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Overview

Willem Verbeke is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans primarily the field of psychology, with a notable focus on experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, clinical psychology, animal science and zoology, and sociology and political science.

The core topics of their work include evolutionary psychology and human behavior, attachment and relationship dynamics, anxiety, depression, psychometrics and treatment, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, artificial intelligence in service interactions, social robot interaction and human-robot interaction (HRI), and media influence and health.

Willem Verbeke's recent publications reflect these thematic interests. Selected papers include:

  • "A functional neuro-anatomical model of human attachment (NAMA): Insights from first- and second-person social neuroscience," published in 2020 in Cortex
  • "Attachment styles moderate customer responses to frontline service robots: Evidence from affective, attitudinal, and behavioral measures," published in 2021 in Psychology and Marketing
  • "How songs from growing up and viewers' attachment styles affect video ads' effectiveness," published in 2022 in Psychology and Marketing
  • "Consumer self-reported and testosterone responses to advertising of luxury goods in social context," published in 2021 in the Italian Journal of Marketing
  • "Sustainable coccidiosis control implications based on susceptibility of European Eimeria field isolates to narasin + nicarbazin from farms using anticoccidial medication or coccidial vaccines," published in 2022 in The Journal of Applied Poultry Research

Frequent co-authors in Willem Verbeke's collaborative research include Tsachi Ein-Dor, Pascal Vrtička, Rumen Pozharliev, Matteo De Angelis, and Richard P. Bagozzi.

The main publication venues where the scientist's work has appeared are:

  • Psychology and Marketing
  • Cortex
  • Italian Journal of Marketing
  • The Journal of Applied Poultry Research
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Using the job demands-resources model to predict burnout and performance

    Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Willem Verbeke;Willem Verbeke

  • Drivers of sales performance: A contemporary meta-analysis. Have salespeople become knowledge brokers?

    Willem Verbeke;Bart Dietz;Ernst Verwaal

  • Do Organizational Practices Matter in Role Stress Processes? A Study of Direct and Moderating Effects for Marketing-Oriented Boundary Spanners:

    Jagdip Singh;Willem Verbeke;Gary K. Rhoads

  • Exploring the Conceptual Expansion within the Field of Organizational Behaviour: Organizational Climate and Organizational Culture†

    Willem Verbeke;Marco Volgering;Marco G.P. Hessels

  • Culture moderates the self-regulation of shame and its effects on performance: the case of salespersons in The Netherlands and the Philippines.

    Richard P. Bagozzi;Willem Verbeke;Jacinto C. Gavino Jr.

  • The Adaptive Consequences of Pride in Personal Selling

    Willem Verbeke;Frank Belschak;Richard Bagozzi

  • Exploring the contextual and individual factors on ethical decision making of salespeople

    Willem Verbeke;Cok Ouwerkerk;Ed Peelen

  • Individual differences in emotional contagion of salespersons: Its effect on performance and burnout

    Willem Verbeke

  • Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

    Josse Delfgaauw;Robert Dur;Joeri Sol;Willem Verbeke

  • Merely Being with you Increases My Attention to Luxury Products: Using EEG to Understand Consumers’ Emotional Experience with Luxury Branded Products:

    Rumen Ivaylov Pozharliev;Willem Jmi Verbeke;Jan W. Van Strien;Richard P. Bagozzi

  • Consumer response to the preferred brand out‐of‐stock situation

    Willem Verbeke;Paul Farris;Roy Thurik

  • Sales Call Anxiety: Exploring What It Means When Fear Rules a Sales Encounter

    Willem Verbeke;Richard P. Bagozzi

  • Theory of Mind and Empathic Explanations of Machiavellianism A Neuroscience Perspective

    Richard P. Bagozzi;Willem J. M. I. Verbeke;Roeland C. Dietvorst;Frank D. Belschak

  • A Sales Force–Specific Theory-of-Mind Scale: Tests of Its Validity by Classical Methods and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    Roeland C . Dietvorst;Willem J.M.I . Verbeke;Richard P . Bagozzi;Carolyn Yoon

  • Dynamic Strategic Thinking

    Peter R. Dickson;Paul W. Farris;Willem J. M. I. Verbeke

  • fMRI Activities in the Emotional Cerebellum: A Preference for Negative Stimuli and Goal-Directed Behavior

    Caroline K. L. Schraa-Tam;Willem J. R. Rietdijk;Willem J. M. I. Verbeke;Roeland C. Dietvorst

  • Genetic and neurological foundations of customer orientation: field and experimental evidence

    Richard P. Bagozzi;Willem J. M. I. Verbeke;Wouter E. van den Berg;Wim J. R. Rietdijk

  • When Intelligence is (Dys)Functional for Achieving Sales Performance

    Willem Verbeke;Frank Belschak;Arnold Bakker;Bart Dietz

  • Exploring the Relationship Between a Multidimensional and Multifaceted Burnout Concept and Self-Rated Performance

    Evangelia Demerouti;Willem J. M. I. Verbeke;Arnold B. Bakker

  • A Functional Neuro-Anatomical Model of Human Attachment (NAMA): Insights from First- and Second-Person Social Neuroscience

    Madison Long;Willem Verbeke;Tsachi Ein-Dor;Pascal Vrtička

  • A situational analysis on how salespeople experience and cope with shame and embarrassment

    Willem Verbeke;Richard P. Bagozzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Bagozzi
Richard P. Bagozzi University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Tsachi Ein-Dor Reichman University
Peter R. Dickson
Peter R. Dickson Florida International University
Evangelia Demerouti
Evangelia Demerouti Eindhoven University of Technology
Ale Smidts
Ale Smidts Erasmus University Rotterdam
Chris I. De Zeeuw
Chris I. De Zeeuw Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jan W. Van Strien
Jan W. Van Strien Erasmus University Rotterdam
Maarten A. S. Boksem
Maarten A. S. Boksem Erasmus University Rotterdam
Carolyn Yoon
Carolyn Yoon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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