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OK, then let s begin good evening and welcome to today s keynote lecture as a short note

before we start, this lecture will be video recorded and be available online afterwards,

But don't be afraid, the subsequent discussion and the questions you ask after the talk will

not be recorded.

And you're free to ask whatever you like or even ask in German and I will translate it

for you.

Just feel free to say whatever you want to say.

I am Martin Kölner and on behalf of the Chair for Experimental Psychology, Motivation and

Effective Neuroscience, it's a great pleasure to me to welcome Dr. David G. Winter for his

keynote lecture Roots of War, Wanting Power, Seeing Threat, Justifying Force Today.

He will illustrate some of the antecedents of war, a topic of continued relevance in

contemporary societies.

And to this end we'll discuss several lines of research like archival studies, lab research

and surveys.

Also he will use this knowledge to suggest policies to preserve peace.

Being the past president of the International Society of Political Psychology, he has an

expert's perspective on political processes.

However, he is also an eminent motivation researcher who is able to understand human

behavior and let me add that his motivation research was and is seminal to Oliver Schultheis

and our chair's projects and to virtually all of the studies I and so many others have

conducted over the past years.

Finally his manual for scoring motive imagery in running text is used by motivation researchers

all around the world enabling them to assess subconscious motivational needs which would

be otherwise inaccessible to self-report or other techniques in an objective way via written

texts or audio-visual material.

David graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1960 in social relations.

Later in 1962 as a Rhodes Scholar he graduated in philosophy, economics and politics with

another bachelor's degree from Oxford in England where he also received his master's degree

in 1967.

The very same year again from Harvard he received his PhD in social psychology.

He also was a Guggenheim Fellow back then and taught at Wesleyan University in Connecticut

for 20 years and another 28 years at the University of Michigan.

He instructed students in courses ranging from motivational to social, political and

personality psychology.

Besides this he also held positions at institutions like the MIT where he was an instructor in

political science in 1967 or the University of New Mexico where he is a research professor

since 2013 to name just a few.

As a visiting professor among other institutions he also stayed at the University of Amsterdam

in 1972 to 1973, Beijing University in 1992 and repeatedly as a visiting scholar at Columbia

University and New York University within the past five years.

Since 2015 he finally retired and now is an emeritus professor at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Winter is the first author of at least 130 publications.

I counted it in your basic curriculum and so probably there's far more and as many other

publications are listed there I gave up on counting his co-authorships.

Among many other honors and awards he received the Harold Leswell Award for distinguished

scientific contribution from the International Society of Political Psychology as well as

the Henry Murray Award from Division 8, Personality and Social Psychology at the American Psychological

Association.

Still he has many running writing and research projects for example Deconstructing the Terrorist's