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
0
peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters
Recent peer-reviewed journal articles

Schwarz, S.* , Klümper, L.*, Jansen, M., & Agthe, M. (2023). Immoral, infectious, or both? How disgust sensitivity predicts judgments of violations against COVID-19 mitigation actions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 
*shared first authors

Klümper, L., Hassebrauck, M. & Schwarz, S. (2023). Intersexual and intrasexual differences in mate selection preferences among lesbian women, gay men, and bisexual women and men. Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Al-Shawaf, L., Lewis, D. M. G., Ghossainy, M. E., Kennair, L. E. O., Mikloušić, I., Schwarz, S., & White, Kaitlyn P. (2023). No evidence for two disgust hypotheses in four countries. Evolutionary Psychology.

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.

Klümper, L. & Schwarz, S. (2022). Birds of a feather are eaten together - Individual differences and social processes related to a person’s meat consumption and their implications for social interaction. Umweltpsychologie, 25(2), 12-31.

Klümper, L., Wühr, P., Hassebrauck, M., & Schwarz, S. (2020). Automaticity of facial attractiveness perception and sex-specific mating strategies. Cognition.
Recent books

Hammerl, M., Schwarz, S. & Willführ, K.P.  (Hrsg.) (2024). Evolutionäre Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

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.

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