• Gender (especially men and care work)
• Stereotypes, discrimination, social inequality
• Self & social identity
• Intergroup relations

Teaching

2021-present: Teaching assistant for Lectures on Psychology, Culture, and Society, KU Leuven

Winter term 2019/20: Empirical seminar

Summer term 2019: Selected topics in economic psychology

Winter term 2018/19: Teaching assistant of Prof. Dr. Felicia Pratto, Seminar: Conflict and Cooperation 

Summer term 2018: Preparatory course for bachelor theses and bachelor colloquium of the working group Social, Environmental, and Economic Psychology

Publications

Scheifele, C., Steffens, M. C., & Van Laar, C. (2021). Which representations of their gender group affect men's orientation towards care? The case of parental leave-taking intentions. PLoS ONE, 16, 1-35. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260950

Scheifele, C., Ehrke, F., Viladot, M. A., Van Laar, C. & Steffens, M. C. (2021). Testing the basic socio-structural assumptions of social identity theory in the gender context: Evidence from correlational studies on women’s leadership. European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(7), 1038-1060 (Special Section of Registered Reports on the topic „Revisiting basic tenets of and new directions for Social Identity Theory“). https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2746 (Stage 1 of registered report can be found at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2678)

Steffens, M. C., Preuss, S., & Scheifele, C. (2019). Work-related impression formation: Reviewing parenthood penalties and investigating a “fatherhood penalty” for single fathers. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 41, 287-304. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2019.1652177

Steffens, M. C., Viladot, M. A., & Scheifele, C. (2019). Male majority, female majority, or gender diversity in organizations: How do proportions affect gender stereotyping and women leaders' well-being? Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01037

Conference contributions

2020

Scheifele, C., Steffens, M. C., & Van Laar, C. (2020, June). Joined forces: Combining agency and communion in male prototypes affects men's possible selves and paternal leave-taking intentions. Blitz talk at the 19^th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Krakow, Poland. (Conference cancelled)

2019

Scheifele, C., Steffens, M. C., & Van Laar, C. (2019, September). Men who care: The
effect of male prototypes on men’s possible selves and paternal leave taking intentions. Poster
presented at the EASP Meeting “Defeating the 7-Headed Dragon: An Exploration into Causes of
Gender Inequality", Utrecht, Netherlands.

Scheifele, C., Steffens, M. C., & Van Laar, C. (2019, September). Do men care? The effect
of male prototypes on men’s possible selves and paternal leave taking intentions. Poster
presented at the Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for
Psychology, Cologne, Germany.

Niedlich, C., Steffens, M. C., Hansen, K., Scheifele, C., & Pratto, F. (2019, September). Stereotypes and individuating information in impression formation: An attempt to integrate theoretical models. Paper presented at the Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the German Society for
Psychology, Cologne, Germany.

Steffens, M. C., Preuß, S., & Scheifele, C. (2019, March). Work-related impression
formation: Is there a “fatherhood penalty” for single fathers? Paper presented at the International
Convention of Psychological Science, Paris, France.

2017

Scheifele, C., Becker, T., & Oehl, M. (2017, March). Young drivers and emotions – A driving simulator study. Poster presented at the 59th Conference of Experimental Psychologists – TeaP 2017, Dresden, Germany.

Becker, T., Scheifele, C., Oehl, M. (2017, February). Age and emotion related differences in risk perception in a semi-automated driving task. Poster presented at the 2nd Kongress der Fachgruppe Verkehrspsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

2016

Scheifele, C., Becker, T., & Oehl, M. (2016, September). Risky driving behavior of novice and young drivers in different affective states. Poster presented at the 50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs), Leipzig, Germany.