Prof. Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
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2014 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Psychology and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Since 10 2012 Senior Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
09 2007– 09 2012 PhD student at the Yale University Social Psychology Department.
09 2007 – 05 2009 Mphil, MS student at the Yale University Social Psychology Department.
08 2010 – 09 2012 Visiting Research Scholar at the Columbia University Psychology Department.
10 2001 – 08 2007 Student of Diplom Psychologie at Universität Konstanz
08 2005 – 04 2006 Baden-Wuerttenberg CT Department of Higher Education Exchange Scholar Program and Cusanuswerk stipend for research internship at Yale University
08 2004 – 08 2005 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for an academic year at Yale University, Social Psychology Department..
Selected Publications
Alizade, J., Dancygier, R., & Ditlmann R. K. (in press). National penalties reversed: The local politics of responsiveness to immigrants. Journal of Politics.
Hässler, T., Ullrich, J., Bernardino, M., Shnabel, N., Van Laar, C., Valdenegro, D., Sebben, S., Tropp, L., Visintin, E.P., González, R., Ditlmann, R. K., Abrams, D. Selvanatha, H. P., Bankovic, M, Wright, S., Von Zimmermann, J., Pasek, M. H., Aydin, A. L., Žeželj, I., [… ] Ugarte, L.M. (2020). A large-scale test for the link between intergroup contact and social change. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(4), 380-386.
Kai Barron, Ruth Ditlmann, Stefan Gehrig, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch (2020): Explicit and implicit belief-based gender discrimination: A hiring experiment. WZB Discussion Paper SP II 2020–306.
Ditlmann, R. K., & Kopf-Beck, J. (2019). The meaning of being German: An inductive approach to national identity. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(1), 423-447.
Lagunes, P., Levin, B., & Ditlmann, R. (2012). Documenting the undocumented: A review of the United States’ first municipal ID program. Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, 24.
Dovidio, J. F., Gluszek, A., John, M. S., Ditlmann, R., & Lagunes, P. (2010). Understanding bias toward Latinos: Discrimination, dimensions of difference, and experience of exclusion. Journal of Social Issues, 66(1), 59 - 78.
Ditlmann, R. K., Purdie-Vaughns, V., & Eibach, R. (2010). Heritage and ideology-based national identites and their implications for immigrant citizen relations in the United States and in Germany. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35 (4), 395-405.
Purdie-Vaughns, V. & Ditlmann, R. K. (2010). Reflections on diversity science in social psychology. Psychological Inquiry 21(2), 153-159.
Purdie-Vaughns,V., Steele, C. M., Davies, P. G., Ditlmann, R. K., & Randall-Crosby, J. (2008). Social identity contingencies: How diversity cues signal threat or safety for African Americans in mainstream institutions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(4), 615-630.
Addressing Violent Inter-Group Conflict from the Bottom Up?
Head: Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Cooperation with: Cyrus Samii, Thomas Zeitzoff
Duration: 2016 - 2017
Funding: WZB
Stateways versus Folkways: The Role of Authority Approval in Intergroup Contact
Head: Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D.
Cooperation with: Betsy Levy Paluck (Princeton University)
Robin Gomila (Princeton University)
Duration: ongoing
Funding: WZB
Naturalization of Immigrants: Obstacles and Opportunities in German Municipalities
Head: Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D., Rafaela Dancygier, Ph.D. (Princeton University, USA)
Staff: Quinn Albaugh (Princeton University, USA)
Duration: 2015 - 2020
Funding: University Center for Human Values and The Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University
The Meaning of Being German, American, Singaporean: An Inductive Approach to National Identity.
Head: Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D., Johannes Kopf-Beck (Max Planck Institut für Psychatrie, München); Valerie Purdie-Vaughns (Columbia University); Shirlena Huang (National University of Singapore); Eric Thompson (National University of Singapore)
Duration: 2012 -
Funding: WZB, Columbia University and National University of Singapore
Ambassadors of Peace? Intergroup Contact and Conflict Resolution in Israel
Head: Ruth Katharina Ditlmann, Ph.D., Cyrus Samii (New York University, USA)
Duration: 2012 -
Funding: USAID, USIP (through New York University, USA)