Research Groups
Institute
University of Amsterdam
Department
Amsterdam School of Communication Research
Contact
Prof. dr. Jochen Peter
Focus
Persuasive Communication, Corporate Communication, Political Communication & Journalism, Youth &Media Entertainment
Institute
University of Amsterdam
Department
Amsterdam Center for Health Communication
Contact
Prof. dr. Julia van Weert
Focus
Lifestyle Communication, eHealth and Technology, Patient Provider Interaction, Groups at Risk, Word of Mouth, Entertainment Communication
Institute
Amsterdam UMC
University of Amsterdam
Department
Medical Communication
Contact
Prof. dr. Ellen M.A. Smets
Focus
Enhancing the evidence and impact of interpersonal verbal and non-verbal medical communication. Attention for the professional-patient relationship (trust), information processing and decision making, adherence and dealing with emotions.
Institute
Ghent University
Department
Health Psychology
Contacts
Prof dr. Geert Crombez
Prof. dr. Liesbet Goubert
Focus
Attention for pain and bodily sensations, self-regulation in relation to somatic symptoms and (chronic) illness, self-management of illness and illness behaviour, interpersonal processes in pain and chronic illness.
Institute
Utrecht University
Department
Self-regulation Laboratory: Social, Health, and Organizational Psychology Department
Contact
Prof. dr. Denise de Ridder
Focus
Self- and emotion regulation, self-control, nudging, planning & proactive coping, self-licensing and confabulation, health behavior interventions
Research in the Self-Regulation Lab considers the basic psychological processes that guide self-regulation. In many real-life situations, people hold and intend to pursue long-term goals and at the same time experience immediate distractions, temptations, urges, and frustrations – confronting them with typical self-regulation conflicts. Research in our lab also considers the contextual and personal factors that affect self-regulation processes such as environmental cues, social norms, and personal dispositions.
Institute
University Medical Center Groningen
Department
Health Psychology / Research Institute SHARE
Health Psychology Research
Contact
Prof. Mariet Hagedoorn
Focus
Adjustment to chronic, somatic illness; dyadic coping; psychosocial interventions
Institute
University of Twente
Department
Centre for eHealth and Wellbeing Research, department of Psychology, Health and Technology
Contact
Prof. dr. Gerben Westerhof
Focus
Persuasive Health Technology, Positive Psychology & Technology, Self-management & Health Assessment, Story Lab
Research in the Self-Regulation Lab considers the basic psychological processes that guide self-regulation. In many real-life situations, people hold and intend to pursue long-term goals and at the same time experience immediate distractions, temptations, urges, and frustrations – confronting them with typical self-regulation conflicts. Research in our lab also considers the contextual and personal factors that affect self-regulation processes such as environmental cues, social norms, and personal dispositions.
Institute
Wageningen University & Research
Department
Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles
Contact
Prof. dr. Emely de Vet
The chair group Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles aims to advance our conceptual understanding of healthy and sustainable consumption and lifestyles, and to exploit these theoretical notions for the design, evaluation and implementation of novel interventions to enable healthy and sustainable consumption patterns and lifestyles. The interdisciplinary stake on consumption and healthy lifestyles is at the core of the chair group and includes perspectives from sociology, psychology, geography, behavioural epidemiology & health sciences.
Institute
Maastricht University
Department
Chairgroup Health and Social Psychology
Contact
Prof. dr. Rob Ruiter
Our research focuses on the application of psychological theory to understand and influence human behaviour and decision making in everyday life, and addresses topics in the domains of health, safety and energy conservation. It involves the study of social psychological phenomena like processes of stereotyping and stigmatisation and the regulation of emotions as well as the use of social cognitive theories to identify causal factors of risky or problematic human behaviour, and apply behaviour change theory to promote health, safety, and environmental gains. We are author of Intervention Mapping, a world-leading framework for the development of theory- and evidence-based behavior change programmes. The group’s research frequently contributes to the development and implementation of educational campaigns and programmes, such as school-based education, mass media campaigns, internet sites, and programmes for work sites. Finally, the group has a long tradition in supervising external PhD candidates from low and middle-income countries in the Global South to strengthen local research capacity.
Institute
Maastricht University
Department
Section Experimental Health Psychology, Clinical Psychological Science, Departments, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience
Contact
Dr. Dimitri Van Ryckeghem
The Experimental Health Psychology research group studies the role of psychological processes in bodily symptoms in humans. It aims at furthering the understanding of psychologic mechanisms underlying health and disease and applies this knowledge to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of individuals with ill health.
Institute
Tilburg University
Department
Department of Communication and Cognition
Contact
Prof. dr. Emiel Krahmer
Focus
Communication and technology, Cognition, eHealth
Institute
Tilburg University
Department
Center of Research on Psychological and Somatic disorders (CoRPS), Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology
Contact
Prof dr. Tom Smeets
Focus
Psychological wellbeing, coping, and quality of life in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Psychological interventions in mental and somatic health care.