Ruben Laukenmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Behavioral Science and Technology at the University of St Gallen. His research interests combine social psychology, cognitive modeling, and geographical analysis. As such his interests span from cognitive processes underlying social behavior to differences in the composition of regional social attitudes and beliefs.
Ruben works in the SNSF-funded project: “Economic Conditions and Racial Prejudice: A Regional Perspective”, that investigates the relationship of economic conditions with regional racial prejudice by examining different levels of spatial resolution, variations across time, and underlying cognitive processes of racial prejudice expression.
He studied his B.Sc. in Psychology at the Universities of Ulm and Heidelberg. He received his M.Sc. in Psychology with focus on social psychology, statistics, and human-machine interaction at Ulm University. Parallel to his master’s studies he was a working student at the Mercedes-Benz Group AG in the area of user experience research. He completed his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Mannheim, where he was also part of the DFG-funded Research Training Group “Statistical Modeling and Psychology” (SMiP). During his Ph.D. he visited the Social and Spatial Cognition Lab at the University of California, Riverside.
