, K. (2000), Beware of samples! A cognitive-ecological sampling approach to judgment biases, Psychological Review, 107, 659-676.
• Fiedler, K., Freytag, P. (2004), Pseudocontingencies, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 87, 453-467.
• Fiedler, K., Freytag, P. (2003), Social judgments based on pseudocontingencies: A forgotten phenomenon, In J. P. Forgas, K. D. Williams, & W. von Hippel (eds), Social judgments: Implicit and explicit processes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Fiedler, K., Juslin, P. (2006), Information sampling and adaptive cognition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.