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Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg

Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg

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Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
5216
World Ranking
9545
National Ranking
944

Overview

Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily within the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their scholarly output includes 91 publications in Psychology and 37 in Social Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Their research is concentrated on key topics that include:

  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Psychological well-being and life satisfaction
  • Cultural differences and values
  • Behavioral health and interventions
  • Media influence and health
  • Mental health research topics
  • Social and intergroup psychology

Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg's work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Motivation and Emotion
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Journal of Personality

Recent papers include:

  • A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions, 2022, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations, 2021, Journal of Personality
  • Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak, 2020, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Attention Drifting In and Out: The Boredom Feedback Model, 2021, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries, 2020, Journal of Happiness Studies

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Eric R. Igou
  • Kuba Kryś
  • Joonha Park
  • Heyla A. Selim
  • Brian W. Haas

Best Publications

  • On boredom: Lack of challenge and meaning as distinct boredom experiences

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou

  • Eaten up by boredom: consuming food to escape awareness of the bored self

    Andrew B. Moynihan;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou;Arnaud Wisman

  • In search of meaningfulness: Nostalgia as an antidote to boredom.

    Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg;Eric R. Igou;Constantine Sedikides

  • On Boredom and Social Identity: A Pragmatic Meaning-Regulation Approach

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou

  • Collective nostalgia: A group-level emotion that confers unique benefits on the group.

    Tim Wildschut;Martin Bruder;Sara Robertson;Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg

  • Boredom begs to differ: Differentiation from other negative emotions.

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou

  • A three-dimensional taxonomy of achievement emotions.

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  • Be Careful Where You Smile: Culture Shapes Judgments of Intelligence and Honesty of Smiling Individuals

    Kuba Krys;C. Melanie Vauclair;Colin A. Capaldi;Vivian Miu Chi Lun

  • Can boredom help? Increased prosocial intentions in response to boredom

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou

  • The mnemonic muse: Nostalgia fosters creativity through openness to experience

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut

  • What is boredom proneness? A comparison of three characterizations.

    Katy Y. Y. Tam;Katy Y. Y. Tam;Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg;Christian S. Chan

  • Affirming Basic Psychological Needs Promotes Mental Well-Being During the COVID-19 Outbreak

    Katarzyna Cantarero;Katarzyna Cantarero;Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg;Ewelina Smoktunowicz

  • Situational meaninglessness and state boredom: cross-sectional and experience-sampling findings

    Christian S. Chan;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou;Cyanea Y. S. Poon

  • How nostalgia infuses life with meaning: From social connectedness to self-continuity

    Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg;Constantine Sedikides;Tim Wildschut;Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets

  • Attention Drifting In and Out: The Boredom Feedback Model:

    Katy Y. Y. Tam;Katy Y. Y. Tam;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Christian S. Chan;Eric Raymond Igou

  • On the meaningfulness of behavior: An expectancy x value approach

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou;Eric Raymond Igou

  • Nostalgia's place among self-relevant emotions.

    Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

  • Risk-taking increases under boredom

    Ayşenur Kılıç;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric R. Igou

  • An appraisal profile of nostalgia.

    Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg;Martin Bruder;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

  • Putting the “we” into well-being : Using collectivism-themed measures of well-being attenuates well-being’s association with individualism

    Kuba Krys;John M. Zelenski;Colin A. Capaldi;Joonha Park

  • Going to political extremes in response to boredom

    Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Eric Raymond Igou

  • Boredom Increases Impulsiveness: A Meaning-Regulation Perspective

    Andrew B. Moynihan;Eric Raymond Igou;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg

  • Hungering for the past: Nostalgic food labels increase purchase intentions and actual consumption.

    Xinyue Zhou;Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg;Dongmei Mei;Tim Wildschut

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric R. Igou
Eric R. Igou University of Limerick
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Tim Wildschut
Tim Wildschut University of Southampton
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Muhammad Rizwan
Muhammad Rizwan Government College University, Faisalabad
John M. Zelenski
John M. Zelenski Carleton University
Brian W. Haas
Brian W. Haas University of Georgia
Benjamin Gardner
Benjamin Gardner University of Surrey
Ottmar V. Lipp
Ottmar V. Lipp Curtin University
Vivian L. Vignoles
Vivian L. Vignoles University of Sussex

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