Assistant Professor • Leiden University

Research

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Invited talks and symposiums:
  • Humankind: Hopeful and prosocial? Symposium that Rima-Maria Rahal (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods), Thorsten M. Erle (Tilburg University), and I organized at the KLI conference, Zeist, The Netherlands, May 2022.
  • How neuroscience can contribute to solving societal problems. Symposium that Mirre Stallen (Leiden University) and I organized at the 30th annual meeting of the APS, San Francisco, USA, May 2018.
  • Double standards in humans: Third party intergroup punishment in social dilemmas with heterogeneous and homogeneous populations. Invited talk at Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany, April 2017.
  • Costly intergroup punishment in social dilemmas with heterogeneous and homogeneous populations. Paper presented at the symposium: "The Beauty of Economic Games in Social Psychology" that Manon Schutter (Leiden University) and I organized at the 31st ASPO conference, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, December 2016
  • Costly intergroup punishment in social dilemmas with heterogeneous populations. Invited talk at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, November 2016.
  • The (un)willingness to reward cooperation and punish non-cooperation. Invited talk at VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, February 2015
  • The (un)willingness to sanction individually or jointly. Paper presented at the symposium: "Sanction: Determinants and Consequences" that Marlon Mooijman (Leiden University) and I organized at the 29th ASPO conference, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2014
  • The (un)willingness to sanction individually or jointly. Invited talk at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan, September 2014
Conference presentations:
  • Need-based dyadic cooperation. Poster presented at the 19th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Copenhagen, June, 2022
  • The reluctance to punish free-riding: Evidence from a fMRI study. Paper presented at the 34th ASPO conference, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, December 2019
  • Human cooperation and peer punishment in diversified groups. Paper presented at the 18th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Sedona, USA, June 2019
  • Human cooperation and peer punishment in diversified groups. Paper presented at the 6th International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands, May 2019
  • Putting social preferences in context: The impact of property distribution versus interest framing on cooperation, punishment, and reward in social dilemmas. Paper prestented at the 32nd ASPO conference, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 2017
  • Third-party punishment in social dilemmas with heterogeneous and homogeneous populations. Paper presented at the 17th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Taormina, Italy, June 2017
  • The (un)willingness to sanction individually or jointly. Paper presented at the 29th Annual conference of the IACM, Colombia University, New York, USA, July 2016
  • The (un)willingness to sanction individually or jointly. Poster presented at the KLI conference, Zeist, The Netherlands, May 2016
  • The (un)willingness to sanction individually or jointly. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, July 2015
  • The (un)willingness to sanction individually or jointly. Poster presented at the 17th General Meeting of the EASP, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2014
  • Timing of costly punishment and reward decisions in social dilemmas. Data-blitz at the EASP pre-conference: "Social psychology of JDM", University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2014
  • On the willingness to costly punish and reward in social dilemmas. Paper presented at the 27th Annual conference of the IACM, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, July 2014
  • The use of costly sanctions by second parties and third parties. Poster presented at the KLI conference, Zeist, The Netherlands, May 2014
  • Kostbaar straffen en belonen in 'warme' versus 'koude' sociale dilemma's. Paper presented at the 28th ASPO conference, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, December 2013
  • Giving a lot is not the same as taking a little: The willingness to costly punish and reward in public good versus resource dilemmas. Paper presented at the 12th TIBER conference, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, August 2013
  • Giving a lot is not the same as taking a little: The willingness to costly punish and reward in public good versus resource dilemmas. Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland, July 2013
  • Ik beloon je met meer dan alleen mijn trots. Paper presented at the 27th ASPO conference, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 2012
Invited lectures and workshops:
  • Zijn sacties de oplossing voor het meeliftersprobleem? Presentation for the general public at Wijsneus Festival, Park de Leidse Hout, Leiden, September 16, 2022.
  • Zijn sacties de oplossing voor het meeliftersprobleem? Presentation for the general public at The Social Animal, TivoliVredeburg, Utrecht, March 15, 2022.
  • Groepsdynamica: Wat voor invloed hebben groepen op ons gedrag? Lecture for the VGSL 'Franciscus Gomarus', September 22, 2016.
  • Trust games. Workshop hosted by em. prof. Bart Nooteboom, De Bildung Academie, Amsterdam, October 4, 2016.
Awards and nominations:
  • Best PhD Student Paper Award 2017 (nominated) by the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University
  • Best PhD Student Paper Award 2016 (nominated) by the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University
  • Best PhD Student Paper Award 2015 (nominated) by the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University
  • Best Student Paper Award 2016 at the 16th International Conference on Social Dilemmas (ICSD), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (China)
Grants and scholarships:
  • IACM-DRRC Scholar Award by the Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC) at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University (US)
  • Postgraduate travel grant by the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) to visit dr. Toko Kiyonari at Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Academic grant by the Leids Universitair Fonds (LUF) to visit dr. Toko Kiyonari at Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan)
Other academic activities:
  • Member of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC)
  • Member of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
  • Member of the Dutch Association of Social Psychological Researchers (ASPO)
  • Adhoc reviewing for: Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology; Emotion; Ethics and Behavior; Human Brain Mapping; International Journal of Human Resource Management; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Social Psychology; Journal of Economic Psychology; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Management Science; Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Oxford University Press; Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin; Social Cognition; Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience; Social Psychology Quarterly