Diederik A. Stapel

Institution Tilburg University Current Position Professor of Consumer Science Highest Degree Ph.D. in Psychology from University of Amsterdam, 1997 Research Interests Applied Social Psychology Emotion Judgment/Decision Making Persuasion/Social Influence Self/Identity Social Cognition Laboratory Home Page TIBER Laboratory Courses Taught Attitudes and Persuasion Cognition and Emotion Professional Skills for Academics Social Cognition Social Psychology   Diederik A. Stapel Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research TIBER P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg The Netherlands Home Page Phone: (+31) (0) 13 466 839 Fax: (+31) (0) 13 466 206 Email: d.a.stapel@uvt.nl Diederik Stapel has a wide variety of research interests, including norm activation, motivational processing, impression formation, self-regulation, emotion regulation, and stereotyping. Recently, he has become involved with a series of projects that all center around using social cognition knowledge and techniques to further our understanding of consumer behavior. He has especially interested in how consumer cues (consumerism) lead to egocentric, unhealthy attitudes and behavior and impair intellectual performance. Journal Articles: Avramova, Y., & Stapel, D. A. (2008). Moods as spotlights: The influence of mood on accessibility effects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 542-554. Blanton, H., & Stapel, D. A. (2008). Unconscious and spontaneous and … complex: The three selves model of social comparison assimilation and contrast. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 1018-1032. Ruys, K. I., & Stapel, D. A. (2008). The secret life of emotions. Psychological Science, 19, 385-391. Stapel, D. A., & Koomen, W. (2006). The flexible unconscious: Investigating the judgmental impact of varieties of unaware perception. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 112-119. Stapel, D. A., & Marx, D. M. (2006). Hardly thinking about others: On cognitive busyness and target similarity in social comparison effects. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 397-405. Stapel, D. A., & Semin, G. R. (2007). The magic spell of language: Linguistic categories and their perceptual consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 34-48. Stapel, D. A., & Van der Zee, K. I. (2006). The Self Salience Model of other-to-self effects: Integrating principles of self-enhancement, complementarity, and imitation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 258-271.

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