Prof. Peter M. Gollwitzer - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1973: B.A., Universitaet Regensburg
• 1977: M.A., Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
• 1981: Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
• 1982-1983: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Psychology of Motivation, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
• 1984-1988: Junior Researcher, Department: Psychology of Motivation, Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich
• 1988: Habilitation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
• 1989-1992.Senior Researcher, Department: Intention and Action (Head), Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research, Munich
• since 1999: Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Program, New York University
• since 1993: Professor, Department of Psychology, Social Psychology and Motivation (Chair), University of Konstanz

• Deliberation, implementation, action, and evaluation mindsets: Information processing at different phases of goal pursuit.
• Goal intentions versus implementation intentions: Differential effects on cognition, affect, and behavior.
• Differences in conscious vs. non-conscious goal pursuit.
• The willful control of unwanted automatic thoughts, feelings, and actions.
• Emotional states of mind: Effects on action control.
• Persistence in goal pursuit: Effective self-regulatory thoughts.
• Affective consequences of goal implementation: The speed of goal pursuit.
• Neuropsychological aspects of action control: e.g., effects of implementation intentions in frontal lobe patients.
• Health promoting behaviors: The role of goals and plans.
• Flexibility/rigidity in goal pursuit.

• Symbolic self-completion: Various forms of self-symbolizing as a consequence of self-definitional incompleteness.
• Social reality of self-symbolizing: Effects of public recognition of self-definitional symbols.
• Social interaction: Interpersonal insensitivity as a consequence of self-symbolizing.
• Intentions as symbols: Negative effects on action initiation.
• Identity conflicts: Motivational versus volitional crises.
• The willful pursuit of identity: A life-span perspective.

• Max Planck Society, "Intention and Action," 1989-1992.
• Max Planck Research Award, 1990, Max Planck Society (Germany).

• TRANSCOOP Award for International Research Cooperations, 1994, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany).
• German Research Foundation, "The Willful Control of Stereotypes I," 1994-1996.
• German Research Foundation, "The Willful Control of Stereotypes II," 1996-1998.
• German Research Foundation, "The Willful Control of Stereotypes III," 1998-2003.
• German Research Foundation, "Implementation Intentions: Their Impact on Action Control and Mental Control," 2005-2008.
• Federal Ministry for Education and Research, "A self-regulation intervention to faciliate rehabilitation in stroke patients" (with Joachim Liepert and Gabriele Oettingen), 2007-2010.
• German Research Foundation, "The Limits of Action Control by Implementation Intentions", 2008-2011.
• German Research Foundation, "A Self-Evaluation Model of Upward Counterfactual Thinking", 2009-2011.

• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Goal Effects on Social Judgments", 1994-1996.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Mind-set Effects on Social Judgments", 1995-1996.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Volition I", 1996-1998.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Volition II", 1999-2000.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Goal Pursuit", 2001-2002.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Flexible Tenacity I", 2003-2004.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Flexible Tenacity II", 2005-2006.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Zielorientiertes Handeln: Vorsätze, Bewusstseinslagen und relevante Aspekte verwandter Forschungsansätze", 2007-2008.
• University of Konstanz Research Fund Award, "Wirksamkeit und Grenzen von Vorsätzen sowie relevante Aspekte verwandter Forschungsansätze", 2009-2010.

• Lion Foundation (with Prof. A. Nadler, Tel Aviv University), "The Role of Social Identity in Personal Identity," 1997-2000.
• Lion Foundation (with Prof. A. Nadler, Tel Aviv University), "Helping Relations as Power Relations," 2001-2002.

• NIH Post-doctoral Fellowship, Dr. H. Grant-Pillow "Individual Differences in Goal Setting and Goal Implementation," Sponsor (with Gabriele Oettingen), 2001-2004.
• NIH, Nonconscious forms of self-regulation, 2003-2005.
• NIH, A Theory-Based Intervention to Change Physician Behavior (with Peter Jensen and Gabriele Oettingen), 2003-2007.
• NIAAA, Mechanisms of Behavior Change Initiation (MOBCI) for Drinking Behavior (with Jon Morgenstern, Gabriele Oettingen, Joy Hirsch), 2009-2012.

• Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Intentions and Intentionality, University of Konstanz, 2000-2005.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Post-doctoral Fellowship, Dr. Anna-Lisa Cohen "Implementation Intentions and Prospective Memory," Sponsor, 2003-2005.

• NSF-Predoctoral Scholarships (3 years each): sponsor for Christie Kawada, 2001, Ken Fujita, 2002, Elizabeth Parks, 2003, and Dan Kirk, 2004.

• Self-Regulation Skills and Life Success as part of the ZEW Leibniz Research Network Noncognitive Skills: Acquisition and Economic Consequences.

• Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, since 1998.
• Fellow of the American Psychological Association, since 2002.
• Nominee, Classic Contributions to Social Psychology in the 1980s and 1990s, Psychological Inquiry, 2003.

• Roman Trötschel, "Den Verlust vor Augen, die Einigung im Sinn. Zur Realisierung prosozialer Verhandlungsziele durch Vorsätze." Förderpreis der Stiftung "Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an der Universität Konstanz", 2002.
• Faby Gagne, "Mindset and relationship illusions." Society of Experimental Social Psychology Dissertation Award, 2003
• Thomas L. Webb, "Motivational and volitional aspects of self-regulation." British Psychological Society, Social Psychology Section Outstanding PhD Award, 2004