Staff

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PhD Candidate

Expertise

motivational psychology, goal failure, pro-social behavior, anti-social behavior, compensatory behavior, psychological needs, intergroup behavior

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PhD Candidate

Expertise

Habits
Self-regulation
Motivation
Occupational Health

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Associate Professor

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PhD Candidate

Expertise

Workplace stress, Occupational well-being and resilience, Informal learning processes, Coping and self-regulation

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PhD student

Expertise

Mentoring, Older Workers, Emotional Competencies, Older Workers' Motivation, Diary Studies

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Assistant Professor

Expertise

Negotiation, Conflict Management, Leadership, Power, Group identity, Justice and Punishment, Organizational conspiracy beliefs

Expertise

Hybrid work arrangements, goal-directed behaviour, self-regulation, occupational health

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PhD Candidate

Expertise

Decision-making, well-being at work, morality, culture

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PhD student

Expertise

Emotion regulation, occupational health, longitudinal studies

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PhD student

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Associate Professor

Expertise

occupational health psychology, stress at work, well-being, careers, transitions

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Assistant Professor

Expertise

My primary research interest revolves around the delivery of bad news in a workplace setting, such as layoffs, denied promotions, or negative performance evaluations. I am investigating how the communication of bad news influences individual processes and careers, workplace relationships, and organizations. To study this, I employ various methodological approaches, including (natural) experiments, and extensive data collection and analysis techniques such as web scraping, machine learning, or large language models. I have a particular focus on exploring how positive outcomes can be encouraged following negative experiences, how individuals cope with these challenging events, how employees adapt their careers, or how organizations face reputational issues. In other lines of research, I explore how 1) self-regulation impacts leadership effectiveness, 2) how a combination of individual- and context-related variables promotes resilience in leaders, 3) how organizations benefit from adapting to an aging workforce.

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Assistant professor

Expertise

My main current research interest is the study of social class, and educational background in particular. Combining sociological and social psychological approaches, we are using a social identity framework to understand the effect of education on social and political attitudes. I found that the higher educated are much less tolerant than previously thought and that the less educated have severe problems in creating a positive social identity around their level of education and their position in society. I am also studying the attitudes of higher educated people towards less educated people.

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PhD student

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Associate Professor

Expertise

Motivation and goal pursuit; implicit social cognition; social contagion; aggression

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PhD student

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Assistant professor

Expertise

Creativity; innovation; group processes; team performance

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Professor Psychology

Expertise

Aging in the work context; occupational health and well-being; emotional development across adulthood; emotion regulation, stress, and coping; empathy

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Associate Professor

Expertise

self-regulation and occupational health, proactive work behavior, coping with negative work events, entrepreneurial behavior and well-being

Expertise

Age-diverse workplace friendship, organizational intervention, aging theories

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PhD student

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PhD student

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PhD student

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PhD student

Expertise

Aging in the work context, occupational health and well-being

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PhD student

Expertise

Creativity and Innovation

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Assistant Professor

Expertise

Occupational stress and recovery (e.g., human energy or work-related rumination), technology-assisted (mental) health-promotion, proactive work behavior, counterproductive work behavior

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Professor

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PhD Candidate

Expertise

Dynamic properties (e.g., accumulation) of daily work stressors; Self-evaluations