Gabriele Oettingen
Psychology professor and researcher
Gabriele Oettingen is a German psychologist who studies how thinking about the future shapes what people feel, think and do. She wrote Rethinking Positive Thinking.
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German Born 1953 in Munich, Germany
About Gabriele Oettingen
Gabriele Oettingen is a German academic and psychologist, born in Munich in 1953. She holds professorships at New York University and the University of Hamburg, and her research examines how people picture the future and how that affects cognition, emotion and behavior. She studied biology in Munich and did her doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, while working at research institutions in Germany and England. She later conducted research at the University of Pennsylvania and spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. She became a professor at the University of Hamburg in 2000 and has held a professorship at New York University since 2002. Her book in our catalog is Rethinking Positive Thinking.