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Frenk van Harreveld is an associate professor of social psychology. He obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam. Subsequently he worked for the world’s largest consulting firm Accenture, after which he returned to the UvA. He has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Full profile…

Joop van der Pligt (1951-2015) was a full professor of Social Psychology. He obtained his PhD at the University of London. Subsequently he worked for the Institute of Environmental Studies of the Free University at Amsterdam, Exeter University and the University of Amsterdam. He was a visiting professor at the University of Surrey (UK). Joop unexpectedly passed away on January 9, 2015. Full profile…

Bastiaan graduated in Psychology of Culture and Religion (later renamed Cultural and Personality Psychology) at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2004 and obtained a second MSc, in Social Psychology, at the University of Amsterdam in 2006. He started his PhD project in Amsterdam in February 2008. In June 2012, he defended his thesis (cum laude), after which he worked as a postdoc with Steven Heine at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

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Hannah studied psychology in Nijmegen, Cardiff, and Würzburg. She received her BSc (cum laude) in social psychology, and graduated in Behavioural Science from the Research Master Programme at the Behavioural Science Institute in Nijmegen (cum laude). In the 2010 she started her PhD project at the University of Amsterdam investigating attitudinal ambivalence and choice conflicts. Her research focuses on the consequences of evaluative conflicts for affect, cognition, and behavior, which she studies using physiological measures (EMG, GSR), neuroimaging (fMRI), lab- and field studies.

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Jonas received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam in 2011 (cum laude) and graduated the Research Master programme of the same university in 2013 (cum laude). After working as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg for a year, he rejoined the University of Amsterdam to start his PhD project in 2015. His project focuses on developing a network model of attitudes. In this model, evaluative reactions toward an attitude object (e.g., beliefs, feelings, and behaviors) are conceptualized as causally connected entities that form a network.

David received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Brain & Cognition) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2011.Two years later, he obtained research master degrees in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical & Health Psychology (Cum Laude) after graduating at the University of Leiden. Since January 2014, he has been working as a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr Michiel van Elk at the University of Amsterdam.

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University of British Columbia

Leiden University

University of Toronto

University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

Duke University: The Fuqua School of Business

University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht

Phd thesis: “Public Trust: Expectancies, Beliefs, and Behavior”, September 12, 2014

Phd thesis: “Having second thoughts: consequences of decision reversibility”, December 4, 2013

Phd thesis: “The dynamics of ambivalence: Cognitive, affective and physical consequences of evaluative conflict”, March 19, 2013