Persons

Alex Koch

Publications (selection)

(2022)

Koch, A., Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).

"Q-SpAM: How to Efficiently Measure Similarity in Online Research." Sociological Methods & Research, 51(3), 1442–1464.
(2021)

Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2021).

"Explaining Negativity Dominance Without Processing Bias." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(6), 429–430.
(2020)

Koch, A., Dorrough, A., Glöckner, A., & Imhoff, R. (2020).

"The ABC of Society: Perceived Similarity in Agency/Socioeconomic Success and Conservative-Progressive Beliefs Increases Intergroup Cooperation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 103996.

Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., Nicolas, G., Fiske, S., Terache, J., Carrier, A., & Yzerbyt, V. (2020).

"Groups’ Warmth Is a Personal Matter: Understanding Consensus on Stereotype Dimensions Reconciles Adversarial Models of Social Evaluation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 89, 103995.

Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., & Koch, A. (2020).

"Negativity Bias, Positivity Bias, and Valence Asymmetries: Explaining the Differential Processing of Positive and Negative Information." In B. Gawronski (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 62, pp. 115–187). Academic Press.
(2019)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2019).

"The Differential Similarity of Positive and Negative Information – an Affect-Induced Processing Outcome?" Cognition and Emotion, 33(6), 1224–1238.

Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., Silva, R. R., & Garcia-Marques, T. (2019).

"Truth by Repetition: Explanations and Implications." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(3), 247–253.

Unkelbach, C., & Koch, A. (2019).

"Gullible but Functional?" In J. P. Forgas & R. F. Baumeister (Eds.), The Social Psychology of Gullibility (1st ed., pp. 42–60). Routledge.

Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2019).

"The Evaluative Information Ecology: On the Frequency and Diversity of “Good” and “Bad.”" European Review of Social Psychology, 30(1), 216–270.
(2018)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2018).

"A Cognitive-Ecological Explanation of Intergroup Biases." Psychological Science, 29(7), 1126–1133.

Imhoff, R., Koch, A. & Flade, F. 2018.

"(Pre)occupations: A Data-Driven Model of Jobs and Its Consequences for Categorization and Evaluation." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 77, 76-88.
(2017)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017).

"Why Good Is More Alike Than Bad: Processing Implications." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(2), 69–79.

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017).

"The “Common Good” Phenomenon: Why Similarities Are Positive and Differences Are Negative." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(4), 512–528.

Lammers, J., Koch, A., Conway, P., & Brandt, M. J. (2017).

"The Political Domain Appears Simpler to the Politically Extreme Than to Political Moderates." Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(6), 612–622.
(2016)

Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2016).

"My Friends Are All Alike—The Relation Between Liking and Perceived Similarity in Person Perception." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 103–117.

Imhoff, R. & Koch, A. S. 2017.

"How Orthogonal Are the Big Two of Social Perception? On the Curvilinear Relationship Between Agency and Communion." Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(1), 122-137.

Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Dotsch, R., Unkelbach, C. & Alves, H. 2016.

"The ABC of Stereotypes About Groups: Agency/Socioeconomic Success, Conservative–Progressive Beliefs, and Communion." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(5), 675–709.

Koch, A. S., Alves, H., Krüger, T. & Unkelbach, C. 2016.

"A General Valence Asymmetry in Similarity: Good Is More Alike Than Bad." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(8), 1171-1192.
(2015)

Alves, H., Unkelbach, C., Burghardt, J., Koch, A., Krüger, T., & Becker, V. D. (2015).

"A Density Explanation of Valence Asymmetries in Recognition Memory." Memory & Cognition, 43(6), 896–909.

Press releases

For their paper “Negativity bias, positivity bias, and valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information”, Christian …

The 2017 Dissertation Award conferred by the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) goes to Alex Koch and honours his …

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