Frenk van Harreveld
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Frenk van Harreveld obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Amsterdam. Subsequently, he worked for the world's largest consulting firm, Accenture, after which he returned to the University of Amsterdam. He has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
His research mainly concerns attitudes and decision making, and on both topics he has particular interest in various forms of evaluative conflict. Other research interests include processes underlying attitudinal judgment, emotion management, visceral drives, and thought processes in expert behavior such as chess.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Law and Public Policy
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
Journal Articles:
- Bullens, L., van Harreveld, F., & Forster, J.A. Keeping ones options open: The detrimental consequences of decision reversibility. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, in press.
- Nordgren, L. F., van Harreveld, F., & van der Pligt, J. (2009). The restraint bias: How the illusion of self-restraint promotes impusive behavior. Psychological Science, 20, 1523-1528.
- Nordgren, L. F., van Harreveld, F., & van der Pligt, J. (2006). Ambivalence, discomfort and motivated information processing. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 252-258.
- Nordgren, L. F., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2008). The instability of health cognitions: Visceral states influence self-efficacy and related health beliefs. Health Psychology, 27, 722-727.
- Nordgren, L. F., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2007). Evaluating Eve: Visceral states influence the evaluation of impulsive behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 75-84.
- Nordgren, L. F., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2006). Visceral drives in retrospect: making attributions about the inaccessible past. Psychological Science, 17, 635-640. (Featured as Editor's Choice in Science, 312, p. 1849.)
- Rutjens, B. T., van Harreveld, F., & van der Pligt, J. (2010). Yes we can: Belief in progress as compensatory control. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1, 246-252.
- Rutjens, B. T., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2010). Deus or Darwin: Randomness and belief in theories about the origin of life. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1078-1080.
- Rutjens, B. T., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2009). Things will get better: The anxiety-buffering qualities of progressive hope. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 535-543.
- Wiersema, D. V., van der Pligt, J., & van Harreveld, F. (2010). Motivated memory: Memory for attitude-relevant information as a function of self-esteem. Social Cognition, 28, 219-239.
- van Harreveld, F., Rutjens, B. T., Rotteveel, M., Nordgren, L. F., & van der Pligt, J. (2009). Ambivalence and decisional conflict as a cause of psychological discomfort: Feeling tense before jumping off the fence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 167-173.
- van Harreveld, F., Wagenmakers, E. J., & van der Maas, H. (2007). The effects of time pressure on chess skill: An investigation into fast and slow processes underlying expert performance. Psychological Research, 71(5), 591-597.
- van Harreveld, F., & van der Pligt, J. (2004). Attitudes as stable and transparent constructions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 666-674.
- van Harreveld, F., van der Pligt, J., Claassen, E., & van Dijk, W. W. (2007). Inmate emotion coping and psychological and physical well-being: The use of crying over spilled milk. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 34, 697-708.
- van Harreveld, F., van der Pligt, J., & De Liver, Y. (2009). The agony of ambivalence and ways to resolve it: Introducing the MAID model. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13(1), 45-61.
- van Harreveld, F., van der Pligt, J., & Nordgren, L. F. (2008). The relativity of bad decisions: Social comparison as a means to alleviate regret, British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 105-117.
Other Publications:
- Bullens, L., Forster, J.A., van Harreveld, F., & Liberman, N. Self-produced decisional conflict due to incorrect metacognitions. In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive Consistency: A Fundamental Principle in Social Cognition. New York: Guilford Press.
- van Dijk, W.W. & van Harreveld, F. (2008). Disappointment and regret. In N. M. Ashkanasy & C. L. Cooper (Eds.), Research companion to emotions in organizations. (pp. 90-102). London: Edward Elgar Publishers.
- van Harreveld, F., Schneider, I.K., Nohlen, H., & van der Pligt, J. Ambivalence and conflict in attitudes and decision-making. In B. Gawronski & F. Strack (Eds.), Cognitive Consistency: A Fundamental Principle in Social Cognition. New York: Guilford Press.
- van der Pligt, J., de Vries, N. K., Manstead, A. S. R., & van Harreveld, F. (2000). The importance of being selective: Weighing the role of attribute importance in attitudinal judgment. In M.P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 32, pp. 135-200). New York: Academic Press.
Courses Taught:
- Attitudes and Behavior
- Attitudes and Persuasion
- Consumer Decision-Making
- Current Debates in Attitudes and Decision Making
- Decision-Making
- Social Psychology
Frenk van Harreveld
Department of Social Psychology
University of Amsterdam
Roetersstraat 15
1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
- Phone: +31 30 525 7263
- Fax: +31 20 639 1896