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Overview

Oliver Christ is affiliated with the University of Hagen in Germany and has a focus on social sciences and psychology. Their research spans various subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, human-computer interaction, experimental and cognitive psychology, and gender studies.

Their work concentrates on topics such as social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, virtual reality applications and impacts, gender diversity and inequality, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, racial and ethnic identity research, and visual and cognitive learning processes.

Oliver Christ has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • Can Conspiracy Beliefs Be Beneficial? Longitudinal Linkages Between Conspiracy Beliefs, Anxiety, Uncertainty Aversion, and Existential Threat (2021), published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Does negative contact undermine attempts to improve intergroup relations? Deepening the understanding of negative contact and its consequences for intergroup contact research and interventions (2021), published in Journal of Social Issues
  • How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020), published in Journal of Social Issues
  • Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data-Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Replicability (2020), published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Intergroup contact is reliably associated with reduced prejudice, even in the face of group threat and discrimination (2023), published in American Psychologist

Their frequent co-authors include Mathias Kauff, Katharina Schmid, Miles Hewstone, Ανδρέας Παπαγεωργίου, and Sarina J. Schäfer.

Oliver Christ's publications often appear in journals such as Social Inclusion, Journal of Social Issues, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Recent advances in intergroup contact theory

    Thomas F. Pettigrew;Linda R. Tropp;Ulrich Wagner;Oliver Christ

  • Should I stay or should I go? Explaining turnover intentions with organizational identification and job satisfaction

    Rolf Van Dick;Oliver Christ;Jost Stellmacher;Ulrich Wagner

  • The utility of a broader conceptualization of organizational identification: Which aspects really matter?

    Rolf Van Dick;Ulrich Wagner;Jost Stellmacher;Oliver Christ

  • Explaining Radical Group Behavior: Developing Emotion and Efficacy Routes to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action

    Nicole Tausch;Julia C. Becker;Russell Spears;Oliver Christ

  • Identity and the Extra Mile: Relationships between Organizational Identification and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour

    Rolf van Dick;Rolf van Dick;Michael W. Grojean;Oliver Christ;Jan Wieseke

  • Prejudice And Minority Proportion: Contact Instead Of Threat Effects*

    Ulrich Wagner;Oliver Christ;Thomas F. Pettigrew;Jost Stellmacher

  • Direct and indirect intergroup contact effects on prejudice: A normative interpretation.

    Thomas F. Pettigrew;Oliver Christ;Ulrich Wagner;Jost Stellmacher

  • Contextual effect of positive intergroup contact on outgroup prejudice

    Oliver Christ;Oliver Christ;Katharina Schmid;Simon Lolliot;Hermann Swart

  • Affective mediators of intergroup contact: a three-wave longitudinal study in South Africa

    Hermann Swart;Miles Hewstone;Oliver Christ;Alberto Voci

  • Ethnic Prejudice in East and West Germany: The Explanatory Power of Intergroup Contact

    Ulrich Wagner;Rolf van Dick;Thomas F. Pettigrew;Oliver Christ

  • When teachers go the extra mile: Foci of organisational identification as determinants of different forms of organisational citizenship behaviour among schoolteachers

    Oliver Christ;Rolf Van Dick;Ulrich Wagner;Jost Stellmacher

  • What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice.

    William B. Swann;Michael D. Buhrmester;Angel Gómez;Jolanda Jetten

  • Relative deprivation and intergroup prejudice

    Thomas F Pettigrew;Oliver Christ;Ulrich Wagner;Roel W. Meertens

  • Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci;Stefania Paolini

  • Direct Contact as a Moderator of Extended Contact Effects: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Impact on Outgroup Attitudes, Behavioral Intentions, and Attitude Certainty:

    Oliver Christ;Miles Hewstone;Nicole Tausch;Ulrich Wagner

  • Role of perceived importance in intergroup contact

    Rolf van Dick;Ulrich Wagner;Thomas F. Pettigrew;Oliver Christ

  • Category salience and organizational identification

    Rolf Van Dick;Ulrich Wagner;Jost Stellmacher;Oliver Christ

  • Intergroup Contact and Social Change: Implications of Negative and Positive Contact for Collective Action in Advantaged and Disadvantaged Groups.

    Nils Karl Reimer;Julia C. Becker;Angelika Benz;Oliver Christ

  • Strukturgleichungsmodelle mit Mplus

    Kristian Kleinke;Elmar Schlüter;Oliver Christ

  • Strukturgleichungsmodelle mit Mplus: Eine praktische Einführung

    Oliver Christ;Elmar Schlüter

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Wagner
Ulrich Wagner Philipp University of Marburg
Rolf van Dick
Rolf van Dick Goethe University Frankfurt
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Thomas F. Pettigrew University of California, Santa Cruz
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Alberto Voci
Alberto Voci University of Padua
Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont University of Kent
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster

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