Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 3642
E-Mail:	scheepersdt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Instituut Psychologie, Sociale en Organisatiepsychologie
Office Address:	Pieter de la Court gebouw Wassenaarseweg 52 2333 AK Leiden Room number 2A32
Personal Homepage:	Scheepers.socialpsychology.org www.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/​psychologie/​organisatie/​sociaalorganisatie/​scheepers.jsp

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Daan Scheepers graduated in social psychology at the University of Amsterdam. At the same university he wrote his dissertation on in-group bias, which he defended in 2002. Since that time he works as assistant professor at Leiden University.  

Research

Daan Scheepers’ research is directed at the motivational aspects of group processes and inter-group relations. More specifically his work focuses on: 1. The motivational states of threat and challenge in relation to social identity and inter-group relations; 2. The functions of in-group bias; and 3. Regulatory focus in relation to group dynamics.

Teaching

• Beoordeling en beïnvloeding (3rd year undergraduate)
• Bachelorproject (3rd year undergraduate)
• Inter-group relations (Master Program S&O)
• Thesis Supervision (Master Program S&O)
  

Publications

 

• Does, S., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & Scheepers, D. (in press). At the heart of egalitarianism: How morality framing shapes cardiovascular challenge versus threat in whites. Social Psychology and Personality Science.
• Derks, B., Scheepers, D., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (in press). The threat vs. challenge of car parking for women: How self- and group affirmation affect cardiovascular responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Scheepers, D., De Wit, F., Ellemers, N., Sassenberg, K. (2012). Social power makes the heart work more efficiently: Evidence from cardiovascular markers of challenge and threat. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 371-374.
• Jonas, K.J., Sassenberg, K., & Scheepers, D. (2010). Self-regulation within and between groups. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 13, (2), 131-136.
• Ellemers, N., Scheepers, D., & Popa, A.M. (2010). Something to gain or something to lose? Affirmative action and regulatory focus emotions. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13 (2), 201-213.
• Scheepers, D., Ellemers, N., & Sintemaartensdijk, N. (2009). Suffering from the possibility of status loss: physiological responses to social identity threat in high status groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 6, 1075-1093.
• Scheepers, D., Spears, R., Doosje, B., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2006a). Diversity in In-group Bias: Structural factors, situational features, and social functions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 944-960.
• Scheepers, D., Spears, R., Doosje, B., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2006b). The social functions of in-group bias: Creating, confirming, or changing social reality. European Review of Social Psychology 18, 359 - 396.
• Scheepers, D. & Ellemers, N. (2005). When the pressure is up: The assessment of threats to social identity in low and high status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 192-200.
• Scheepers, D., Spears, R., Doosje, B., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2003). Two functions of verbal inter-group discrimination: Instrumental and identity motives as a result of group identification and threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 568-577.
• Scheepers, D., Spears, R., Doosje, B., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2002). Integrating identity and instrumental approaches to intergroup discrimination: different contexts, different motives. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 1455-1467.
• Scheepers, D., Branscombe, N. R., Spears, R., & Doosje, B. (2002). The emergence and effects of deviants in low and high status groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 611-617.
  

 

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