Paul A.M. VAN LANGE
USERN Advisory BoardFull Professor, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Social Psychology
Full Professor, IBBA
Full Professor, A-LAB
Personal
Date of Birth October 11, 1961
Nationality Netherlands
Status Married to Wilma Otten; one son Dion, one daughter Sera
1991 Ph. D. University of Groningen, Title thesis: The rationality and morality of cooperation
1986 MSc Social Psychology, Minor Quantitative Psychology, University of Groningen
Positions
2017-now Member of the international Anti-Corruption Academy
2016-now Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
2017-now Head of Section of Social Psychology
2014-now Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Oxford
2009-2017 Head of Department of Social and Organizational Psychology
2000-now Professor Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
2007-2009 Head of Department of Social Psychology
2000-2003 Scientific Director Kurt Lewin Institute
1999-2009 Professor (honorary) University of Leiden
1998-2000 Associate Professor VU University Amsterdam
1990-1997 Assistant Professor VU University Amsterdam
Honors and Awards
2020 Ammodo Science Award. A team prize (1.2 million euros) awarded by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences for groundbreaking research. https://ammodo-science-award.org/en/groundbreaking/
2020 Advertiser-of-the-year Award for Sire’s campaign #DOESLIEF, a nation-wide public education campaign for which I served as scientific advisor and spokesperson
2019 Founding Editor Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology (a new Elsevier journal in a series of high-impact Current Research journals)
2019 Effie Award for Sire’s campaign #DOESLIEF (also recognized as the best campaign in the Netherlands in 2019 by Social Media Awards), a nation-wide public education campaign for which I served as scientific advisor and spokesperson
2017 Awarded Visiting Professorship, University of Padova, Italy, supported by the Italian Science Foundation
2017 Award from the International Group for Social Dilemmas delivered at the 17th International Conference on Social Dilemmas (Taormina, Italy, June 2017)
2017 Invited address at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (Laxenburg, Austria, July 2017)
2016 Appointed member of Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities
2014 Founding Editor Current Opinion in Psychology (a new Elsevier journal in a series of high-impact Current Opinion journals)
2014 Awarded Visiting Professorship, University of Nanjing, China, supported by the Chinese Academy of Science
2014 Kurt Lewin Medal, mid-career award by the European Association of Social Psychology, an association with approximately 1,400 members
2014 Appointed Distinguished Research Fellow, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, The Oxford Center for Neuro-ethics
2013 Research Prize from the John Templeton Foundation on Altruism and Eye Cues (baserate < 5%)
2012 Invited speaker to symposium to award the Ludwig Wittgenstein prize (to Prof. dr. Walter Mischel) at the University of Vienna, Austria
2012 Appointed Associate Editor Psychological Science, the flagship empirical journal of the Association of Psychological Science (APS)
2011 Member of two collective graduate program grants, one initiated by the VU University, the other by the Kurt Lewin Institute, each awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Science (total 1.6k Euros)
2011 Elected President of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP), an association with more than 1,000 members, selected among five-year post-PhD candidates world-wide (I was elected President as first psychologist from Europe)
2011 Listed in Top 3 of Dutch Social Psychologists with largest impact (source: Volkskrant, November 6, 2011)
2009 Elected member of New York Academy of Science
2008 Invited Address. Trust, leadership and resource management. European Union International Convention “Social sciences and humanities facing the climate change challenges” (Paris, September 2008)
2007 Awarded replacement grant (48.000 euros) by Dutch Science Foundation to publish Handbook of Theories in Social Psychology (published as a two-volume set in 2012 with Professor Arie Kruglanski and Professor Tory Higgins)
2006 Elected APS fellow of the Association for Psychological Science
2005 Jean-Paul Codol Medal, an outstanding service award by the European Association of SocialPsychology to the Kurt Lewin Institute (for which I served as Director from 2000-2003)
2005 Invited speaker to Open Meeting on Empathy and Fairness. The Royal Institution, Supported by the Novartis Foundation in Collaboration with the Physiological Society (London, UK)
2005 Scientific producer of Mirror Mission, a science program on human behavior at Dutch National Television (around 300.000 viewers per episode; 7 episodes in total)
2001 Appointed Associate Editor of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JPSP, first psychologist from Europe), the number 1 empirical journal in social psychology.
2000 Elected Director of the Kurt Lewin Institute, an interuniversity PhD program involving Departments in Social and/or Organizational psychology in Amsterdam (both universities), Groningen, Leiden, and Utrecht.
1999 Awarded Interuniversity Priority Grant (425.000 euros, PI Van Lange) from the Dutch Science Foundation to initiate research on Interdependence and Adaptation.
Editorships
Book Series Editor for
Oxford University Press (2012 - now)
Chief Editor (founding) of
Current Opinion in Psychology (2014 - now)
Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology (CRESP, 2019 - now)
Associate Editor of
European Journal of Social Psychology (1998-2001)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2001-2002, 2007-2008)
Psychological Science (2008, 2012-2015)
Guest Editor for
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (Special Issue on Social Dilemmas 2013)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (PSPB, 2012)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS, 2014 - now)
Editor of
Annual Book on Applied Social Psychology (in Dutch) (1992-1994)
Editorial Boards
European Review of Social Psychology (2002-now)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1996-2001, 2003-2006, 2019-now)
Social Issues and Policy Review (2006-now)
Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2006-now)
British Journal of Social Psychology (2009-2012)
European Journal of Social Psychology (2001-2005)
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (2012-2017)
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (2009-2012)
Courses Taught
2010-now Interdependence: An expert workshop in the Research Masters Social Psychology
2007-2010 How to Publish: An optional course in the PhD program of the Kurt Lewin Institute
2005-now Bridging Social Psychology: A compulsory course in the Research Masters Social Psychology
2005-2009 Interdependence: An Atlas of Interpersonal Situations: A compulsory course in the Research Masters Social Psychology
2004-2005 Egoism and Altruism (formerly known as "Social Interdependence": An optional course at the undergraduate and graduate level
2002-2006 Interpersonal Processes : A course at the bachelor’s level, jointly given with Dr. Jan Willem van Prooijen or Drs. Monique Pollmann
2000-2003 Egoism, Altruism, and Justice: An optional course at the undergraduate level, jointly given with Dr. Riel Vermunt at The University of Leiden
1999 Interdependence and Conflict : A three-day workshop at the graduate level, given at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
1999-2001 Introduction to Social Psychology: A compulsory course at the undergraduate level
1998 Cooperation and Competition: A two-week international workshop at the graduate level, part of the Leuven/Louvain Summer School, organized by Prof. dr. E. Van Avermaet & Prof. dr J-Ph Leyens, and sponsored by the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
1998 The Social Psychology of Environment and Economics: An optional course at the undergraduate level
1997 Egoism and Altruism (formerly known as "Social Interdependence"): An optional course at the undergraduate and graduate level
1995-1996 The Social Psychology of Environment and Economic: An optional course at the undergraduate level
1992-1995 Egoism and Altruism (formerly known as "Social Interdependence": An optional course at the undergraduate and graduate level
1990-1994 Advanced Research Skills: An optional course at the undergraduate and graduate level
1990-1998 Research Skills: A compulsory course at the undergraduate level
1990-2000 Social Psychological Theories: A compulsory course at the undergraduate level
1990- now Research Projects: Supervision of research at the undergraduate level
Professional Membership
American Psychological Association (APA)
American Psychology Society (APS, Elected fellow)
Association of Dutch Social Psychologists (ASPO)
European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP)
Human Behavior and Evolutionary Science (HBES)
New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS, Elected Fellow)
Society for Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)
Society of Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)
Cultural Evolution Society (CES)
Scientific Impact
Google Scholar: Total citations: > 30,000, H-index = 86 (August 2021)
Three highly cited papers
Van Lange, P. A. M., Otten, W., De Bruin, E. M. N., & Joireman, J. A. (1997). Development of prosocial, individualistic, and competitive orientations: Theory and preliminary evidence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 733-746. (> 1,500 citations, Google)
Van Lange, P. A. M. (1999). The pursuit of joint outcomes and equality in outcomes: An integrative model of social value orientation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 337-349. (> 1,400 citations, Google)
Rusbult, C. E., & Van Lange, P. A. M. (2003). Interdependence, interaction, and relationships. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 351-375. (> 1,200 citations, Google)
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