
Dr. Christoph Schild
Post-Doc
K Building, Room 2.21
Office hours: by appointment
+49 6341 280 34 212
Research interests
Publications & conference contributions
Teaching
Vita
Research interests
- Interventions that aim to increase prosocial and decrease antisocial behavior
- The role of personality traits in perceptions & behaviors
- Person perception and target characteristics
Publications
Selected papers (peer reviewed)
For the full publication record see ORCID- Zettler, I., Schild, C., Lilleholt, L., Kroenke, L., Utesch, T., Moshagen, M., Böhm, R., Back, M.D., & Geukes, K. (2022). The role of personality in COVID-19-related perceptions, evaluations, and behaviors: Findings across five samples, nine traits, and 17 criteria. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13, 299-310. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211001680
- Schild, C., Lilleholt, L., & Zettler, I. (2021). Behavior in cheating paradigms is linked to overall approval rates of crowdworkers. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34, 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2195
- Schild, C., Ścigała, K.A., & Zettler, I. (2020). Multiple antisocial personalities?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 9688-9689. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921692117
- Schild, C., Stern, J., & Zettler, I. (2020). Linking men's voice pitch to actual and perceived trustworthiness across domains. Behavioral Ecology 31, 164-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz173
- Schild, C., Aung, T., Kordsmeyer, T.L., Cardenas, R.A., Puts, D.A., & Penke, L. (2020). Linking human male vocal parameters to perceptions, body morphology, strength and hormonal profiles in contexts of sexual selection. Scientific reports, 10, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77940-z
- Schild, C., Heck, D.W., Ścigała, K.A., & Zettler, I. (2019). Revisiting REVISE:(Re)Testing unique and combined effects of REminding, VIsibility, and SElf-engagement manipulations on cheating behavior. Journal of Economic Psychology, 75, 102161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2019.04.001
- Ścigała, K.A., Schild, C., Heck, D.W., & Zettler, I. (2019). Who deals with the devil? Interdependence, personality, and corrupted collaboration. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10, 1019-1027. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618813419
Selected Conference Contributions
- Schild, C., Lilleholt, L., Böhm, R., & Zettler, I. (2022, July). Testing the effectiveness of collective punishment Talk at the International Conference on Social Dilemmas 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Schild, C.,Stern, J., Penke, L., & Zettler, I. (2021, March). Voice pitch and infidelity in men and women. Poster presented at the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference 2021, Krakow, Poland. [Online Conference]
- Schild, C., Jones, A. L., & Hennecke, M. (2021, February). How Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry Relate to Instagram Behavior. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention 2021. [Online Conference]
- Schild, C., Heck, D. W., Ścigała, K. A., & Zettler, I. (2019, September). Revisiting REVISE: (Re)Testing unique and combined effects of REminding, VIsibility, and SElf-engagement manipulations on cheating behavior. Poster presented at Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM) conference 2019, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Schild, C., Stern, J., & Zettler, I. (2019, April). The Accuracy of Trustworthiness Perceptions from Male Voices. Talk at the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists Conference 2019, Sydney, Australia.
- Schild, C., Lang, J.W., Ścigała, K. A., & Zettler, I. (2019, April). Personality traits and rule breaking in youth basketball. Talk at the World Conference on Personality 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Teaching
Courses taught
- Summer 2022: Empirical-experimental internship II
Undergraduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Siegen, Germany - Winter 2021: Empirical-experimental internship I
Undergraduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Siegen, Germany - Summer 2021: Empirical-experimental internship II
Undergraduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Siegen, Germany - Winter 2020: Empirical-experimental internship I
Undergraduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Siegen, Germany - Summer 2020: Introduction to Scientific Empirical Work
Undergraduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Siegen, Germany - Summer 2019: Guest presentation in Sports Psychology
Graduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Summer 2018: Attractiveness, Sexual Selection & Intimate Relationships
Undergraduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Summer 2018: Sports Psychology (Co-Teaching with Ingo Zettler)
Graduate Level Seminar, Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Vita
Education / Degrees
- 2017: PhD
University of Copenhagen, Denmark Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ingo Zettler - 2017: Master of Science in Psychology (MSc)
University of Goettingen, Germany
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Penke
- 2014: Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BSc)
University of Goettingen, Germany
Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Penke
Research and academic experience
- 2020-2022: Postdoc
Department of Psychology, University of Siegen, Germany - 2016-2017: Tutor for “Introduction to Psychological Assessment”
Department of Biological Personality Psychology, University of Goettingen, Germany
- 2015-2016: Tutor for “Research in Personality Psychology” and
“Methods of Psychological Assessment”
Department of Biological Personality Psychology, University of Goettingen, Germany
Award, grants, and scholarships
- 2022: Research funding for the project “Empathy as a tool to increase prosocial and decrease antisocial
behavior”, Meta Platforms, Inc., with Karolina Ścigała ($90,000)
- 2019: Best poster award Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making (SPUDM) conference 2019, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
- 2018: Erasmus+ grant for a research stay at the University of Glasgow (2,400 €)
- 2018: Preregistration Challenge ($1,000), Center for Open Science, with Karolina Ścigała & Ingo Zettler
Invited talks
- Schild, C. (2021, November). Predictors of (monetarily incentivized) dishonesty. Applied Ethics and Morality Research Group seminar, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic.
- Schild, C. (2021, September). An Introduction to the formr Survey Framework. Aarhus Reproducibility and Open Science (AROS) Seminar, Aarhus University, Denmark.
- Schild, C. (2021, February). Predictors of (monetarily incentivized) dishonesty. Social Psychology Colloquium Tilburg University, Tilburg University, Netherlands.