Manfred Schmitt

Manfred Schmitt is Professor emeritus of Psychological Assessment and Personality Psychology at the Rhineland-Palatinate University of Technology Kaiserslautern-Landau. Previously he held professorships in developmental psychology (Saarbrücken), methodology (Magdeburg) and social psychology (Trier). His research interests include emotions (jealousy, guilt, anger, fear, disgust, depressiveness), justice beliefs and sensitivity to injustice, the interplay of explicit and implicit personality traits in information processing and behavioural regulation, interactions between personality traits and situational features, objective personality tests, psychological contributions to environmental protection, and the influence of teachers' personality on the quality of instruction.