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Overview

Eric van Dijk is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including social psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and safety research.

Their research focuses on several main topics, such as social and intergroup psychology, death anxiety and social exclusion, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, experimental behavioral economics studies, emotions and moral behavior, grief, bereavement and mental health, as well as evolutionary game theory and cooperation.

Eric van Dijk has published in a range of journals, with frequent appearances in Frontiers in Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, and Nature Communications.

Recent papers include:

  • Experimental Games and Social Decision Making, 2020, Annual Review of Psychology
  • Moral Rationalization Contributes More Strongly to Escalation of Unethical Behavior Among Low Moral Identifiers Than Among High Moral Identifiers, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Self-reliance Crowds Out Group Cooperation and Increases Wealth Inequality, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Ire and Punishment: Incidental Anger and Costly Punishment in Children, Adolescents, and Adults, 2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • People from Lower Social Classes Elicit Greater Prosociality: Compassion and Deservingness Matter, 2021, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Frequent co-authors include Ilja van Beest, Gert-Jan Lelieveld, Marret K. Noordewier, Niels J. Van Doesum, and Dongning Ren.

Best Publications

  • The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans

    Carsten K. W. De Dreu;Lindred L. Greer;Michel J. J. Handgraaf;Shaul Shalvi

  • The psychology of social dilemmas: A review.

    Paul A.M. Van Lange;Jeff Joireman;Craig D. Parks;Eric Van Dijk

  • Pre combustion CO2 capture

    Daniel Jansen;Matteo Gazzani;Giampaolo Manzolini;Eric van Dijk

  • The inaction effect in the psychology of regret

    Marcel Zeelenberg;Kees van den Bos;Eric van Dijk;Rik Pieters

  • Undermining trust and cooperation : The paradox of sanctioning systems in social dilemmas

    Laetitia B. Mulder;Eric van Dijk;David De Cremer;Henk A.M. Wilke

  • Commitment and Behavior Change: A Meta-Analysis and Critical Review of Commitment-Making Strategies in Environmental Research

    Anne Marike Lokhorst;Carol Werner;Henk Staats;Eric van Dijk

  • Peer Influence on Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence

    Jorien van Hoorn;Eric van Dijk;Rosa Meuwese;Carolien Rieffe

  • Changing Brains, Changing Perspectives The Neurocognitive Development of Reciprocity

    Wouter van den Bos;Eric van Dijk;Michiel Westenberg;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts

  • When Gains Loom Larger Than Losses Reversed Loss Aversion for Small Amounts of Money

    Fieke Harinck;Eric Van Dijk;Ilja Van Beest;Paul Mersmann

  • A social functional approach to emotions in bargaining: When communicating anger pays and when it backfires

    Eric van Dijk;Gerben A. van Kleef;Wolfgang Steinel;Ilja van Beest

  • Social value orientations and the strategic use of fairness in ultimatum bargaining

    Eric van Dijk;David De Cremer;Michel J.J Handgraaf

  • Less power or powerless? Egocentric empathy gaps and the irony of having little versus no power in social decision making.

    Michel J. J. Handgraaf;Eric Van Dijk;Riël C. Vermunt;Henk A. M. Wilke

  • Strategy and Fairness in Social Decision Making: Sometimes It Pays to Be Powerless ☆ ☆☆

    Eric van Dijk;Riël Vermunt

  • What motivates repayment? Neural correlates of reciprocity in the Trust Game

    Wouter van den Bos;Eric van Dijk;Michiel Westenberg;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts

  • When and why leaders put themselves first: leader behaviour in resource allocations as a function of feeling entitled

    David de Cremer;Eric van Dijk

  • Coordination rules in asymmetric social dilemmas: a comparison between public good dilemmas and resource dilemmas

    Eric van Dijk;Henk Wilke

  • Reactions to group success and failure as a function of identification level: a test of the goal-transformation hypothesis in social dilemmas

    David De Cremer;Eric van Dijk

  • In Money We Trust? The Use of Financial Compensations to Repair Trust in the Aftermath of Distributive Harm

    Pieter T.M. Desmet;David De Cremer;David De Cremer;Eric van Dijk

  • The discounting of ambiguous information in economic decision making

    Eric van Dijk;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • All is well that ends well, at least for proselfs: Emotional reactions to equality violation as a function of social value orientation

    Jeroen Stouten;David de Cremer;Eric van Dijk

Frequent Co-Authors

David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
Ilja van Beest
Ilja van Beest Tilburg University
Henk A. M. Wilke
Henk A. M. Wilke Leiden University
Marcel Zeelenberg
Marcel Zeelenberg Tilburg University
Eveline A. Crone
Eveline A. Crone Erasmus University Rotterdam
Carsten K. W. De Dreu
Carsten K. W. De Dreu University of Groningen
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Daan van Knippenberg
Daan van Knippenberg Rice University
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Jan-Willem van Prooijen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kees van den Bos
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University

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