| Dörner is known for his work on thinking and problem solving. He grew up in Düsseldorf. He began his studies at the University of Kiel in 1961 and took his degree in psychology in 1965. In 1969 he received the Ph.D. at Kiel and got the "venia legendi" (Habilitation) for psychology at the same university in 1972. His professional carreer began at Kiel. Later he was professor of psychology at Düsseldorf (1973-1974), and GieBen (19741979). Since 1979 he has
been at the University of Bamberg as a professor of general
psychology. Since the beginning of his scientific carreer, Dörner's central interest has been the psychology of thinking and problem solving. His early work concerns concept formation and problem solving in mathematics. He was especially interested in the microanalysis of human information processing. His first book contains a theory about the realization of thinking processes in neural networks. Later his interest shifted to the role of thinking in the organization of
action. Dörner has researched the way people solve difficult political and economical problems, using computer-simulated "realities" as a
scenario. Dörner's main interest is a system theory of the interaction of different psychic processes (thinking, emotion, motivation, learning, memory processes) in the organization of action. |
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