Edgar Erdfelder
Professor
Psychology
Otto-Selz-Institute of Applied Psychology
Germany
Biography
Born 1953 in Göttingen, Germany. Studies of Psychology, German Literature, Linguistics, and History at Georg-August University, Göttingen (1974-1980). Research Assistant and Instructor at Trier University (1981-1984); Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Psychological Institute, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Bonn (1984-2001); Associate Professor of Psychological Methods, Department of Psychology, Justus-Liebig University, Gießen. Since 2002 Full Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department Psychology III (Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences) at the University of Mannheim.
Research Interest
Episodic memory Judgment and memory illusions Source memory Explicit vs. implicit processes in memory Cognitive aging Methodological foundations of Experimental Psychology Stochastic modeling of cognitive processes Statistical power analysis
Publications
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Heck, D. W. & Erdfelder, E. (2017). Linking process and measurement models of recognition-based decisions. Psychological Review, 124, 442-471. doi:10.1037/rev0000063
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Erdfelder, E. & Leplow, B. (2017). Ten years after. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 225, 1-5.
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Castela, M., & Erdfelder, E. (2017). The memory state heuristic: A formal model based on repeated recognition judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 43, 205-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000299
