Prof. Dr. Christopher Cohrs

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  since 2017	Full Professor of Social Psychology, Philipps-University Marburg
  2012-2017	Assistant Professor in Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen
  2008-2012	Lecturer in Social Psychology, School of Psychology, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
  2007-2008	Postdoctoral research fellow, workgroup social psychology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
  2005-2007	Postdoctoral research fellow, international research training group "Conflict and Cooperation between Social Groups" (IGC), Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena.
  2003-2005	Postdoctoral research fellow, workgroup social psychology, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  2001-2004	Doctorate in Psychologie (Dr. phil.), University of Bielefeld, Germany; dissertation: “Of Constructive Patriots and Black Sheep: National Identification and Commitment against Hostility to Foreigners”
  1994-2001	Diploma studies in Psychology (equivalent to M.Sc.), University of Bielefeld, Germany; diploma thesis: "Moral Evaluation of the Kosovo War: Effects of Political Attitudes, Media Use, and (Lack of) Political Knowledge"

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  • National and European identity
  • Intergrouprelations and Prejudice
  • Political Ideologies, Political Attitudes
  • Social Representations of Conflicts
  • Collective Victimhood

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  • Vollhardt, J. R., Ünal, H., Szabó, Z. P., Jeong, H. Y., Cohrs, J. C., & Black, D. (2025). Towards a conceptual integration of collective victimization beliefs and their variation within and across contexts: A Q methodology study in five communities. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70026
  
  • Karić, T., Eckerle, F ., Cohrs, J. C. (2025). The West and the rest: the Westernised nature of Europe (anness). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14782804.2025.2500399#abstract
  
  • Karić, T., Eckerle, F., Rothers, A., Khosrowtaj, Z., Müller, I., Maaser, J., & Cohrs, J. C. (2025). Only the Blue-Eyed Ones”: How Refugees' Origin and Gender Affect Selective Solidarity Through Perceived Similarity and Threat. https://spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josi.70016
  
  • Knöchelmann, L., Janßen, A., Dörbaum, J., Heck, D. W., & Cohrs, J. C. (2025). Enhancing intellectual humility about political topics: An intervention tournament including five conceptual replications. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3177
  
  •  Knöchelmann, L., Kemmer, J. A., & Cohrs, J. C. (2025). Intellectual humility: Validation and comparison of four self-report scales in the German context. Social Psychological Bulletin. https://www.psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/11910 
  
  • Jugert, P., Mayer, A.-M., Eckstein, K., Langer, S., Mönter, L., König, P., Agunyego, W., Bastias, F., & Cohrs, J. C. (2024). Who is we: Capturing social identity content by integrating qualitative methods in survey-based approaches. Identity. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2437028
  
  • Knöchelmann, L., & Cohrs, J. C. (2024). Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000462 
  
  •  Lienen, C. S., Eckerle, F., & Cohrs, J. C. (2025). How do members of a perpetrator group negotiate multiple past ingroup transgressions? A German case study. Memory Studies, 18(1), 198-217. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980241247269
  
  •  Matthies, E., Reese, G., Mata, J., Fritsche, I., Hofmann, W., Geiger, S., Cohrs, J. C., Loy, L., & Henn, L. (2024). Wie kann die Psychologie zur Bewältigung der Klimakrise beitragen? Psychologische Rundschau, 75 (2), 177-182. https://doi.org/10.1026/0033-3042/a000673 
  
  •  Avcı, N., Cohrs, J. C., & Schreier, M. (2023). Representing the peace/resolution process in Turkey: Mobilizing support for change or resisting it. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 30 (3), 462-471. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000701
  
  • Eckerle, F., Rothers, A., Kutlaca, M., Henss, L., Agunyego, W., & Cohrs, J. C. (2023). Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, 104492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104492
  
  • Karić, T., & Cohrs, J. C. (2023). Failed to unite? Conceptualizations of Bosnian–Herzegovinian national identity. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace   Psychology, 29(4), 345–354. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000681 
  
  •  Rothers, A., & Cohrs, J. C. (2023). Felt respect in political discussions with contrary-minded others. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40, 3858-3881. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231195531 
  
  •  Rothers, A., & Cohrs, J. C. (2023). What makes people feel respected? Toward an integrative psychology of social worth. Psychological Review, 130, 242–259. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000393 
  
  • Grigoryan, L., Jones, B. H., Cohrs, J. C., Boehnke, K., & Easterbrook, M. J. (2023). Differentiating between belief-indicative and status-indicative groups improves predictions of intergroup attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 1097-1112. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221092852
  
  • Grigoryan, L., Cohrs, J. C., Boehnke, K., van de Vijver, F. (A. J. R.), & Easterbrook, M. J. (2022). Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 34-52. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000342
  
  • Lienen, C. S., & Cohrs, J. C. (2021). Redefining the meaning of negative history in times of political change: A social creativity approach. Political Psychology, 42, 941-956. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12725
  
  •  Schneider, T., Sauerland, M., Merckelbach, H., Puschke, J., & Cohrs, J. C. (2021). Self-reported voluntary blame-taking: Kinship before friendship and no effect of incentives. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.621960
  
  • Vollhardt, J. R., Cohrs, J. C., Szabó, Z. P., Winiewski, M., Twali, M. S., Hadjiandreou, E., & McNeill, A. (2021). The role of comparative victim beliefs in predicting support for hostile versus prosocial intergroup outcomes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 505-524. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2756 
  
  • Grigoryan, L., Cohrs, J. C., Boehnke, K., van de Vijver, F. (A. J. R. ), & Easterbrook, M. J. (2020). Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000342

  Complete publicationlist available upon http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RKGqOqAAAAAJ. If you would like a digital version of my publications, please send me an E-Mail.

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  • Chairperson, German Peace Psychology Association (since 2013)

  • Member of the Committee for the Psychological Study of Peace (since 2013)

  • Editorial Board member: Psicologia Sociale (since 2013), Journal of Political Psychology (since 2012), Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (since 2011), Political Psychology (since 2008)

  • Editor, Book series "Politische Psychologie", Springer VS (with Andreas Zick, since 2009)

• Inhalt ausklappen Inhalt einklappen Teaching

  • Social Psychology (B-SP)

  • Economic Psychology (B-AOW1)

  • Diversity (M-AOWb-Seminar)

  • Non-conforming behavior (M-NV)

  • Psychology of Peace and Conflict (MA Friedens- und Konfliktforschung)