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Torsten Reimer

Assistant Professor
Communication, BRNG

treimer@purdue.edu

Torsten Reimer joins Purdue's Communication Department after three years as assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to his work at Maryland, he was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany), an interdisciplinary center of excellence devoted to the study of human cognition. Torsten received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Free University of Berlin and a Habilitation degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Basle in Switzerland. Torsten's research interests focus on the question how individuals and groups form decisions in organizational and applied contexts. His research program has the overarching goal to explore how communication principles can facilitate decision making by guiding information processing and reducing information overload. In 2008, Torsten received the Golden Anniversary Monograph Award from the National Communication Association and an Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.




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