Professor Dr Karl Christoph Klauer
- Section Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
- Location Freiburg, Germany
- Election year 2009
Research
Karl Christoph Klauer is distinguished for many important contributions to experimental psychology. He made major contributions to research into cognitive psychology, social psychology and psychological methodology of which his work on social categorization, on the psychology of reasoning and on multinomial models is known best. By means of mathematical models and large empirical studies, he offered new solutions to debates of long standing. His work thereby contributed to a deeper understanding of unobtrusive measures of social categorization, prejudice, and stereotypes. In the domain of reasoning, he is known for his work on belief bias and on propositional reasoning.
Career
- since 2004 Full professor at the institute for psychology of the Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany
- 1996-2004 Full professor at the institute for psychology of the University Bonn, Germany
- 1994-1996 Associate professor at the psychological institute of the University Heidelberg, Germany
- 1988-1994 Postdoctoral researcher at the institute for psychology of the FU Berlin, Germany
- 1992 Habilitation and venia legendi for the field of psychology at the department of educational science and psychology, FU Berlin, Germany
- 1985-1988 Research assistant at the psychological institute I of the University Hamburg, Germany
- 1988 Ph.D., department of psychology, University Hamburg, Germany
- 1985 Diploma in psychology, University Hamburg, Germany
- 1980-1985 Studies in psychology at the RWTH Aachen, Oxford University, UK, and University Hamburg, Germany
- 1984 Diploma in mathematics, RWTH Aachen, Germany
- 1980-1984 Studies in mathematics, RWTH Aachen and University Oxford
Functions
- 2004-2010 Head of committees evaluating the research of psychological institutes (University Graz, Humboldt-University Berlin)
- 1994-1996 Secretary General of the German Psychological Society
Projects
- since 2011 DFG Kl 614/32-1: Die Flexibilität von Modellen des Wiedererkennens
- since 2011 DFG Kl 614/33-1: Testing and extending a dual-source model of conditional reasoning
- since 2011 DFG Kl 614/34-1: Die Invarianzannahme des Prozessdissoziationsmodells
- 2011 Project “Testing and extending a dual-source model of conditional reasoning” in the priority programme “New frameworks of rationality” of the German Research Foundation
- 2008-2012 Project “Cognitive control of impulse control” in the BMBF collaborative research project “Neural circuitry of impulse control: An integrative approach towards the understanding of normal and impaired impulse control in humans”