Petra S. Netter is a retired professor of psychology at the Department of Psychology of the Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. She held the chair of Personality and Individual Differences from 1979 to 2002 and was an associate member of the Medical Faculty of the University of Giessen since 1981.
Early Biography and Educational Background
Petra Netter was born on April 1, 1937, in Hamburg and studied psychology and medicine at the universities of Hamburg and Innsbruck (Austria). She obtained her Diploma (MA exam) in Psychology in 1960 and her medical degree in 1966 in Hamburg.
She obtained her PhD in Psychology in Hamburg with a thesis on psychopharmacology of individual differences and her MD degree in 1970 by a thesis on psychological differences as related to bodily constitution. The Habilitation (license for academic teaching) followed after 2 years of medical internship in 1975 at the University Clinic of Mainz by an investigation on pregnancy and child development...
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Netter, P. (1989). Sensory suggestibility, its measurement, individual differences, and relation to placebo and drug effects. In V. A. Gheorghiu, P. Netter, H. J. Eysenck, & R. Rosenthal (Eds.), Suggestibility: Theory and research (pp. 123–133). Heidelberg: Springer.
Netter, P. (2004). Personality and hormones. In R. M. Stelmack (Ed.), On the psychobiology of personality (pp. 353–377). New York: Elsevier.
Netter, P. (2005). Endokrine Systeme und Persönlichkeit (endocrine systems and personality). In J. Hennig & P. Netter (Eds.), Biopsychologische Grundlagen der Persönlichkeit, (Biopsychological basis of personality) (pp. 291–396). München: Spektrum Akademischer Verlag/Elsevier.
Netter, P. (2006). Dopamine challenge tests as an indicator of psychological traits. Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 21, 91–99.
Netter, P. (2015). Neuroendocrinology. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (2nd ed., Vol. 16, pp. 648–655). Oxford: Elsevier.
Netter, P., & Hennig, J. (2016). Discriminating depression, physical and social anhedonia by neurotransmitter related challenge tests. Psychology, 7, 275–285. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2016.73030.
Netter, P., Vogel, W., & Rammsayer, T. (1994). Extraversion as a modifying factor in catecholamine and behavioral responses to ethanol. Psychopharmacology, 115, 206–212.
Netter, P., Toll, C., Lujic, C., Reuter, M., & Hennig, J. (2002). Addictive and non-addictive smoking as related to responsiveness of neurotransmitter systems. Behavioral Pharmacology, 13, 441–449.
Netter, P., Baars, M. Y., Harro, J., Reuter, M., Montag, C., Eensoo, D., Müller, M. J., & Gallhofer, B. (2015). MAO-B activity in platelets and the MAO-B gene polymorphism are differently related to personality traits in alcohol dependent patients. International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal, 4(1), 14–28.
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Netter, P. (2020). Netter, Petra. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_263
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