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

2022-2024	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

Paulus, M., Becher, T., Christner, N., Kammermeier, M., Gniewosz, B., & Pletti, C. (2024). When do children begin to care for others? The ontogenetic growth of empathic concern across the first two years of life. Cognitive Development, 40, 101439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101439

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., Sticker, R., Pletti, C., Gniewosz, G., & Paulus, M. (2023, May). The moral self-concept in children: longitudinal relations with behavior and the role of emotions. In N. Christner (Chair), Evaluations of own and others’ prosociality in childhood: shaped by social factors and shaping behavior. Symposium conducted at the Jean Piaget Society Conference, Madrid, Spain.

Christner, N., Söldner, L., Sticker, R., & Paulus, M. (2023, March). The multidimensionality of the relation between normative views and prosocial behavior in young children. In M. Martinez & A. Dahl (Chair), Prosocial = good? Children’s developing evaluations of prosocial actions. Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Salt Lake City, USA.

Christner, N., Bosacki, S., & Paulus, M. (2023, March). Theory of Mind and academic self-concept in early adolescence: The role of gender. In S. Bosacki (Chair), Theory of Mind and School Experiences in Children and Young Adolescents. Talk presented at the Biannual Convention of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA), Salt Lake City, USA.

Christner, N., Di Giunta, L., Kloo, D., Kristen-Antonow, S., Soidan, B., & Paulus, M. (2022, August). Developmental origins of regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in early adolescence. In L. Di Giunta (Chair), Expanding knowledge on the association between adolescent self- and emotion regulation-related mechanisms and parenting. Talk presented at the Biannual Convention of the European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA), Dublin, Ireland.

Christner, N., Söldner, L., Sticker, R., Gniewosz, G., Pletti, C., Mammen, M., & Paulus, M. (2022, June). Longitudinal relations and stability of the moral self-concept and prosocial behavior in young children. In T. Orlitsky & Y. Paz (Chair), Empathy and prosociality from infancy to early childhood: Longitudinal examination of antecedents and correlates. Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Rhodos, Greece.

Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2022, June). The role of the moral self-concept and moral emotions for prosocial behavior in preadolescence. In B. Sodian (Chair), Mental state knowledge and morality in multiple contexts. Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Rhodos, Greece.

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. (2024, July). The role of early parenting and adolescents’ attachment representation for callous-unemotional traits. Poster presented at International Attachment Conference, Paris, France.

Christner, N., Kammermeier, M., Kaßecker, A., & Paulus, M. (2024, March). The emergence of helping in infancy: Investigating the interplay of socio-cultural interactions, motor abilities, and infant social cognition. Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, USA.

Christner, N., Essler, S., Becher, T., & Paulus, M. (2022, July). The ontogenetic emergence of normativity: Psychological mechanisms supporting infants‘ norm enforcement. Poster presented at The International Congress of Infant Studies, Ottawa, Canada.

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.