Dr. Rebecca Albrecht

	Address University of Freiburg Department for Psychology Center for Cognitive Science and Gender Studies Hebelstraße 10 79104 Freiburg, Germany Email rebecca.albrecht@cognition.uni-freiburg.de Phone +49 761 203 4940 Fax +49 761 203 4938 Room 03-016

Research Interests

Drawing on a background in Computer Science and Psychology, I explore how flexible categorization shapes the way we perceive and navigate the social world. Combining methods from machine learning, cognitive psychology, and social psychology, my work aims to understand how adaptive cognitive processes can sometimes lead to biases, stereotypes, and social polarization – especially in digitally mediated environments..

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Key Publications

• Seitz, F. I., Albrecht, R., von Helversen, B., Rieskamp, J., & Rosner, A. (2025).
  Identifying Similarity- and Rule-Based Processes in Quantitative Judgments: A Multi-Method Approach Combining Cognitive Modeling and Eye Tracking. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-15
• Seitz, F. I., von Helversen, B., Albrecht, R., Rieskamp, J., & Jarecki, J. B. (2023). 
  Testing three coping strategies for time pressure in categorizations and similarity judgments.

  Cognition, 2033, 105358.

• Albrecht, R., Jarecki, J. B., Meier, D. S., & Rieskamp, J. (2021). 
  Risk preferences and risk perception affect the acceptance of digital contact tracing.
  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1).

• Albrecht, R., Jenny, M. A., Nilsson, H., & Rieskamp, J. (2021). 
  The similarity-updating model of probability judgment and belief revision.
  Psychological Review, 128(6), 1088.

• Albrecht, R., & von Stülpnagel, R. (2021).
  Taking the right (or left?) turn: Effects of landmark salience on the retrieval of route directions.
  Spatial Cognition & Computation, 21(4).

• Albrecht, R., Hoffmann, J. A., Pleskac, T. J., Rieskamp, J., & von Helversen, B. (2020).
  Competitive retrieval strategy causes multimodal response distributions in multiple-cue judgments.
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(6).