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Kees van den Bos

Kees van den Bos

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Psychology

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49
Citations
9737
World Ranking
5675
National Ranking
267

Overview

Kees van den Bos is an academic affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research predominantly spans the social sciences and psychology, with an emphasis on understanding social, psychological, and legal phenomena through interdisciplinary approaches.

The main fields of study explored by van den Bos include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

Within these broader fields, their work covers several subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Social Psychology
  • Law
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Clinical Psychology

Van den Bos's research topics reflect diverse interests, including:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Jury Decision Making Processes
  • Personality Traits and Psychology

They have contributed to publication venues with a notable frequency in:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Social Justice Research
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Law & Society Review

Van den Bos has authored and co-authored several papers reflecting the breadth of their research interests. Some recent publications include:

  • Country-level correlates of the Dark Triad traits in 49 countries (2020, Journal of Personality)
  • Structure of Dark Triad Dirty Dozen Across Eight World Regions (2020, Assessment)
  • Religious radicalization: social appraisals and finding radical redemption in extreme beliefs (2020, Current Opinion in Psychology)
  • Intolerance of uncertainty, future time perspective, and self-control (2021, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • Speaking of Justice: A Qualitative Interview Study on Perceived Procedural Justice Among Defendants in Dutch Criminal Cases (2020, Law & Society Review)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Beatrice de Graaf
  • Lisa F. M. Ansems
  • Alain Van Hiel
  • Qing Yang
  • Amarins Jansma

In the area of book publications, van den Bos has published with Cambridge University Press, notably the title The Fair Process Effect (2023).

Best Publications

  • When fairness works : Toward a general theory of uncertainty management

    E.Allan Lind;Kees van den Bos

  • Making Sense of Life: The Existential Self Trying to Deal with Personal Uncertainty

    Kees van den Bos

  • Determinants of radicalization of Islamic youth in the Netherlands: personal uncertainty, perceived injustice, and perceived group threat

    Bertjan Doosje;Annemarie Loseman;Kees van den Bos

  • On the subjective quality of social justice: The role of affect as information in the psychology of justice judgments

    Kees van den Bos

  • The inaction effect in the psychology of regret

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

  • An enquiry concerning the principles of cultural norms and values: The impact of uncertainty and mortality salience on reactions to violations and bolstering of cultural worldviews

    Kees van den Bos;P. Marijn Poortvliet;Marjolein Maas;Joost Miedema

  • Combined effects of uncertainty and organizational justice on employee health: testing the uncertainty management model of fairness judgments among Finnish public sector employees.

    Marko Elovainio;Kees van den Bos;Anne Linna;Mika Kivimäki;Mika Kivimäki

  • What are we talking about when we talk about no-voice procedures? On the psychology of the fair outcome effect

    Kees van den Bos

  • Uncertainty and the Roots of Extremism

    Michael A. Hogg;Arie Kruglanski;Kees van den Bos

  • The consistency rule and the voice effect : The influence of expectations on procedural fairness judgements and performance

    Kees Van Den Bos;Riël Vermunt;Henk A. M. Wilke

  • The Psychology of Own Versus Others’ Treatment: Self-Oriented and Other-Oriented Effects on Perceptions of Procedural Justice

    Kees van den Bos;E. Allan Lind

  • 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

  • Effects of organizational justice on depressive symptoms and sickness absence: a longitudinal perspective.

    Jan F. Ybema;Kees van den Bos

  • On preferences and doing the right thing: Satisfaction with advantageous inequity when cognitive processing is limited

    Kees van den Bos;Susanne L. Peters;D. Ramona Bobocel;Jan Fekke Ybema

  • Morality in Groups: On the Social‐Regulatory Functions of Right and Wrong

    Naomi Ellemers;Kees van den Bos

  • The influence of interdependent self-construal on procedural fairness effects

    Joel Brockner;David De Cremer;Kees van den Bos;Ya-Ru Chen

  • High procedural fairness heightens the effect of outcome favorability on self-evaluations : An attributional analysis

    Joel Brockner;Larry Heuer;Nace Magner;Robert Folger

  • “My In-group is Superior!”: Susceptibility for Radical Right-wing Attitudes and Behaviors in Dutch Youth

    Bertjan Doosje;Kees van den Bos;Annemarie Loseman;Allard R. Feddes

  • On the Psychology of the Belief in a Just World: Exploring Experiential and Rationalistic Paths to Victim Blaming

    Kees van den Bos;Marjolein Maas

  • We Blame Innocent Victims More Than I Do: Self-Construal Level Moderates Responses to Just-World Threats:

    Jan-Willem van Prooijen;Kees van den Bos

  • What Is Responsible for the Fair Process Effect

    Jerald Greenberg;Jason A. Colquitt

Frequent Co-Authors

E. Allan Lind
E. Allan Lind Duke University
Jan-Willem van Prooijen
Jan-Willem van Prooijen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Joel Brockner
Joel Brockner Columbia University
Henk A. M. Wilke
Henk A. M. Wilke Leiden University
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University
Herbert Bless
Herbert Bless University of Mannheim
Alain Van Hiel
Alain Van Hiel Ghent University
David De Cremer
David De Cremer National University of Singapore
Rachel M. Calogero
Rachel M. Calogero University of Western Ontario
Jochen E. Gebauer
Jochen E. Gebauer University of Mannheim

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