Publications

For open data and code follow the OSF links.

Stelter, M., Essien, I., von Bargen, J.M., Christ, O. (2026). Police officers’ prejudice and distrust towards racialized groups is related to internal motivation to suppress prejudice and negative intergroup contact. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70094 OSF

Hahn, A., Akinnola, I., Adeyemi, F., Stelter, M., Essien, I., Moran, T., & Smith, C. T. (2025). Stereotypes About Africa in Britan and the United States: A Social-Psychological Study of Their Impact on Engagement With Africa. Www.Africanofilter.Org. https://www.africanofilter.org/our-research/stereotypes-about-africa-us-uk

Clasen, J., Groß, E., Häfele, J., Kammigan, I., Kemme, S., Nickel, A., Taefi, A., Zähringer, U., Essien, I., & Stelter, M. (2024). Demokratiebezogene Einstellungen und Werthaltungen in der Polizei Hamburg(DeWePol): Erste Befunde aus Befragungswelle 1 (Forschungsbericht). Hamburg.

Veit, S., Zey, E., Ehmeir, J., Essien, I., Degner, J., & Stelter, M. (2023). Validation study of the DeZIM Picture Database: Faces. Brief Study Report. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/23ber.

Stelter, M., & Schweinberger, S. R. (2023). Understanding the mechanisms underlying the other-‘race’ effect: An attempt at integrating different perspectives. British Journal of Psychology, 114 (Suppl. 1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12615

Stelter, M., Simon, D., Calanchini, J., Christ, O., & Degner, J. (2023). Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect. British Journal of Psychology, 114 (Suppl. 1), 150– 171. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12600 OSF

Stelter, M.*, Essien, I.*, Rohmann, A., Degner, J., & Kemme, S. (2023). Shooter biases and stereotypes among police and civilians. Acta Psychologica, 232, 103820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103820 OSF

Stelter, M.*, Essien, I.*, Sander, C., & Degner, J. (2022). Racial Bias in Police Traffic Stops: White Residents‘ County-Level Prejudice and Stereotypes Are Related to Disproportionate Stopping of Black Drivers. Psychological Science, 33(4), 483–496. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211051272 OSF

see also commentary by Payne, B. K. & Rucker, J. M. (2022). Explaining the spatial patterning of racial disparities in traffic stops requires a structural perspective: Further reflections on Stelter et al. (2022) and Ekstrom et al. (2022). Psychological Science.

Essien, I., Stelter, M., Rohmann, A., & Degner, J. (2022). Beyond stereotypes: Prejudice as an important missing force explaining group disparities. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 45, e74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000832

Stelter, M., Rommel, M., & Degner, J. (2021). (Eye-) tracking the other-race effect: Comparison of eye movements during encoding and recognition of ingroup faces with proximal and distant outgroup faces. Social Cognition, 39 (3), 365–394. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2021.39.3.366 OSF

Kemme, S., Essien, I., & Stelter, M. (2020). Antimuslimische Einstellungen in der Polizei? Der Zusammenhang von Kontakthäufigkeit und -qualität mit Vorurteilen und Stereotypen gegenüber Muslimen. Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform, 103, 129-149. https://doi.org/10.1515/mks-2020-2048

Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2018). Investigating the other-race effect in working memory. British Journal of Psychology, 109. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12304 OSF

Stelter, M. & Degner, J. (2018). Recognizing Emily and Latisha: Inconsistent effects of name stereotypicality on the other-race effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00486 OSF

Arpin, S. N.*, Froehlich, L.*, Lantian, A.*, Rudert, S. C.*, & Stelter, M.*, (2017). When “We” or “They” exclude others: Attributing and evaluating ostracism observed in in-groups and out-groups. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2(2-3), 143-165. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2017.1358477

Essien, I.*, Stelter, M.*, Kalbe, F., Koehler, A., Mangels, J., & Meliß, S. (2017). The shooter bias: Replicating the classic effect and introducing a novel paradigm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 70, 41-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.12.009 OSF

Chiou, R., Stelter, M., & Rich, A.N. (2013). Beyond colour perception: Auditory-visual synaesthesia induces experiences of geometric objects in specific locations. Cortex, 49, 1750-1763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2012.04.006

Paper under review

Stelter, M., Essien, I., Christ, O., Calanchini, J. (under revision). The geography of the shooter bias: Regional context is linked to racialized threat perception. [preprint]

Mangels, J., Stelter, M. (under revision). Registered Report: Biased Perception of Anger from Faces perceived as Black, White, and Arab: Two Preregistered Replications of Hugenberg & Bodenhausen (2003).

Hahn, A., Moran, T., Adeyemi, F., Akinnola, I., Stelter, M., Essien, I., Smith, C. T. (under revision). Reframing Africa’s Image: Positive information outperforms negation in changing explicit negative evaluations.

Brunet, M., Borinca, I., Acar, B., Demirgunes, E., Garau, T., Stelter, M., Visintin, E. P., Graf, S., Rubini, M, Bagci, S. (under review). The Many Layers of Contact: A Multilevel Framework for Understanding the Diverse Outcomes of Intergroup Contact.

* Shared first authorship.