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CRISP: Henning Plessner

PD Dr. Henning Plessner

Raum: F 116

Tel.: +49 (0) 6221-54-7700
Email: henning.plessner@psychologie.uni-heidelberg.de

Sprechstunde: Mo 17-18 Uhr


Research Interests

  • Judgment and Decision Making in Sports

  • Psychology of Intuition

  • Attitude Formation and Measurement 

  • Inductive Reasoning

  • Consumer Behavior


Selected Publications

  • Plessner, H., Betsch, C., & Betsch, T. (Eds.). (in press). Intuition in judgment and decision making. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  • Plessner, H., & Haar, T. (2006). Sports performance judgments from a social cognitive perspective. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 7, 555-575.

  • Damisch, L., Mussweiler, T., & Plessner, H. (2006). Olympic medals as fruits of comparison? Assimilation and contrast in sequential judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 166-178.

  • Friese, M., Wänke, M., & Plessner, H. (2006). Implicit consumer preferences and their influence on product choice. Psychology and Marketing, 23, 727-740.

  • Plessner, H., Freytag, P., & Strauss, B. (2006). Fußball verstehen: Beiträge der Sozialpsychologie [Understanding football: Contributions of social psychology]. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 37, 59-71.

  • Fiedler, K., & Plessner, H. (2006). Induktives Schließen: Umgang mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten [Inductive Reasoning: Dealing with probabilities]. In J. Funke (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie Band C/II/8: Denken und Problemlösen [Volume C/II/8 of the Encyclopaedia of Psychology: Thinking and problem solving] (p. 265-328). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

  • Betsch, T., Kaufmann, M., Lindow, F., Plessner, H., & Hoffmann, K. (2006). Different mechanisms of information integration in implicit and explicit attitude formation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 887-905.

  • Plessner, H. (2006). Die Klugheit der Intuition und ihre Grenzen [The smartness of intuition and its boundaries]. In A. Scherzberg (Ed.), Kluges Entscheiden [Smart decision making] (p. 109-120). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

  • Mascarenhas, D. R. D., O'Hare, D., & Plessner, H. (2006). The psychological and performance demands of association football refereeing. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 37, 99-120.

  • Plessner, H., & Schallies, E. (2005). Judging the cross on rings: A matter of achieving shape constancy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 1145-1156.

  • Plessner, H. (2005). Positive and negative effects of prior knowledge on referee decisions in sports. In T. Betsch, & S. Haberstroh (Eds.), The routines of decision making (pp. 311-324). Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum.

  • Fiedler, K., & Plessner, H. (2004). Die Stichprobenfalle: Läßt sich eine Sensibiliät für metakognitive Probleme beim stochastischen Denken vermitteln? [The sampling trap: How to teach awareness for metacognitive problems in statistical reasoning] Unterrichtswissenschaft, 32, 23-37.

  • Haar, T., & Plessner, H. (2004). Der Implizite Assoziations-Test (IAT) – ein neues ool für die Marktforschung? [The Implicit Association Test (IAT) – a new tool for marketing research?] Wirtschaftspsychologie aktuell, 11, 64-67.

  • Betsch, T., Plessner, H., & Schallies, E. (2004). The value-account model of attitude formation. In G. R. Maio & G. Haddock (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of attitudes (pp. 252-273). Hove: Psychology Press.

  • Betsch, T., Hoffmann, K., Hoffrage, U., & Plessner, H. (2003). Intuition beyond recognition: When less familiar events are liked better. Experimental Psychology, 50, 49-54.

  • Fiedler, K., Walther, E., Freytag, P., & Plessner, H. (2002). Judgment biases in a simulated classroom - a cognitve-environmental approach. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 527-561.

  • Raab, M., & Plessner, H. (Eds.). (2002). Urteilen und Entscheiden im Sport [Judgment and decision making in sports] [Special issue]. Psychologie und Sport, 9(4).

  • Plessner, H., & Betsch, T. (2001). Sequential effects in important referee decisions: The case of penalties in soccer. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, 200-205.

  • Plessner, H., Hartmann, C., Hohmann, N., & Zimmermann, I. (2001). Achtung Stichprobe! Der Einfluss der Informationsgewinnung auf die Bewertung sportlicher Leistungen [Beware of samples! The influence of sampling processes on the judgment of sport performance]. Psychologie und Sport, 8, 91-100.

  • Betsch, T., Plessner, H., Schwieren, C., & Gütig, R. (2001). I like it but I don't know why: A value-account approach to implicit attitude formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 242-253.

  • Plessner, H., & Banse, R. (Eds.). (2001). Attitude measurement using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) [Special issue]. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 48 (2).

  • Plessner, H., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2000). Expectancy-effects without expectancies: Illusory correlations based on cue-overlap. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 837-851.

  • Plessner, H. & Raab, M. (1999). Kampf- und Schiedsrichterurteile als Produkte sozialer Informationsverarbeitung [Judgments in sports as products of social information processing]. Psychologie und Sport, 6, 130-145.

  • Plessner, H. (1999). Expectation biases in gymnastics judging. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 21, 131-144.

 


Academic Career

1986 ­ 1992: 
Undergraduate and graduate studies in psychology, Technical University of Braunschweig

1988 ­ 1992: 
Student research assistant at the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), Hannover

1992:
Diploma (Thesis title: The influence of resource availability on judicial judgments)

1992 - 1997:
Assistant lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Hildesheim

1997: 
Dr. phil. at the Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau (Thesis title: The influence of expectancies on social judgments - Order effects in gymnastics judging)

1997 - 2001: 
Research associate at the Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg

Since 2001: 
Assistant professor (C1) at the Department of Psychology, University of Heidelberg

WS 2003/2004:
Deputizing full professor for social and economic psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Goettingen

2004:
Habilitation at the Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies, University of Heidelberg (Title: The evaluation of sport performances as social information processing)

WS 2004/2005:
Theodor Heuss Lecturer, Graduate Faculty, New School University, New York


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