Paul van Lange

Professional interests

My research interests focus on those patterns of social interaction that cannot be explained in terms of the assumption of “rational self-interest” and that are challenging to individuals. Key issues to which I am addicted as a researcher are:
(a) Differences in prosocial, individualistic, and competitive orientations
(b) Forgiveness, sacrifice, and generosity
(c) Trust and misunderstanding in social interaction
(d) Interdependence and taxonomic approaches to social psychology
(e) Bridging social psychology
(f) Translating social psychology to everyday life

Publications

Teaching

My teaching mission is to inspire students in analyzing various social interaction phenomena. I teach the following courses:
(a) The social psychology of egoism and altruism
(b) Interpersonal processes (with Dr. van Prooijen)
(c) Interdependence Processes (with Prof. Rusbult)
(d) Bridging Social Psychology (as of 2005)

CV

CV information can be found on my personal website:
http://www.paulvanlange.com

Personal interests

I am a Professor at the Department of Social Psychology at the VU University at Amsterdam, the Netherlands, working on social interdependence, cooperation and competition, trust, and misuderstanding in social dilemmas. I am also a Professorial fellow on Societal Conflicts at the University of Leiden at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology. Finally, I have held a number of other positions, such as Scientific Director of the Kurt Lewin Institute (see www.kurtlewininstitute.nl), Associate Editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the European Journal of Social Psychology, and member of the Policy Advice Committee of Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research.

Links

www.paulvanlange.com/

www.kurtlewininstitute.nl/