Dr. Christoph Schild

Post-Doc
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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.

Ad-hoc reviewer

Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, American Journal of Human Biology, Animal Behaviour, Biological Psychology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, Collabra, Evolution and Human Behavior, Evolutionary Psychological Science, Evolutionary Psychology, i-Perception, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Journal of Personality Assessment, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personnel Psychology, Journal of Research in Personality, Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, Judgment and Decision Making, Personality and Individual Differences, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, PLOS ONE, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Psychoneuroendocrinology, Royal Society Open Science, SAGE Open