Research interests | Key publications |All publications | Academic distinctions

Research interests

Social Cognition • Evaluative Judgments • Information Ecologies • Stereotypes and Prejudice • Evaluative Learning • Fluency Effects • Sport Psychology

Key Publications

• 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 (pp. 115-187). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aesp.2020.04.005

• 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, 216-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2019.1688474

• Unkelbach, C., & Rom, S. C. (2017). A referential theory of the repetition-induced truth effect. Cognition, 160, 110–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.016

• Unkelbach, C., Fiedler, K., Bayer, M., Stegmüller, M., & Danner, D. (2008). Why positive information is processed faster: The density hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 36–49. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.95.1.36

• Unkelbach, C. (2006). The learned interpretation of cognitive fluency. Psychological Science, 17, 339–345. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01708.x

All Publications

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Academic distinctions

• Grants:
  Speaker Research Unit FOR2150 "Relativity in Social Cognition" (DFG), 2017-2021
  Emmy Noether Research Grant, German Science Foundation (DFG), 2009-2013
  Feoder Lynen Research Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2007-2008
  Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Commission, 1999-2000

• Editor-in-Chief:
  Social Psychology (2013-2016)

• Associate Editor:
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2021-)
  Experimental Psychology (2011-2012)
  Social Psychology (2012-2013, 2016-2017)

• Editorial boards:
  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2017-2020)
  Psychological Science (2012-2019)
  Experimental Psychology (2013-)
  Social Psychology (2017-)
  Social Psychology and Personality Science (2009-2015, 2018-2020)
  European Journal of Social Psychology (2007-2014)