Summary of research
Vincent Buskens is professor of Theoretical Sociology at the Department of Sociology / ICS, Utrecht University. He was KNAW research fellow and received different grants from NWO and was involved in several European projects. His current research focuses on formal and informal institutions to mitigate trust relations as well as the dynamics of social networks.
To research these questions he applies a wide variety of theoretical and empirical tools including game theory, social simulation, laboratory experiments, vignette experiments, and survey research. Recently, he also did interdisciplinary work with psychologists and epidemiologists. His publications appeared in high impact journals as American Journal of Sociology, Social Networks, Scientific Reports and Sociological Methodology.
Expertise
Sociology
- Projects: 04.02 Sustainability of Public Goods in a Changing Society09.05 Cooperation, Cooperatives and Development11.06 Mobilizing Households for a Sustainable Energy Transition12.08 Should we? How appeals to moral responsibility affect group-level behavioural change12.10 Examining pathways to more sustainable consumption – the role of social-norm interventions 12.12 Just kidding?! Using humor to cope with moral responsibility and facilitate behavioural change13.05a PD Interplay of social roles and status hierarchies in work teams
