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Born in Koblenz, Jürgen Maxeiner studied Psychology, physiology and Philosophy in Cologne, Berlin and London after graduating from high school. He worked as an assistant at the Berlin University of Education, as a research assistant at the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg and as an assistant at the Nuremberg University of Education in the field of Mathematics. In 1970, he received his doctorate from the University of Erlangen with his thesis ‘Investigation of Attitude Change and Attitude Differentiation through Communication,’ which was developed at the collaborative research centre for socialisation and communication research.
His years as an assistant at the University of Kiel were followed in 1975 by an appointment as professor of education at the Saarbrücken University of Education and, in 1979, by his integration into Saarland University with a focus on ‘Education in the field of educational-psychological issues in Sports Science’. Prof. Maxeiner served as deputy director of the Sports Science Institute from 1979 to 1981 and then from 1987 to 1999. Until his retirement in 2006, his teaching and research focused on information processing in sport (perception, memory, attention).
In practice, he supervised competitive athletes at the Olympic training centre and at elite physical education schools. Among other things, he authored the publications ‘Für eine sozialpädagogische Schule’ (For a Social-Pedagogical School) (1977), ‘Lehrer-Schüler-Interaktion und Schulerfolg’ (Teacher-Student Interaction and School Success) (1979), ‘Wahrnehmung, Gedächtnis und Aufmerksamkeit im Sport’ (Perception, Memory and Attention in Sport) (1989), ‘How to Train Your Brain for Success’ (1993), ‘Information Processing in Physical Education’ (1996), ‘The Fakes Index – a Computer-Controlled Method for Measuring Emotional Sensitivity’ (2003) and ‘Emotion and Athletic Performance’ (2004).
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