CURRENT MEMBERS
Get to know the current members of the ACID at the University of Amsterdam
Assosciate Professor
Bertjan Doosje is an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam. From 2012-2019, he held the Frank Buijs Chair on Radicalization Studies, financed by the Ministry of Social Affairs & Employment, Verwey-Jonker Institute (Utrecht) and MOVISIE (Utrecht). Within the Cultural Psychology Lab Bertjan is investigating the role of culture in relationship satisfaction; role of culture in resilience among refugees; reactions to cultural threat to group’s image. Click here for more information.
Assistant Professor
Allard Feddes is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has a PhD in Social Psychology (Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, 2007) and a MSc. in Social and Organizational Psychology (University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 2004). Allard has also studied at Maynooth University (Ireland) and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute (Portugal) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Allard is broadly interested in the question how group membership influences our thinking (cognition), feeling (affect and emotions) and doing (behaviour). His research includes topics such as intergroup prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination; antecedents and consequences of hate-crime; collective action; radicalization and terrorism and populism. In addition, Allard is interested in developing interventions (i.e., countering discrimination) and how to best show what works and and what not (evidence-based evaluation). Click here for more information.
Assistant Professor
Katharina is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the UvA. She completed her PhD in Social Psychology the University of British Columbia (2020) and held a SSHRC funded post-doctoral position at New York University (2021). In her research, she examines how cultural beliefs about our ingroup, and especially our gender, shape our life choices. She is especially interested in understanding how national culture shapes gender segregation and wants to understand why men are underrepresentation in the care-economy (healtcare, education and social services. Click here for more information.
Assistant Professor
Liesbeth is an Assistant Professor the University of Amsterdam, department of Social Psychology. After studying Social Psychology and Holocaust and Genocide Studies she obtained her PhD (2017) at the same university. Her PhD research dealt with the emotion of humiliation in different contexts and also focused on cultural differences in the antecedents and experience of humiliation. After finishing her PhD she worked as a postdoc at VU University (a project on age discrimination in the labor market) and Tilburg University (a project on political apologies across cultures), before returning to the UvA. Her research interests include intergroup behavior, cross-cultural psychology, political psychology and (group-based) emotions. Liesbeth is co-coördinator of the master track Cultural Psychology (together with Bertjan Doosje) and teaches a course on the psychology of intercultural contact and acculturation within this master track (together with Velichko Fetvadjiev). Click here for more information.
Assistant Professor
Velichko Fetvadjiev conducts research in the broad areas of personality and cross-cultural psychology, addressing topics such as the structure, consistency, and predictive power of personality traits across cultures; the relationship of personality and values; the role of language in personality expression; and research methods. He has been centrally involved in the South African Personality Inventory (SAPI) project, which developed a culturally informed instrument for the assessment of personality across ethnocultural groups in South Africa. The SAPI project addresses the challenges of assessment in a multicultural and multi-linguistic context, as well as proposing an integrated, emic-etic approach to personality research across cultures. His main current research deals with an interdisciplinary approach to personality and values across languages and historical periods. This ongoing work aims to advance the understanding of historical changes in personality and values by leveraging insights from analyses of written texts. He has received competitive grants from South Africa’s National Research Foundation and the University of Pretoria, South Africa, as well as start-up and travel grants from various institutions. He is the recipient in 2020 of the Early Career Award of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Personality. He is a member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the European Association for Personality Psychology. He is a founding member and secretary of the World Association for Personality Psychology. He holds an extraordinary chair as associate professor at North-West University, South Africa. Within the Cultural Psychology Lab Velichko is investigating personality and values. Click here for more information.
Assistant Professor
Michael Boiger is an assistant professor of social and cultural psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses on the intersection of culture, emotion and clinical practice, exploring how the relational dynamics of emotion play out in different (inter)cultural settings. In his current research, he studies how intercultural couples navigate differences in their emotional repertoires and how psychotherapists can constructively work with emotion in intercultural settings. Besides his academic activities, Michael works as an emotion-focused and systemic therapist in private practice. Click here for more information.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Hanna Szekeres is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She currently holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship funded by the EU Horizon program. Prior to her current position, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, where she also earned her PhD in Social Psychology. She previously conducted research at Harvard University as a Fulbright Scholar, at University of Amsterdam as a visiting doctoral researcher and she was a research assistant at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Her research focuses on social cognition, moral decision making, intergroup conflict and reconciliation, prejudice and prejudice reduction interventions. She has investigated these processes in a range of international contexts, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, anti-Roma hostility in Eastern Europe, gender and heterosexist bias, and educational discrimination against Muslim girls in the Netherlands. Click here for more information.
Chantal D’Amore
Contact: c.damore@uva.nl
Postdoctoral Researcher
Click here for more information.
PhD Candidate
I completed my undergraduate (B.Hons) and master degree in Department of Psychology, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. Now, I am working on my Ph.D project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bertjan Doosje and Dr. Disa Sauter about resilience of refugees. Within the Cultural Psychology Lab Tengku Nila is investigating the role of culture in refugees’ resilience. Click here for more information.
PhD Candidate
Beth Ye Zhou is a PhD candidate supervised by Dr. Katharina Block, Dr. Michael Boiger, and Dr. Suzanne Oosterwijk. Her research focuses on gendered emotion across cultures. In particular, she studies how men and women differ in their emotional experiences, expressions, and emotion norms, and how these differences influence both professional and close relationships across genders. In addition to that, she examines how these gender dynamics connect to cultural and structural factors such as gender inequality and economic development. Beth is also interested in broader social issues, including social movements and polarisation. Prior to starting her PhD, she completed a Research Master in Social and Health Psychology (cum laude) at Utrecht University. Click here for more information
PhD Candidate
Ayşe Gül is a PhD candidate in Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boğaziçi University, Türkiye, and subsequently completed an Erasmus Mundus Research Master in the Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion, and Diversity in Society, studying at SWPS University in Poland and the University of Oslo in Norway. Within the Cultural Psychology Lab, Ayşe Gül is investigating the experiences, perceptions and consequences of microaggressions. Click here for more information.
PhD Candidate
I completed my bachelor in psychology at the University of Groningen and research master in psychology at the UVA before starting my PhD funded by a Research Talent Grant from the NWO. I’m interested in emotions in cross-cultural and developmental contexts. In my PhD, I investigate how people from different cultural backgrounds express and interpret emotional expressions differently and why people are better at recognizing non-verbal expressions of emotions shown by their cultural in-group. I use a variety of methods in my research including surveys, meta-analysis, behavioural experiments, eye-tracking, and longitudinal studies. I also find it important to study diverse samples and have experience working with community samples, expats, and children. My interest in culture does not only reflect in studying psychological phenomena cross-culturally, but also working with people from diverse backgrounds in the process, which I believe Is essential to understanding culture and human behaviour. Within the Cultural Psychology Lab Yong-Qi is investigating the production and perception of emotional expressive behaviours across cultures and the cultural variations in emotional appraisals. Click here for more information.
Lecturer
Click here for more information.
CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY LAB 