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Chris G. Sibley is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland and the lead investigator for the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study. Sibley's research focuses on understanding how people's connections with others around them interact with environmental and economic factors to cause change in personality, political attitudes, social values and psychological health over time. In 2014 he was the recipient of the Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievement, awarded by the International Society of Political Psychology. Sibley is also the editor of the Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice, and one of the developers of the Multi-dimensional model of Maori identity and cultural engagement.
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Career
His laboratory runs a 20-year longitudinal national probability study of social attitudes, personality and health outcomes. The NZAVS has been central in answering a variety of important research questions, and has published research about religion and the Christchurch earthquakes, Māori identity and wellbeing, as well as sexism, racism and personality in New Zealand.
Life
Sibley grew up in Wainuiomata and Lower Hutt, where he attended Naenae College. He began his undergraduate study at Victoria University of Wellington in 1997 and completed his PhD in 2005. He has lived in Auckland since 2006, is an avid reader of science fiction novels and a keen hiker.