Uwe Wolfradt

Uwe Wolfradt is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His career spans multiple institutions including the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and University of Cologne. He serves on the board of the Society for Culture Psychology and chairs the Carl-Stumpf-Society (2013-2014).

• Education:
  • 2009: Associate Professor (Halle)
  • 2009: Ph.D. in Social Anthropology (Leipzig)
  • 2001: Habilitation in Personality Psychology (Halle)
  • 1996: Ph.D. in Social Psychology (Osnabrück)
  • 1989: MSc in Neuropsychology (Freiburg)
  • 1984: BA in Psychology, Social Anthropology, Chinese Studies

Research Focus: Wolfradt specializes in cross-cultural personality assessment, dissociative phenomena (depersonalization, fantasy-proneness), and historical-cultural intersections in psychology. His work explores connections between extreme belief systems (paranormal, religiosity) and personality traits. He has published extensively on depersonalization, emotional regulation, and historical psychology in journals like Personality and Individual Differences and Journal of Empirical Theology

Key Publications: His work traces through depersonalization (2003), cross-cultural value analysis (2018), and cultural psychology's colonial legacy (2021). Recent collaborations examine value congruencies in refugee acculturation (2022) and theoretical psychology (2022).

• Scientific Networks:
  • Board member: Society for Culture Psychology
  • Editorial roles: Co-editor of Kompendium psychologischer Theorien (2015)
  • International collaborations: Japan, Russia, USA

Advising & Grants: Served as Ad Hoc Reviewer for 18+ journals including Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Received funding from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and DAAD for international fieldwork in Mongolia, Japan, and Russia.