Rainer Banse studied psychology at the University of Giessen, received his Ph. D. in 1995 at the University of Geneva, and completed his habilitation in 2001 at the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany). From 2003 to 2007 he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of York (UK), and since 2007 he holds the chair of Social and Legal Psychology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn (Germany). His main research interest lies in the development and validation of indirect measurement methods in various fields of application from basic social psychological research to applied forensic diagnostics. Further research areas are relationship psychology, social cognition in relation to partnership and sexuality and traffic psychology. In legal psychology, his main areas of work are the psychology of testimony, the quality of legal psychological expert opinions, the methods of evaluation of interventions for offenders as well as the diagnosis and etiology of pedophilia. Since 2013, Rainer Banse has been leading a part-time M.Sc. program in Legal Psychology at the University of Bonn.

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A complete listing of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rainer Banse publications can be found here.