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Stefan Stieger studied psychology at the University of Vienna. He received his Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology in 2006 for his dissertation “Test-theoretical criteria of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and the Single-Target Implicit Association Test (STIAT)” In 2012 he habilitated (“The measurement of implicit social cognition: Basic assumptions, methodological considerations, and examples of application”) at the University of Vienna. Upon his long collaboration with Prof. Dr. Ulf-Dietrich Reips (beginning as a practicum student in Zurich in the early 2000s) he joined and worked in the Research Methods, Assessment and iScience team at the University of Konstanz as a post-doctoral researcher from 2014-2017 to then move on to become a full professor in Austria.
Stefan Stieger became an expert in online methodology (i.e., measurement via online questionnaires, instant messaging, and smartphone apps) and the measurement of implicit social cognitions, which is reflected in his publication outcome (>100), frequent reviewer duties (to date ~140 reviews for more than 40 peer-reviewed journals), conference presentations (>100), as well as memberships in scientific review and editorial boards (e.g., General Online Research Conference: since 2008, Association of Internet Researchers: since 2011; Associate Editor for Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking). He also has programming skills (e.g., Perl), which has led to several publications of self-programmed software and Web-applications. Furthermore, he is developing smartphone apps and has already conducted and supervised several smartphone app projects.
publications
- Kuhlmann, T., Reips, U.-D., & Stieger, S. (under review). Smartphone tilt as a measure of well-being? Evidence and obstacles in two experience sampling studies.
- Stieger, S., Scherber, L. S., & Reips, U.-D. (under review). The Name Letter Effect is based on the spelling not pronunciation of letters.
- Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2019). Well-being, smartphone sensors, and data from open-access databases: A mobile experience sampling study. Field Methods, 31(3), 277-291.
- Stieger, S., Lewetz, D., & Reips, U.-D. (2018). Can smartphones be used to bring computer-based tasks from the lab to the field? A mobile experience sampling method study about pace of life. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 2267–2275.
- Stieger, S. & Kuhlmann, T. (2018). Validating psychometric questionnaires using experience-sampling data: The case of nightmare distress. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12:901. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2018.00901
- Götz, F. M., Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2017). Users of the main smartphone operating systems (iOS, Android) differ only little in personality. PLoS One,12(5): e0176921. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0176921
- Rauchbauer, B., Majdandžić, J., Stieger, S., & Lamm, C. (2016). The modulation of mimicry by ethnic group-membership and emotional expressions. Plos One, 11, e0161064.
- Stieger, S., & Lewetz, D. (2016). Parent-child proximity and personality: Basic human values and moving distance. BMC Psychology, 4, 26. doi:10.1186/s40359-016-0132-5
- Dantlgraber, M., Wetzel, E., Schützenberger, P., Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2016). Simple construct evaluation with Latent Class Analysis: An investigation of Facebook addiction and the development of a short form of the Facebook Addiction Test (F-AT). Behavior Research Methods, 48, 869-879.
- Bryant, G. A., Fessler, D. M. T., Fusaroli, R., Clint, E., … Stieger, S., … & Zhou, Y. (2016). Detecting affiliation in co-laughter across 24 societies. PNAS, 113, 4682-4687.
- Anderson, C. J., Bahník, Š., Barnett-Cowan, M., … Stieger, S., … & Zuni, K. (2016). Response to a comment on “Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science”. Science, 351(6277).
- Quirin, M., Wróbel, M., Norcini Pala, A., Stieger, S., Shanchuan, D., Hicks, J. A., Mitina, O., Brosschot, J., Kazén, M., Lasauskaite-Schüpbach, R., Silvestrini, N., Steca, P., & Padun, M. A. (2016). A cross-cultural validation of the Implicit Positive and Negative Affect Test (IPANAT): Results from ten nations across three continents. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.
- Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2016). A limitation of the Cognitive Reflection Test: Familiarity. PeerJ, 4, e2395. doi:10.7717/peerj.2395
- Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Nader, I. W., & Voracek, M. (2016). Who believes in the giant skeleton myth? An examination of individual difference correlates. Sage Open, 6(1), 1-7. doi:10.1177/2158244015623592
- Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Kuhlmann, T., Stieger, S., Gaughan, H., & Voracek, M. (2016). More similar than different: Tattooed adults are only slightly more impulsive and willing to take risks than non-tattooed adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 88, 40-44.
- Swami, V., Gaughan, H., Tran, U. S., Kuhlmann, T., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2015). Are tattooed adults really more aggressive and rebellious than those without tattoos?. Body image, 15, 149-152.
- Aarts, A. A., … Kuhlmann, T., … Stieger, S., … Zuni, K. [Open Science Collaboration] (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251).
- Voracek, M., Rieder, S., Stieger, S., & Swami, V. (2015). What’s in a surname? Physique, aptitude, and sports type comparisons between Tailors and Smiths. PLOS ONE, 10, e0131795.
- Stieger, S., Götz, F. M., & Gehrig, F. (2015). Soccer results affect subjective well-being, but only briefly: A smartphone study during the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 497. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00497
- Eskin, M., Schild, A., Öncü, B., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2015). A cross-cultural investigation of suicidal disclosures and attitudes in Austrian and Turkish university students. Death Studies, 39, 584-591. doi:10.1080/07481187.2015.1037971
- Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2015). Mixed-footedness is a more relevant predictor of schizotypy than mixed-handedness. Psychiatry Research, 225, 446-451. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.069
- Riečanský, I., Paul, N., Kölble, S., Stieger, S., & Lamm, C. (2015). Beta oscillations reveal ethnic ingroup bias in sensorimotor resonance to pain of others. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10, 893-901. doi:10.1093/scan/nsu139
- Stieger, S., & Swami, V. (2015). Time to let go? No automatic aesthetic preference for the golden ratio in art pictures. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9, 91-100.
- Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., & The YouBeauty.com Team (2015). Associations between women’s body image and happiness: Results of the YouBeauty.com Body Image Survey (YBIS). Journal of Happiness Studies, 16, 705-718.
- Stieger, S., & Formann, A. K. (2014). Are aggressive cartoons really funnier? A replication. Sage Open, 4(4), 1-5. doi:10.1177/2158244014553587
- Stieger, S., Voracek, M., & Nader, I. W. (2014). Parent-child proximity: Automatic cognitions matter. Social Indicators Research, 119, 967-978.
- Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2014). Evidence of general right-, mixed-, and left-sidedness in self-reported handedness, footedness, eyedness, and earedness, and a primacy of footedness in a large-sample latent variable analysis. Neuropsychologia, 62, 220-232.
- Stieger, S., & Swami, V. (2014). Twitter users’ interest in Asteroid 2012 DA14 mirrored the asteroid’s trajectory during it’s earth flyby. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 65, 1409-1415.
- Tran, U. S., Koller, I., Nader, I. W., Pietschnig, J., Schild, A. H. E., Stieger, S., Zeilinger, E., & Voracek, M. (2014). Lateral preferences for hand clasping and arm folding are associated with handedness in two large-sample latent variable analyses. Laterality, 19, 602-614.
- Swami, V., Voracek, M., Stieger, S., Tran, U. S., & Furnham, A. (2014). Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories. Cognition, 133, 572-585.
- Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2014). Not only dogs resemble their owners, cars do, too. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 73, 111-117.
- Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2014). Handedness and sex roles: Mixed-handers are less sex-congruent stereotyped. Personality and Individual Differences, 66, 10-13.
- Pawlikowski, M., Nader, I. W., Burger, C., Stieger, S., & Brand, M. (2014). Pathological Internet use – It is a multidimensional and not a unidimensional construct. Addiction Research and Theory, 22, 166-175.
- Stieger, S., Burger, C., Schiller, F. R., Schulze, E. K., & Voracek, M. (2014). Measuring implicit gender-role orientation: The Gender Initial Preference Task. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96, 358-367.
- Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2014). Latent variable analysis indicates that seasonal anisotropy accounts for the higher prevalence of left-handedness in men. Cortex, 57, 188-197.
- Stieger, S., & Burger, C. (2013). More complex than previously thought: New insights into the optimal administration of the Initial Preference Task. Self and Identity, 12, 201-216.
- Stieger, S., & Hergovich, A. (2013). Together we are strong: Explicit and implicit paranormal beliefs predict performance in a knowledge test of paranormal phenomena better than explicit beliefs alone. Personality and Individual Differences, 54, 562-565.
- Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Tran, U. S., Nader, I. W., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2013). Lunar lies: The impact of informational framing and individual differences in shaping conspiracist beliefs about the moon landings. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 71-80.
- Stieger, S., & Krizan, Z. (2013). Cultural influences on number preferences: Christmas and grading systems. The Psychological Record, 63, 185-192.
- Stieger, S. (2013). Implicit anxiety: No evidence for a relation with childhood fears and parental rearing behaviour. Psychologica Belgica, 53, 75-91.
- Swami, V., Tran, U. S., Hoffmann Brooks, L., Kanaan, L., Luesse, E.-M., Nader, I. W., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2013). Body image and personality: Associations between the Big Five personality factors, actual-ideal weight discrepancy, and body appreciation. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 54, 146-151.
- Stieger, S., Gumhalter, N., Tran, U. S., Voracek, M., & Swami, V. (2013). Girl in the cellar: A repeated cross-sectional investigation of belief in conspiracy theories about the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 297.
- Stieger, S., Burger, C., Bohn, M., & Voracek, M. (2013). Who commits virtual identity suicide? Differences in privacy concerns, Internet addiction, and personality between Facebook users and quitters. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 16, 629-634.
- Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stewart, N., Nader, I. W., Stieger, S., Shannon, S., & Voracek, M. (2013). Blame it on patriarchy: More sexist attitudes are associated with stronger consideration of cosmetic surgery for oneself and one’s partner. International Journal of Psychology, 48, 1221-1229.
- Stieger, S., & LeBel, E. P. (2012). Name-letter preferences for new last name and abandoned birth name initials in the context of name-change via marriage. Social Psychology, 43, 7-13.
- Stieger, S., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2012). How to administer the Initial Preference Task. European Journal of Personality, 26, 63-78.
- Fessler, D. M. T., Stieger, S., … & Voracek, M. (2012). Testing a postulated case of intersexual selection in humans: The role of foot size in judgments of physical attractiveness and age. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 147-164.
- Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Nader, I. W., & Voracek, M. (2012). Beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella! Individual differences and preference for surrealist literature. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 6, 35-42.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Nader, I. W., & Voracek, M. (2012). Using more than 10% of our brains: Examining belief in science-related myths from an individual differences perspective. Learning and Individual Differences, 22, 404-408.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Harris, A. S., Nader, I. W., Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Tovée, M. J. (2012). Further investigation of the validity and reliability of the Photographic Figure Rating Scale for body image assessment. Journal of Personality Assessment, 94, 404-409.
- Swami, V., Nader, I. W., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Tran, U. S., & Voracek, M. (2012). Personality and individual difference correlates of attitudes toward human rights and civil liberties. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 443-447.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., Furnham, A., & Tovée, M. J. (2012). The influence of facial piercings and observer personality on perceptions of physical attractiveness and intelligence. European Psychologist, 17, 213-221.
- Swami, V., Inamdar, S., Stieger, S., Nader, I. W., Pietschnig, J. Tran, U. S., & Voracek, M. (2012). A dark side of positive illusions? Associations between the love-is-blind bias and the experience of jealousy. Personality and Individual Differences, 53, 796-800.
- Tran, U. S., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2012). Psychometric analysis of Stöber’s Social Desirability Scale (SDS-17): An item response theory perspective. Psychological Reports, 111, 870-884.
- Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Bertl, B., Nader, I. W., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2012). Personality differences between tatooed and non-tatooed individuals. Psychological Reports, 111, 97-106.
- Stieger, S., Formann, A. K., & Burger, C. (2011). Humor styles and their relationship to explicit and implicit self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 747-750.
- Stieger, S., Kastner, C. K., Voracek, M., & Furnham, A. (2011). Association between just world beliefs and perceptions of counterproductive workplace behaviors. Psychological Reports, 108, 606-616.
- Stieger, S., Göritz, A. S., & Voracek, M. (2011). Handle with care: The impact of using Java applets in web-based studies on dropout and sample composition. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14, 327-330.
- Stieger, S., Praschinger, A., Kletter, K., & Kainberger, F. (2011). Diagnostic Grand Rounds: A new teaching concept to train diagnostic reasoning. European Journal of Radiology, 78, 349-352.
- Praschinger, A., Pomikal, C., & Stieger, S. (2011). May I curse a referee? Swear words and consequences. Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, 10, 341-345.
- Voracek, M., Pietschnig, J., Nader, I. W., & Stieger, S. (2011). Digit ratio (2D:4D) and sex-role orientation: Further evidence and meta-analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 51, 417-422.
- Swami, V., Coles, R., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Furnham, A., Rehim, S., & Voracek, M. (2011). Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: Evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 443-463.
- Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2011). Alien psychology: Associations between extraterrestrial beliefs and paranormal ideation, superstitious beliefs, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality factors. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 647-653.
- Stieger, S., Göritz, A. S., Hergovich, A., & Voracek, M. (2011). Intentional faking of the Single Category Implicit Association Test and the Implicit Association Test. Psychological Reports, 109, 219-230.
- Eskin, M., Voracek, M., Stieger, S., & Altinyazar, V. (2011). A cross-cultural investigation of suicidal behavior and attitudes in Austrian and Turkish medical students. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 46, 813-823.
- Stieger, S., Preyss, A. V., & Voracek, M. (2011). Romantic jealousy and implicit and explicit self-esteem. Personality and Individual Differences, 52, 51-55.
- Voracek, M., Alge, N., & Stieger, S. (2011). Heterosis versus inbreeding depression effects: An investigation of personality, digit ratio (2D:4D), and laterality traits. The Mankind Quarterly, 52, 191-212.
- Swami, V., Furnham, A., Haubner, T., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2010). The correspondence of public perceptions of graduates’ life chances and university departmental funding. Higher Education, 59, 105-113.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., & Voracek, M. (2010). The disinterested play of thought: Individual differences and preference for surrealist motion pictures. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 855-859.
- Stieger, S., Göritz, A. S., & Burger, C. (2010). Personalizing the IAT and the SC-IAT: Impact of idiographic stimulus selection in the measurement of implicit anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 940-944.
- Stieger, S., & Burger, C. (2010). Let’s go formative: Continuous student ratings with Web 2.0 application Twitter. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13, 163-167.
- Swami, V., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S., Tovée, M. J., & Voracek, M. (2010). An investigation of weight bias against women and its associations with individual differences factors. Body Image, 7, 194-199.
- Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Kastner, C. K., Voracek, M., & Swami, V. (2010). Prevalence and acceptance of tattoos and piercings: A survey of young adults from the southern German-speaking area of central Europe. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 110, 1065-1074.
- Stieger, S. (2010). Name-letter branding under scrutiny: Real products, new algorithms, and the probability of buying. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 110, 1089-1097.
- Stieger, S., & Burger, C. (2010). Body height and occupational success for actors and actresses. Psychological Reports, 107, 25-38.
- Stieger, S., Kastner, C. K., Voracek, M., von Stumm, S., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., & Furnham, A. (2010). Independent effects of personality and sex on self-estimated intelligence: Evidence from Austria. Psychological Reports, 107, 553-563.
- Stieger, S., & Burger, C. (2010). Implicit and explicit self-esteem in the context of Internet addiction. CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13, 681-688.
- Voracek, M., Gabler, D., Kreutzer, C., Stieger, S., Swami, V., & Formann, A. K. (2010). Multi-method personality assessment of butchers and hunters: Beliefs and reality. Personality and Individual Differences, 49, 819-822.
- Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2010). What are participants doing while filling in an online questionnaire: A paradata collection tool and an empirical study. Computers in Human Behavior, 26(6), 1488–1495. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.013
- Stieger, S., Eichinger, T., & Honeder, B. (2009). Can mate choice strategies explain sex differences? The deceived persons’ feelings in reaction to revealed online deception of sex, age, and appearance. Social Psychology, 40, 16-25.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., Voracek, M., & Furnham, A. (2009). Evaluating self and romantic partner physical attractiveness: Individual and relationship correlates of the love-is-blind bias. Journal of Individual Differences, 30, 35-43.
- Göritz, A. S., & Stieger, S. (2009). The impact of the field time on response, retention, and response completeness in list-based Web surveys. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 67, 342-348.
- Swami, V., Furnham, A., Haubner, T., Stieger, S., & Voracek, M. (2009). The truth is out there: The structure of beliefs about extraterrestrial life among Austrian and British respondents. Journal of Social Psychology, 149, 29-43.
- Stieger, S., Praschinger, A., Kletter, K., & Kainberger, F. (2009). Learning objectives in logbooks as indicators of problems in teaching hospitals. Journal of Medical and Biological Sciences, 3, 1-6.
- Voracek, M., & Stieger, S. (2009). Replicated nil associations of digit ratio (2D:4D) and absolute finger lengths with implicit and explicit measures of aggression. Psicothema, 21, 382-389.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Voracek, M., Dressler, S., Eisma, L., & Furnham, A. (2009). Psychometric evaluation of the Tagalog and German Subjective Happiness Scales and a cross-cultural comparison. Social Indicators Research, 93, 393-406.
- Furnham, A., Swami, V., Voracek, M., & Stieger, S. (2009). Demographic correlates of just world and unjust beliefs in an Austrian sample. Psychological Reports, 105, 989-994.
- Furnham, A., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., Voracek, M., & Swami, V. (2009). A fair day’s wage? Perceptions of public sector pay. Psychological Reports, 105, 957-969.
- Swami, V., Arteche, A., Chamorro-Premuzic, T., Furnham, A., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., & Voracek, M. (2008). Looking good: Factors affecting the likelihood of having cosmetic surgery. European Journal of Plastic Surgery, 30, 211-218. [Medline listed]
- Göritz, A. S., & Stieger, S. (2008). The high-hurdle technique put to test: Failure to find evidence that increasing loading times enhances data quality in Web-based studies. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 322-327.
- Swami, V., Stieger, S., Haubner, T., & Voracek, M. (2008). German translation and psychometric evaluation of the Body Appreciation Scale. Body Image, 5, 122-127.
- Stieger, S., Burger, C., & Schild, A. (2008). Lifetime prevalence and impact of stalking: Epidemiological data from Eastern Austria. European Journal of Psychiatry, 22, 235-241.
- Stieger, S., & Reips, U.-D. (2008). Dynamic Interviewing Program (DIP): Automatic online interviews via the instant messenger ICQ. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 11, 201-207.
- Praschinger, A., Stieger, S., & Kainberger, F. (2007). Diagnostic grand rounds in undergraduate medical education. Medical Education, 41, 1107-1108.
- Stieger, S., Reips, U.-D., & Voracek, M. (2007). Forced-response in online surveys: Bias from reactance and an increase in sex-specific dropout. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58, 1653-1660. doi:10.1002/asi.20651
- Paine, C., Reips, U.-D., Stieger, S., Joinson, A., & Buchanan, T. (2007). Internet users’ perceptions of ‘privacy concerns’ and ‘privacy actions’. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65, 526-536. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.12.001
- Stieger, S., & Göritz, A. S. (2006). Using Instant Messaging for Internet-based interviews. CyberPsychology and Behavior, 9, 552-559.
- Reips, U.-D., & Stieger, S. (2004). Scientific LogAnalyzer: A Web-based tool for analyses of server log files in psychological research. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 36, 304-311.
