Dr. Marleen Stelter
Foto: FernUniversität in Hagen
E-Mail: marleen.stelter
Academic Career
05/2021 – present: Researcher and Lecturer, Psychological Methods and Evaluation, FernUniversität in Hagen
10/2023 – 03/2024: Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Riverside Social and Spatial Cognition Lab, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
06/2018: Doctorate Degree in Psychology(Dr. rer. nat.), Universität Hamburg
Thesis: Remembering „us” versus „them”: Investigating the underlying processes of the other-race effect.
Supervisors: Prof. Juliane Degner (Universität Hamburg), Prof. Stefan R. Schweinberger (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
07/2012 – 04/2021: Researcher and Lecturer,Department of Social Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Universität Hamburg
06/2012:Diploma Degree in Psychology at Saarland University, Saarbrücken
Research interests
- Intergroup face perception (i.e., the other-‘race’ effect)
- Stereotypes and perception of threat
- Implicit social cognition
- Regional-level bias
Publications in peer review
Mehr Informationen
Stelter, M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other-‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives. British Journal of Psychology, 114 (Suppl. 1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12615
Veit, S., Zey, E., Ehmeir, J., Essien, I., Degner, J., & Stelter, M. (2023). Validation study of the DeZIM Picture Database: Faces. Brief Study Report. https://www.deziminstitut.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Demo_FIS/publikation_pdf/FA-5777.pdf
Stelter, M., Simon, D., Calanchini, J., Christ, O., & Degner, J. (2023). Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect. British Journal of Psychology, 114 (Suppl. 1), 150– 171. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12600
Stelter, M.*, Essien, I.*, Rohmann, A., Degner, J., & Kemme, S. (2023). Shooter biases and stereotypes among police and civilians. Acta Psychologica, 232, 103820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103820
Stelter, M.*, Essien, I.*, Sander, C., & Degner, J. (2022). Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops: White Residents' County-Level Prejudice and Stereotypes Are Related to Disproportionate Stopping of Black Drivers. Psychological science, 33(4), 483–496. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211051272
Essien, I., Stelter, M., Rohmann, A., & Degner, J. (2022). Beyond stereotypes: Prejudice as an important missing force explaining group disparities. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000832
Stelter, M., Rommel, M., & Degner, J. (2021). (Eye-) tracking the other-race effect: Comparison of eye movements during encoding and recognition of ingroup faces with proximal and distant outgroup faces. Social Cognition, 39 (3), 365–394 OSF
Kemme, S., Essien, I., & Stelter, M. (2020). Antimuslimische Einstellungen in der Polizei? Der Zusammenhang von Kontakthäufigkeit und -qualität mit Vorurteilen und Stereotypen gegenüber Muslimen. Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 103, 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1515/mks-2020-2048
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2018). Investigating the other-race effect in working memory. British Journal of Psychology, 109. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12304 OSF
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2018). Recognizing Emily and Latisha: Inconsistent effects of name stereotypicality on the other-race effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00486 OSF
Arpin, S. N.*, Froehlich, L.*, Lantian, A.*, Rudert, S. C.*, & Stelter, M.*, (2017). When “We” or “They” exclude others: Attributing and evaluating ostracism observed in in-groups and out-groups. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2(2-3), 143-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1358477
Essien, I.*, Stelter, M.*, Kalbe, F., Koehler, A., Mangels, J., & Meliß, S. (2017). The shooter bias: Replicating the classic effect and introducing a novel paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.12.009 OSF
Chiou, R., Stelter, M., & Rich, A.N. (2013). Beyond colour perception: Auditory-visual synaesthesia induces experiences of geometric objects in specific locations. Cortex, 49, 1750-1763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.04.006
Presentations
Stelter, M., Essien, I., von Bargen, J.M., Christ, O. (2024, October). Understanding Police Bias: Examining Shooter Biases, Intergroup Attitudes, and Contact. Talk given at the 2. conference of the Racism Research Knowledge Network (WinRa), Bayreuth, Germany
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Sander, C., Degner, J., (2024, October). Racial bias in police traffic stops: White residents’ county-level prejudice and stereotypes are related to disproportionate stopping of Black drivers. Talk given at the Tagung des Deutschen Zentrums für Integrations- und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM), Mannheim, Germany
Stelter, M., Essien, I., von Bargen, J.M., Christ, O. (2024, September). Understanding Police Bias: Examining Shooter Biases, Intergroup Attitudes, and Contact. Talk given at the 24-hours of Political Psychology, Vienna, Austria
Stelter, M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Degner, J., (2024, September). Using spatial meta-analysis to test theories of face perception. In Stelter, M.; Essien, I. (Chairs): Regional-level psychology. Symposium at the 53. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs2024), Vienna, Austria.
Stelter, M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Degner, J., (2024, March). Using spatial meta-analysis to test theories of face perception. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention (SPSP), San Diego, USA.
Stelter, M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Degner, J., (2023, August). Using spatial meta-analysis to test theories of face perception. Poster presented at the 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Kraków, Poland.
Stelter, M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Degner, J., (2023, March). Using spatial meta-analysis to test theories of face perception. In Talhelm, T. (Chair): Nation No More: The Emerging Field of Regional Cultural Differences. Symposium at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) 2023, Brussels, Belgium.
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Sander, C., Degner, J., (2022, September). Racial bias in police traffic stops: White residents’ county-level prejudice and stereotypes are related to disproportionate stopping of Black drivers. Poster presented at the 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs2022), Hildesheim, Germany
Stelter, M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Degner, J., (2022, August). A meta-analytic test of experience and motivational accounts of the other-‘race’ effect. Talk given at the 2022 ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Milano, Italy.
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Sander, C., Degner, J., (2022, July). Racial bias in police traffic stops: White residents’ county-level prejudice and stereotypes are related to disproportionate stopping of Black drivers. Talk given at the Regional Cultural Differences Conference, Barcelona, Spain
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Sander, C., Degner, J., (2022, July). Racial bias in police traffic stops: White residents’ county-level prejudice and stereotypes are related to disproportionate stopping of Black drivers. Talk given at the International Society of Political Psychology Annual Meeting 2022 (ISPP), Athens, Greece
Stelter, M., Christ, O., Degner, J. (2022, February). Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact, and the other-race effect. In Stelter, M. (Chair): Revisiting contact explanations for cross-race recognition deficits. Symposium at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention (SPSP), San Francisco, USA.
Stelter, M. (2022, February).Revisiting contact explanations for cross-race recognition deficits. Symposium chaired at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention (SPSP), San Francisco, USA.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J., (2021, July). Individuating outgroup faces: Using eye-tracking to investigate the cognitive processes during individuation versus categorization. Talk given at the “No-Name Face Perception Conference” taking place as online conference.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J., (2021, March). Individuating outgroup faces: Investigating the cognitive processes underlying individuation versus categorization. Talk will be given at 63rd “Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen” (TeaP), taking place as online conference TeaP@Home.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J., (2021, February). Individuating outgroup faces: Investigating the cognitive processes underlying individuation versus categorization. In Calanchini, J. (Chair): Social categorization: Developmental origins, perceptual mechanisms, boundary conditions, and new directions. Symposium at the 2021 SPSP Virtual Annual Convention.
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Sander, C., Degner, J., (2020, February). Regional-level implicit bias is associated with disproportionate stopping of Black motorists by police. In Essien, I. & Stelter, M. (Chairs): Why implicit bias matters: Policing, outgroup favoritism, and bias education. Symposium at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology’s Annual Convention (SPSP), New Orleans, USA.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2020, February).An investigation of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the other-race effect. Talk given at the post-doc workshop of the DGPs Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Saarbrücken, Germany
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Sander, C., Degner, J., (2020, January). Regional-level implicit bias is associated with disproportionate stopping of Black motorists by police. Talk given at the 24-hours of Political Psychology, Hagen, Germany
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2019, September). Remembering “us” versus “them”: Cognitive processes underlying the recognition of ingroup and outgroup faces. Poster presented at the 17. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Köln, Germany
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2019, September).Individuating outgroup faces: Investigating the cognitive processes underlying individuation versus categorization. Talk given at the 21st ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Bordeaux, France.
Stelter, M., Essien, I., Degner, J., & Kemme, S. (2019, März). The shooter bias in german civilians and police force. Poster presented at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Paris, France
Singh, S., Steinicke, F., Stelter, M., Essien, I., & Degner, J. (2017, October). Das Police Officer's Dilemma in virtueller Realität. Talk given at the 14. Workshop der GI-Fachgruppe VR/AR (GI-Fachgruppe Virtuelle und Erweiterte Realität), Tübingen, Germany.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2017, September).Remembering “Us” versus “Them”: Exploring the other-race effect in working memory. Talk given at the post-doc workshop of the DGPs Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie, Hagen, Germany.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2017, July). Remembering “us” versus “them”: Exploring the other-race effect in working memory. In Stelter, M. (Chair): The influence of social categorization on person and face perception. Symposium held at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Granada, Spain.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2016, September).Remembering “us” versus “them”: Exploring the other-race effect in working memory. In Stelter, M. (Chair): Social categorization and face processing. Symposium held at the 50. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs2016), Leipzig, Germany.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2016, September).Remembering “us” versus “them”: Exploring the other-race effect in working memory. Talk given at the annual doctoral workshop of the DGPs Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (SoDoc Workshop), Hamburg, Germany
Stelter, M. & Essien, I. (2016, August).The shooter bias in Germany: Replicating the classic effect and introducing a novel paradigm. Talk given at the 18th ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2016, July).Remembering “us” versus “them”: Exploring the other-race effect in working memory. Talk given at the 31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP2016), Yokohama, Japan.
Stelter, M., Rommel, M., & Degner, J. (2015, September).(Eye) Tracking the other-race effect. Talk given at the EASP Small Group Meeting on Social Neuroscience, Graz, Austria.
Stelter, M., Rommel, M., & Degner, J. (2015, September).(Eye) tracking the other-race effect. Talk given at the 14. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Potsdam, Germany.
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2015, August). Exploring the other-race-effect in working memory. Talkgiven at the 17th ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference, Bensheim, Germany.
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2015, March). Exploring the other-race-effect in working memory. Talk given at the 57th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Hildesheim, Germany.
Stelter, M., Rommel, M. & Degner, J. (2014, September). (Eye) tracking the other-race-effect. Poster presented at the European Summer School on Eye Movements (ESSEM), Freiburg, Germany
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2014, July). Social categorization in motion: investigating "who-said-what" with mouse tracking. Talk given at the 17th EASP General Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Stelter, M., & Degner, J. (2013, September). Social influences on gaze cueing effects? Poster presented at the 14. Tagung der Fachgruppe Sozialpsychologie (FGSP), Hagen, Germany
Rich, A., Chiou, R., Stelter, M., & Horowitz, T. (2011, August). The sight of sound: Interactions between audition and vision. Symposium conducted at the 34th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Toulouse, France.
Chiou, R., Stelter, M., & Rich, A. N. (2011, December). Beyond colour perception: Auditory - visual synaesthesia induces experiences of geometric objects in specific locations. Poster presented at the Australasian Cognitive Neurosciences Conference (ACNC), Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
