Bertolt Meyer – författare

This special issue focuses on temporal dynamics in teams. Drawing on the distinction between differential and temporal (or variable vs. process) research, recent theories and research practices in the field of team research are discussed to better understand the gap between research objectives and methods in team research. The diverse conceptual, methodological, and empirical articles that make up the special issue illustrate ways of narrowing this gap and thus provide some future directions for the study of time and change in teams.

This special issue focuses on temporal dynamics in teams. Drawing on the distinction between differential and temporal (or variable vs. process) research, recent theories and research practices in the field of team research are discussed to better understand the gap between research objectives and methods in team research. The diverse conceptual, methodological, and empirical articles that make up the special issue illustrate ways of narrowing this gap and thus provide some future directions for the study of time and change in teams.

The open access book gives an overview of novel research findings in the field of humans interaction with embodied technologies. It provides a deep understanding of technologies, scientific methods, and studies on human's interaction with embodied technologies, such as digital agents, robots, cars, and machines. Autonomously acting EDTs and humans in real or virtual shared environments, and humans wearing EDTs or controlling artificial bodies, form hybrid societies. In hybrid societies, humans and agents with embodied technologies must coordinate efficiently and smoothly. To this aim, they must perceive and track each other's behavior, assess each other's capabilities, states, and situational intentions to make predictions, communicate implicitly and explicitly, and plan and control movements. The interactions begin at the individual encounter and human-machine interface level and extend to the level of entire sociotechnical systems involving joint activities of human and artificial agents.Several upcoming embodied technologies that interact with humans in public environments are discussed, including highly automated and driverless vehicles mixed with human-driven vehicles and human road users, as well as urban robots. Innovative ways for recognizing, analyzing, and harmonizing both of the human capabilities and the technical functionalities of artificial agents are presented.

Ein Buch für alle, die genug haben von Polemik und SpaltungIn vielen gesellschaftlichen Debatten sind Begriffe zu Kampfbegriffen geworden, die die Gegenseite diskreditieren sollen. Von wokem Terror und Gender-Wahnsinn ist die Rede. Gleichzeitig herrscht in linken, großstädtischen Kreisen ein Unverständnis gegenüber denjenigen, für die lokale Verwurzelung, Familie und Dorfgemeinschaft wichtige Werte darstellen. Viele Menschen auf allen Seiten des politischen Spektrums sind sich einig: Da läuft etwas schief. Doch was tun?Um wieder zusammenzufinden, müssen wir die Psychologie der Unterschiede verstehen. Was bedeutet es, anders zu sein und eine andere Meinung oder Einstellung zu haben? Können wir das Anderssein der Anderen beeinflussen? Was können wir tun, um uns selbst aus dem Teufelskreis von Vorurteilen und manifestierten Meinungen zu befreien? Der Psychologe Prof. Dr. Bertolt Meyer schreibt darüber als Experte und als Mensch, der weiß, was es bedeutet, "anders" als die Mehrheit zu sein.