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Jan-Willem van Prooijen

Jan-Willem van Prooijen

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Psychology

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55
Citations
12295
World Ranking
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National Ranking
209

Overview

Jan-Willem van Prooijen is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands, contributing extensively to the field of social sciences with an emphasis on sociology, political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, artificial intelligence, and health.

Their research encompasses a range of topics including misinformation and its impacts, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, cultural differences and values, social media and politics, and vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Jan-Willem van Prooijen has published multiple papers in notable academic journals. Some recent significant papers include:

  • Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries (2022), published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships (2021), published in Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Enhancing feelings of security: How institutional trust promotes interpersonal trust (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • The entertainment value of conspiracy theories (2021), published in British Journal of Psychology
  • The cultural dimension of intergroup conspiracy theories (2020), published in British Journal of Psychology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include Paul A. M. Van Lange, André Krouwel, Kyriaki Fousiani, Myrto Pantazi, and Yongyu Guo.

Publication venues where Jan-Willem van Prooijen's work appears most often include:

  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Political Psychology
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Their scholarly contributions notably intersect with areas of social and political psychology, engaging with cultural, cognitive, and technological dimensions of social behavior. The wide range of topics addressed reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding social phenomena, particularly focusing on aspects related to misinformation, trust, conspiracy theories, and social relationships.

Best Publications

  • Conspiracy theories as part of history: The role of societal crisis situations

    Jan Willem van Prooijen;Karen M. Douglas

  • Political Extremism Predicts Belief in Conspiracy Theories

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;André P. M. Krouwel;Thomas V. Pollet

  • Why Education Predicts Decreased Belief in Conspiracy Theories.

    Jan Willem van Prooijen

  • CONFIRMATORY ANALYSIS OF EXPLORATIVELY OBTAINED FACTOR STRUCTURES

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Willem A. van der Kloot

  • Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain

    Jan Willem van Prooijen;Karen M. Douglas

  • Belief in conspiracy theories: The influence of uncertainty and perceived morality

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Nils B. Jostmann

  • The Influence of Control on Belief in Conspiracy Theories: Conceptual and Applied Extensions

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Michele Acker

  • Conspiracy Theories: Evolved Functions and Psychological Mechanisms

    Jan Willem van Prooijen;Mark van Vugt;Mark van Vugt

  • Connecting the dots: Illusory pattern perception predicts belief in conspiracies and the supernatural

    Jan Willem van Prooijen;Karen M. Douglas;Clara De Inocencio;Clara De Inocencio

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • Epistemic rationality: Skepticism toward unfounded beliefs requires sufficient cognitive ability and motivation to be rational

    Tomas Ståhl;Jan Willem van Prooijen

  • Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies

    Jan Willem van Prooijen;André P.M. Krouwel

  • Procedural justice and status: status salience as antecedent of procedural fairness effects.

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Kees van den Bos;Henk A. M. Wilke

  • Group belongingness and procedural justice: social inclusion and exclusion by peers affects the psychology of voice.

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Kees van den Bos;Henk A. M. Wilke

  • An Existential Threat Model of Conspiracy Theories

    Jan Willem Van Prooijen

  • “Who Doesn’t?”—The Impact of Descriptive Norms on Corruption

    Nils C. Köbis;Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Francesca Righetti;Paul A. M. Van Lange

  • Be Aware to Care: Public Self-Awareness Leads to a Reversal of the Bystander Effect.

    Marco van Bommel;Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Henk Elffers;Paul A.M. Van Lange

  • Fear Among the Extremes How Political Ideology Predicts Negative Emotions and Outgroup Derogation

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;André P. M. Krouwel;Max Boiten;Lennart Eendebak

  • When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories: The moderating role of perspective taking

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Eric van Dijk

  • Suspicion of institutions: How distrust and conspiracy theories deteriorate social relationships.

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Giuliana Spadaro;Haiyan Wang

  • Procedural Justice as Autonomy Regulation

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen

  • Extreme Political Beliefs Predict Dogmatic Intolerance

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;André P. M. Krouwel

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. M. Van Lange
Paul A. M. Van Lange Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Kees van den Bos
Kees van den Bos Utrecht University
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University
Henk A. M. Wilke
Henk A. M. Wilke Leiden University
Reinout E. de Vries
Reinout E. de Vries Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Karen M. Douglas
Karen M. Douglas University of Kent
Ilja van Beest
Ilja van Beest Tilburg University
Mark van Vugt
Mark van Vugt Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mario Gollwitzer
Mario Gollwitzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Olivier Klein
Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles

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