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Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder

Professor Dr. Edgar Erdfelder was born in 1953 in Göttingen, Germany. After his studies of Psychology, German Literature, and History at Georg-August University in his hometown (1974-1980), he became Research Assistant and Instructor at Trier University in 1981. Later on he proceeded as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Psychological Institute of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University Bonn (1984-2001). In 2001 he was appointed as Associate Professor of Psychological Methods at the Department of Psychology of Justus-Liebig University Gießen before he moved to Mannheim in the subsequent year.

Professor Dr. Edgar Erdfelder has been a Full Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department Psychology III (Cognitive Psychology and Individual Differences) at the University of Mannheim from 2002 to 2022 and a Senior Professor of Cognitive Psychology since 2022. From 2018 to 2021, he was the Vice President of Research and Early-Career Researchers.

Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder

Prof. Dr. Edgar Erdfelder
Senior Professor
erdfelder[at]uni-mannheim.de
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
A5
B – Room 118
68159 Mannheim
Office hours:
after consultation with Prof. Erdfelder