Prof. Dr. Henning Plessner
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Main Research Areas
Positions
Academic Education
Activities in Science Organizations
Editorial Positions
Selected Publications
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Prof. Dr. Henning Plessner
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaft
Im Neuenheimer Feld 720
69120 Heidelberg
E-Mail: Henning.plessner@issw.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)6221 54-4644
Office: INF 720, Room 115
Office Hours:
During semester: Tue, 14:30 - 16:00
During semester break: by appointment
Main Research Areas
Judgment and decision making in sport
Motivation and sport performance
Social psychology of sport
Psychology of intuition
Positions
| Since 2010 |
Professor for Sport Psychology |
| 2008 - 2010 |
Professor for Social Psychology |
| WS 2004/2005 |
Theodor Heuss Lecturer |
| WS 2003/2004 |
Deputizing Full Professor for Social and Economic Psychology |
| 2001 - 2008 |
Assistant Professor |
| 1997 - 2001 |
Research Associate |
| 1992 - 1997 |
Assistant Lecturer |
Academic Education
| 2004 |
Habilitation in Psychology University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies |
| 1997 |
Dr. phil. in Psychology Technical University of Chemnitz-Zwickau |
| 1986 - 1992 |
Diploma in Psychology Technical University of Braunschweig |
Activities in Science Organizations
| Since 2016 |
Speaker of the Executive Committee of the Sport Psychology Section within the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
| 2011 - 2017 |
Member of the Task Force Sport Psychology of the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA) |
| 2011 - 2015 |
Vice-President of the German Society of Sport Science (dvs) |
| 2008 - 2012 |
Member of the Ethics Committee of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
| 2003 - 2007 |
Member of the Executive Committee of the Social Psychology Section within the German Psychological Society (DGPs) |
Activities in Sports Organizations
| Since 2018 |
Member of the board of the Sportregion Rhein-Neckar |
| Since 2014 |
Member of the board on Olympic Sports of the German Gymnastics Association (DTB) |
| Since 2013 |
Chairman of the Gymnastic Association (KTG) Heidelberg |
Editorial Positions
| Since 2016 |
Associate Editor |
| 2016 - 2018 |
Associate Editor |
| 2012 - 2016 |
Editor-in-Chief |
| 2012 - 2016 |
Editorial Board Member |
Selected Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Schüler, J., Wegner, M., & Plessner, H. (Hrsg.). (2020). Sportpsychologie – Grundlagen und Anwendungen. Berlin: Springer.
Balafoutas, L., Chowdhury, S. M., & Plessner, H. (Eds.). (2019). Applications of sports data to study decision making [Special Issue]. Journal of Economic Psychology, 75(Part B).
Lau, A. & Plessner, H. (2016). Sozialpsychologie und Sport – Ein Lehrbuch in 12 Lektionen. Aachen: Meyer & Meyer.
Plessner, H., Canal-Bruland, R., Ehrlenspiel, F., Jansen, P., Schüler, J., & Zentgraf, K. (Hrsg.). (2016). Die „Vertrauenskrise“ der empirischen Sozialwissenschaften und deren Bedeutung für die Sportpsychologie. [Themenheft]. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 23(3).
MacMahon, C., Mascarenhas, D., Plessner, H., Pizzera, A., Oudejans, R. R. D., & Raab, M. (2014). Sports officials and officiating: Science and practice. London: Routledge.
Schweizer, G. & Plessner, H. (Hrsg.). (2012). Sportpsychologie [Themenausgabe]. In-Mind, 2(1).
Bar-Eli, M., Plessner H., & Raab, M. (2011). Judgement, decision making and success in sport. Oxford: Wiley.
Betsch, T., Funke, J., & Plessner, H. (2011). Denken – Urteilen, Entscheiden, Problemlösen. Heidelberg: Springer.
Plessner, H., Betsch, C., & Betsch, T. (Eds.). (2008). Intuition in judgment and decision making. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Plessner, H. (Hrsg.). (2007). Sozialpsychologie und Sport [Sonderheft]. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 38(2).
Raab, M., & Plessner, H. (Hrsg.). (2002). Urteilen und Entscheiden im Sport [Sonderheft]. Psychologie und Sport, 9(4).
Plessner, H., & Banse, R. (Eds.). (2001). Attitude measurement using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) [Special issue]. Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie, 48(2).
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Frenkel, M. O., Georg, A., & Plessner, H. (2020). Achtsamkeit zur Förderung der Selbstregulation bei Jugendlichen in der Schule. Evaluation des Achtsamkeitstrainings "8-sam". Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie, 69, 321-388.
Raab, M., Bar-Eli, M., Plessner, H., & Araújo, D. (2019). The past, present and future of research on judgment and decision making in sport. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 42, 25-32.
Frenkel, M. O., Laborde, S., Rummel, J., Giessing, L., Kasperk, C., Heck, R. B., Plessner, H., & Strahler, J. (2019). Heidelberg Risk Sport-Specific Stress Test: A paradigm to investigate the risk sport-specific psycho-physiological arousal. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2249.
Labudek, S., Schweizer, G., Roth, A., Pizzera, A., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2019). REFS-D: Eine deutschsprachige Skala zur Erfassung der Schiedsrichterselbstwirksamkeit. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 26, 15-24.
Frenkel, M. O., Brokelmann, J., Nieuwenhuys, A., Heck, R. B., Kasperk, C., Stoffel, M., & Plessner, H. (2019). Mindful sensation seeking: An examination of the protective influence of selected personality traits on risk sport-specific stress. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1719.
Giessing, L., Frenkel, M. O., Zinner, C., Rummel, J., Nieuwenhuys, A., Kasperk, C., Brune, M., Engel, F. A., & Plessner H. (2019). Effects of coping-related traits and psychophysiological stress responses on police recruits’ shooting behavior in reality-based scenarios. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1523.
Frenkel, M. O., Heck, R.-B., & Plessner, H. (2018). Cortisol and behavioral reaction of low and high sensation seekers differ in responding to a sport-specific stressor. Anxiety, Stress, and Coping, 31, 580–593.
Pizzera, A., Möller, C., & Plessner, H. (2018). Gaze behavior of gymnastics judges: Where do experienced judges and gymnasts look while judging? Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 89, 112-119.
Memmert, D., Plessner, H., Hüttermann, S., Froese, G., & Peterhänsel, C. (2015). Collective fit increases team performances: extending regulatory fit from individuals to dyadic teams. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45, 274-281.
Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2013). Establishing standards for basketball elite referees’ decisions. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 25, 370-375.
Kutzner, F. L. W., Förderer, S., & Plessner, H. (2013). Regulatory fit improves putting in top golfers. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 2, 130-137.
Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., Kahlert, D., & Brand, R. (2011). A video-based training method for improving soccer referees’ intuitive decision-making skills. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 23, 429-442.
Plessner, H., Unkelbach, C., Memmert, D., Baltes, A., & Kolb, A. (2009). Regulatory fit as a determinant of sport performance: How to succeed in a soccer penalty shooting. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 10, 108-115.
Memmert, D., Plessner, H., & Maaßmann, J. (2009). Zur Erklärungskraft der “Regulatory Focus” Theorie im Sport. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 16, 80-90.
Unkelbach, C., & Plessner, H. (2007). „Category-Split“ bei Urteilen über Sportler und Sportarten. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 38, 111-121.
Damisch, L., Mussweiler, T., & Plessner, H. (2006). Olympic medals as fruits of comparison? Assimilation and contrast in sequential judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 166-178.
Plessner, H., & Haar, T. (2006). Sports performance judgments from a social cognition perspective. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 7, 555-575.
Betsch, T., Kaufmann, M., Lindow, F., Plessner, H., & Hoffmann, K. (2006). Different mechanisms of information integration in implicit and explicit attitude formation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 36, 887-905.
Friese, M., Wänke, M., & Plessner, H. (2006). Implicit consumer preferences and their influence on product choice. Psychology and Marketing, 23, 727-740.
Mascarenhas, D. R. D., O'Hare, D., & Plessner, H. (2006). The psychological and performance demands of association football refereeing. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 37, 99-120.
Plessner, H., Freytag, P., & Strauss, B. (2006). Fußball verstehen: Beiträge der Sozialpsychologie. Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie, 37, 59-71.
Plessner, H., & Schallies, E. (2005). Judging the cross on rings: A matter of achieving shape constancy. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 1145-1156.
Fiedler, K., & Plessner, H. (2004). Die Stichprobenfalle: Läßt sich eine Sensibiliät für metakognitive Probleme beim stochastischen Denken vermitteln? Unterrichtswissenschaft, 32, 23-37.
Betsch, T., Hoffmann, K., Hoffrage, U., & Plessner, H. (2003). Intuition beyond recognition: When less familiar events are liked better. Experimental Psychology, 50, 49-54.
Plessner, H., & Betsch, T. (2002). Refereeing in sports is supposed to be a craft not an art: A response to Mascarenhas, Collins, and Mortimer (2002). Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 24, 334-337.
Fiedler, K., Walther, E., Freytag, P., & Plessner, H. (2002). Judgment biases in a simulated classroom - a cognitve-environmental approach. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 88, 527-561.
Plessner, H., Hartmann, C., Hohmann, N., & Zimmermann, I. (2001). Achtung Stichprobe! Der Einfluss der Informationsgewinnung auf die Bewertung sportlicher Leistungen. Psychologie und Sport, 8, 91-100.
Plessner, H., & Betsch, T. (2001). Sequential effects in important referee decisions: The case of penalties in soccer. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 23, 200-205.
Betsch, T., Plessner, H., Schwieren, C., & Gütig, R. (2001). I like it but I don't know why: A value-account approach to implicit attitude formation. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 242-253.
Plessner, H., Freytag, P., & Fiedler, K. (2000). Expectancy-effects without expectancies: Illusory correlations based on cue-overlap. European Journal of Social Psychology, 30, 837-851.
Plessner, H. & Raab, M. (1999). Kampf- und Schiedsrichterurteile als Produkte sozialer Informationsverarbeitung. Psychologie und Sport, 6, 130-145.
Plessner, H. (1999). Expectation biases in gymnastics judging. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 21, 131-144.
Book Chapters
Schweizer, G., & Plessner, H. (2020). Urteilen und Entscheiden im Sport. In J. Schüler, M. Wegner, & H. Plessner (Hrsg.), Sportpsychologie – Grundlagen und Anwendungen (S. 89-114). Berlin: Springer.
Plessner, H. & Roth, P. (2018). Urteilen und Entscheiden. In J. Strohmer (Hrsg.), Psychologische Grundlagen für Fachkräfte in Kindergarten, Krippe und Hort (S. 89—95).
Plessner, H., & Teubel, T. (2015). Sportpsychologie. In A. Schütz, M. Brand, H. Selg, & S. Lautenbacher (Hrsg.), Psychologie - Eine Einführung in ihre Grundlagen und Anwendungsfelder (5. Auflage, S. 517-528). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2013). Training von Schiedsrichterentscheidungen. In K. Zentgraf & J. Munzert (Hrsg.), Kognitives Training im Sport (S. 213-234). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Plessner, H. & MacMahon, C. (2013). The sport official in research and practice. In D. Farrow, J. Baker & C. MacMahon (Eds.), Developing sport expertise (pp. 71-95). London: Routledge.
Plessner, H., (2013). Mannschaften und Kohäsion. In A. Güllich & M. Krüger (Hrsg.), Sport – Ein Lehrbuch für das Sportstudium (S. 577-579). Heidelberg: Springer.
Plessner, H. & Raab, M. (2012). Kognitionen von Sportzuschauern – Urteile, Ursachenzuschreibungen, Vorhersagen und Wetten. In B. Strauß (Hrsg.), Sportzuschauer (S. 140-161). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Schweizer, G., Plessner, H., & Brand, R. (2010). Studying experts’ intuitive decision making online using video stimuli. In A. Glöckner & C. Witteman (Eds.), Foundations for tracing intuition: challenges and methods (pp. 106-122). Hove and New York: Psychology Press.
Unkelbach, C., Plessner, H., & Memmert, D. (2009). "Fit" in sports: Self-regulation and athletic performances. In J. P. Forgas, R. F. Baumeister & D. F. Tice (Eds.), Psychology of self-regulation: Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes (pp. 93-105). Philadelphia: Psychological Press.
Plessner, H., Schweizer, G., Brand, R., & O'Hare, D. (2009). A multiple-cue learning approach as the basis for understanding and improving soccer referees' decision making. In M. Raab, J. Johnson & H. Heekeren (Eds.), Progress in Brain Research: Mind and Motion: The Bidirectional Link between Thought and Action (pp. 151-158). Amsterdam: Elsevier Press.
Unkelbach, C., Plessner, H., & Haar, T. (2009). Soziale Kognitionen im Sport. In W. Schlicht & B. Strauß (Hrsg.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie Band D/V/1: Grundlagen der Sportpsychologie (S. 681-717). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Fiedler, K., & Plessner, H. (2009). Induction: From simple categorization to higher-order inference problems. In F. Strack, & J. Förster (Eds.), Frontiers of social psychology: Social cognition - the basis of social interaction (pp. 93-120). Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Brand, R., Schweizer, G., & Plessner, H. (2009). Conceptual considerations about the development of a decision-making training method for expert soccer referees. In D. Araujo, H. Ripoll & M. Raab (Eds.), Perspectives on cognition and action in sport (pp. 181-190). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Sciences.
Plessner, H., Betsch, T., Schallies, E., & Schwieren, C. (2008). Automatic online-formation of implicit attitudes towards politicians as a basis for intuitive voting behavior. In H. Plessner, C. Betsch & T. Betsch (Eds.), Intuition in judgment and decision making (pp. 107-118). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Plessner, H., & Czenna, S. (2008). The benefits of intuition. In H. Plessner, C. Betsch & T. Betsch (Eds.), Intuition in judgment and decision making (pp. 251-266). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Unkelbach, C., & Plessner, H. (2008). The sampling trap of intuitive judgments: Can reflection reach beyond sampling constraints? In H. Plessner, C. Betsch & T. Betsch (Eds.), Intuition in judgment and decision making (pp. 283-294). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Brand, R., Plessner, H., & Unkelbach, C. (2008). Basic psychological processes underlying referees' decision-making. In P. Anderson, P. Ayton & C. Schmidt (Eds.), Myths and facts about football: The economics and psychology of the world's greatest sport (pp. 173-190). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Plessner, H. (2006). Urteilen und Entscheiden im Sport. In H. Haag & B. Strauß (Hrsg.), Grundlagen zum Studium der Sportwissenschaft - Band VI: Themenfelder der Sportwissenschaft (S. 389-402). Schorndorf: Hofmann.
Plessner, H. (2006). Die Klugheit der Intuition und ihre Grenzen. In A. Scherzberg et al. (Hrsg.), Kluges Entscheiden (S. 109-120). Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Raab, M., & Plessner. H. (2006). Urteilen, Entscheiden und Problemlösen. In B. Strauß und M. Tietjens (Hrsg.), Handbuch Sportpsychologie (S. 71-78). Schorndorf: Hofmann.
Fiedler, K., & Plessner, H. (2006). Induktives Schließen: Umgang mit Wahrscheinlichkeiten. In J. Funke (Hrsg.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie Band C/II/8: Denken und Problemlösen (S. 265-328). Göttingen: Hogrefe.
Plessner, H. (2005). Positive and negative effects of prior knowledge on referee decisions in sports. In T. Betsch, & S. Haberstroh (Eds.), The routines of decision making (pp. 311-324). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Betsch, T., Plessner, H., & Schallies, E. (2004). The value-account model of attitude formation. In G. R. Maio & G. Haddock (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on the psychology of attitudes (pp. 252-273). Hove: Psychology Press.
