Ralf Wölfer

LIFE Fellow from 2008 to 2011, Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. phil.

Dissertation completed in October 2011

I Link Therefore I Am: Social Integration and Isolation in Youth

(Advisors: Herbert Scheithauer & Kai Cortina)

Selected Publications

Wölfer, R., Christ, O., Schmid, K., Tausch, N., Buchallik, F. M., Vertovec, S., & Hewstone, M. (2019). Indirect contact predicts direct contact: Longitudinal evidence and the mediating role of intergroup anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116, 277-295. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000146

Wölfer, R., Schmid, K., Hewstone, M., & van Zalk, M. (2016). Developmental dynamics of intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: Long-term effects in adolescence and early adulthood. Child Development, 87, 1466-1478. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12598

Wölfer, R., & Hewstone, M. (2015). Intra- versus intersex aggression: Testing theories of sex differences using aggression networks. Psychological Science, 26, 1285–1294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615586979