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Papers by Edgar Wunder
Materialdienst - Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen der EKD, 2024
Zeitschrift für Religion und Weltanschauung (ZRW), Dec 31, 2022
Materialdienst - Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen der EKD, 2024
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, Nov 1, 1992
BAV Rundbrief - Mitteilungsblatt der Berliner Arbeits-gemeinschaft fuer Veraenderliche Sterne, 2012
BAV Rundbrief - Mitteilungsblatt der Berliner Arbeits-gemeinschaft fuer Veraenderliche Sterne, Feb 1, 2013
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, Dec 1, 1989
The fourth edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) lists all variable stars dis... more The fourth edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) lists all variable stars discovered and designated till 1982. In the meantime about 22 new RR Lyrae-stars brighter than 12m7 have been discovered. Charts and some short-information on three of these objects, AN Lyn, HY Com and DL Leo, are given.
Sterne und Weltraum, 1998
Zukunftsaussichten für die Kirchen: 50 Jahre Pastoralsoziologie in Hannover
Personality and Individual Differences, 2003
The process of self-attribution is an important factor in the development of beliefs in the valid... more The process of self-attribution is an important factor in the development of beliefs in the validity of presented personality descriptions. Hamilton (2001) proposed that the relative favourableness of astrologically derived personality descriptions is a moderator variable for long-term self-attribution effects based on knowledge of the astrological sun-sign symbolism. Because the sets of traits associated with some sun-signs are thought to be more favourable than those of other sun-signs, she predicts that natives born under a more favourable sign should show a stronger belief in astrology than subjects born under less favourable signs. To test this hypothesis, we studied 1700 German subjects, to see if their belief in astrology varied with respect to their sun-sign. But the mean belief scores were almost exactly the same for all sign groups, providing strong evidence against Hamilton's hypothesis. It is proposed that the conflicting empirical findings of Hamilton (2001) are probably artefacts of the experimental setting, and not long-term effects of self-attribution.
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
In this paper some important aspects of institutionalization in old age are studied. Compared wit... more In this paper some important aspects of institutionalization in old age are studied. Compared with old people living in private households, people living in residential care facilities show some sociostructural particularities which are hints at possible factors related to institutionalization. The following analyses of the factors related to institutionalization in old age result in a conformity of objective and subjective reasons: poor health, lack of social network and bad housing conditions in combination with needs for care are essential factors related to institutionalization. In addition, the question of denominational choice of the residential care facility and the question about migration in old age is examined more closely. With regard to the religious community it is amazing that, in spite of secularization, there are major interdenominational differences. A further analysis of regional mobility suggests some sociostructural differences: women and widowed persons for exam...
Knowledge and Space, 2011
The revival of public and scholarly interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has ... more The revival of public and scholarly interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon and is somewhat paradoxical. Memory is a form of temporal awareness more readily associated with traditional, nonindustrialized societies rather than with the globalized, mobile, and deracinated world of today, which ostensibly floats free of all historical moorings, disconnected from earlier
Materialdienst - Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen der EKD, 2024
Zeitschrift für Religion und Weltanschauung (ZRW), Dec 31, 2022
Materialdienst - Evangelische Zentralstelle für Weltanschauungsfragen der EKD, 2024
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, Nov 1, 1992
BAV Rundbrief - Mitteilungsblatt der Berliner Arbeits-gemeinschaft fuer Veraenderliche Sterne, 2012
BAV Rundbrief - Mitteilungsblatt der Berliner Arbeits-gemeinschaft fuer Veraenderliche Sterne, Feb 1, 2013
Information Bulletin on Variable Stars, Dec 1, 1989
The fourth edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) lists all variable stars dis... more The fourth edition of the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) lists all variable stars discovered and designated till 1982. In the meantime about 22 new RR Lyrae-stars brighter than 12m7 have been discovered. Charts and some short-information on three of these objects, AN Lyn, HY Com and DL Leo, are given.
Sterne und Weltraum, 1998
Zukunftsaussichten für die Kirchen: 50 Jahre Pastoralsoziologie in Hannover
Personality and Individual Differences, 2003
The process of self-attribution is an important factor in the development of beliefs in the valid... more The process of self-attribution is an important factor in the development of beliefs in the validity of presented personality descriptions. Hamilton (2001) proposed that the relative favourableness of astrologically derived personality descriptions is a moderator variable for long-term self-attribution effects based on knowledge of the astrological sun-sign symbolism. Because the sets of traits associated with some sun-signs are thought to be more favourable than those of other sun-signs, she predicts that natives born under a more favourable sign should show a stronger belief in astrology than subjects born under less favourable signs. To test this hypothesis, we studied 1700 German subjects, to see if their belief in astrology varied with respect to their sun-sign. But the mean belief scores were almost exactly the same for all sign groups, providing strong evidence against Hamilton's hypothesis. It is proposed that the conflicting empirical findings of Hamilton (2001) are probably artefacts of the experimental setting, and not long-term effects of self-attribution.
Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
In this paper some important aspects of institutionalization in old age are studied. Compared wit... more In this paper some important aspects of institutionalization in old age are studied. Compared with old people living in private households, people living in residential care facilities show some sociostructural particularities which are hints at possible factors related to institutionalization. The following analyses of the factors related to institutionalization in old age result in a conformity of objective and subjective reasons: poor health, lack of social network and bad housing conditions in combination with needs for care are essential factors related to institutionalization. In addition, the question of denominational choice of the residential care facility and the question about migration in old age is examined more closely. With regard to the religious community it is amazing that, in spite of secularization, there are major interdenominational differences. A further analysis of regional mobility suggests some sociostructural differences: women and widowed persons for exam...
Knowledge and Space, 2011
The revival of public and scholarly interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has ... more The revival of public and scholarly interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon and is somewhat paradoxical. Memory is a form of temporal awareness more readily associated with traditional, nonindustrialized societies rather than with the globalized, mobile, and deracinated world of today, which ostensibly floats free of all historical moorings, disconnected from earlier