Dr Job van der Schalk, School of Psychology, Cardiff University

Overview

Research Group: Social Psychology
Location: Rm 10.04 Tower Building, Park Place
Email: VanderSchalkJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75353

Research Summary

Broadly speaking, my research investigates displays of emotions as communicative signals that have social meaning.

In my current project with prof. Tony Manstead we investigate how reactions to emotional displays of others are related to cooperative and/or competitive behaviour.

Teaching Summary

I supervise the final year research projects of several undergraduate students, and have given a lecture in the Postgraduate Research Design and Statistics course on moderation and mediation.

Selected Publications (2008 onwards)

Wiersema, D. V., Van der Schalk, J., & Gerben A. van Kleef (in press). Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue? Need for cognitive closure predicts aesthetic preferences. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. [pdf]

Van der Schalk, J., Fischer, A. H., Doosje, B. J., Wigboldus, D. H. J.,Hawk, S. T., Rotteveel, M., & Hess, U. (2011). Convergent and divergent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup, Emotion, 11, 286-298. [pdf]

Van der Schalk, J., Hawk, S. T., Fischer, A. H., & Doosje, B. J. (2011). Validation of the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES). Emotion, 11, 907-920. [pdf]

Van der Schalk, J., Beersma, B., Van Kleef, G. A., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2010). The more (complex), the better? The influence of epistemic motivation on integrative bargaining in complex negotiation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 355-365. [pdf]

Publications

Full List of Publications

Forthcoming

Wiersema, D. V., Van der Schalk, J., & Gerben A. van Kleef (in press). Who’s afraid of red,
yellow and blue? Need for cognitive closure predicts aesthetic preferences. Psychology of Aesthetics
Creativity and the Arts. [pdf]

2011

Van der Schalk, J., Fischer, A. H., Doosje, B. J., Wigboldus, D. H. J.,Hawk, S. T., Rotteveel, M.,
& Hess, U. (2011). Convergent and divergent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup, Emotion, 11, 286-298. [pdf]

Van der Schalk, J., Hawk, S. T., Fischer, A. H., & Doosje, B. J. (2011). Validation of the
Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES). Emotion, 11, 907-920. [pdf]

2010

Van der Schalk, J., Beersma, B., Van Kleef, G. A., & De Dreu, C. K. W. (2010). The more (complex), the better? The influence of epistemic motivation on integrative bargaining in complex negotiation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 355-365. [pdf]

2009

Hawk, S. T., Van Kleef, G. A., Fischer, A. H., & Van der Schalk, J. (2009). "Worth a thousand words": Absolute and relative decoding of nonlinguistic affect vocalizations. Emotion, 9, 293–305.

Fischer, A.H., Van der Schalk, J., & Hawk, S. T. (2009). Het ontstaan van collectieve emoties via emotionele besmetting. Het Tijdschrift voor Sociologie, 5, 165-179.

2007

Hess, U., Brody, S., Van der Schalk, J., Fischer, A. H. (2007). Sexual activity reduces women's perceived facial attractiveness of unknown men. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1991-1997.

Zebel, S., Pennekamp, S. F., van Zomeren, M., Doosje, B., Van Kleef, G. A., Vliek, M. L. W., & Van der Schalk, J. (2007). Vessels with Gold or Guilt: Emotional reactions to family involvement associated with glorious or gloomy aspects of the colonial past. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 71-86.

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Research

Research Topics and Related Papers

My current project is concerned with the question of how reactions to emotional displays of others are related to cooperative and/or competitive behaviour. My supervisor and collaborator on this project is Prof. Tony Manstead with Dr. Martin Bruder (University of Konstanz) as an external advisor. This project is part of the European Collaborative Research Network “The Social Dimension of Emotion Regulation” (ECRN-SoDiER).

I obtained my doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation that investigated how automatic reactions to emotional displays of others are influenced by how these others are categorized in terms of group membership. Our studies showed that people are more likely to converge to emotions of individuals with which they share group membership, while they may diverge from emotions of individuals with which they do not share group membership. These automatic reactions in turn predict feelings of affiliation with these other persons. Taken together these results suggest that displays of emotions bring people together when they share group membership, but drive them apart when they do not (Van der Schalk, Fischer, Doosje, Wigboldus, Hawk, Rotteveel, & Hess, 2011).

As part of my thesis, I developed a new stimulus set of emotional displays with my colleague Skyler Hawk, the Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set (ADFES). The ADFES is distinct from previous existing sets in that the displays are dynamic films rather than static photos, it consists of displays of nine different emotions, directedness of expression is emphasized with an active head-turn, the displays are portrayed by 22 models (male and female), and the models are from North-European and Mediterranean descent. A validation study showed that the ADFES received excellent recognition rates (Van der Schalk, Hawk, Fischer, Doosje, 2011). The ADFES is freely available for researchers upon request.

Funding

Together with Dr. Andrew Aubrey (COMSCI) we received funding to support research staff interdisciplinary activities from Cardiff University for our project “Human Face Animation and Perception Network” (£791.25)

Research Group

Supervisor: Prof. Tony Manstead
Research group: Emotion and Social Identity

Research Collaborators

Martin Bruder (University of Konstanz)
Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam)
Bertjan Doosje (University of Amsterdam)
Skyler Hawk (Utrecht University)
Jean Louis van Gelder (Netherlands Institute for the study of Crime and Law Enforcement)
Shaul Shalvi (University of Amsterdam)
Daphne Wiersema (University of Amsterdam)
Gerben van Kleef (University of Amsterdam)

Biography

Undergraduate Education

I received my pre-doctorate degree (MSc) in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. The thesis of my degree was supervised by Dr. Bianca Beersma.

Postgraduate Education

I received my doctorate degree (PhD) at the same university, with Agneta Fischer, Bertjan Doosje, and Daniel Wigboldus (Radboud University Nijmegen) as my supervisors.

Awards/External Committees

For my pre-doctorate thesis I was awarded the David Lennep prize by NSVP in 2004.

I was a member of the ASPO (Dutch Association of Social Psychology Research) Dissertation Prize committee in 2006 and president of this committee in 2007.

Employment

I am currently employed as a Research Associate at the School of Psychology, Cardiff University.