Perspective often determines whether social differences are perceived as large or small. Hans Alves is investigating this in his ERC project "The Attribute Frequency Model: Understanding and Mitigating Biases in Social Perception".
ERC Consolidator Hans Alves
RUB, Marquard
ERC Consolidator Grant 2026
Grantee Professor Hans Alves
Professor Hans Alves is Professor of Social Cognition at the Faculty of Psychology.
Hans Alves studied psychology at the University of Heidelberg and Arizona State University between 2006 and 2012. in 2010, a research stay took him to New York University. For his dissertation, he conducted research at the Social Cognition Center at the University of Cologne from 2012 and spent time as a visiting researcher at the University of Lisbon and the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. After completing his doctorate in 2016, he was a postdoc at the University of Cologne. On April 1, 2021, he was appointed Professor of Social Cognition at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
In his ERC grant, he is researching the distorted perception of statistical correlations. The project starts in 2026.
Winners of ERC Grants