Dr. Sybille Neji
Academic Career
- since May 2021: Lecturer and scientist (Department of Social Psychology and Department of Community Psychology), FernUniversität in Hagen
- April 2021: Dr.in rer nat. (Psychology), FernUniversität in Hagen
- 2015 – 2021: Research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Psychological Methods and Evaluation, FernUniversität in Hagen
- 2014 – 2015: Teaching assistant at the Department of Psychological Methods and Evaluation, FernUniversität in Hagen
- 2014: M.Sc. Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
- 2012: B.Sc. Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen
Research Interests
- intergroup contact
- prejudice and stereotyping
- collective action
Teaching
- Supervising bachelor theses
Publications
Neji, S. (2021). Generalization of intergroup contact effects [Doctoral dissertation]. FernUniversität in Hagen. https://doi.org/10.18445/20210422-153639-0
Boin, J., Rupar, M., Graf, S., Neji, S., Spiegler, O., & Swart, H. (2021). The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions. Journal of Social Issues, 77(1), 105–131. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12419
Reimer, N. K., Becker, J. C., Benz, A., Christ, O., Dhont, K., Klocke, U., Neji, S., Rychlowska, M., Schmid, K., & Hewstone, M. (2017). Intergroup contact and social change: Implications of negative and positive contact for collective action in advantaged and disadvantaged groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(1), 121–136. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216676478
Presentations
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Bracegirdle, C., & Christ, O. (2023, September 11 – 13). Perceived Outgroup Entitativity Creates Differences in the Strength of Intergroup Contact Effects Between Majority and Minority Status Groups [Poster presentation]. 18th Meeting of the Social Psychology Section, Graz, Austria.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Bracegirdle, C., & Christ, O. (2023, June 30 - July 4). Perceived Outgroup Entitativity Creates Differences in the Strength of Intergroup Contact Effects Between Majority and Minority Status Groups [Poster presentation]. 19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Krakow, Poland.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Bracegirdle, C., & Christ, O. (2022, September 10 – 15). Perceived Outgroup Entitativity Creates Differences in the Strength of Intergroup Contact Effects Between Majority and Minority Status Groups [Poster presentation]. 52th Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Hildesheim, Germany.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., & Christ, O. (2019, April 29 – May 1). Perceived outgroup entitativity as a moderator of intergroup contact effects [Paper presentation]. SASP-SPSSI Group Meeting on Intergroup Contact, Newcastle, Australia.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., & Christ, O. (2019, April 25 – 27). Perceived outgroup entitativity as a moderator of intergroup contact effects [Paper presentation]. SASP Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., & Christ, O. (2018, June 29 – July 1). Perceived outgroup entitativity as a moderator of intergroup contact effects [Paper presentation]. SPSSI Summer Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., & Christ, O. (2017, September 4 – 6). Perceived outgroup entitativity as a moderator of intergroup contact effects [Paper presentation]. 16th Meeting of the Social Psychology Section, Ulm, Germany.
Neji, S., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., & Christ, O. (2017, July 5 – 8). Perceived outgroup entitativity as a moderator of intergroup contact effects [Poster presentation]. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.
Neji, S., & Christ, O. (2017, June 16 – 18). Perceived outgroup entitativity [Paper presentation]. 30th Annual Conference of the German Peace Psychology Association, Chemnitz, Germany.
Neji, S., & Christ, O. (2016, September 18 – 22). Perceived entitativity as a moderator of intergroup contact effects [Paper presentation]. 50th Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Leipzig, Germany.
Neji, S., & Christ, O. (2016, September 8 –11). Positive and negative intergroup contact effects [Paper presentation]. Doctoral Workshop (SoDoc), Hamburg, Germany.
Neji, S., & Christ, O. (2015, November 11). Positive Kontakteffekte bei Minoritäten: Wahrgenommene Entitativität [Paper presentation]. Research Center for the Psychology Study of Individual and Community Change (PSINCC), Hagen, Germany.