My program of research investigates how individual difference variables influence how we perceive our interaction partners in dyads and groups. Examples include the influence of (1) social anxiety on self-control following stressful interactions, and (2) social identification on the experience of interaction partners from other ethnic groups. I am especially interested in statistical techniques for modeling the non-independence in these interactions. Currently, I am conducting research on strategies to circumvent limited self-control.
Primary Interests:
Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Causal Attribution
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Person Perception
Self and Identity
Social Cognition
Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Causal Attribution
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Interpersonal Processes
Person Perception
Self and Identity
Social Cognition
Journal Articles:
Christensen, P. N., Boldry, J., & Kashy, D. A. (2004). Group-based self-evaluation outside of the laboratory: Effects of global versus situational status. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 985-994.
Christensen, P. N., Cohan, S., & Stein, M. (2004). The relationship between functioning levels in post-traumatic stress disorder and interpersonal perception: A social relations model analysis. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 33, 151-160.
Christensen, P. N., & Kashy, D. A. (1998). Perceptions of and by lonely people in initial social interaction. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 322-329.
Christensen, P. N., Prislin, R., & Jacobs, E. A. (in press). Motives for social Influence after social change: Are new majorities power hungry? Social Influence.
Christensen, P. N., Rothgerber, H., Wood, W., & Matz, D. (2004). Social norms and identity relevance: A motivational model of normative behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 30, 1295-1309.
Christensen, P. N., Stein, M., & Means-Christensen, A. J. (2003). Social anxiety and interpersonal perception: A social relations model analysis. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41, 1355-1371.
Graf, R. G., Yabko, B. A., & Christensen, P. N. (2009). Gender effects in the assessment of technical fouls among high school basketball officials. Journal of Sport Behavior, 32.
Jacobs, E. A., Christensen, P. N., & Prislin, R. (2009). On the fair treatment of factions within a group: Theoretical and empirical development of the fair group procedures scale. Journal of Social Issues, 65.
Prislin, R., & Christensen, P. N. (2005). The gain-loss asymmetry model of change in majority-minority positions. European Review of Social Psychology, 16, 43-73.
Prislin, R., Levine, J., & Christensen, P. N. (2006). When reasons matter: Attributions for conversion moderate the effect of change within groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 593-601.
Wood, W., Christensen, P. N., Hebl, M., & Rothgerber, H. (1997). Conformity to sex-typed norms, affect, and self-esteem. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 523-535.
Other Publications:
Christensen, P. N. (2007). Social relations model. In R. F. Baumeister & K. D. Vohs (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Christensen, P. N., & Wood, W. (2006). Effects of media violence on viewer's aggression in unconstrained social interaction: An updated meta-analysis. In R. Preiss, M. Allen, B. M. Gayle, & N. Burrell (Eds.), Media effects research: Advances through meta-analysis. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Prislin, R., & Christensen, P. N. (2009). On becoming a majority: Former minorities’ reactions to change. In F. Butera & J. Levine (Eds.), Coping with minority status: Responses to exclusion and inclusion. Cambridge University Press.
Wood, W., & Christensen, P. N. (2004). Quantitative research synthesis: Examining study outcomes over settings, samples, and time. In C. Sansone, C. Morf, & A. Panter (Eds.), Handbook of methods in social psychology (pp. 335-356). New York: Sage.