Board members Social Sciences Center

Susanne Scheibe holds the chair for “Lifespan development and organizational behavior’. She is interested in how emotional competencies and daily emotion/stress dynamics change across adulthood and how age-related changes affect people in work settings. She combines experimental, longitudinal and experience-sampling methods to understand the strengths and vulnerabilities that different age groups bring to the workplace and how work experiences in turn impact people’s emotional development over time.

Gert studies reproductive decision-making from a biosocial perspective. Which social and biological factors contribute most to variation in family size? What are the predictors and consequences of the massive postponement in attempting to conceive a child? He is further developing improved ways of personal network data collection.

Bertus studies individual differences in personality and happiness and their lifespan trajectories and links to affect/emotion/mood dynamics (internalizing problems) and the environment in which one lives and grows, especially social networks, daily activities, adverse events, and culture. Currently he works on the interaction between personal strengths and vulnerabilities in his Veni project on happy neurotics and the studies HowNutsAreTheDutch and Ieder Kind Is Anders.

Katherine is interested in collective injustice and the impact thereof: When do people act out against injustice? How does experiencing collective injustice affect health? She studies these questions in many societal contexts such as among Roma gypsies, women, targets of man-made earthquakes. She is currently leading a large scale project on the impact of man-made disaster on health (www.groningsperspectief.nl).