Paul A.M. VAN LANGE

Full 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 17^th 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)