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Christian Unkelbach

Christian Unkelbach

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
6885
World Ranking
7305
National Ranking
346

Christian Unkelbach publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian Unkelbach sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 121 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Christian Unkelbach D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Christian Unkelbach sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Christian Unkelbach is affiliated with the University of Cologne in Germany. Their research spans various facets of psychology and social sciences, with a strong focus on cognitive neuroscience and social psychology. Their work intersects multiple disciplines, including sociology and political science, as well as chemistry subfields such as materials and organic chemistry.

The main fields of study include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Key subfields of their research are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry

The central topics addressed in their work comprise:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Christian Unkelbach are:

  • "Groups' warmth is a personal matter: Understanding consensus on stereotype dimensions reconciles adversarial models of social evaluation," 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • "Mere repetition increases belief in factually true COVID-19-related information," 2021, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
  • "Repetition increases both the perceived truth and fakeness of information: An ecological account," 2020, Cognition
  • "Attitudes from mere co-occurrences are guided by differentiation," 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Relativity in Social Cognition: Basic processes and novel applications of social comparisons," 2023, European Review of Social Psychology

Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Cognition
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Their research collaborations involve multiple frequent co-authors:

  • Hans Alves
  • Lukas Brieger
  • Carsten Strohmann
  • Olivier Corneille
  • Alex Koch

Best Publications

  • Reversing the truth effect: learning the interpretation of processing fluency in judgments of truth.

    Christian Unkelbach

  • Why positive information is processed faster: the density hypothesis.

    Christian Unkelbach;Klaus Fiedler;Myriam Bayer;Martin Stegmüller

  • The ABC of stereotypes about groups: Agency/socioeconomic success, conservative–progressive beliefs, and communion.

    Alex Koch;Roland Imhoff;Ron Dotsch;Christian Unkelbach

  • The Learned Interpretation of Cognitive Fluency

    Christian Unkelbach

  • The turban effect: The influence of Muslim headgear and induced affect on aggressive responses in the shooter bias paradigm

    Christian Unkelbach;Joseph P. Forgas;Thomas F. Denson

  • Crowd noise as a cue in referee decisions contributes to the home advantage.

    Christian Unkelbach;Daniel Memmert

  • The Epistemic Status of Processing Fluency as Source for Judgments of Truth

    Rolf Reber;Christian Unkelbach

  • Truth by Repetition: Explanations and Implications:

    Christian Unkelbach;Alex Koch;Rita R. Silva;Teresa Garcia-Marques

  • Oxytocin Selectively Facilitates Recognition of Positive Sex and Relationship Words

    Christian Unkelbach;Adam J. Guastella;Joseph P. Forgas

  • Dissociating contingency awareness and conditioned attitudes: Evidence of contingency-unaware evaluative conditioning.

    Mandy Hütter;Steven Sweldens;Christoph Stahl;Christian Unkelbach

  • Can bad weather improve your memory? An unobtrusive field study of natural mood effects on real-life memory

    Joseph P. Forgas;Liz Goldenberg;Christian Unkelbach

  • Why Good Is More Alike Than Bad: Processing Implications

    Hans Alves;Alex Koch;Christian Unkelbach

  • Game Management, Context Effects, and Calibration: The Case of Yellow Cards in Soccer

    Christian Unkelbach;Daniel Memmert

  • A referential theory of the repetition-induced truth effect.

    Christian Unkelbach;Sarah C. Rom

  • On the respective contributions of awareness of unconditioned stimulus valence and unconditioned stimulus identity in attitude formation through evaluative conditioning

    Christoph Stahl;Christian Unkelbach;Olivier Corneille

  • A multinomial modeling approach to dissociate different components of the truth effect

    Christian Unkelbach;Christoph Stahl

  • Regulatory fit as a determinant of sport performance: How to succeed in a soccer penalty-shooting.

    Henning Plessner;Christian Unkelbach;Daniel Memmert;Anna Baltes

  • Investigating the Robustness of the Illusory Truth Effect Across Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Cognitive Style:

    Jonas De keersmaecker;David Dunning;Gordon Pennycook;David G. Rand

  • Evaluative learning with single versus multiple unconditioned stimuli: the role of contingency awareness.

    Christoph Stahl;Christian Unkelbach

  • A general valence asymmetry in similarity: Good is more alike than bad.

    Alex Koch;Hans Alves;Tobias Krüger;Christian Unkelbach

  • The experience of thinking : how the fluency of mental processes influences cognition and behaviour

    Christian Unkelbach;Rainer Greifeneder

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Memmert
Daniel Memmert German Sport University Cologne
Olivier Corneille
Olivier Corneille Université Catholique de Louvain
Klaus Fiedler
Klaus Fiedler Heidelberg University
Roland Imhoff
Roland Imhoff Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Joseph P. Forgas
Joseph P. Forgas University of New South Wales
Thomas F. Denson
Thomas F. Denson University of New South Wales
Adam J. Guastella
Adam J. Guastella University of Sydney
David G. Rand
David G. Rand Cornell University
Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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