Dr Benjamin Ruisch

Benjamin Ruisch is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent who specializes in political attitudes and intergroup prejudice.

Ben completed his PhD at Cornell University in New York, before being offered a position as the Social Psychology Area Postdoctoral Fellow at Ohio State University. Following this, he was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship to conduct research at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Ben's research has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and Political Psychology.

His work has been funded by the European Commission, the U.S. National Science Foundation, The Society for Personality and Social Psychology, The American Psychology-Law Society, the United States-Indonesia Society, and Cornell University’s Institute for the Social Sciences, Einaudi Center for International Studies, and Center for the Study of Inequality.