Alex Koch

Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

alex.koch@chicagobooth.edu

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Open Science Foundation

Research interests

Dimensions of social judgment: Their content, priority, and relation
Positive compared to negative information: Their distribution and processing

Publications

[35] Koch, A., Speckmann, F., & Unkelbach, C. (2022). Q-SpAM: Using spatial arrangement to measure similarity in efficient online research powered by Qualtrics. Sociological Methods & Research, 51, 1442–1464. [view]

[34] Nicolas, G., Fiske, S. T., Koch, A., Imhoff, R., & Unkelbach, C., Terache, J., Carrier, A., & Yzerbyt, V. (2022). Relational versus structural goals prioritize different social information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122, 659-682. [view]

[33] Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2021). Explaining negativity dominance without processing bias. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25, 429-430. [view]

[32] Slepian, M., & Koch, A. (in press). Identifying the dimensions of secrets to reduce their harms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120, 1431-1456. [view]

[31] *Koch, A., *Yzerbyt, V., *Abele, A., *Ellemers, N., & *Fiske, S. T. (2021). Social evaluation: Comparing models across interpersonal, intragroup, intergroup, several-group, and many-group contexts. In B. Gawronski (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 63, pp. 1‑68). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. [view]

[30] *Abele, A., *Ellemers, N., *Fiske, S., *Koch, A., & *Yzerbyt, V. (2021). Navigating the social world: Shared horizontal and vertical evaluative dimensions. Psychological Review, 128, 290-314. [view]

[29] Koch, A., Dorrough, A., Glöckner, A., & Imhoff, R. (2020). The ABC of society: Similarity in agency and beliefs predicts cooperation across groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 90, 103996. [view]

[28] Koch, A., Imhoff, R., Unkelbach, C., Nicolas, G., Fiske, S., Terache, J., Carrier, A., & Yzerbyt, V. (2020). Groups’ warmth is a personal matter: Understanding consensus on stereotype dimensions reconciles adversarial models of social evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 89, 103995. [view]

[27] Ellemers, N., Fiske, S., Abele, A., Koch, A., & Yzerbyt, V. (2020). Adversarial alignment enables competing models to engage in cooperative theory-building, toward cumulative science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117, 7561-7567. [view]

[26] Fiedler, K., Krüger, T., Koch, A., & Kutzner, F. (2020). Dyadic judgments based on conflicting samples: The failure to ignore invalid input. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 33, 492-504. [view]

[25] Unkelbach, C., Alves, H., & Koch, A. (2020). Valence asymmetries: Explaining the differential processing of positive and negative information. In B. Gawronski (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, (Vol. 62, pp. 115-187). Cambridge, MA: Academic Press. [view]

[24] Unkelbach, C., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2019). The evaluative information ecology: On the frequency and diversity of “good” and “bad”. European Review of Social Psychology, 30, 216-270. [view]

[23] Unkelbach, C, Koch, A., Silva, R., & Garcia-Marquez, T. (2019). Truth by repetition – explanations and implications. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 247-253. [view]

[22] Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2019). The differential similarity of positive and negative information – an affect-induced processing outcome? Cognition & Emotion, 33, 1224-1238. [view]

[21] Unkelbach, C., & Koch, A. (2019). Gullible but functional: Information repetition and the formation of beliefs. In J. Forgas & R. Baumeister (Eds.), Homo Credulus: The Social Psychology of Gullibility (pp. 42-60). New York, NY: Guilford Press. [view]

[20] Koch, A., Kervyn, N., Kervyn, A. & Imhoff, R. (2018). Studying the cognitive map of the U.S. states: Ideology and prosperity stereotypes predict interstate prejudice. Social Psychological & Personality Science, 9, 530‑538. [view]

[19] Imhoff, R., Koch, A., & Flade, F. (2018). (Pre)occupations: A data-driven map of jobs and its consequences for categorization and evaluation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 77, 76-88. [view]

[18] Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2018). A cognitive-ecological explanation of intergroup biases. Psychological Science, 29, 1126-1133. [view]

[17] Koch, A., & Imhoff, R. (2018). Rethinking the nature and relation of fundamental dimensions of meaning. In A. Abele & B. Wojciszke (Eds.), Agency and Communion in Social Psychology (pp. 167-179). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [view]

[16] Lammers, J., Koch, A., Conway, P., & Brandt, M. J. (2017). The political domain appears simpler to the politically extreme than to political moderates. Social Psychological & Personality Science, 8, 612-622. [view]

[15] Alves, H., Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017). The “common good” phenomenon: Why similarities are positive and differences are negative. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 512-528. [view]

[14] Imhoff, R., Koch, A. (2017). How orthogonal are the Big Two of social perception? On the curvilinear relationship between agency and communion. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12, 122-137. [view]

[13] *Alves, H., *Koch, A., & Unkelbach, C. (2017). Why good is more alike than bad: Processing implications. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 72-82. [view]

[12] Koch, A., Alves, H., Krüger, T., & Unkelbach, C. (2016). A general valence asymmetry in similarity: Good is more alike than bad. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 42, 1171-1192. [view]

[11] *Koch, A., & *Imhoff, R., Dotsch, R., Alves, H., & Unkelbach, C. (2016). The ABC of stereotypes about groups: Agency / socio-economic success, conservative‑progressive beliefs, and communion. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 110, 675-709. [view]

[10] Alves, H., Koch, A., Krüger, T., & Unkelbach, C. (2016) My friends are all alike – On the relation between liking, knowledge and perceived similarity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 62, 103-117. [view]

[9] Alves. H, Unkelbach, C., Burghardt, J., Koch, A. Krüger, T. & Becker, V. (2015). A density explanation for valence asymmetries in recognition memory. Memory & Cognition, 43, 896-909. [view]

[8] Fiedler, K., Hofferbert, J., Woellert, F., Krüger, T., & Koch, A. (2015). The tragedy of democratic decision making. In J. Forgas, W. Crano, & K. Fiedler (Eds.), Social Psychological Approaches to Political Psychology (pp. 193-208). New York, NY: Guilford Press. [view]

[7] Krüger, T., Fiedler, K., Koch, A., & Alves, H. (2014). Response category width as a psychophysical manifestation of construal level and distance. Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 501‑512. [view]

[6] Matovic, D., Koch, A., & Forgas, J. P. (2014). Can negative mood improve language understanding? Affective influences on the ability to detect ambiguous communication. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 44‑49. [view]

[5] Koch, A., Forgas, J. P., & Matovic, D. (2013). Can negative mood improve your conversation? Affective influences on conforming to Grice’s communication norms. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43, 326‑334. [view]

[4] Forgas, J. P., & Koch, A. (2013). Mood effects on cognition. In M. Robinson, E. Watkins, & E. Harmon-Jones (Eds.), Handbook of Emotion and Cognition (pp. 231–252). New York, NY: Guilford Press. [view]

[3] Koch, A., Forgas, J. P., & Goldenberg, L. (2013). In the mood to break the rules: Happiness promotes language abstraction and transgression of conversation norms. In J. P. Forgas, O. Vincze, & J. László (Eds.), Social Cognition and Communication (pp. 83–100). New York, NY: Psychology Press. [view]

[2] Koch, A., & Forgas, J. P. (2012). Feeling good and feeling truth: The interactive effects of mood and processing fluency on truth judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 481‑485. [view]

[1] Unkelbach, C., Bayer, M., Alves, H., Koch, A., & Stahl, C. (2011). Fluency and positivity as possible causes of the truth effect. Consciousness & Cognition, 20, 594‑602. [view]

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