Publications

Vrijwilligers voor vluchtelingen: onderbelichte groep onder de loep

Meijeren, M., Lubbers, M., & Scheepers, P.

Wat is het profiel van vrijwilligers bij humanitaire organisaties die nieuwkomers helpen? Onderzoeker Maikel Meijeren en hoogleraren Marcel Lubbers en Peer…

Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience

Ramaekers, M. J., & Raiber, K.

Given the increase in the proportion of older people as well as the decrease in family size, it can be expected that more and more informal care will fall onto…

Waarom de ‘lintjesaffaire’ vrijwilligerswerk niet kan breken

Meijeren M.

Vrijwilligers zijn de steunpilaren van de maatschappij. Dat we deze mensen als enorm waardevol zien bleek wel toen minister Marjolein Faber haar handtekening…

Wat (buiten) je bubbel je brengt

Vermue M.

Dat de samenleving bestaat uit verschillende sociale groepen, is niets nieuws. We omringen ons graag met mensen die op ons lijken omdat dat comfortabel…

Bestaat onze maatschappij uit te veel ego’s of geven we nog om elkaar? ‘Mensen willen wel helpen, maar alleen tijdelijk’

Meijeren M.

In hoeverre zijn we nog bereid om elkaar te helpen: een helpende hand uit te steken naar iemand die het nodig heeft? Geven we nog wel om elkaar óf zijn we…

Ideaal of verplichting: wat werkt beter om iemand de ‘juiste’ keuze te laten maken?

Muller M., Ergün Ö, and van Nunspeet F.

Opkomen voor iemand die wordt gepest, je uitspreken tegen misstanden, minder hard autorijden: een moreel juiste keuze is niet altijd direct in je eigen…

A Deal Doomed to Fail? The Fragile Prospects of a New Nuclear Agreement

Özkan M.

In early 2025, the United States and Iran returned to what Iranian officials insist are indirect negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Het cao-stelsel holt zichzelf uit: ‘Als we niks doen, gaat het systeem aan het niks doen ten onder’

Wike Been

Cao De sociale wetenschappers Wike Been en Maarten Keune zoeken naar creatieve oplossingen om ervoor te zorgen dat er meer werkenden in Nederland onder…

Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers

Raiber, K., Möhring, K., Visser, M., & Verbakel, E.

This study theoretically and empirically assesses the gendered relationship between family caregiving (excluding regular childcare) and wage development in the…

Resonating with nature: Cultural representation of nature relations

Belz, C., & Wittek, R.

Recent research points to societies’ fading “connectedness” to nature as one of the factors impeding the transition toward more effective attempts to…

Migranten krijgen minder betaald dan Nederlanders, ook bij precies hetzelfde werk

Zoltán Lippényi

Immigranten verdienen gemiddeld 15 procent minder dan vergelijkbare Nederlanders zonder migratieachtergrond. Ook als ze precies hetzelfde werk bij dezelfde…

How the country of education affects migrant doctors’ acceptance among their patients

Groot, P., & Ellemers, N.

Background Countries such as the UK are becoming increasingly dependent on foreign-schooled doctors for supplying medical services. This leads to well-known…

‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ+ employees' sense of being tolerated at work

Mor, K., Gündemir, S., & van der Toorn, J.

This research investigates whether and how workplace diversity approaches—identity-conscious versus identity-blind—are associated with LGBTQ+ employees'…

Workplace friendships of men and women: examining employee gender, manager gender and gender composition in European workplaces

Hoffman, Paula, Jaspers, Eva, van der Lippe, Tanja & Jojanneke van der Toorn

Purpose The study investigates gender differences in workplace friendships, focusing on the number of friends, the gender of friends and the extent of…

Competing norms and shifting saliences. How norm beliefs affected behavior among Dutch health care interns during the COVID-19 lockdown

Teekens, T., Giardini, F., & Wittek, R.

A social norm clearly pre- or proscribes which kind of behavior is appropriate in a given situation. However, there are situations in which two competing norms…

Integration Benefits of Intimate Intergroup Contact in an Online Language Buddy Program for Migrant Newcomers

Heikamp, E. M., Hansen, N., Otten, S., Heyse, L., & Grossek, G. M.

Language proficiency and contact with host society members are crucial for migrant newcomer integration. We investigated how positive intergroup contact with…

How to Keep Them Inside? Organizational and Motivational Factors That Influence Volunteer Retention for Refugee Aid Organizations

Meijeren, M., Ellemers, N. and Lubbers, M.

Refugee aid organizations depend to a large extent on volunteers. These organizations have difficulties retaining volunteers. The question then is: what can…

Protecting Public Goods or Helping Free Riders? A Real-Life Moral Dilemma in Interethnic and Intraethnic Encounters

Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N.

People often protect public goods by sanctioning free riders. This occurs in simple situations in which protecting the public good does not conflict with other…

Explaining collective agency: A defense of internalist corporate interpretivism.

Corver, F.

Collective agency is often defended in terms of an interpretivist conception of agency. The idea is that the externally observable behavior of organized…

Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations?

Meijeren, M., Bekkers, R. & Scheepers, P.

This article examines to what extent life course changes are associated with the likelihood to start humanitarian volunteering, and how many people start, quit…

Selective disclosure at work: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Employees' Disclosure Decisions, Motivations, and Approaches

Rengers, J.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) employees are at an increased risk of being socially excluded, harassed, and discriminated against in the workplace. They…

Group-Influenced Autonomous Motivation for Pro-environmental Behaviour: Factors influencing the internalisation of group norms as autonomously motivating

Van Rugge, B.

This dissertation explores the complex relationship between group norms, autonomous motivation, and sustainable behaviour. It is structured in three main body…

Embracing corporate social responsibility: How organizations can foster sustainable commitment to societal impact

Veenstra, E. M.

Whether it concerns implementing more sustainable operations, promoting equal opportunities in the workplace, or ensuring fair and transparent supply…

Imprints at Work: How the pasts of organizations and leaders shape workplace precarity and inequality

Wiersma, S.

Job insecurity is increasingly present in Western economies, even in sectors where careers used to be stable, like the public sector. At the same time, gender…

Change Agents with a Past: Women Executives’ Early-Career Contexts and Gender Equality at Workplaces

Wiersma, S., Lippényi, Z., & Abendroth, A.-K.

This paper examines the role of first managerial experiences in shaping women top executives’ impact on workplace gender equality. Connecting literature on…

Latent thematic structures in right-and left-wing community discourse on Reddit

Baldina, L.; Spears, R.; Greijdanus, H.

This study aims to analyse and compare linguistic patterns and thematic structures underlying discussions in right-wing (RW) and left-wing (LW) Reddit…

Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks

Bunders, D. J.; Moor, T. D.

Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective…

Gigs of their Own: Can platform cooperatives become resilient?

Bunders, D.

The gig economy, where mostly self-employed workers perform short-term service jobs intermediated by digital platforms, is often portrayed as offering a…

From Rags to Riches: Changing Perceptions of Family Business in the Netherlands, 1945-2019

Hasken, E. J.

This dissertation examines the evolving use and connotations of the term "family business" and reveals the strategic and political implications underlying the…

Beyond sacrifice? Long-term employment consequences of providing unpaid care

Raiber, K.

In today's society, many people either provide care for a loved one with health issues or know someone who is. This unpaid care takes various forms, from…

Informal helping: Insights from a dyadic, family, and societal perspective

Ramaekers, M.

Grocery shopping for a neighbor, driving a friend to an appointment, helping a cousin with gardening. Many people engage in these small, informal helping…

Social Influence and the Energy Transition: Leveraging social networks and norms

Schneider, P. T.

How people influence each other with regards to adopting sustainable behaviors is a major scientific and societal question. This is particularly relevant…

Sustainable Collaboration in Care: Joint Production Motivation and Interprofessional Learning in an Interorganizational Network

Teekens, T.

In a complex and interconnected world, more and more organizations are collaborating with each other to deal with a variety of societal problems. Such…

Responsibility for Platform Problems: A Normative Analysis of the Harms and Injustices Induced by Peer-to-Peer Platforms Uber and Airbnb

Wals, F.

Peer-to-peer platforms have opened up a whole new realm of exchanges that were not feasible before their emergence. They allow people to grant strangers access…

Support for sexual liberalization among ethnic majorities and minorities in Europe: The role of social norms in the public expression of opinions

Wuestenenk, N. H.

In recent decades, the cultural differences between the ethnic majority and the ethnic minority populations have sparked public and political debates about the…

Antecedents of student team formation in higher education

De Matos Fernandes, C. A.; Hoffman, M.; Brouwer, J.

Students often form project teams by themselves rather than impose pre-defined teams because it leads to better study outcomes. However, few scholars have…

Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations

Meijeren, M.; Lubbers, M.; Scheepers, P.

This article addresses what motivations volunteers have for volunteering for refugees and whether these motivations differ from or complement motivations to…

Celebrating the “Invisible”: The Role of Organizational Diversity Approaches on Attracting and Retaining LGBTQ+ Talent

Mor, K.; Gündemir, S.; van der Toorn, J.

Organizations vary in diversity approaches. Some recognize and celebrate group differences (identity consciousness), while others deem these differences…

Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments

Otten, K.; Buskens, V.; Przepiorka, W.; Cherki, B.; Israel, S.

Peer punishment is regarded as an important element in sustaining human cooperation for public good provision. Many behavioral experiments have shown that…

Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work

Raiber, K.; Visser, M.; Verbakel, E.

Informal caregiving, meaning taking health-related care of an older and/or disabled person in the personal network, often has consequences for paid work.…

Informele hulp geef je niet alleen: het helpen van vrienden, familieleden en buren door een sociale lens

Ramaekers, M.

Vrienden helpen in de tuin, een middag op de kinderen van je zus passen of een buurman zonder auto naar een afspraak rijden. Dit is een kleine greep uit alle…

The emergence of citizen collectives for care: the role of social cohesion

Wittenberg, K.; Corten, R.; van der Lippe, T.; de Moor, T.

Ageing populations and the ability to cure an increasing number of ailments put pressure on the health care sector. Meanwhile, care institutions retreat from…

Why Neighbors Would Help: A Vignette Experiment on Reciprocity in Informal Helping

Ramaekers, M.; van der Lippe, T.; Derks, B.

Reciprocity in informal helping, or informal volunteering, is often seen as a way to ensure that people who are not altruistically motivated exchange help.…

The logic of relative frustration revisited: theoretical revision of Boudon’s competition model and experimental evidence

Otten, K.

It is commonly believed that improvements in social opportunities can paradoxically lead to a larger share of frustrated individuals. This paradox has been…

Identity Management of, and Organizational Support for, LGB Expatriates: Challenges and Recommendations

Rengers, J. M.

Expatriates, that is, employees working in a country of which they do not hold citizenship, who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, or in other…

Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality

Riedijk, L.; Aarntzen, L.; van Veelen, R.; Derks, B.

Although women's labour force participation has increased, women still lag behind in financial independence and men in spending time on parenting. Insight in…

A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

Ruggeri, K., Stock, F., Haslam, S.A. et al.

Scientifc evidence regularly guides policy decisions, with behavioural science increasingly part of this process. In April 2020, an infuential paper proposed…

Exploring Effects of Self-Censoring through Agent-Based Simulation

Schöppl, K.; Hahn, U.

Recent years have seen an explosion of theoretical interest, as well as increasingly fraught real-world debate, around issues to do with discourse…

Modelling the prevalence of hidden profiles with complex argument structures

Siebe, H

In this paper, we first introduce the `complex hidden profile', a previously overlooked category of hidden profiles that arises from complex inferential…

The interdependence of social deliberation and judgment aggregation

Siebe, H.

Imagine that the judgments of some individuals on some issues are aggregated into collective judgments. Social deliberation about the issues prior to…

Talk Less to Strangers: How Homophily Can Improve Collective Decision-Making in Diverse Teams

Stein, J.; Frey, V.; Flache, A.

Identity diversity in teams brings advantages for complex decision-making because it is associated with cognitive diversity among team members. At the same…

Ill-informed Consensus or Truthful Disagreement? How Argumentation Styles and Preference Perceptions Affect Deliberation Outcomes in Groups with Conflicting Stakes

Stein, J.; Romeijn, J. W.; Mäs, M.

In groups where members deliberate with limited information, consensus can emerge where, under complete information, fundamental disagreement would prevail.…

De ontwikkeling van het sociaal contract en de herverdeling van inkomens in Nederland

van Zanden, J. L.; Vlam, C.

De afgelopen jaren is de overheid er niet in geslaagd om haar burgers te beschermen. Dit blijft voornamelijk aan links kleven en het heeft bijgedragen aan…

Imprinting and contested practices: The impact of public directors' private‐sector experience on temporary employment in Dutch public organizations

Wiersma, S.; Lippényi, Z.; Wittek, R.

This paper studies how organizational leaders' early private-sector leadership experiences impact adopting a contested organizational practice, temporary…

The interplay of misperceptions and willingness to share opinions in full classroom networks: The case of opinions towards homosexuality

Wuestenenk, N.; Nijs, T.; Stark, T. H.; van Tubergen, F.; Ellemers, N.

Social norms influence homophobic behavior, yet these norms are often misperceived. We study the extent to which friendship ties and group memberships are…

Realtime user ratings as a strategy for combatting misinformation: an experimental study

Stein, J.; Frey, V.; van de Rijt, A.

Because fact-checking takes time, verdicts are usually reached after a message has gone viral and interventions can have only limited effect. A new approach…

In or out? The paradox of exclusionary mechanisms in keeping cooperation going

de Matos Fernandes, C. A

The question of who's in and who's out is not as straightforward as it seems when understanding the dynamics of exclusion in everyday life. This dissertation…

Born abroad, studied here. A historical and psychological account of migrant doctors integrating

Groot, P.J.

Integration of newcomers into existing communities has been an ongoing process throughout the ages. And yet, understanding and improving this process has…

Cooperation in changing groups: How newcomers and norms shape public good provision in the lab, online games, and the field

Otten, K.

How people cooperate to provide public goods is a major scientific and societal question. Most existing research shows how people cooperate in stable groups.…

How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands

Wuestenenk, N.; van Tubergen, F.; Stark, T. H.; Ellemers, N.

There has been much debate about how cultural differences between ethnic groups may affect the cohesion of multicultural societies. Still, we know little about…

Silicon law of oligarchy: Patterns of member participation in the decision-making of platform cooperatives

Bunders, D.J.

Platform cooperatives that are owned and governed by gig workers themselves have been proposed as a silver bullet to improve these workers’ influence on…

Paradoxical Tensions as a Double-Edged Sword: Analysing the Development of Platform Cooperatives in the European Gig Economy

Bunders, D. J.; Moor, T. D.

Platform cooperatives promise to provide an alternative organizational model of worker ownership and governance to heavily criticized investor-owned gig…

Using stochastic actor-oriented models to explain collaboration intentionality as a prerequisite for peer feedback and learning in networks

Brouwer, J.; de Matos Fernandes, C. A.

Peer feedback and collaboration intentionality (CI) are key prerequisites to advance in higher education. For learning, it is crucial that peers do not merely…

Combining language training and work experience for refugees with low-literacy levels: a mixed-methods case study

Kuschel, A.; Hansen, N.; Heyse, L.; Wittek, R. P.

Learning the host society’s language and finding a job are important steps for the societal integration of refugees. Especially language proficiency is a key…

Iedereen een moraalridder

Ergün Ö.

Opkomen voor iemand die wordt gepest, je uitspreken tegen misstanden, minder hard autorijden: een moreel juiste keuze is niet altijd direct in je eigen…

Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach

Meijeren, M.; Lubbers, M.; Scheepers, P.

This article examines who volunteers for humanitarian organizations as compared to volunteering for other organizations versus people not volunteering, in the…

Trends in forms of civic involvement in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2020

Meijeren, M.; Lubbers, M.; Scheepers, P.

Dutch civil society is seen as well-equipped and known for its high level of civic involvement in various fields. For sustainability of civil society,…

Vrijwilligerswerk voor humanitaire organisaties: sociaal-structurele determinanten

Meijeren, M.; Lubbers, M.; Scheepers, P.

Verschillende humanitaire crises in de wereld zorgen ervoor dat mensen op de vlucht slaan en een veilig heenkomen zoeken in andere landen. Zo heeft ook…

Decline in informal helping during the first COVID‑19 lockdown: a longitudinal analysis of Dutch data

Ramaekers, M. J. M.; Verbakel, E.; Kraaykamp, G.

Like many European countries, the Netherlands locked down in March 2020 to combat the spread of COVID-19. Although government officials called for…

More or less help? A longitudinal investigation of positive and negative consequences of divorce for informal helping

Ramaekers, M. J. M.; Verbakel, E.; Kraaykamp, G.; van der Lippe, T.

As divorce rates have risen, scholars have expressed concern that a breakdown of traditional family bonds might negatively influence community life. This study…

The diffusion of binary versus continuous behavior on social networks

Schneider, P. T.; Buskens, V.; van de Rijt, A.

Diffusion studies investigate the propagation of behavior, attitudes, or beliefs across a networked population. Some behavior is binary, e.g., whether or not…

Are visits of Dutch energy coach volunteers associated with a reduction in gas and electricity consumption?

Schneider, P. T.; van de Rijt, A.; Boele, C.; Buskens, V.

In a number of European countries, local municipalities, housing cooperatives, and citizen-based initiatives have been training energy coaches to help citizens…

Social proof is ineffective at spurring costly pro‑environmental household investments

Schneider, P. T.; Buskens, V.; van de Rijt, A.

One of the most popular techniques of persuasion in online marketing is social proof, also referred to as social validation. It takes advantage of the fact…

Limited evidence for structural balance in the family

Stein, J.; Mandemakers, J.; van de Rijt, A.

Previous studies have shown that relationship sentiments in families follow a pattern wherein either all maintain positive relationships or there are two…

Shared understanding and task‑interdependence in nursing interns’ collaborative relations: A social network study of vocational health care internships in the Netherlands

Teekens, T.; Giardini, F.; Kirgil, Z. M.; Wittek, R.

Shared understanding among collaborators is a key element of delivering successful interprofessional care and a main challenge for professional education…

All is nice and well unless she outshines him: Higher social status benefits women's well‑being and relationship quality but not if they surpass their male partner

Vink, M.; Derks, B.; Ellemers, N.; van der Lippe, T.

In two studies, we find that climbing the societal ladder has positive associations with women's well-being and relationship outcomes but can also have…

Penalized for Challenging Traditional Gender Roles: Why Heterosexual Relationships in Which Women Wear the Pants May Be More Precarious

Vink, M.; Derks, B.; Ellemers, N.; van der Lippe, T.

There is growing evidence that heterosexual relationships in which traditional gender roles are reversed because women have attained higher societal status…

The Evolution of Reputation-Based Cooperation: A Goal Framing Theory of Gossip

Wittek, R.; Giardini, F.

Gossiping and its reputation effects are viewed as the most powerful mechanism to sustain cooperation without the intervention of formal authorities. Being…

The influence of group membership on online expressions and polarization on a discussion platform: An experimental study

Wuestenenk, N.; van Tubergen, F.; Stark, T. H.

Despite much attention for group polarization in online environments, little is known about how group membership affects online behavior. We designed an online…

Commitment issues? Analysing the effect of preference deviation and social embeddedness on member commitment to worker cooperatives in the gig economy

Bunders, D. J., & Akkerman, A.

As enterprises that are owned and governed by workers themselves for their mutual benefit, worker cooperatives are currently re-emerging as a promising…

The feasibility of platform cooperatives in the gig economy

Bunders, D. J.; Arets, M.; Frenken, K.; De Moor, T.

In view of the precarity and economic dependency of gig workers, platform cooperatives come into the picture as alternatives to investor-owned platforms. We…

Parenting and fairness in diverse families

Koster, T.

In recent decades the family landscape has changed in most Western countries. There has been a clear rise in women’s labor force participation and postdivorce…

Assessing the test‑retest reliability of the social value orientation slider measure

de Matos Fernandes, C. A.; Bakker, D. M.; Dijkstra, J.

In learning communities, students share their knowledge which might contribute to academic performance. This study disentangles peer selection from…

A Bad Barrel Spoils a Good Apple: How Uncertainty and Networks Affect Whether Matching Rules Can Foster Cooperation

de Matos Fernandes, C. A.; Flache, A.; Bakker, D.; Dijkstra, J.

Meritocratic matching solves the problem of cooperation by ensuring that only prosocial agents group together while excluding proselfs who are less inclined to…

De voorbeeldige organisatie

Ellemers, N.; de Gilder, D.

In 'De voorbeeldige organisatie' onderzoeken Naomi Ellemers en Dick de Gilder integer gedrag in organisaties en analyseren ze waar het misgaat. Mensen willen…

Workplace gossip and the evolution of friendship relations: the role of complex contagion

Estévez, J. L.; Wittek, R.; Giardini, F.; Ellwardt, L.; Krause, R. W.

Gossip is a pervasive phenomenon in organizations causing many individuals to have second-hand information about their colleagues. However, whether…

Having no negotiation power does not matter as long as you can think creatively: the moderating role of age

Fousiani, K., De Jonge, K. M. M., & Michelakis, G.

The literature regarding the effect of power on negotiation strategies remains scattered and inconsistent. This study aims to propose that the effect of…

Performance of Hybrid Organisations. Challenges and Opportunities for Social and Commercial Enterprises

Garrido-Skurkowicz, N., Wittek, R., & la Roi, C.

Growth is a key dimension of organisational performance, and innovativeness has been identified as one of its most important predictors in commercial…

Journeymen Migration and Settlement in Eighteenth-century Holland

Groot, P., & Schalk, R.

Many crafts in premodern Europe depended on migratory journeymen. Little is known about these workers, or how craft guilds and urban authorities affected their…

Will Work-Family Guilt Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic Straitjacket Women into Prioritizing their Family?

Kruger, J. et al.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the circumstances for parents to combine work and care. We examined work-family guilt among working…

Hidden Costs of the Pandemic on Gender Equality: Has COVID-19 Taught Working Mothers to Prioritize Their Family (Again)?

Kruger, J., Yerkes, M., Derks, B., & van Veelen, R.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. We…

Introduction to social networks and social resilience

Lazega, E., Snijders, T. A., & Wittek, R. P. (Eds.)

How resilient is society? It is the recent confluence of several developments that has pushed this question to the very top of societal and academic debate.The…

Understanding sentiment toward “black lives matter”

Leach, C. W., & Teixeira, C. P.

A publicized series of police (and other) violence against unarmed Black people over the last decade has fueled unprecedented mass protest as well as political…

Human cooperation in changing groups in a large-scale public goods game

Otten, K., Frey, U. J., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N.

How people cooperate to provide public goods is an important scientific question and relates to many societal problems. Previous research studied how people…

Social class, economic and political grievances and radical left voting: The role of macroeconomic performance

Ramaekers, M., Karremans, T., Lubbers, M., & Visser, M.

The classic gap between lower and higher social classes in their likelihood to vote for radical left parties (RLPs) persists to this day. Prior studies showed…

Polariseren we nou echt, of alleen online?

Wuestenenk, N. H.

Is de toenemende polarisatie online een goede afspiegeling van wat mensen echt denken? Nee, zegt de Utrechtse socioloog Nick Wuestenenk, en besef van het…

Informal Volunteering and Socialization Effects: Examining Modelling and Encouragement by Parents and Partner

Ramaekers, M., Verbakel, E., & Kraaykamp, G.

Informal volunteering is seen as an important indicator of social relations and community life. We therefore investigate the impact of various socialization…

De invloed van socialisatie door ouders en de partner op informeel vrijwilligerswerk

Ramaekers, M., Verbakel, E., & Kraaykamp, G.

Informeel vrijwilligerswerk is een vorm van filantropie die vaak over het hoofd wordt gezien. Het betreft immers vrijwillige hulp die zonder de tussenkomst van…

An agnostic approach to gender patterns in parliamentary speech: a question of representation by topic and style

Raiber, K., & Spierings, N.

By examining all speech in the 18th legislative period (2013–17) of the German Bundestag, including 6,598,831 words in 51,337 text segments, we compare women’s…

White Americans’ belief in systemic racial injustice and in-group identification affect reactions to BLM protest

Teixeira, C. P., Leach, C. W., & Spears, R.

Objective: To examine how White Americans’ in-group identification and belief in systemic racial injustice affects reactions to (peaceful vs. destructive)…

Met een andere bril: een nieuwe aanpak om organisaties te motiveren en ondersteunen in het ontwikkelen van wetenschappelijk onderbouwd diversiteitsbeleid

Vink, M., Jansen, W., van der Toorn, J., & Ellemers, N.

In de periode september 2019 tot september 2022 stond in dit project de vraag centraal hoe organisaties hun diversiteits- en inclusiebeleid effectiever kunnen…

Does national context matter when women surpass their partner in status?

Vink, M., van der Lippe, T., Derks, B., & Ellemers, N.

There is growing evidence that couples in non-traditional relationships in which the woman attains higher status than her male partner experience more negative…

Deelplatforms: doorgeefluiken of dirigenten?

Wals, F.

Een betere wereld, met een betere economie – socialer, efficiënter, duurzamer. Tien jaar geleden geloofden we het nog. Toen werden ‘deelplatforms’ Uber en…

Reputation Traps: Social Evaluation and Governance Failures

Wittek, R.

Reputations and the related social processes of evaluation are increasingly hailed as one of the most promising mechanisms sustaining cooperation in a variety…

The motherhood wage gap and trade‑offs between family and work: A test of compensating wage differentials

Wuestenenk, N.; Begall, K.

The theory of compensating wage differentials may explain part of the motherhood wage gap if mothers are more likely than childless women and men to make a…

Attitudes towards homosexuality among ethnic majority and minority adolescents in Western Europe: role of ethnic classroom composition

Wuestenenk, N.; van Tubergen, F.; Stark, T. H.

Ethnic minorities from more traditional countries tend to hold more conservative views towards homosexuality compared to the ethnic majority population in…

Dynamic modulation of neural feedback processing and attention during spatial probabilistic learning

Pütz, C., van den Berg, B., & Lorist, M. M.

Learned stimulus-reward associations can modulate behavior and the underlying neural processing of information. We investigated the cascade of these…

Gigs of their own: Reinventing worker cooperativism in the platform economy

Bunders, D. J.

Based on the significant collective action problems that gig workers face, sociologists would generally expect that these workers take a mostly individualistic…

Agent‑based computational models

Flache, A.; de Matos Fernandes, C. A.

Agent-based computational modeling (ABCM) plays a central role in Analytical Sociology (AS). ABCM attracts analytical sociologists because it combines analytic…

Tijdconcurrentie of tijdgulzigheid? Overuren van werknemers in post‑Fordistische organisaties

Glebbeek, A.; Wiersma, S.

Hoe komt het dat werknemers in post-Fordistische arbeidsorganisaties vaak meer uren werken dan zij eigenlijk zouden willen? Dit verband tussen ‘nieuwe’…

Are Organizational Gender Diversity Management Practices Effective?

Singh, S.; Jaspers, E.; van der Lippe, T.

While organizations use gender diversity management (GDM) to promote women’s participation, it can have negative unintended consequences for their…

Integratie in actie: Taal en contact tussen nieuwkomers en vrijwilligers. Een sociaalpsychologische analyse van het project ‘Kletsmaatjes’ voor de stichting Het Begin Met Taal

Heikamp, E.; Hansen, N.

Participating in (online) language buddy programs can make a significant contribution to the integration of newcomers. Alongside formal instruction, informal…

Parenting in postdivorce families: the influence of residence, repartnering, and gender

Koster, T.; Poortman, A.; van der Lippe, T.; Kleingeld, P.

Objective This study investigates the role of residence (including shared residence), repartnering (including LAT relationships), and additional children…

Fairness perceptions of the division of household labor: Housework and childcare

Koster, T.; Poortman, A.; van der Lippe, T.; Kleingeld, P.

An unequal division of housework has been found to be often regarded as fair, which may explain why women still do most household labor. This study extends…

Are separated fathers less or more involved in childrearing than partnered fathers?

Koster, T.; Castro‑Martín, T.

Separated fathers are generally assumed to be less involved with their children than partnered fathers. Yet, extant research on separated fathers has mainly…

Waar blijft mijn tijd? Waarom we zoveel willen, moeten en kunnen

van der Lippe, T.

Tegenwoordig lijken we het steeds drukker te krijgen en minder tijd te hebben. Maar is dat wel zo? En waardoor komt dat dan? Volgens Tanja van der Lippe ligt…

Cooperation between newcomers and incumbents: role of normative disagreements

Otten, K.; Buskens, V.; Przepiorka, W.; Ellemers, N.

Cooperation in groups often requires individual members to make costly contributions that benefit the group as a whole. Prior research suggests that shared…

The Impact of the COVID‑19 Lockdown on Collecting Informal Caregiving Data within the LISS Panel in March 2020

Raiber, K.; Verbakel, E.; Visser, M.

This is a retrospective study into informal care careers. A screening questionnaire was first presented to the entire LISS panel about the provision of…

Interpersonal antecedents to selective disclosure of lesbian and gay identities at work

Rengers, J. M.; Heyse, L.; Wittek, R. P.; Otten, S.

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) employees’ sexual identitymay be considered a concealable stigmatised identity. Disclosing it to others at work could…

Social Influence and Group Identity

Spears, R.

This chapter reviews research on the group identity explanation of social influence, grounded in self-categorization theory, and contrasts it with other…

Crowd‑based user judgements against misinformation

Stein, J.; Frey, V.; van de Rijt, A.

This experiment investigates whether crowd-based content veracity judgements can be an efficient way to identify misinformation (Kim et al., 2019; Pennycook et…

Shaping resilience: how team characteristics affect commitment in health care interns during a pandemic

Teekens, T.; Giardini, F.; Zuidersma, J.; Wittek, R.

The covid-19 pandemic has strained organizational systems, with the health care field particularly affected given sudden surges of demand and changes of…

Some psychological implications of Black struggle

Leach, C. W.; Teixeira, C. P.

Yet another long, hot summer in 2020 brought to the broader consciousness—in the US and well beyond—what Black folks have known for centuries about the ways in…

Caffeine boosts preparatory attention for reward‑related stimulus information

van den Berg, B.; de Jong, M.; Woldorff, M. G.; Lorist, M. M.

The intake of caffeine and the prospect of reward have both been associated with increased arousal, enhanced attention, and improved behavioral performance on…

Circulair & Inclusief – Resultaten Onderzoek MVO Nederland & Universiteit Utrecht

Veenstra, E. M.; Roetman, E.; van der Heijden, M.; Ellemers, N.

Neuroscience and climate change: How brain recordings can help us understand human responses to climate change

Wang, S.; van den Berg, B.

There is little published neuroscience research on the psychology of climate change. This review outlines how carefully designed experiments that…

The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on collecting informal caregiving data within the LISS Panel in March 2020

Raiber, K.; Verbakel, E.; & Visser, M.

In this research note, we assessed whether data on current informal caregiving collected in the LISS panel in March 2020 were structurally biased due to the…

Samenwerken: moeilijker dan het lijkt

Wittek, R.; Teekens, T.

Alles en iedereen werkt samen. Onderwijsinstellingen, bedrijven, overheidsinstituties, ngo’s, maar ook individuen. Maar het gaat geregeld mis, zelfs als alle…

Assessing the ‘Why’in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations

Meijeren, M., Lubbers, M., & Scheepers, P.

This article addresses what motivations volunteers have for volunteering for refugees and whether these motivations differ from or complement motivations to…

On the protective role of identification with a stigmatized identity: Promoting engagement and discouraging disengagement coping strategies

Bourguignon, D.; Teixeira, C. P.; Koc, Y.; Outten, H. R.; Faniko, K.; Schmitt, M. T.

We examined the mechanisms by which ingroup identification impacts well-being in stigmatized groups. Studies 1–3a were conducted among gay people in Europe and…

Historic networks and commemoration: Connections created through museum exhibitions

Braden, L. E. A.; Teekens, T.

This research examines how contextualization of artists within historical cohort networks affects art historical commemoration. Examining a population of 236…

Who brings home the bacon? How gender stereotypes straitjacket men and women into traditional relationships

Vink, M.

Despite the fact that nowadays more women pursue careers and obtain higher educational degrees, there are still few heterosexual relationships in which the…

Bridging the gap – the role of equitable, low carbon lifestyles

Capstick, S.; Khosla, R.; Wang, S.

Minimizing the impacts of climate change requires rapid transitions in people’s lifestyles and how we organize our societies, institutions and…

No one can predict the future: More than a semantic dispute

de Matos Fernandes, C. A.; Keijzer, M. A.

Models are pivotal to battle the current COVID-19 crisis. In their call to action, Squazzoni et al. (2020) convincingly put forward how social simulation…

Science as collaborative knowledge generation

Ellemers, N.

The COVID-19 pandemic points to the need for scientists to pool their efforts in order to understand this disease and respond to the ensuing crisis. Other…

Newcomers, Migrants, Surgeons: Making Career in the Amsterdam Surgeons’ Guild of the Eighteenth Century

Groot, P. J.

Like many modern organizations, the Amsterdam Surgeons’ Guild recruited its members during the eighteenth century from the ranks of locally born citizens as…

Heterogeneous groups cooperate in public good problems despite normative disagreements about individual contribution levels

Otten, K.; Buskens, V.; Przepiorka, W.; Ellemers, N.

Norms can promote human cooperation to provide public goods. Yet, the potential of norms to promote cooperation may be limited to homogeneous groups in which…

Is Martin Luther King or Malcolm X the more acceptable face of protest? High-status groups’ reactions to low-status groups’ collective action

Teixeira, C. P.; Spears, R.; Yzerbyt, V. Y.

Work on collective action focuses mainly on the perspective of disadvantaged groups. However, the dynamics of social change cannot be fully understood without…

ESG Indicators as Organizational Performance Goals: Do Rating Agencies Encourage a Holistic Approach?

Veenstra, E. M.; Ellemers, N.

Offering environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment and certification can invite organizations to adapt their activities to accommodate…

Van best practices naar best methods

Vink, M.; Senen, L.; van der Toorn, J.; Jansen, W.; Ellemers, N.

Bij het ontwikkelen van diversiteitsbeleid nemen veel HR-beleidsmakers zogenaamde best practices van andere organisaties over. Maar is dit wel een effectieve…

Evaluator perceptions of NGO performance in disasters: meeting multiple institutional demands in humanitarian aid projects

Heyse, L.; Nieto Morales, F.; Wittek, R.

Providing aid in times of increasing humanitarian need, limited budgets, and mounting security risks is challenging. This paper explores in what organisational…

“It’s Not Always Possible to Live Your Life Openly or Honestly in the Same Way” – Workplace Inclusion of Lesbian and Gay Humanitarian Aid Workers in Doctors Without Borders

Rengers, J. M.; Heyse, L.; Otten, S.; Wittek, R. P. M.

In this exploratory study, we present findings from semi-structured interviews with 11 self-identified lesbian and gay (LG) humanitarian aid workers of Doctors…

Laat het oor niet hangen naar een televisiepresentator

Romeijn, J. W.; Heesen, R.; Siebe, H.

Sluwe lobbyisten zaaien twijfel door selectief te winkelen in wetenschappelijke informatie. Stel daar de wijsheid van de groep tegenover, betoogt een drietal…

Social identity theory

Scheepers, D. T.; Ellemers, N.

According to social identity theory people derive part of their identity—their social identity—from the groups to which they belong (e.g., an identity as…

Status stress: Explaining defensiveness in members of dominant groups

Scheepers, D. T.; Ellemers, N.

This chapter examines an important barrier to achieving more equality in society: the resilience of dominant group members to social change initiatives. We…

Explaining Civic Attitudes of Immigrant Children in Europe

Ramaekers, M., Levels, M., Dronkers, J., & Kraaykamp, G.

In this study, we investigate explanations for differentiation in civic attitudes among immigrant children from different religious groups. We use the 2009…

Extra controles op de werkvloer zijn vaak contraproductief

Ellemers, N.

Je zou het niet verwachten, maar extra controles, strenge sancties en prestatiebeloningen lokken makkelijk fraude uit op het werk. Voor een beter ethisch…

'‘Politiek kan niets doen aan lage loonstijging’

Van Bavel, B.

De lonen moeten omhoog, vinden het CPB en DNB. Historicus Bas van Bavel is sceptisch over deze oproep

Vrouwen aan de top – pas op voor de queen bee

Derks, B.

Streefcijfers voor vrouwen aan de top kunnen onbedoelde bijwerkingen hebben, waarschuwt Belle Derks. Mannen kunnen er bang van worden en vrouwen onzeker.

De Waddenzee Is van Iedereen

De Moor, T.

Hoe beheer je een natuurgebied terwijl je er ook handel uit haalt? Sociale wetenschappers Tine de Moor en Maarten Bavinck brengen twee nieuwe dimensies in de…

Duurzaam Samenwerken

Wittek, R.

Leidinggevenden kijken niet graag naar de effecten van bijvoorbeeld personeelstrainingen. Dat is raar, vindt Gabriël Anthonio, lector van Stenden Hogeschool en…

Samen voor ons eigen: hoe burgercoöperaties de overheid vervangen

De Moor, T.

Burgers organiseren steeds meer overheidsfuncties zelf. Maar profiteren van alle innovatieve en hyperlokale voorzieningen niet vooral de happy few? ‘De duivel…

Vrije markt eindigt in de ondergang

Van Bavel, B.

Interview Bas van Bavel, hoogleraar sociale en economische geschiedenis. De geschiedenis leerde hem: de vrijemarkteconomie gaat na een periode van welvaart…

Verklaar verklarend onderzoek niet de oorlog

Wittek, R.

Met zijn betoog voor probleemoplossende sociale wetenschappen volgt Duncan Watts een dood spoor, reageert Rafael Wittek.

Waarom ook de deskundigen dit niet zagen aankomen

SCOOP

Verrassingen als de verkiezing van Trump kunnen beter voorzien worden wanneer wetenschappers langdurige vertrouwensrelaties aangaan met hun informanten en over…

Weg met het bbp? Nieuwe 'welvaartsindex' verklaart de onvrede wél

van Zanden, J. L.

Het sluimerende onbehagen heeft sinds donderdag een cijfer. De nieuwe Brede Welvaartsindicator (BWI) moet een alternatief bieden voor die andere, veel…

Echte welvaart stokt al jaren

van Zanden, J. L.

Anders dan de economische groeicijfers doen vermoeden, gaat de gemiddelde Nederlander er niet op vooruit. Sterker nog: de welvaart ligt fors onder het niveau…

Qualified support for normative vs. non-normative protest: Less invested members of advantaged groups are most supportive when the protest fits the opportunity for status improvement

Teixeira, C. P., Spears, R., Iyer, A., & Leach, C. W.

Disadvantaged groups use different means to protest inequality. Normative protest is more likely when the societal context of inter-group inequality signals…

Publications

Vrijwilligers voor vluchtelingen: onderbelichte groep onder de loep

Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience

Waarom de ‘lintjesaffaire’ vrijwilligerswerk niet kan breken

Wat (buiten) je bubbel je brengt

Bestaat onze maatschappij uit te veel ego’s of geven we nog om elkaar? ‘Mensen willen wel helpen, maar alleen tijdelijk’

Ideaal of verplichting: wat werkt beter om iemand de ‘juiste’ keuze te laten maken?

A Deal Doomed to Fail? The Fragile Prospects of a New Nuclear Agreement

Het cao-stelsel holt zichzelf uit: ‘Als we niks doen, gaat het systeem aan het niks doen ten onder’

Vrijwilligers voor vluchtelingen behouden doe je zo

The Democratic Marketplace

Iran is the biggest loser in Trump’s Azerbaijan-Armenia peace deal

Between Iran and a hard place, Afghans refugees are forever the scapegoat

Wage Premium or Wage Penalty? Gendered Long-term Wage Development of Family Caregivers

Resonating with nature: Cultural representation of nature relations

Migranten krijgen minder betaald dan Nederlanders, ook bij precies hetzelfde werk

How the country of education affects migrant doctors’ acceptance among their patients

‘Are they just putting up with me’? How diversity approaches impact LGBTQ+ employees' sense of being tolerated at work

Workplace friendships of men and women: examining employee gender, manager gender and gender composition in European workplaces

Competing norms and shifting saliences. How norm beliefs affected behavior among Dutch health care interns during the COVID-19 lockdown

Integration Benefits of Intimate Intergroup Contact in an Online Language Buddy Program for Migrant Newcomers

How to Keep Them Inside? Organizational and Motivational Factors That Influence Volunteer Retention for Refugee Aid Organizations

Protecting Public Goods or Helping Free Riders? A Real-Life Moral Dilemma in Interethnic and Intraethnic Encounters

Explaining collective agency: A defense of internalist corporate interpretivism.

Hop in and Drop Out: How are Changes in the Life Course Related to Changes in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations?

Selective disclosure at work: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Employees' Disclosure Decisions, Motivations, and Approaches

Group-Influenced Autonomous Motivation for Pro-environmental Behaviour: Factors influencing the internalisation of group norms as autonomously motivating

Embracing corporate social responsibility: How organizations can foster sustainable commitment to societal impact

Imprints at Work: How the pasts of organizations and leaders shape workplace precarity and inequality

Change Agents with a Past: Women Executives’ Early-Career Contexts and Gender Equality at Workplaces

Latent thematic structures in right-and left-wing community discourse on Reddit

Using the institutional grammar to understand collective resource management in a heterogenous cooperative facing external shocks

Gigs of their Own: Can platform cooperatives become resilient?

From Rags to Riches: Changing Perceptions of Family Business in the Netherlands, 1945-2019

Beyond sacrifice? Long-term employment consequences of providing unpaid care

Informal helping: Insights from a dyadic, family, and societal perspective

Social Influence and the Energy Transition: Leveraging social networks and norms

Sustainable Collaboration in Care: Joint Production Motivation and Interprofessional Learning in an Interorganizational Network

Responsibility for Platform Problems: A Normative Analysis of the Harms and Injustices Induced by Peer-to-Peer Platforms Uber and Airbnb

Support for sexual liberalization among ethnic majorities and minorities in Europe: The role of social norms in the public expression of opinions

Antecedents of student team formation in higher education

Assessing the ‘Why’ in Volunteering for Refugees: Exploring Volunteer Motivations

Celebrating the “Invisible”: The Role of Organizational Diversity Approaches on Attracting and Retaining LGBTQ+ Talent

Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments

Strategies of informal caregivers to adapt paid work

Informele hulp geef je niet alleen: het helpen van vrienden, familieleden en buren door een sociale lens

The emergence of citizen collectives for care: the role of social cohesion

Why Neighbors Would Help: A Vignette Experiment on Reciprocity in Informal Helping

The logic of relative frustration revisited: theoretical revision of Boudon’s competition model and experimental evidence

Identity Management of, and Organizational Support for, LGB Expatriates: Challenges and Recommendations

Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality

A synthesis of evidence for policy from behavioural science during COVID-19

Exploring Effects of Self-Censoring through Agent-Based Simulation

Modelling the prevalence of hidden profiles with complex argument structures

The interdependence of social deliberation and judgment aggregation

Talk Less to Strangers: How Homophily Can Improve Collective Decision-Making in Diverse Teams

Ill-informed Consensus or Truthful Disagreement? How Argumentation Styles and Preference Perceptions Affect Deliberation Outcomes in Groups with Conflicting Stakes

De ontwikkeling van het sociaal contract en de herverdeling van inkomens in Nederland

Imprinting and contested practices: The impact of public directors' private‐sector experience on temporary employment in Dutch public organizations

The interplay of misperceptions and willingness to share opinions in full classroom networks: The case of opinions towards homosexuality

Realtime user ratings as a strategy for combatting misinformation: an experimental study

In or out? The paradox of exclusionary mechanisms in keeping cooperation going

Born abroad, studied here. A historical and psychological account of migrant doctors integrating

Cooperation in changing groups: How newcomers and norms shape public good provision in the lab, online games, and the field

How Do Personal Opinions Relate to Online Expressions? An Experimental Study Among Muslim Minority Groups in The Netherlands

Silicon law of oligarchy: Patterns of member participation in the decision-making of platform cooperatives

Paradoxical Tensions as a Double-Edged Sword: Analysing the Development of Platform Cooperatives in the European Gig Economy

Using stochastic actor-oriented models to explain collaboration intentionality as a prerequisite for peer feedback and learning in networks

Combining language training and work experience for refugees with low-literacy levels: a mixed-methods case study

Iedereen een moraalridder

Socio-Structural Determinants in Volunteering for Humanitarian Organizations: A Resource-Based Approach

Trends in forms of civic involvement in the Netherlands between 2008 and 2020

Vrijwilligerswerk voor humanitaire organisaties: sociaal-structurele determinanten

Decline in informal helping during the first COVID‑19 lockdown: a longitudinal analysis of Dutch data

More or less help? A longitudinal investigation of positive and negative consequences of divorce for informal helping

The diffusion of binary versus continuous behavior on social networks

Are visits of Dutch energy coach volunteers associated with a reduction in gas and electricity consumption?

Social proof is ineffective at spurring costly pro‑environmental household investments

Limited evidence for structural balance in the family

Shared understanding and task‑interdependence in nursing interns’ collaborative relations: A social network study of vocational health care internships in the Netherlands