Research interests

• Everyday knowledge – logography and practical application
• History of psychology – particularly social psychology
• Theoretical Psychology – Modes of Thought in Psychology

Short CV

Publications (since 1995)

• Laucken, U. (1995). Modes of thinking: Reflecting on psychological concepts. Theory & Psychology, 5, 401–428.
• Laucken, U. (1995). A semantic social psychology (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 25). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (1995). Social-constructivist social psychology. Foundations, classification and demarcation, open questions.Action, Culture, Interpretation, 4, 173–206.
• Laucken, U. (1996).Semantic Spaces. Reflections on the Conceptualisation of an Object (Reports from the Institute for the Study of Human-Environment Relations, No. 26). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. & Mees, U. (1996). Practical knowledge in motivational psychology as a culturally transmitted framework for order. In: J. Kuhl & H. Heckhausen (Eds.) Encyclopaedia of Psychology. Motivation and Emotion. Vol. 4: Motivation, Volition and Action ( pp. 3–67). Göttingen/Bern/Toronto/Seattle: Hogrefe – Verlag für Psychologie.
• Laucken, Uwe (1996). Situation: Psychology and Sociology. In: J. Ritter & K. Gründer (eds.)Historical Dictionary of Philosophy. Vol. 9 (pp. 929–937). Basel: Schwabe.
• Laucken, U. (1996). Social Psychology. In: J. Ritter & K. Gründer (eds.) Historical Dictionary of Philosophy. Vol. 9 (pp. 1236–1245). Basel: Schwabe.
• Laucken, U. (1996). The Genesis of the Subject from a Social Constructivist Perspective (Department of Didactic Design: Research Findings and Materials). Tübingen: German Institute for Distance Learning Research.
• Laucken, U. (1996). Semantic Spaces. The Decartesisation of the Mind. Action, Culture, Interpretation 5, 158–215
• Laucken, U. (1996). The genesis of the subject from a social constructivist perspective. Didactic Design, 1, 13–30.
• Laucken, U. (1996). Concrete Postulates. Ethics and Social Sciences, 7, 319–322.
• Laucken, U., Schick, A. & Höge, H. (1996). An Introduction to the Study of Psychology (completely revised 7th ed.). Stuttgart: Klett Cotta.
• Laucken, U. (1997). On the Liberation of Thought from Biological Reductionism (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations at the University of Oldenburg, No. 28). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (1997).On the Usefulness of Social Psychology in a Busy Age. Impressions and Thoughts (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations at the University of Oldenburg, No. 29). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (1997). Functional Explanation, Discourse and Reality. Ethics and Social Sciences 8, 558–560.
• Laucken, U. (1997). On the Usefulness of Social Psychology in a Busy Age. Impressions and Thoughts. Action, Culture, Interpretation, 6, 145–161.
• Laucken, U. (1998). Social Psychology: History, Main Currents, Trends. Oldenburg: BIS.
• Laucken, U. (1998). On the liberation of psychological thought from biological reductionism. Psychological Contributions, 40, 139–158.
• Laucken, U., Schick, A. & Höge, H. (1999).An Introduction to the Study of Psychology. Prague : ISV Publishing House.
• Rohde-Höft, C., Laucken, U., Mees, U. & Schmitt, A. (1999). A Categorisation System for the Content-Analytical Recording of Semantic Units in Love Letters (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 30). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (1999). “An exceptionally important publication” – Fritz Heider (1896–1988). (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human–Environment Relations, No. 31). Oldenburg : University.
• Laucken, U. (1999). “Germany’s first great specialist psychologist” – Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841). (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 32). Oldenburg : University.
• Laucken, U. (1999). Concepts of Action. Ontic and Functional Differences. In: J. Straub & H. Werbik (eds.), Concepts and Explanations of Action in Interdisciplinary Discourse. ( pp. 49–73). Frankfurt am Main/New York: campus.
• Laucken, U. (1999). Psychology and the semantics of social interaction. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 40, Suppl.55–58.
• Laucken, U. (1999) The cognitive turn is a semantic one, which cognitivism has unfortunately narrowed. Action, Culture, Interpretation, 8, 109–120.
• Laucken, U. (2000) Johann Friedrich Herbart: Psychology as a Science, Re-founded on Experience, Metaphysics and Mathematics (1824/25). In: H.E. Lück, R. Miller & G. Sewz-Vosshenrich (eds.) Classics of Psychology (pp. 25–30). Stuttgart/Berlin/Cologne: Kohlhammer.
• Laucken, U. (2000) Fritz Heider: The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations (1958). In: H.E. Lück, R. Miller & G. Sewz-Vosshenrich (eds.) Classics of Psychology (pp. 203–208). Stuttgart/Berlin/Cologne: Kohlhammer.
• Laucken, U. (2000). Social constructivism and the semantic science of human beings. Action, Culture, Interpretation, 9, 37–65.
• Laucken, U. (2000). On the classification of social constructivism within a comprehensive semantic science of humanity and on the relationship between individual and social semantics. (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 33). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (2001). Scientific modes of thought, social practices and the struggle for resources – illustrated by the example of psychology(Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 36). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (2001). Interpersonal trust. A framework and outline of ideas. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag.
• Laucken, U. (2001). Social constructivism: categorised within a comprehensive semantic science of man and combining individual and social semantics. (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 37). Oldenburg: University.
• Schmitt, A., Mees, U. & Laucken, U. (2001). Logographic analysis of socially processed texts [106 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum Qualitative Social Research (online journal), 2(1). (). ( qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-01/1-01schmittetal-d.htm)
• Laucken, U. (2001). Illusion – a challenging and powerful concept. Ethics and Social Sciences, 12, 254–248.
• Laucken, U. (2002). Quality criteria as scientific guiding instruments. Forum Qualitative Social Research [Online Journal], 3 (1) (www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-02/1-02laucken-d.htm)
• Laucken, U. (2002). On the semantic blindness of a neuroscience-oriented psychology. Or: What would such a psychology have to say about the ‘dialogue between cultures’? (Reports from the Institute for Research into Human-Environment Relations, No. 39). Oldenburg: University.
• Laucken, U. (2003). Interpersonal Trust and Economic Relationships. In: U. Mees & A. Schmitt (Eds.) Emotional Psychology: Theoretical Analyses and Empirical Studies (pp. 101–141). Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag der Universität Oldenburg.
• Laucken, U. (2003) Theoretical Psychology. Forms of Thought and Social Practices. Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag der Universität Oldenburg (can be ordered by email: verlag@bis.uni-oldenburg.de, price €12.00).
• Laucken, U. (2003) On the Semantic Blindness of a Neuroscientific Psychology. Or: What Would Such a Reoriented Psychology Have to Say about the ‘Dialogue of Cultures’? Journal of Psychology, 11, 149–175.
• Laucken, U. (2004) Towards a Pragmasemantic Cultural Psychology. Foreword to: B. Zielke, Cognition and Social Practice ( pp. 13–17). Bielefeld: transcript.
• Laucken, U. (2004) The socio-semantic perspective on emotions: a socio-practical approach and an example.Action, Culture, Interpretation, 13, 26–49.
• Laucken, U. (2004) The Individual and Social Structure: A Problematic Relationship and a Way of Conceiving It. In: Gerd Jüttemann (ed.) Psychology as a Human Science ( pp. 165–180). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Laucken, U. (2005) ‘Is there free will?’ Possibilities for the psychological conceptualisation of ‘freedom of will, decision-making and action’ [214 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum Qualitative Research (online journal), 6 ( 1). (available at: http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/1-05/05-1-8-d.htm)
• Laucken, Uwe (2005) An explanation of the colloquial meaning of the term ‘trust’ and its practical use in everyday life as a means of semantic organisation. In: Beatrice Dernbach & Michael Meyer (eds.)Trust and Credibility ( pp. 94–120). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.