Florian G. Kaiser

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Florian G. Kaiser (born August 27, 1959, in Lohn (Solothurn, Switzerland) is a Swiss psychologist. Since 2008, he has been a professor of personality, differential, and social psychology at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.

Biography[edit]

Florian G. Kaiser graduated from the University of Zürich, Switzerland with a diploma in clinical and biological-mathematical psychology. In 1992, he earned his doctoral degree in psychology from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His dissertation was on "Mobility as a dwelling problem — Place attachment as emotional regulation"; a summary was published in New Ideas in Psychology.[1] Kaiser received his lecturer habilitation in 1999 from the University of Zürich, Switzerland. From 1994 to 1997, he spent two years at the University of California, Berkeley, and one year at the University of Trier, Germany, as a postdoctoral research fellow. From 1998 to 2000, he was an assistant professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland. From 2000 to 2008, he was an associate professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, and, simultaneously, he was appointed senior lecturer at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. In 2017 and 2018, he was co-chief editor of the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Research[edit]

Since 1995, and later along with his various teams, Kaiser has been developing the Campbell paradigm. The endeavor started off intending to develop a measure of environmentally protective behavior.[2] Initially, only retrospective self-reports of past environmentally protective behaviors were used. This behavior-based measure demonstrated a strong correspondence (i.e., 88% overlap) with a traditional intention measure.[3] This correspondence made Kaiser and colleagues reconsider the essence of their measure, and they decided that their measure could be better described as a measure of people’s intentions, that is, their propensity to act in an environmentally protective fashion.[4] Donald Campbell's conjecture[5] made them once again reconsider the essence of their measure. It evolved into a measure of environmental attitude[6][7] and came to include self-referential statements, that is, opinions about the advantages of environmental protection.[8][9] In the meantime, Kaiser speaks more colloquially of a measure that represents people’s commitment to the goal of protecting the environment.[10] In this way, he stresses a more traditional understanding of attitude as a motivational concept[11] that is nowadays often replaced by an understanding of attitudes as (verbal expressions of) opinions or judgments.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Allport, Gordon W. (1935). "Attitudes. in Handbook of Social Psychology. C. Murchison, 798-844". Scribd. Retrieved 2023-12-02.
  12. ^ 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.

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