Chris Sibley
Christopher Gordon Sibley is a psychology professor at the University of Auckland and leads the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (NZAVS). His research asks how people’s social connections, along with environmental and economic factors, change personality, political views, social values, and mental health over time. In 2014 he received the Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Society of Political Psychology.
Sibley edits two Cambridge handbooks: the Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice and the Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology. He also helped develop the Multi-dimensional Model of Māori Identity and Cultural Engagement. His lab runs a long-running national study of attitudes, personality, and health outcomes. NZAVS has explored religion, the Christchurch earthquakes, Māori identity and wellbeing, sexism, racism, and personality in New Zealand.
He grew up in Wainuiomata and Lower Hutt, attended Naenae College, and began undergraduate studies at Victoria University of Wellington in 1997, earning his PhD in 2005. He has lived in Auckland since 2006. He enjoys reading science fiction and hiking. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers.
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