Dr. Christoph Schild

Christoph Schild
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Room: P 1 c (Pavilion 1)
Consultation-hour: By arrangement via E-Mail
Phone: +49 (2 51) 83 - 3 42 79
E-Mail: cschild [at] uni-muenster.de
 

  • Curriculum Vitae

    Career

    08/2023 – today
    Postdoc & Labmanager
    University of Münster, Germany
    Research Unit: Prof. Dr. Mitja Back

    11/2022 – 07/2023
    Postdoc
    Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Germany
    Research Unit: Dr. Isabel Thielmann 

    11/2022 – 07/2023
    Postdoc
    Department of Psychology, 
    University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
    Research Unit: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Hilbig

    12/2021 – 10/2022
    Postdoc
    Department of Psychology, 
    University of Siegen, Germany
    Research Unit: Prof. Dr. Andreas Kastenmüller

    04/2020 – 11/2021
    Postdoc
    Department of Psychology, 
    University of Siegen, Germany
    Research Unit: Prof. Dr. Marie Hennecke

    04/2017 – 03/2020
    PhD fellow
    Department of Psychology, 
    University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ingo Zettler

    10/2016 – 03/2017
    Tutor for “Introduction to Psychological Assessment”
    Department of Biological Personality Psychology, 
    University of Goettingen, Germany

    10/2016
    Student Assistant
    Department of Cognition and Decision Making, 
    University of Goettingen, Germany

    10/2015 – 02/2016
    Student Assistant
    Department of Developmental Psychology, 
    University of Siegen, Germany

    04/2015 – 02/2016
    Tutor for “Research in Personality Psychology” and
    “Methods of Psychological Assessment”
    Department of Biological Personality Psychology, 
    University of Goettingen, Germany

     

    Education

    10/2014 – 03/2017
    Master of Science in Psychology (MSc)
    University of Goettingen, Germany
    Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Penke 

    10/2011 – 10/2014
    Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BSc)
    University of Goettingen, Germany
    Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lars Penke

    2002 – 2011
    Abitur (High-school diploma)
    Freiherr-vom-Stein Gymnasium, Betzdorf, Germany

     

    Research Stays & Internships

    04/2019 – 06/2019
    Future of Work Institute (Prof. Dr. Patrick Dunlop)
    Curtin University, Australia 

    09/2018 – 10/2018
    Face Research Lab (Prof. Dr. Benedict Jones & Prof. Dr. Lisa DeBruine)
    University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

    02/2016 – 05/2016
    Evolution, Hormones and Physiology Lab (Prof. Dr. David Puts)
    The Pennsylvania State University, United States

    09/2015 – 10/2015
    Research Unit Susann Fiedler
    Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany

    03/2015
    Research Unit Susann Fiedler
    Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany

    08/2013 – 10/2013
    Psychiatric Hospital
    Klinik St. Martinus Hospital, Olpe, Germany

    02/2013 – 04/2013
    Psychotherapeutic Practice
    Traugott Nassauer, Daaden, Germany

  • Publications

    Research articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

    (Please check https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6668-5773 for the most recent publication record)

    in press
    2024
    2023
    2022
    2021
    2020
    2019
    2018

    in press

    Bader, M., Lilleholt, L., Schild, C., Hilbig, B. E., Moshagen, M., & Zettler, I. (in press). Basic personality and actual criminal convictions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf

    Thielmann, I., Hilbig, B.E., Schild, C., & Heck, D.W. (in press). Cheat, cheat, repeat: On the consistency of dishonest behavior in structurally comparable situations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. pdf preprint

    2024

    Aung, T., Hill, A. K., Hlay, J. K., Hess, C., Hess, M., Johnson, J., Doll, L., Carlson, S. M., Magdinec, C., G-Santoyo, I., Walker, R. S., Bailey, D., Arnocky, S., Kamble, S., Vardy, T., Kyritsis, T., Atkinson, Q., Jones, B., Burns, J., … Schild, C., ... Puts, D. (2024). Effects of voice pitch on social perceptions vary with relational mobility and homicide rate. Psychological Science, 35(3), 250-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231222288 pdf

    2023

    Satchell, L., Jaeger, B., Jones, A., López, B., & Schild, C. (2023). Beyond reliability in first impressions research: Considering validity and the need to “mix it up with folks”. Social Psychological Bulletin, 18, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.10211 

    Stern, J.*, Schild, C.*, & Zettler, I. (2023). Revisiting the relation between steroid hormones and unethicality in an exploratory, longitudinal study with female participants. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672231199961. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231199961 *Shared first authorship.

    Ścigała, K. A., Arkoudi, I., Schild, C., Pfattheicher, S., & Zettler, I. (2023). The relation between Honesty-Humility and moral concerns as expressed in language. Journal of Research in Personality, 104351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2023.104351

    2022

    Schild, C., Braunsdorf, E., Steffens, K., Pott, F., & Stern, J. (2022). Gender and context-specific effects of vocal dominance and trustworthiness on leadership decisions. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 8(4), 538–556. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-022-00194-8

    Ścigała, K. A., Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2022). Dark, grey, or bright creativity? (Re)investigating the link between creativity and dishonesty. European Journal of Personality. 36(1), 108–129. https://doi.org/10.1177/08902070211010993[Registered Report]

    Tiwari, S., Ścigała, K. A., Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2022). Indian caste names and cooperation in the prisoner’s dilemma. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 25(3), 489–503. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12512

    Zettler, I., Schild, C., Lilleholt, L., Kroencke, L., Utesch, T., Moshagen, M., Böhm, R., Back, M., & 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(1), 299–310. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211001680

    2021

    Ścigała, K. A., Schild, C., Moshagen, M., Lilleholt, L., Zettler, I., & Pfattheicher, S. (2021). Aversive personality and COVID-19: A first review and meta-analysis. European Psychologist, 26(4), 348–358. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000456

    Stern, J., Schild, C., Arslan, R. C., Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Hahn, A., […] & Penke, L. (2021). Do voices carry valid information about a speaker's personality? Journal of Research in Personality, 92, 104092. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2021.104092 [Registered Report]

    Jones, A. L., Schild, C., & Jones, B. C. (2021). Facial metrics generated from manually and automatically placed image landmarks are highly correlated. Evolution and Human Behavior. 42(3), 186–193.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.09.002

    Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2021). Linking voice pitch to fighting success in male amateur mixed martial arts athletes and boxers. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 3, e46. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.45 [Registered Report]

    Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Liuzza, M. T., Antfolk, J., Arinze, N. C., Ndukaihe, I. L. G., Bloxsom, N. G., Lewis, S. C., Foroni, F., Willis, M. L., Cubillas, C. P., Vadillo, M. A., Turiegano, E., Gilead, M., Simchon, A., Saribay, S. A., Owsley, N. C., Jang, C., …Schild, C., … Coles, N. A. (2021). To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5(1), 159–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2[Registered Report]

    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 (2), 157–166. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2195

    Jones, A. L., Jaeger, B., & Schild, C. (2021). No credible evidence for links between 2D:4D and COVID-19 outcomes: A probabilistic perspective on digit ratio, ACE variants, and national case fatalities. Early Human Development, 152, 105272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105272

    2020

    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), 21296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77940-z

    Ścigała, K. A., Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2020). Dishonesty as a signal of trustworthiness: Honesty-Humility and trustworthy dishonesty. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 200685. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200685

    Schild, C., Stern, J., Penke, L., & Zettler, I. (2020). Voice pitch – A valid indicator of one’s unfaithfulness in committed relationships? Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-020-00154-0 [Registered Report]

    Schild, C., Botzet, L. J., Planert, L., Ścigała, K. A., Zettler, I., & Lang, J. W. B. (2020). Linking personality traits to objective foul records in (semi-)professional youth basketball. Journal of Research in Personality, 87, 103987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103987

    Ścigała, K. A., Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2020). Doing justice to creative justifications: Creativity, Honesty-Humility, and (un)ethical justifications. Journal of Research in Personality, 89, 104033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104033

    Lilleholt, L., Schild, C., & Zettler, I. (2020). Not all computerized cheating tasks are equal: A comparison of computerized and non-computerized versions of a cheating task. Journal of Economic Psychology, 78, 102270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2020.102270

    Schild, C., Moshagen, M., Ścigała, K. A. & Zettler, I. (2020). May the odds — or your personality — be in your favor: Baseline probability of winning, Honesty-Humility, and dishonesty. Judgment and Decision Making. 15(4), 600–610. https://doi.org/10.1017/S193029750000752X

    Kordsmeyer, T. L., Thies, Y. T. K., Ekrami, O., Stern, J., Schild, C., Spoiala, C., … Penke, L. (2020). No evidence for an association between facial fluctuating asymmetry and vocal attractiveness in men and women. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e35. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.36

    Schild, C.*, Stern, J.*, & Zettler, I. (2020). Linking men‘s voice pitch to actual and perceived trustworthiness across domains. Behavioral Ecology, 31(1), 164–175. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arz173 *Shared first authorship.

    2019

    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 [Registered Report]

    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(8), 1019–1027. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618813419

    2018

    Jünger, J., Motta-Mena, N. V., Cardenas, R., Bailey, D., Rosenfield, K. A., Schild, C., Penke, L., Puts, D. A. (2018). Do women’s preferences for masculine voices shift across the ovulatory cycle? Hormones and Behavior, 106, 122–134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.10.008

    Comments in Peer-Reviewed Journals

    Jones, A. L., Satchell, L. P., Jaeger, B., & Schild, C. (2020). (Mis-)understanding COVID-19 and digit ratio: Methodological and statistical issues in Manning and Fink (2020). Early Human Development, 148, 105095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2020.105095

    Schild, C., Ścigała, K. A., & Zettler, I. (2020). Multiple antisocial personalities? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(18), 9688–9689. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921692117

    Book Chapters

    Schild, C., Ścigała, K. A., & Zettler, I. (2018). Reference Group Effect. In Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_840-1

  • Presentations

    First-authored Conference Talks

    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.

    Schild, C., Lang, J.W., Planert, L., Ścigała, K. A., & Zettler, I. (2018, July). Personality traits and objective (basketball) performance data: A longitudinal study. Talk at the European Conference on Personality 2018, Zadar, Croatia.

    Schild, C., Kordsmeyer, T., Puts, D.A., & Penke, L. (2018, July). The role of vocal parameters in perception of male dominance and attractiveness. Talk at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Meeting 2018, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

    Most Recent Invited Talks & Workshops

    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.

    First-authored Conference Posters

    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.

  • Journal Reviewer

    Ad-Hoc Reviewer for Journals

    • 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 and Social Psychology
    • Journal of Personality Assessment
    • 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

    Other Ad-Hoc Reviewing

    • Czech Science Foundation
    • Psychological Science Accelerator