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Overview

Ilja van Beest is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

They focus on several main topics in their work, such as social and intergroup psychology, death anxiety and social exclusion, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, grief, bereavement, and mental health, cultural differences and values, experimental behavioral economics studies, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Their recent research publications include the following:

  • Seeking Solitude After Being Ostracized: A Replication and Beyond, 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Can we reduce facial biases? Persistent effects of facial trustworthiness on sentencing decisions, 2020, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • Moral Frames Are Persuasive and Moralize Attitudes; Nonmoral Frames Are Persuasive and De-Moralize Attitudes, 2022, Psychological Science
  • A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance, 2024, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Self-interest and data protection drive the adoption and moral acceptability of big data technologies: A conjoint analysis approach, 2020, Computers in Human Behavior

Frequent coauthors in their research career include Willem W. A. Sleegers, Anthony M. Evans, Olga Stavrova, Eric van Dijk, and Thorsten M. Erle.

Ilja van Beest regularly publishes in several venues, particularly:

  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • DataverseNL
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Acta Psychologica

Best Publications

  • When Inclusion Costs and Ostracism Pays, Ostracism Still Hurts

    Ilja van Beest;Kipling D. Williams

  • The Ordinal Effects of Ostracism: A Meta-Analysis of 120 Cyberball Studies

    Chris Hubertus Joseph Hartgerink;Ilja Van Beest;Jelte M Wicherts;Kipling D. Williams

  • 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

  • A Theory of Social Thermoregulation in Human Primates

    Hans IJzerman;James A. Coan;Fieke M. A. Wagemans;Marjolein A. Missler

  • Shared Cognition as a Product of, and Precursor to, Shared Identity in Negotiations

    Roderick Swaab;Tom Postmes;Ilja van Beest;Russell Spears

  • Anger in social conflict: Cross-situational comparisons and suggestions for the future

    Gerben A. Van Kleef;Eric van Dijk;Wolfgang Steinel;Fieke Harinck

  • Why Anger and Disappointment Affect Other’s Bargaining Behavior Differently: The Moderating Role of Power and the Mediating Role of Reciprocal and Complementary Emotions

    Gert-Jan Lelieveld;Eric Van Dijk;Ilja Van Beest;Gerben A. Van Kleef

  • Get angry, get out: The interpersonal effects of anger communication in multiparty negotiation

    Ilja Van Beest;Gerben A. Van Kleef;Eric Van Dijk

  • Cyberbomb: Effects of being ostracized from a death game

    Ilja Van Beest;Kipling D. Williams;Eric Van Dijk

  • Do-no-harm in coalition formation: Why losses inhibit exclusion and promote fairness cognitions☆

    Ilja Van Beest;Eric Van Dijk;Carsten K.W. De Dreu;Henk A.M. Wilke

  • The egocentric nature of procedural justice: Social value orientation as moderator of reactions to decision-making procedures

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;David De Cremer;Ilja van Beest;Tomas Ståhl

  • God: Do I have your attention?

    Lorenza S. Colzato;Ilja van Beest;Wery P.M. van den Wildenberg;Claudia Scorolli

  • Limited capacity to lie: Cognitive load interferes with being dishonest

    Anna E. van 't Veer;Marielle Stel;Ilja van Beest

  • Seeking Solitude After Being Ostracized: A Replication and Beyond:

    Dongning Ren;Eric D. Wesselmann;Ilja van Beest

  • The Excluded Player in Coalition Formation

    Ilja van Beest;Henk Wilke;Eric van Dijk

  • Does communicating disappointment in negotiations help or hurt? Solving an apparent inconsistency in the social-functional approach to emotions.

    Gert-Jan Lelieveld;Eric Van Dijk;Ilja Van Beest;Gerben A. Van Kleef

  • Initial Ownership in Bargaining: Introducing the Giving, Splitting, and Taking Ultimatum Bargaining Game:

    Marijke C Leliveld;Eric van Dijk;Ilja van Beest

  • The effects of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness in online peer-to-peer markets

    Bastian Jaeger;Willem W.A. Sleegers;Anthony M. Evans;Mariëlle Stel

  • Can we reduce facial biases? : Persistent effects of facial trustworthiness on sentencing decisions

    Bastian Jaeger;Alexander T. Todorov;Anthony M. Evans;Ilja van Beest

  • Negative thoughts in adults with congenital heart disease.

    Simon Rietveld;Barbara J.M Mulder;Ilja van Beest;Wies Lubbers

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University
Gerben A. van Kleef
Gerben A. van Kleef University of Amsterdam
Kipling D. Williams
Kipling D. Williams Purdue University West Lafayette
Henk A. M. Wilke
Henk A. M. Wilke Leiden University
Siegwart Lindenberg
Siegwart Lindenberg University of Groningen
Joris Lammers
Joris Lammers University of Cologne
Paul A. M. Van Lange
Paul A. M. Van Lange Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pier J. M. Prins
Pier J. M. Prins University of Amsterdam
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Jan-Willem van Prooijen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tom Postmes
Tom Postmes University of Groningen

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