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Christian Unkelbach
Executive Board Member
Publications (selection)
(2025)
Koch, A., Dotsch, R., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., & Alves, H. (2025).
"Ideological Beliefs as Cues to Exploitation-Exploration Behavior." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 117, 104718.(2024)
Alves, H., Yzerbyt, V., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"Attitude Formation in More- and Less-Complex Social Environments." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672241235387. Advance online publication.Baldwin, M., Alves, H., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"A Cognitive–Ecological Approach to Temporal Self-Appraisals." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(5), 779–803.De keersmaecker, J., Unkelbach, C., & Roets, A. (2024).
"Truth-by-Repetition Across Languages." Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Advance online publication.Eckmann, L., Landwehr, J. R., Högden, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"The Relative Effectiveness of Conditioning One or Two Attributes to a Brand." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Advance online publication.Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Hahn, L., Lange, J., Sassenberg, K., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"Quality, Replicability, and Transparency in Research in Social Psychology: Implementation of Recommendations in Germany." Social Psychology, 55(3), 134–147.Mattavelli, S., Béna, J., Corneille, O., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"People Underestimate the Influence of Repetition on Truth Judgments (and More so for Themselves Than for Others)." Cognition, 242, 105651.Ram, H., Liberman, N., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"Psychological Distance Increases Conceptual Generalization." Social Psychological and Personality Science, 15(2), 204–214.Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"Illusions of Knowledge Due to Mere Repetition." Cognition, 247, 105791.Sperlich, L. M., & Unkelbach, C. (2024).
"Why Is There No Negativity Bias in Evaluative Conditioning? A Cognitive-Ecological Answer." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication.(2023)
Mattavelli, S., Corneille, O., & Unkelbach, C. (2023).
"Truth by Repetition … Without Repetition: Testing the Effect of Instructed Repetition on Truth Judgments." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 49(8), 1264–1279.Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., Baldwin, M., Crusius, J., Diel, K., Galinsky, A. D., Gast, A., Hofmann, W., Imhoff, R., Genschow, O., Lammers, J., Pauels, E., Schneider, I., Topolinski, S., Westfal, M., & Mussweiler, T. (2023).
"Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic Processes and Novel Applications of Social Comparisons." European Review of Social Psychology, 34(2), 387–440.Zorn, T. J., & Unkelbach, C. (2023).
"Do People Avoid Extreme Judgments in the Beginning? Calibration and Contrast as Explanations of Serial Position Effects in Evaluations." Social Cognition, 41(3), 209–238.(2022)
Alves, H., Uğurlar, P., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Typical is Trustworthy—Evidence for a Generalized Heuristic." Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(2), 446–455.Béna, J., Corneille, O., Mierop, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Robustness Tests Replicate Corneille et al.’s (2020) Fake News by Repetition Effect." International Review of Social Psychology, 35(1), 19.Koch, A., Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Q-SpAM: How to Efficiently Measure Similarity in Online Research." Sociological Methods & Research, 51(3), 1442–1464.Kurdi, B., Hussey, I., Stahl, C., Hughes, S., Unkelbach, C., Ferguson, M. J., & Corneille, O. (2022).
"Unaware Attitude Formation in the Surveillance Task? Revisiting the Findings of Moran et al. (2021)." International Review of Social Psychology, 35(1), 6.Lange, J., Unkelbach, C., Glöckner, A., Gollwitzer, M., Kaiser, F. G., & Sassenberg, K. (2022).
"Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie. Task Force "Qualitätssicherung sozialpsychologischer Forschung" der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie. Das Zusammenspiel von Theorie und Methodik." Psychologische Rundschau, 73(1), 22–24.Oğuz Taşbaş, E. H., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Repeating Stereotypes: Increased Belief and Subsequent Discrimination." European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(3), 528–537.Ruessmann, J. K., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Rational Dictators in the Dictator Game Are Seen as Cold and Agentic but Not Intelligent." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(8), 1298–1312.Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Monetary Incentives Do Not Reduce the Repetition-Induced Truth Effect." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29(3), 1045–1052.Sperlich, L. M., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"When Do People Learn Likes and Dislikes from Co-Occurrences? A Dual-Force Perspective on Evaluative Conditioning." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 103, 104377.Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022).
"Moses Illusion." In R. F. Pohl (Ed.), Cognitive Illusions: Intriguing Phenomena in Thinking, Judgment, and Memory (3rd ed., pp. 359–370). Routledge.(2021)
Högden, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2021).
"The Role of Relational Qualifiers in Attribute Conditioning: Does Disliking an Athletic Person Make You Unathletic?" Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(4), 643–656.Moran, T., Hughes, S., Hussey, I., Vadillo, M. A., Olson, M. A., Aust, F., Bading, K., Balas, R., Benedict, T., Corneille, O., Douglas, S. B., Ferguson, M. J., Fritzlen, K. A., Gast, A., Gawronski, B., Giménez-Fernández, T., Hanusz, K., Heycke, T., Högden, F., … Richter, J., … Unkelbach, C., & De Houwer, J. (2021).
"Incidental Attitude Formation Via the Surveillance Task: A Preregistered Replication of the Olson and Fazio (2001) Study." Psychological Science, 32(1), 120–131.Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2021).
"Moses, Money, and Multiple-Choice: The Moses Illusion in a Multiple-Choice Format with High Incentives." Memory & Cognition, 49(4), 843–862.Silva, R. R., & Unkelbach, C. (2021).
"Fluent Processing Leads to Positive Stimulus Evaluations Even When Base Rates Suggest Negative Evaluations." Consciousness and Cognition, 96, 103238.Unkelbach, C., & Speckmann, F. (2021).
"Mere Repetition Increases Belief in Factually True COVID-19-Related Information." Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 241–247.Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2021).
"Explaining Negativity Dominance Without Processing Bias." Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(6), 429–430.(2020)
Alves, H., Högden, F., Gast, A., Aust, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2020).
"Attitudes from Mere Co-Occurrences Are Guided by Differentiation." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 119(3), 560–581.Corneille, O., Mierop, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2020).
"Repetition Increases Both the Perceived Truth and Fakeness of Information: An Ecological Account." Cognition, 205, 104470.De keersmaecker, J., Dunning, D., Pennycook, G., Rand, D. G., Sanchez, C., Unkelbach, C., & Roets, A. (2020).
"Investigating the Robustness of the Illusory Truth Effect Across Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 46(2), 204–215.Högden, F., Stahl, C., & Unkelbach, C. (2020).
"Similarity-Based and Rule-Based Generalisation in the Acquisition of Attitudes Via Evaluative Conditioning." Cognition and Emotion, 34(1), 105–127.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.Unkelbach, C., & Fiedler, K. (2020).
"The Challenge of Diagnostic Inferences from Implicit Measures: The Case of Non-Evaluative Influences in the Evaluative Priming Paradigm." Social Cognition, 38, 208–222.(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., & Högden, F. (2019).
"Why Does George Clooney Make Coffee Sexy? The Case for Attribute Conditioning." Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6), 540–546.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.Gräf, M., & Unkelbach, C. (2018).
"Halo Effects from Agency Behaviors and Communion Behaviors Depend on Social Context: Why Technicians Benefit More from Showing Tidiness Than Nurses Do." European Journal of Social Psychology, 48(5), 701–717.Högden, F., Hütter, M., & Unkelbach, C. (2018).
"Does Evaluative Conditioning Depend on Awareness? Evidence from a Continuous Flash Suppression Paradigm." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(10), 1641–1657.Lammers, J., Gast, A., Unkelbach, C., & Galinsky, A. D. (2018).
"Moral Character Impression Formation Depends on the Valence Homogeneity of the Context." Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9(5), 576–585.Unkelbach, C., & Förderer, S. (2018).
"A Model of Attribute Conditioning." Social Psychological Bulletin, 13(3), 1–23.Unkelbach, C., & Greifeneder, R. (2018).
"Experiential Fluency and Declarative Advice Jointly Inform Judgments of Truth." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 78–86.(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.Unkelbach, C., & Rom, S. C. (2017).
"A Referential Theory of the Repetition-Induced Truth Effect." Cognition, 160, 110–126.(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.Förderer, S. & Unkelbach, C. 2016.
"Changing US Attributes After CS-US Pairings Changes CS-Attribute-Assessments: Evidence for CS-US Associations in Attribute Conditioning." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(3), 350-265.Gräf, M. & Unkelbach, C. 2016.
"Halo Effects in Trait Assessment Depend on Information Valence: Why Being Honest makes You Industrious, but Lying Does Not Make You Lazy." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42, 290–310.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.Unkelbach, C., & Fiedler, K. (2016).
"Contrastive CS-US Relations Reverse Evaluative Conditioning Effects." Social Cognition, 34(5), 413–434.(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.Fasold, F., Memmert, D. & Unkelbach, C. 2015.
"A Theory-Based Intervention to Prevent Calibration Effects in Serial Sport Performance Evaluations." Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 18, 47-52.Förderer, S. & Unkelbach, C. 2015.
"Attribute Conditioning: Changing Attribute-Assessments Through Mere Pairings." The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(1), 144-164.Garcia-Marques, T., Silva, R. R., Reber, R. & Unkelbach, C. 2015.
"Hearing a Statement Now and Believing the Opposite Later." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 126-129.Memmert, D., Plessner, H., Hüttermann, S., ... Unkelbach, C. 2015.
"Collective Fit Increases Team Performances: Extending Regulatory Fit from Individuals to Dyadic Teams." Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(5), 274-281.Newman, E. J., Garry, M., Unkelbach, C., ... Nash, R. A. 2015.
"Truthiness and Falsiness of Trivia Claims Depend on Judgmental Contexts." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41(5), 1337-1348.Schofield, T.P., Unkelbach, C. & Denson, T.F. 2015.
"Alcohol Consumption Increases Bias to Shoot at Middle Eastern but Not White Targets." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 20(2), 202-215.Press releases
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In the media
BAYERN 2: IQ – Wissenschaft und Forschung, 20.08.2024 | Aeneas Rooch
“Schöne Menschen haben es leichter im Leben: Wenn eine Person gut aussieht, halten wir sie oft auch in anderen Bereichen für gut – automatisch und unbewusst. Was steckt hinter diesem sogenannten Halo-Effekt? Wann tritt er auf? Wie können wir uns davor schützen? Und können wir ihn für uns selbst ausnutzen, auch wenn wir nicht gut aussehen?”Link to article: https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/iq-wissenschaft-und-forschung/der-halo-effekt-wer-schoen-ist-hat-s-leichter/2096719
WDR 5 Quarks – Wissenschaft und mehr, 08.07.2024 | Moderation: Marlis Schaum
“Schöne Menschen haben es leichter im Leben. Attraktiven Personen wird eher geholfen. Sie werden nach einer Bewerbung häufiger und schneller zurückgerufen und sie bekommen ein höheres Gehalt. Das ist ungerecht, aber so sind wir Menschen. […] Dieses Phänomen ist in der Psychologie bekannt unter dem Namen Halo-Effekt. […] Dessen sollte man sich bewusst sein, zum Beispiel bei Prüfungen. Das rät der Psychologie-Professor Christian Unkelbach.” Time Stamp: 53:10Link to article: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr5/quarks/wissenschaft-und-mehr/audio-altern---heisse-nordsee---halo-effekt-100.html
Deutschlandfunk Nova, 02.12.2020 | Paulus Müller & Nico Rau
“Online-Schach, Joggen oder Do-it-yourself-Projekte bis zum Umfallen – die Corona-Pandemie hat so einige Trends hervorgebracht. […] Vor allem in Zeiten wie einer Pandemie, bei der wir noch nicht so recht wissen, wie man sich am besten verhalten sollte, orientiere man sich an dem Verhalten aller anderen. Das Verhalten könne dann durchaus einen “unheimlich mächtigen Einfluss” auf uns haben, sagt Christian Unkelbach. […] Wenn wir einem Trend mal nicht folgen oder uns sogar ganz bewusst davon abgrenzen, dann könne das uns dabei helfen, die eigene Identität und das Selbstbewusstsein zu stärken, sagt Christian Unkelbach.”Link to article: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/trends-und-hypes-in-der-corona-pandemie-einfach-mal-nicht-mitmachen
UoC Insights, 27.11.2020 | Christian Unkelbach im Interview
“Prof. Dr. Christian Unkelbach ist seit 2011 Lehrstuhlinhaber für Allgemeine Psychologie am Department Psychologie der Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln. […] Seit 2016 ist Prof. Unkelbach Sprecher der DFG Forschungsgruppe 2150 „Die Relativität sozialer Kognition: Antezedenzien und Konsequenzen vergleichenden Denkens“ an der Universität zu Köln. […] Prof. Unkelbach spricht in unserem Interview u.a. über die bisherigen Forschungsergebnisse sowie die Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf die laufende Forschungsarbeit.”Deutschlandfunk Nova, 14.05.2019 | Sonja Meschkat & Pascal Fischer
“Es gibt sie überall: Menschen, die ziemlich schnell ziemlich viel erreicht haben – ob nun finanziellen Reichtum, wissenschaftliche Erfolge oder sonstige Superlative. Dem immer aus dem Weg zu gehen, funktioniert kaum. Aber wir können ganz gesund damit umgehen, ohne im Direktvergleich mit Megareichen und Superhirnen unzufrieden zu werden. […] Unterstützung, wie das geht, liefert Christian Unkelbach, Professor für Sozialpsychologie an der Uni Köln. Denn er weiß, was zu tun ist, wenn wir gedanklich Amok laufen und mit verbitterten Blick darauf schauen, was der Jetset gerade so treibt.”Link to article: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/vergleiche-mit-den-besten-wie-wir-uns-von-vergleichen-nicht-fertig-machen-lassen
Welt am Sonntag, 15.06.2014 | Fanny Jiménez
„Wer groß ist, sollte versuchen, ein Foul in den ersten 15 Minuten unterzubringen – dann hat er gute Chancen, dennoch ungestraft davonzukommen. Denn wie der Sportpsychologe Christian Unkelbach von der Universität in Köln herausfand, drücken Schiedsrichter in der ersten Viertelstunde oft ein Auge zu.”Link to article: http://www.welt.de/print/wams/wissen/article129082449/Die-Grossen-haben-das-chsehen.html
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