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Jürgen Beckmann (* 5. März 1955 in Dortmund) is a German psychologist.

He studied scoial sciences, psychology and philosophy at Ruhr University Bochum receiving a diploma in social sciences in 1980. He started to work with Julius Kuhl on the theory of action control on which he wrote his diploma thesis supervised by Julius Kuhl. Two journal publications resulted from the diploma thesis: Kuhl & Beckmann, 1983 and Beckmann & Kuhl, 1984. After receiving his diploma he became a researcher in a project by Martin Irle at the University of Mannheim on decision making and cognitive dissonance (1980-1983. He received his PhD in 1984 from the University of Mannheim with a thesis on "Cognitive dissonance. An action control perspective". The same year, the German Psychological Scoiety awarded him with wth Young Scientists Award (later Heinz Heckhausen Award) for the thesis.

1984-1990 senior researcher at Max-Planck-Institute for psychological research in Munich working with Heinz Heckhausen. Following up on the theoretical considerations in his dissertation, the Rubicon model of action phases was developed (first international publication on this model Beckmann & Gollwitzer 1987 in Social Cognition). 1987 Habilitation at Universität Mannheim with "venia legendi for psychology".

In 1990 he received the Heisenberg Scholarship of the German Science Foundation. With the scholarship he continued his work on self regulation in collaboration with several colleagues e.g. in 1993 at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. 1997 he was appointed professor of sport psychology at the University of Potsdam. In 2006 he was appointed professor and chair of sport psychology at Technical University of Munich (TUM). From 2007 through 2013 he was Dean of the department of sport sciences at TUM. While being Dean he initiated the expansion of the department into a department of sport and health sciences enabling the department to grow substantially from 5 professors in 2007 to 12 professors in 2013.

2005 bis 2009 chairman of the German Association of Sport Psychology.

Based on his original work on motivation and volition (self regulation) he combines sport psychological research with scientifically grounded applied work. A major concern of this work consists of a systematisation and professionalisation of sportpsychology.

Publications (selection)

J. Kuhl, J. Beckmann (Eds.): Action control. Springer, Heidelberg 1985. J. Kuhl, J.Beckmann (Eds.):Volition and personality: Action and state orientation. Hogrefe, Seattle 1994. J. Beckmann, A. Elbe: Sport Psychological Interventions in Competitive Sports. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2015. M. Kellmann, J. Beckmann (Eds.): Sport, recovery, and performance. Interdisciplinary insights. Routledge, Abingdon 2018 Weblinks

Profile of Jürgen Beckmann at TU München Researchgate