G.a. (gerben) Van Kleef
Professor
Social and Behavioural Sciences
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
Biography
Gerben van Kleef (1977) is professor of social psychology. He conducted his dissertation research at the department of Work and Organizational Psychology of the University of Amsterdam (PhD in 2004, cum laude ). He then moved to the department of Social Psychology. In 2005 he received the bi-annual Best Dissertation Award of the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) and the Best Dissertation Award of the Dutch Association for Social Psychology (ASPO) for his dissertation on the role of emotions in social conflict. In 2006 he received a 3-year research grant ("Veni") from the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), which enabled him to work as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2008 he received the early career award of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). Back in Amsterdam, his research was supported by a "Vidi" grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Between 2012 and 2016 he held an extraordinary professorship of prosocial behavior on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2014 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University. Gerben van Kleef is currently chair of the social psychology department of the University of Amsterdam, associate editor of Social Psychological and Personality Science, and research director of the Kurt Lewin Graduate School.
Research Interest
Social Psychology
Publications
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Cheshin, A., Heerdink, M. W., Kossakowski, J. J., & van Kleef, G. A. (2016). Pitching Emotions: The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions in Baseball. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, [178].
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Aaldering, H., van Kleef, G. A., & de Dreu, C. K. W. (2016). Oorsprong en gevolgen van parochiale en universele coöperatie in intergroepsconflicten. Gedrag en Organisatie, 29(3), 232-250.
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Fang, X., Sauter, D. A., & van Kleef, G. A. (in press). Seeing mixed emotions: The specificity of emotion perception from static and dynamic facial expressions across cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
