Prof. Dr. Natalie Christner

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Entwicklung des moralischen Selbstkonzeptes in der Kindheit und Jugend
• Rolle von Emotionen bei prosozialem Verhalten
• Entwicklung von Normverständnis
• Bindungssicherheit und Eltern-Kind-Interaktion in der Kindheit und Jugend

Lebenslauf

Seit WiSe 22/23	Vertretung W2-Professur für Entwicklungspsychologie, LMU München
2022	Akademische Rätin auf Zeit, Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungspsychologie, LMU München
2016 - 2021	Promotion (Dr.phil.) am Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungspsychologie, LMU München
2016	Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Logik und Sprachphilosophie, LMU München
2014	Forschungsprojekt am Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford
2013 - 2015	Studium Neuro-Cognitive Psychology (M.Sc.), LMU München
2009 - 2012	Studium Kognitionswissenschaft (B.Sc.), Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen

 

Publikationen

Peer-reviewed Publications

Schiele, T., Mues, A., Wirth, A., Christner, N., Paulus, M., Birtwistle, E., & Niklas, F. (2024). Bridging the gap: A longitudinal study on the relation between preschool children’s moral self-concept, normative stances, and sharing behavior. Social and Emotional Learning: Research, Practice, and Policy, 100027.

Scharpf, F., Paulus, M., Christner, N., Beerbaum, L., Kammermeier, M., & Hecker, T. (2023). Intergenerational transmission of mental health risk in refugee families: The role of maternal psychopathology and emotional availability. Development and Psychopathology, 1-14.

Essler, S., Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2023). Short-term and long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on child psychological well-being: a four-wave longitudinal study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02215-7

Essler, S., Christner, N., Becher, T., & Paulus, M. (2023). The ontogenetic emergence of normativity: How action imitation relates to infants’ norm enforcement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105591

Sticker, R. M., Christner, N., Gniewosz, G., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2023). Longitudinal stability and cross-relations of prosocial behavior and the moral self-concept in early childhood. Cognitive Development, 66, 101341.

Christner, N. & Paulus, M. (2022). Varieties of normative understanding and their relation to sharing behavior in preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224, 105498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105498

Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2022). How does the moral self-concept relate to prosocial behaviour? Investigating the role of emotions and consistency-preference. Cognition and Emotion, 36(5), 894-911. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2067133

Christner, N., Wörle, M., & Paulus, M. (2022). Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(4), 320-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221096813

Essler, S., Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2021). Longitudinal relations between parental strain, parent-child relationship quality and child well-being during the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52, 995-1011. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01232-4

Christner, N., Essler, S., Hazzam, A., & Paulus, M. (2021). Children’s psychological well-being and problem behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online study during the lockdown period in Germany. PLOS ONE, 16(6), e0253473. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253473

Sticker, R. M., Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2021). The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors. Cognitive Development, 58, 101033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101033

Christner, N., Sticker, R. M., Söldner, L., Mammen, M., & Paulus, M. (2020). Prevention for oneself or others? Psychological and social factors that explain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(6), 1342-1353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105320980793

Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2020). Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood. Cognitive Development, 55, 100893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100893

Paulus, M., Christner, N., & Wörle, M. (2020). The normative status of friendship: Do young children enforce sharing with friends and appreciate reasonable partiality? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 194, 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104826

Paulus, M., Wörle, M., & Christner, N. (2019). The emergence of human altruism: Preschool children develop a norm for empathy-based comforting. Journal of Cognition and Development, 21(1), 104-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2019.1693375

 

Conference Talks

Christner, N., Essler, S., Hazzam, A., & Paulus, M. (2021, April). Kindliches Wohlbefinden und Problemverhalten während der COVID-19 Pandemie: Längsschnittliche Zusammenhänge mit elterlicher Belastung und Beziehungsqualität. In S. Lehrl & E. Oppermann (Chair), Familiäre Belastungen, häusliche Lernumwelt und sozial-emotionales Wohlbefinden von Kindern während der Corona-Pandemie. Talk presented at digiGEBF Thementagung “Corona und Bildung”, online.

Christner, N., Wörle, M., & Paulus, M. (2021, April). Favoring the friend or the poor? Dissociations between preschoolers’ normative views and own resource distributions. In J. Sierksma (Chair), Do young children and non-human primates care about other people’s needs? Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), online.

Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2020, September). The link between the moral self-concept,
self-efficacy beliefs, and prosocial behavior in early adolescence. In R. Arbel (Chair), Emotional dimensions and parental factors in adolescents’ socio-emotional development. Talk presented at the Biannual Convention of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA), online.

Christner, N., Pletti, C., & Paulus, M. (2019, September). Do emotions mediate the relation between the moral self-concept and prosocial behavior? In R. M. Sticker & N. Christner (Chair), Moral reasoning, moral emotions and moral self-concept: Different factors of moral development. Symposium conducted at the Biannual Convention of the German Psychological Society Section for Educational and Developmental Psychology (PaEpsy), Leipzig, Germany.

Christner, N., Wörle, M., & Paulus, M. (2019, September). The normative status of friendship: Do preschool children enforce sharing with friends? In M. Mammen (Chair), Becoming a normative being: Early influences on young children’s normative development. Talk presented at the Biannual Convention of the German Psychological Society Section for Educational and Developmental Psychology (PaEpsy), Leipzig, Germany.

Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2018, January). Emotionen als Brücke zwischen moralischem Selbstkonzept und Verhalten. Talk presented at the Moralforschertagung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Conference Posters

Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2021, June). Structure of normative understanding and sharing behavior in preschool children. Poster presented at the Conference of the Jean Piaget Society (JPS), online.

Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2019, July). The role of attachment and reflective functioning for prosocial behavior in late childhood. Poster presented at the International Attachment Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2018, Sept). Emotions as a link between the moral self-concept and moral behavior. Poster presented at the Biannual Convention of the German Psychological Society (DGPS), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.