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Marcel Zeelenberg

Marcel Zeelenberg

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Psychology

D-Index
84
Citations
40623
World Ranking
1209
National Ranking
68

Overview

Marcel Zeelenberg is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily centers on psychology, with a focus on both broad and specialized subfields including social psychology, applied psychology, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, and general decision sciences.

Their work has appeared frequently in journals such as Emotion, SSRN Electronic Journal, Current Opinion in Psychology, Personality and Individual Differences, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

Zeelenberg's published research covers several key topics including psychological well-being and life satisfaction, decision-making and behavioral economics, behavioral health and interventions, cultural differences and values, emotions and moral behavior, personality traits and psychology, and social and intergroup psychology.

  • Supervised machine learning methods in psychology: A practical introduction with annotated R code (2021, Social and Personality Psychology Compass)
  • What we talk about when we talk about hope: A prototype analysis (2020, Emotion)
  • The good, bad and ugly of dispositional greed (2022, Current Opinion in Psychology)
  • When enough is not enough: Overearning as a manifestation of dispositional greed (2020, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • Dispositional Greed Scales (2021, European Journal of Psychological Assessment)

Marcel Zeelenberg has collaborated extensively, with frequent co-authors including Seger M. Breugelmans, Karlijn Hoyer, Christoph Kogler, Hannes Rosenbusch, and Anthony M. Evans. The number of joint publications ranges from 6 to 20 with these collaborators.

Best Publications

  • Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

    Alexander A. Aarts;Joanna E. Anderson;Christopher J. Anderson;Peter R. Attridge;Peter R. Attridge

  • Data analysis 2

    Fieke M. A. Wagemans;Mark Brandt;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • Beyond valence in customer dissatisfaction: A review and new findings on behavioral responses to regret and disappointment in failed services

    M. Zeelenberg;R. Pieters

  • A Theory of Regret Regulation 1.0

    Marcel Zeelenberg;Rik Pieters

  • Angry Customers Don't Come Back, They Get Back: The Experience and Behavioral Implications of Anger and Dissatisfaction in Services

    Roger Bougie;Rik Pieters;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • Anticipated regret, expected feedback and behavioral decision making

    Marcel Zeelenberg

  • Leveling up and down: the experiences of benign and malicious envy.

    Niels van de Ven;Marcel Zeelenberg;Rik Pieters

  • Regret in Decision Making

    Terry Connolly;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • On bad decisions and disconfirmed expectancies: The psychology of regret and disappointment

    Marcel Zeelenberg;Wilco W. van Dijk;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead;Joop van der Pligt

  • Consequences of regret aversion : effects of expected feedback on risky decision making

    M Marcel Zeelenberg;J Beattie;van der J Pligt;de Nk Koen Vries

  • A Meta-Analytic Review of Moral Licensing

    Irene Blanken;Niels van de Ven;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • On emotion specificity in decision making: Why feeling is for doing

    Marcel Zeelenberg;Rob M. A. Nelissen;Seger M. Breugelmans;Rik Pieters

  • Regret in repeat purchase versus switching decisions: The attenuating role of decision justifiability

    J.J. Inman;M. Zeelenberg

  • Emotional Reactions to the Outcomes of Decisions: The Role of Counterfactual Thought in the Experience of Regret and Disappointment.

    M. Zeelenberg;W. W. van Dijk;J. van der Pligt;Antony Stephen Reid Manstead

  • Option Attachment: When Deliberating Makes Choosing Feel like Losing

    Ziv Carmon;Klaus Wertenbroch;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • “Never eat in that restaurant, I did!”: Exploring why people engage in negative word‐of‐mouth communication

    Inge M. Wetzer;Marcel Zeelenberg;Rik Pieters

  • Dynamics of multiple-goal pursuit.

    Maria J. Louro;Rik Pieters;Marcel Zeelenberg

  • Moral sentiments and cooperation: Differential influences of shame and guilt

    Ilona E. de Hooge;Marcel Zeelenberg;Seger M. Breugelmans

  • Why Envy Outperforms Admiration

    Niels van de Ven;Marcel Zeelenberg;Rik Pieters

  • Comparing Service Delivery to What Might Have Been: Behavioral Responses to Regret and Disappointment

    Marcel Zeelenberg;Rik Pieters

Frequent Co-Authors

Seger M. Breugelmans
Seger M. Breugelmans Tilburg University
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University
Thomas Gilovich
Thomas Gilovich Cornell University
Joop van der Pligt
Joop van der Pligt University of Amsterdam
Henk Aarts
Henk Aarts Utrecht University
Eric R. Igou
Eric R. Igou University of Limerick
Agneta H. Fischer
Agneta H. Fischer University of Amsterdam
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University
Denise T. D. de Ridder
Denise T. D. de Ridder Utrecht University

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