Sascha Schwarz

Social and personality psychology
My research
My research interests are at the interface between social psychology and personality psychology. In particular, I am interested in the question of which characteristics of the perceiver influence how targets are perceived. From this perspective, I have particularly studied the topic of mate choice. As a starting point to derive hypotheses about which properties of the perceiver and target are relevant, I use theories from an evolutionary perspective.
Academic education

2016

Habilitation (venia legendi psychology)

2016

2008

Dr. phil.

2004

Dipl.-Psych. (equivalent to master's degree in psychology)

2004

Academic positions

2014

Senior Lecturer (Akademischer Oberrat, tenured), University of Wuppertal

2014

2012

Interim professorship "Social psychology" (W2), Technical University Dortmund

2008

Lecturer (Akademischer Rat, tenured), University of Wuppertal

2008

2004

Research assistant (100%), University of Wuppertal
Publications
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peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters
Recent peer-reviewed journal articles
Agthe, M., Niesta Kayser, D., Schwarz, S., & Maner, J. K. (2023). Antecedents of the red-romance effect: Men’s attractiveness and women’s fertility. PLoS ONE, 18(4): e0284035.
Lange, B. P., Wühr, P., & Schwarz, S. (2021). Of Time Gals and Mega Men: Empirical findings on gender differences in digital game genre preferences and the accuracy of respective gender stereotypes. Frontiers in Psychology.
Klümper, L., Wühr, P., Hassebrauck, M., & Schwarz, S. (2020). Automaticity of facial attractiveness perception and sex-specific mating strategies. Cognition.
Recent books

Schwender, C., Schwarz, S., Lange, B.P. & Huckauf, A. (Hrsg.) (2018). Geschlecht und Verhalten aus evolutionärer Perspektive. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Schwender, C., Lange, B.P. & Schwarz, S. (Hrsg) (2017). Evolutionäre Ästhetik. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Lange, B. P. & Schwarz, S. (Hrsg.) (2015). Die menschliche Psyche zwischen Natur und Kultur. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Teaching
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lectures and seminars, primarily social and personality psychology
Selected and translated quotes from teaching evaluations
Supervision
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supervised bachelor and master theses in psychology
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