Peter Vorderer
| Peter Anton Vorderer | |
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(University of Mannheim, 2012)
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| Born | Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg University, University of Mannheim, University of Toronto, Technical University of Berlin, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Southern California |
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Peter Vorderer, Prof. Dr. phil. (born 1959 in Mannheim) is a German professor of media and Communication studies at the University of Mannheim focusing on the area of media psychology, entertainment research, and the social change related to the use of new media. He made major contributions to the field of mass communication, primarily in the area of media effects research. From May 2014 until May 2015, he was president of the International Communication Association (ICA).
Peter Anton Vorderer was born in Mannheim in 1959. He began his studies of psychology at the University of Heidelberg in 1980, where he finished his degree in 1987. In 1983, he spent a year as a visiting PhD student of social psychology at New York University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also earned a degree in sociology at the University of Mannheim in 1989.
During his time in Heidelberg, Vorderer was a close colleague to the psychologist and literary scholar , where they took a stand for the development of empirical literary studies and where Vorderer participated in the development of an analytical technique (the "Heidelberger Struktur-Lege-Technik"). He continued working in this field when he was a Research associate at the Institute of Communication, Music and Media Studies at the Technical University of Berlin from 1988 to 1993, which is where he achieved his PhD. in 1992.
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