Christopher Redker, PhD

Christopher Redker, PhD

Professor of Psychology
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Phone: (231) 591-2576
Email: [email protected]

Education

• PhD, Central Michigan University, Applied Experimental Psychology

Biography

Dr. Redker is a social psychologist and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology. His field of research is social cognition and his current areas of interest include processes underlying attitude formation and change (e.g., evaluative conditioning), individual differences in affective orientation, media effects on cognition and behavior, and various topics within the domain of consumer research (e.g., how various forms of product placement influence implicit and explicit consumer attitudes, self-brand connections, purchasing intentions and behavior).

Publications and Intellectual Contributions

• Journal Article
  Cook, C., …, Redker, C., …, Moussa Rogers, M. (2023). "Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with covid‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration," Social and Personality Psychology Compass. (15).
• Journal Article
  Gibson, B., Hawkins, I., Redker, C., Bushman, B. J. (2018). "Narcissism on the jersey shore: Exposure to narcissistic reality TV characters can increase viewer narcissism," Psychology of Popular Media Culture. (7). pp. 399-412.
• Journal Article
  Gibson, B., Redker, C., Zimmerman, I. (2014). "Conscious and nonconsious effects of product placement: Brand recall and active persuasion knowledge affect brand attitudes and brand self-identification differently," Psychology of Popular Media Culture. (3). pp. 19-37.
• Journal Article
  Redker, C., Gibson, B., Zimmerman, I. (2013). "Liking of movie genre alters the effectiveness of background product placement," Basic and Applied Social Psychology. (35). pp. 249-255.
• Journal Article
  Zimmerman, I., Redker, C., Gibson, B. (2011). "The role of faith in intuition, need for cognition and method of attitude formation in implicit-explicit brand attitude relationship strength," Journal of Consumer Psychology. (21). pp. 290-230.
• Journal Article
  Redker, C., Gibson, B. (2009). "Music as an unconditioned stimulus: Positive and negative effects of country music on implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes, and brand choice," Journal of Applied Social Psychology. 39 p. 2689–2705.

Presentations

• Presentation
  Myntti, W., Spicer, J., Horan, J., Kleine, D., Rios, L., Redker, C., 93rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, "Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of an Updated Markers of Adulthood Scale," Psi Chi International Honor Society, Chicago, IL, (2021).
• Oral Presentation
  Horan, J. (Presenter), Redker, C. (Presenter), 93rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, "Teaching Validity: An Opportunity for Pedological Discussion," Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Chicago, IL, (2021).
• Oral Presentation
  Horan, J. (Presenter), Redker, C. (Presenter), 92nd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association [conference canceled], "What are we really measuring? Teaching construct validity," Society for the Teaching of Psychology, Chicago, IL, (2020).
• Presentation
  Zube, P., Peterson, A., Cowburn, I., Redker, C., 12th Summit on Communication and Sport, "Youth professionals: Exploring the impact of e-sport coverage on minor cognitive health," International Association for Communication and Sport, Boise, ID, (2019).
• Presentation
  Redker, C., Hawkins, I., Gibson, B., Bushman, B. J., Miles, S., 2017 Convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, "Exposure to narcissistic reality tv characters can increase viewer narcissism," San Antonio, TX, (2017).
• Presentation
  Redker, C., Gibson, B., Hawkins, I., Bushman, B. J., 28th annual convention of the Association for Psychological Science, "The relationships between reality television exposure, experience taking, and viewer narcissism level," Chicago, IL, (2016).
• Presentation
  Roberson, J., Pastrick, N., Redker, C., 27th annual Michigan Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, "Surveillance reality television exposure and experience taking: Potential effects on viewer narcissism," Albion, MI, (2015).
• Presentation
  Redker, C., Collins, I., 86th annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, "Evaluative conditioning and drawing inferences: The role of contingency awareness," Chicago, IL, (2014).
• Presentation
  Collins, I., Redker, C., 26th annual Michigan Undergraduate Psychology Research Conference, "Investigating the role of contingency awareness in evaluative conditioning and making inferences," Kalamazoo, MI, (2014).
• Presentation
  Gibson, B., Allen, C., Ewing, D., Kardes, F., Redker, C., 44th annual conference of the Association for Consumer Research, "Investigating deliberative and spontaneous inferences as outcomes of associative learning with high versus low contingency awareness," Chicago, IL, (2013).