Peter Gollwitzer#
| Membership Number: | 1729 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
| Elected: | 1996 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.psych.nyu.edu/gollwitzer |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 1993 Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology and Motivation (Chair), University of Konstanz
- Since 1999 Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Program, New York University
- 1989 - 1992 Senior Researcher, Department: Intention and Action (Head), Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich
- 1988 Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
- 1984 - 1988 Junior Researcher, Department: Psychology of Motivation, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich
- 1982 - 1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Psychology of Motivation, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Fields of Scholarship
- Deliberation, implementation, action, and evaluation mindsets
- Social reality of self-symbolizing
- Goal intentions versus implementation intentions
- Willful control of unwanted automatic thoughts, feelings, and actions
- Persistence in goal pursuit
- Self and identity
- Intentions as symbols
- Emotional states of mind
- Identity conflicts
- Neuropsychological aspects of action control
- Symbolic self-completion
- Affective consequences of goal implementation
- Health promoting behaviors
- Flexibility/rigidity in goal pursuit
- Willful pursuit of identity
- Psychology of Action
- Differences in conscious vs. non-conscious goal pursuit
- Social interaction
Honours and Awards
- Max Planck Research Award, 1990, Max Planck Society (Germany)
- TRANSCOOP Award for International Research Cooperations, 1994, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
- Charter Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science, since 1998
- Fellow of the American Psychological Association, since 2002
- Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, since 2009
- “How goals and plans affect cognition and behavior.” Keynote Speaker at the 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, New Orleans, 2009
- “The psychology of goals.” State-of-the-Art Address at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China, 2004
- “Rigidity/flexibility in planned goal pursuit.” Keynote Lecture at the 26th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Athens, Greece, 2006
