Dietrich Dörner (born 28 September 1938,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) is emeritus professor for General and Theoretical

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

at the Institute of Theoretical Psychology at the

Otto-Friedrich University The University of Bamberg (german: Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) in Bamberg, Germany, specializes in the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, economics, and applied computer science. Campus The university is mainly housed in ...

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. In 1986, he received the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

of the

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, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. The

cognitive architecture A cognitive architecture refers to both a theory about the structure of the human mind and to a computational instantiation of such a theory used in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and computational cognitive science. The formalized mod ...

Psi-Theory Psi-theory, developed by Dietrich Dörner at the University of Bamberg, is a systemic psychological theory covering human action regulation, intention selection and emotion.Dörner, D., Bartl, C., Detje, F., Gerdes, J., Halcour, D., Schaub, H., ...

is developed under his guidance.

Books

*''The Logic of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations'' (, 1996, Perseus Publishing) *''Bauplan für eine Seele'' (lit.: Blueprint for a Soul, available in

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only), Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2001 (). *''Die Mechanik des Seelenwagens'' (lit: Mechanics of the soul's cart, available in

only), Bern: Huber, 2002 ().

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Dietrich Dörner at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
1938 births Living people German psychologists Academic staff of the University of Bamberg Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners {{Germany-academic-bio-stub