The Oxford Handbook of the Human Essence
Edited by John F. Dovidio and Martijn van Zomeren
Author Information
Martijn van Zomeren is Professor of Cultural and Political Psychology of Social Relationships at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He received his PhD cum laude from the University of Amsterdam in 2006, received various dissertation awards, early career awards, and grants, and is an international expert on collective action, activism and social change. The main theme in his work is the importance of theoretical integration in the various fields that he has contributed to, as reflected in his 2016 book, published by Cambridge University Press, entitled From Self to Social Relationships: An Essentially Relational Perspective on Social Motivation.
John F. (Jack) Dovidio, who received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1977, is currently the Carl Iver Hovland Professor of Psychology and Public Health, as well as Dean of Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. His research interests are in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination; social power and nonverbal communication; and altruism and helping. His scholarship focuses on understanding the dynamics of intergroup relations and ways to reduce intergroup bias and conflict.
Contributors:
Glenn Adams
Department of Psychology
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
Roy F. Baumeister
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL, USA
Jan Cieciuch
Institute of Psychology
University of Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland;
Department of Psychology
Cardinal Wyszynski University in Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
James F.M. Cornwell
Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership
United States Military Academy
West Point, NY, USA
John F. Dovidio
Department of Psychology
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Naomi Ellemers
Department of Social, Health, and Organizational Psychology
Utrecht University
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sara Estrada-Villalta
Department of Psychology
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA
Ronald Fischer
Centre for Applied Cross-Cultural Research
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand;
Interacting Minds Centre
Aarhus University
Aarhus, Denmark
Kenneth J. Gergen
Department of Psychology
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA, USA
Roger Giner-Sorolla
School of Psychology
University of Kent
Kent, England, UK
William G. Graziano
Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN, USA
Aiden P. Gregg
Center for Research on Self and Identity
University of Southampton
Southampton, England, UK
E. Tory Higgins
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
New York, NY, USA
Lotje J. Hogerzeil
Department of Clinical Psychology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hans IJzerman
Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Yoshihisa Kashima
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Bert Klandermans
Faculty of Social Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tugçe Kurtis
Department of Psychology
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA, USA
Arie Nadler
School of Psychological Sciences
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv, Israel
Roman Palitsky
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ, USA
Travis Proulx
School of Psychology
Cardiff University
Cardiff, Wales, UK
Curtis Puryear
Department of Psychology
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
Stephen Reicher
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of St. Andrews
Fife, Scotland, UK
David A. Schroeder
Department of Psychological Science
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR, USA
Shalom H. Schwartz
Department of Psychology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel;
National Research School of Higher Economics
Moscow, Russia
Constantine Sedikides
Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
Southampton, England, UK
Daniel Sullivan
Department of Psychology
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
Tom R. Tyler
Yale Law School
Yale University
New Haven, CT, USA
Joseph A. Vandello
Department of Psychology
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, USA
Martijn van Zomeren
Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences
University of Groningen
Groningen, the Netherlands