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Nobel Laureate Abel Laureate Advisory Board Member USERN President USERN Policy Making Council USERN Manager USERN Deputy Junior Ambassador
Major: Psychiatry/Psychology
Field: Diagnosis and treatment
Publications
Publications by Willibald Ruch for download from ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive)
Research Interests
- Personality
- Assessment:
- Test construction
- Positive Psychology:
- Character Strengths and Virtues
- Positive Interventions
- Humor, Cheerfulness, Dispositions towards Laughter and Ridicule
Associate Editorship
Book series
- Humor Research Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (with Prof. Victor Raskin, Purdue University) (1995-)
- Advances in Psychological Assessment. Goettingen: Hogrefe (board member) (2012-)
Scientific papers - Associate Editor
- Board of Consulting Editors, International Journal of Humor Research (1991).
- Editorial Board, Humor - International Journal of Humor Research (1992-).
- Editorial Board, Psychology-Science (vormals Psychologische Beiträge) (2002-2009)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Individual Differences (2004-)
- Editorial Board, Current Psychology (2006-)
- Editorial Advisory Board, Swiss Journal of Psychology (2006-)
- Editorial Board, The Journal of Positive Psychology--JOPP (2009-)
- Editorial Board, European Journal of Psychological Assessment--EJPA (2009-)
- Mitherausgeber, Psychologische Rundschau--PRU (2009-2012)
- Editorial Board, Journal of Research in Personality (2009-)
- Editorial Board, Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling (vormals Psychologische Beiträge) (2010-)
- Editorial Board, The Journal of Happiness and Well-being (2013-)
- Editorial Board, European Journal of Humor Research (2013-)
Guest editor in Special Issues
- "Current Issues in Psychological Humor Research," International Journal of Humor Research. (Vol 6:1, 1993)
- "Measurement of the sense of humor," International Journal of Humor Research. (Vol 9:3/4, 1996)
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Fearing humor?," Humor: International Journal of Humor Research. (Vol 22:1/2, 2009)
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Humor und Heiterkeit im Alter" Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie. (2010, co-editor with Prof. Dr. Dr. Rolf Hirsch)
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Dispositions towards ridicule and being laughed at" Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling (53) (2010, together with R. T. Proyer)
Memberships and Functions in Scientific Organizations
Memberships
- International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID), London, GB (1983 -)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGfPs), Göttingen (1984 -)
- European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP), Tilburg, The Netherlands (1985 -)
- Fachgruppe Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie und Psychologische Diagnostik der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGfPs) (1992-)
- International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS), Tempe, AZ, USA (1990-)
- International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) (1997-)
- European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA) (2002- )
- International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) (2007- )
Functions
- IPPA Fellowship (awarded in 2015)
- Senior Scientist, VIA Institute on Character, Cincinnati, OH, USA, 2015
- President of the Swiss Association for Positive Psychology - SWIPPA (2002; 2013-2014)
- President of the International Society for Humor Studies - ISHS (2002; 2013-2014)
- Foundation and chair of the "POD humor" of the Positive Psychology Network (2001-2004)
- Member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS) (1990-1991; 1992-1994).
- Member of the International Advisory Board for Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP)
- Foundation and member of the Board of Directors of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) (2007- )
- Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA) (2008- )