Introduction

I currently teach two courses: the first-year course Organizational Behavior (Gedrag in Organisaties) in Dutch, and a similar course Organizational Behavior for IB&M in English. Starting the 2012-2013 academic year, I will also teach a research master course on creativity and innovation (with Onne Janssen).

I also supervise master theses, and if you need a supervisor and are interested in one of my research topics (creativity, decision making, and innovation; see my research page) please contact me. I specifically look for students to do one of the following projects:

1. What's cooking? Creativity in the kitchen. The idea is to investigate what contributes to creative cooking in good restaurants. Is only a good chef needed, or is that not the whole story? What is the role of work pressure?

2. Groups that may not decide. I would be interested in finding out which group characteristics make groups prone to indecision and doubts and perhaps lead them to postpone decisions.

3. Creativity in groups. Which factors make groups more or less creative? I would particularly be interested in field studies among teams such as R&D teams.

 

Current and past graduate students

Besides master theses, I supervise PhD theses. These are my past and current students:

 

Eric Rietzschel: From quantity to quality: Cognitive, motivational and social aspects of idea generation and selection(subsidized by NWO). Dissertation successfully defended December 6, 2005.

Lotte Scholten: Motivation matters: Motivated information processing in group and individual decision making (subsidized by NWO). Dissertation successfully defended 20 April, 2007.

Matthijs Baas: The psychology of creativity: Moods, minds, and motives. Dissertation successfully defended 25 March 2010, cum laude.

Ilona McNeill: Why we choose, how we choose, what we choose: The influence of initiation motives on decision making (subsidized by NWO, dissertation succesfully defended on 24 March 2011).

Marieke Roskes: Conflict mental set and creativity (subsidized by NWO, 2008-2012)

Daniël Sligte: The functionality of creativity (2008-2012).

Darja Carl : Pressure, leadership and creativity (2009-2013)

 

Courses Taught

At University of Groningen

· Organizational Behavior, 2009 – present (bachelor; English and Dutch language variants)

 

At University of Amsterdam

· ‘Creativity and Innovation’, 2006 – 2009 (research master course; with Carsten de Dreu)

· ‘Problems and designs in organizational research’, 2002 – 2009 (master course)

· ‘Organizational Psychology’, 2002, 2003 (bachelor course)

· ‘Decision Making’, 2001 – 2004 (master course)

 

At Utrecht University

· Seminars ‘Introduction to Psychology’, 1996 – 1998 (bachelor course)

· Workshops ‘Leadership’ and ‘Group Creativity’, 1997 – 1999 (bachelor course)