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Daan Scheepers is a researcher affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Applied Psychology. The research is centered around key topics including Social and Intergroup Psychology, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Cultural Differences and Values, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion, Gender Diversity and Inequality, and Flow Experience in Various Fields.

Recent publication venues where Scheepers has frequently published include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Psychophysiology
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior

The following recent papers highlight some aspects of Scheepers' research contributions:

  • On the physiology of flow: Bridging flow theory with the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat, 2022, International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • On the hiring of kin in organizations: Perceived nepotism and its implications for fairness perceptions and the willingness to join an organization, 2020, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
  • Value Alignment and Public Perceived Legitimacy of the European Union and the Court of Justice, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Assessing the Effects of a Real-Life Contact Intervention on Prejudice Toward LGBT People, 2021, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Reflecting on Existential Threats Elicits Self-Reported Negative Affect but No Physiological Arousal, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Frequent co-authors in Scheepers' work include:

  • Naomi Ellemers (6 collaborations)
  • Eva Grosfeld (5 collaborations)
  • Armin Cuyvers (5 collaborations)
  • Feiteng Long (3 collaborations)
  • Ruthie Pliskin (3 collaborations)

The research interests of Daan Scheepers are multifaceted and involve intersections between social behavioral science and neuroscience, with particular attention to the cultural, moral, and emotional dimensions of human psychology. Their work addresses a broad range of social phenomena, including intergroup relations, prejudice reduction interventions, experiences of flow, and the interface between physiological responses and psychological states.

Best Publications

  • Seeing one thing and doing another: Contrast effects in automatic behavior.

    A Dijksterhuis;Russell Spears;Tom Postmes;DA Stapel

  • When the pressure is up: The assessment of social identity threat in low and high status groups

    Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers

  • Social identity theory

    Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers

  • Diversity in in-group bias: Structural factors, situational features, and social functions

    Daan Scheepers;Russell Spears;Bertjan Doosje;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead

  • Task conflict, information processing, and decision-making: The damaging effect of relationship conflict

    Frank R.C. de Wit;Karen A. Jehn;Daan Scheepers

  • Turning social identity threat into challenge: Status stability and cardiovascular reactivity during inter-group competition

    Daan Scheepers

  • The attraction of social power: The influence of construing power as opportunity versus responsibility

    Kai Sassenberg;Naomi Ellemers;Daan Scheepers

  • Suffering from the possibility of status loss: Physiological responses to social identity threat in high status groups.

    Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers;Nieska Sintemaartensdijk

  • Distinctiveness and Definition of Collective Self: A Tripartite Model

    Russell Spears;Jolanda Jetten;Daan Scheepers

  • Social power makes the heart work more efficiently: Evidence from cardiovascular markers of challenge and threat

    Daan Scheepers;Frank de Wit;Naomi Ellemers;Kai Sassenberg

  • The threat vs. challenge of car parking for women: How self- and group affirmation affect cardiovascular responses

    Belle Derks;Daan Scheepers;Colette Van Laar;Naomi Ellemers

  • If we have the will, there will be a way: regulatory focus as a group identity

    Krispijn Faddegon;Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers

  • The social functions of ingroup bias: Creating, confirming, or changing social reality

    Daan Scheepers;Russell Spears;Bertjan Doosje;Antony S. R. Manstead

  • Two Functions of Verbal Intergroup Discrimination: Identity and Instrumental Motives as a Result of Group Identification and Threat

    Daan Scheepers;Russell Spears;Bertjan Doosje;Antony S. R. Manstead

  • Integrating Identity and Instrumental Approaches to Intergroup Differentiation: Different Contexts, Different Motives

    Daan Scheepers;Russell Spears;Bertjan Doosje;Antony S. R. Manstead

  • The cortisol response to anticipated intergroup interactions predicts self-reported prejudice.

    Erik Bijleveld;Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers

  • Whether power holders construe their power as responsibility or opportunity influences their tendency to take advice from others

    Frank R.C. De Wit;Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers;Kai Sassenberg

  • Interventions to reduce blatant and subtle sexual orientation- and gender identity prejudice (SOGIP): Current knowledge and future directions.

    F.M. Cramwinckel;D.T. Scheepers;J.M. van der Toorn;J.M. van der Toorn

  • The emergence and effects of deviants in low and high status groups

    Daan Scheepers;Nyla R Branscombe;Russell Spears;Bertjan Doosje

  • The threat of moral refusers for one's self-concept and the protective function of physical cleansing

    Florien M. Cramwinckel;Eric van Dijk;Daan Scheepers;Kees van den Bos

  • Neuroscience of prejudice and intergroup relations

    Belle Derks;Daan Scheepers;Naomi Ellemers

Frequent Co-Authors

Naomi Ellemers
Naomi Ellemers Utrecht University
Kai Sassenberg
Kai Sassenberg Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Karen A. Jehn
Karen A. Jehn University of Melbourne
Bertjan Doosje
Bertjan Doosje University of Amsterdam
Manuela Barreto
Manuela Barreto University of Exeter
Eva Jonas
Eva Jonas University of Salzburg
Kees van den Bos
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University

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