Department of Sociology and Social Psychology (DSS)

PD Dr. Hermann Dülmer

Research focuses

• Factorial Survey
• Multilevel Analysis including Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling (ML SEM)
• Values, Culture and their Change
• Electoral Sociology

Curriculum vitae

• Since 2014 Private Lecturer (Privatdozent), Department of Sociology and Social Psychology, formerly Institute of Sociology and Social Psychology, University of Cologne
• 2022 Temporary W3 Professor for Methods of Empirical Social Research, Chair for Methods of Empirical Social Research, University of Passau
• 2015 – 2017 Temporary W3 Professor for Quantitative Methods of Empirical Social Research, Institute of Political Science and Sociology, Justus-Maximilians-University of Wuerzburg
• 2012 – 2014 Commissarial Head GESIS – Data Archive for Social Science in Cologne and temporary W3 Professorship for Empirical Social Research, University of Cologne
• 2011 – 2012 Private Lecturer (Privatdozent), Institute for Data Analysis and Data Archiving, University of Cologne
• 2011 Habilitation in Sociology (venia legendi), Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne
• 2004 – 2011 Research Assistant on the Position of an Academic Counsil (akademischer Ratsstelle), Central Archive for Empirical Social Research, since 2009 Institute for Data Analysis and Data Archiving, University of Cologne
• 2000 – 2004 Research Assistant, Central Archive for Data Empirical Social Research, University of Cologne
• 2000 Doctoral Degree in Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne
• 1993 – 1999 Research Assistant, Chair for Empirical Social Research (Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jagodzinski), Institute for Applied Social Research (IfAS), University of Cologne
• 1992 Magister Artium in Sociology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
• 1989 First State Examination for Teachers, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

Selected publications

• Bartolomé Peral, Edurne, Hermann Dülmer, Pascal Siegers and Tilo Beckers (2025): Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? A Factorial Survey Experiment on Prioritizing COVID-19 Patients under Medical Triage Conditions. International Journal of Sociology, 1-24.https://doi.org/10.1080/00207659.2025.2596497
• Birkelbach, Klaus, Hermann Dülmer and Heiner Meulemann (2025): Privileges Among the Privileged: The Effect of Starting Conditions at Age 16 to 66 in an Educationally Privileged Group. Frontiers in Sociology, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1568400
• Dülmer, Hermann, Shalom H. Schwartz, Jan Cieciuch, Eldad Davidov and Peter Schmidt (2023): Measuring Schwartz's Cultural Value Orientations in Europe with the European Social Survey: An Empirical Comparison of Additive Indexes with Factor Score. Survey Research Methods 17, 4, 447-463. https://doi.org/10.18148/srm/2023.v17i4.8031
• Karabchuk, Tatiana, Hermann Dülmer and Kseniia Gatskova (2021): Fertility Attitudes of Highly Educated Youth: A Factorial Survey. Journal of Marriage and Family, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12790
• Shamon, Hawal, Hermann Dülmer and Adam Giza (2022): The Factorial Survey: The Impact of Presentaion Format of Vignettes on Answer Behavior and Processing Time. Sociological Methods & Research 51, 1, 396-438. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124119852382
• Dülmer, Hermann (2022): Vignettes, in: Nina Baur and Jörg Blasius (eds.): Handbuch Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung. Volume 2, Wiesbaden. Springer, 1135-1146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37985-8_76
• Jagodzinski, Wolfgang, Hermann Dülmer, Yusuke Inagaki and Tadahiko Maeda (2019): General Trust in a Changing Society: The Development of Of Interpersonal Trust between 1978 and 2013 in Japan. Bulletin of Data Analysis of Japanese Classification Society 8, 1, 25-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.32146/bdajcs.8.25
• Davidov, Eldad, Hermann Dülmer, Jan Cieciuch, Anabel Kunz, Daniel Seddig and Peter Schmidt (2018): Explaining Measurement Nonequivalence Using Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling: The Case of Attitudes Toward Citizenship Rights. Sociological Methods & Research 47, 4, 729-760. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124116672678
• Dülmer, Hermann (2018): The Impact of Modernization and Culture on Morality and Moral Change: From Universalism to Contextualism. The Aoyama Journal of Global Studies and Collaboration 3, 81-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.34321/20630
• Dülmer, Hermann (2016): The Factorial Survey: Design Selection and its Impact on Reliability and Internal Validity. Sociological Methods & Research 45, 2, 304-347. dx. doi.org/10.1177/0049124115582269
• Dülmer, Hermann, Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel (2015): Testing the Revised Theory of Modernization: Measurement and Explanatory Aspects. World Values Research 8, 2, 68-100. https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSPublicationsPapers.jsp
• Shamon, Hawal and Hermann Dülmer (2014): Raising the Question on `Who Should Get What?' Again: On the Importance of Ideal and Existential Standards.Social Justice Research 27, 3, 340-368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11211-014-0217-3
• Dülmer, Hermann (2014): Modernization, Culture and Morality in Europe: Universalism, Contextualism or Relativism?, in Wil Arts and Loek Halman (eds.): Value Contrasts and Consensus in Present-Day Europe. Painting Europe's Moral Landscapes. Leiden. Brill, 251-276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004261662_013
• Davidov, Eldad, Hermann Dülmer, Elmar Schlüter, Peter Schmidt and Bart Meuleman (2012): Using a Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling Approach to Explain Cross-Cultural Measurement Noninvariance. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 43, 4, 558-575. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022022112438397
• Dülmer, Hermann and Dieter Ohr (2008): Right-wing extremist voting intention and regional context: multilevel analyses of the role of social milieus and regional group conflicts in Germany." Politische Vierteljahresschrift 49, 3, 491-517. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11615-008-0108-z
• Dülmer, Hermann (2007): Experimental Plans in Factorial Surveys: Random or Quota Design? Sociological Methods & Research 35, 3, 382-409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0049124106292367
• Dülmer, Hermann and Markus Klein (2005): Extreme Right-Wing Voting in Germany in a Multilevel Perspective: A Rejoinder to Lubbers and Scheepers. European Journal of Political Research 44, 2, 243-263. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2005.00226.x
• Klein, Markus, Hermann Dülmer, Dieter Ohr, Markus Quandt and Ulrich Rosar (2004): Response Sets in the Measurement of Values: A Comparison of Rating and Ranking Procedures. International Journal of Public Opinion Research 16, 4, 474-483. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edh041
• Dülmer, Hermann (2001): Education and the Influence of Arguments on Moral Judgment. An empirical analysis of Kohlberg's moral development theory. Cologne Journal of Sociology and Social Psychology 53, 1, 1-27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11577-001-0001-x

Selected Teaching Activities at National and International Summer Schools and Workshops

• Dülmer, Hermann (since 2007): Multilevel Analysis with HLM, since 2018 with Stata. Workshop for GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Cologne, formerly in Mannheim.
• Dülmer, Hermann (2017): Comparing Nations and Cultures. Special Lecture as part of a Visiting Professorship at the School of Global Studies and Collaboration, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo/Japan, 04.09.-08.09.2017.
• Dülmer, Hermann (2017): Multilevel CFA and Multilevel SEM with Mplus. Workshop, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim/Norway, 23.08.-24.08.2017.
• Dülmer, Hermann (2015): The Factorial Survey: an Introduction. 5^th LCSR Summer School, Laboratory of Comparative Social Research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow/Russian Federation, 25.07.-03.08.2015. https://lcsr.hse.ru/en/summer_school/summer2015
• Dülmer, Hermann (2012): Multilevel Analysis with HLM. IV. Summer School for Advanced Methods for Data Analysis in the Social Sciences, Institute for the Social Sciences, University of Lisbon/Portugal, 24.07.-27.07.2012.