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Florian G. Kaiser
Born(1959-08-27)August 27, 1959
Lohn, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsEnvironmental psychology
InstitutionsOtto von Guericke University Magdeburg
ThesisMobility as a Dwelling Problem: Place Attachment as Emotional Regulation (1996)
Websitehttps://www.ipsy.ovgu.de/en/fgk.html

Florian G. Kaiser is a Swiss psychologist. Since 2008, he has been a professor of personality and social psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg in Germany, currently serving as Chair of its Department of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

Education and career[edit]

From 1980 to 1986, Kaiser studied clinical psychology, biological-mathematical psychology, anthropological psychology, and psychopathology at the University of Zürich. In 1992, he earned his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Bern.[1] The title of his dissertation was "Mobility as a dwelling problem: Place attachment as emotional regulation"; a summary was published in New Ideas in Psychology.[2] Kaiser completed his lecturer habilitation in 1999 at the University of Zürich. From 1994 to 1997, he worked at the University of California, Berkeley, and University of Trier as a postdoctoral research fellow. From 1998 to 2000, he was an assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). From 2000 to 2008, he was an associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and senior lecturer at the University of Zürich. From 2017 to 2018, he was co-chief editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology.[1]

Research[edit]

Kaiser's research has focused on the Campbell paradigm, which theorizes that individuals decide whether to engage in environmentally protective behaviors based on a combination of the associated behavioral costs and their environmental attitudes.[3][4][5] Donald Campbell's conjecture[6] made them once again reconsider the essence of their measure. It evolved into a measure of environmental attitude[7][8] and came to include self-referential statements, that is, opinions about the advantages of environmental protection.[9][10] In the meantime, Kaiser speaks more colloquially of a measure that represents people’s commitment to the goal of protecting the environment.[11] In this way, he stresses a more traditional understanding of attitude as a motivational concept[12] that is nowadays often replaced by an understanding of attitudes as (verbal expressions of) opinions or judgments.[13]

Honors and awards[edit]

In 2018, Kaiser was elected as a fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology.[14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Florian G. Kaiser". Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  2. ^ Kaiser, Florian G.; Fuhrer, Urs (1996). "Dwelling: Speaking of an Unnoticed Universal Language". New Ideas in Psychology. 14 (3): 225–236. doi:10.1016/S0732-118X(96)00017-7.
  3. ^ Kaiser, Florian G. (1998). "A General Measure of Ecological Behavior". Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 28 (5): 395–422. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01712.x. ISSN 0021-9029.
  4. ^ Kaiser, Florian G.; Schultz, P. Wesley; Scheuthle, Hannah (2007). "The Theory of Planned Behavior Without Compatibility? Beyond Method Bias and Past Trivial Associations". Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 37 (7): 1522–1544. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.2007.00225.x. hdl:10211.3/199731. ISSN 0021-9029.
  5. ^ Kaiser, Florian G.; Wilson, Mark (2004). "Goal-directed conservation behavior: the specific composition of a general performance". Personality and Individual Differences. 36 (7): 1531–1544. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2003.06.003.
  6. ^ Campbell, Donald T. (1963), "Social Attitudes and Other Acquired Behavioral Dispositions.", Psychology: A study of a science. Study II. Empirical substructure and relations with other sciences. Volume 6. Investigations of man as socius: Their place in psychology and the social sciences., New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 94–172, doi:10.1037/10590-003, retrieved 2023-12-03
  7. ^ Kaiser, Florian G.; Byrka, Katarzyna; Hartig, Terry (2010). "Reviving Campbell's Paradigm for Attitude Research". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 14 (4): 351–367. doi:10.1177/1088868310366452. ISSN 1088-8683. PMID 20435803. S2CID 5394359.
  8. ^ Kaiser, Florian G.; Byrka, Katarzyna (2015). "The Campbell Paradigm as a Conceptual Alternative to the Expectation of Hypocrisy in Contemporary Attitude Research". The Journal of Social Psychology. 155 (1): 12–29. doi:10.1080/00224545.2014.959884. ISSN 0022-4545. PMID 25185705. S2CID 7871717.
  9. ^ Kaiser, Florian G.; Merten, Martin; Wetzel, Eunike (2018). "How do we know we are measuring environmental attitude? Specific objectivity as the formal validation criterion for measures of latent attributes". Journal of Environmental Psychology. 55: 139–146. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2018.01.003.
  10. ^ Bauske, Emily; Kibbe, Alexandra; Kaiser, Florian G. (2022). "Opinion polls as measures of commitment to goals: Environmental attitude in Germany from 1996 to 2018". Journal of Environmental Psychology. 81: 101805. doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101805. ISSN 0272-4944. S2CID 248196836.
  11. ^ Kaiser, Florian G (2021). "Climate change mitigation within the Campbell paradigm: doing the right thing for a reason and against all odds". Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 42: 70–75. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.03.024. S2CID 233292323.
  12. ^ Allport, Gordon W. (1935). "Attitudes. in Handbook of Social Psychology. C. Murchison, 798-844". Scribd. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  13. ^ Schwarz, Norbert (1999). "Self-reports: How the questions shape the answers". American Psychologist. 54 (2): 93–105. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.54.2.93. ISSN 1935-990X. S2CID 623795.
  14. ^ "Fellows". International Association of Applied Psychology. Retrieved 2024-05-13.

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