Prof. Dr. Hans-Rüdiger Pfister

Professor of Psychological Decision Research and Methods

Member of the Institute of Experimental Industrial Psychology - LueneLab
Member of the Center for Methods

Director of the Institute of Experimental Industrial Psychology - LueneLab

Hans-Rüdiger Pfister is Professor of Psychological Decision Research and Methods, and head of the Center for Methods at Leuphana University. He received his PhD and habilitation in psychology from the Technical University of Berlin.

His research interests include behavioral decision making, the impact of emotions in decision making, risk perception and emotional and moral factors in risk judgments, human-computer interaction, especially the role of New Media in E-Learning and collaborative learning, and methodological and statistical issues in psychological research.

Since 2006, he is an associated member of the DICE research group at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Since 2010, he is head of the Center for Methods at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.

Vita

• Summer 2010: Visiting Scholar at the Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington (USA)
• Since 2009: Professor of Psychological decision Research at Leuphana University
• 2006 – 2009: Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway
• Winter term 2005/06: Visiting professor at the University of Bergen/Norway, Dept. of the Psychosocial Sciences
• 2004 - 2005: Dean of the Faculty of Business Psychology
• 2001 - 2009: Professor of Business Psychology, University of Applied Sciences Lüneburg (til 2005), and University of Lüneburg (til 2009)
• 1997 - 2001: Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Information Technology (GMD), Darmstadt, Germany; Head of the CSCL competence center
• 1990 - 1997: Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Berlin
• 1990: PhD (Dr. phil.) in Psychology, Technical University Berlin

Fields of Teaching and Research

• Psychology of Decision Making, Behavioral Economics, and Risk Behavior
• Psychology of Emotion
• Human-Computer-Interaction
• Methodology and Statistics
• Computer Supported Learning / Net-based Learning

Memberships

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs)
• European Association for Decision Making (EADM)
• Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM)
• Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• Facet Theory Association (FTA)