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Institution
University of Amsterdam
Current Position
Professor
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Nijmegen University, 1996
Research Interests
 | Judgment/Decision Making |
| Motivation/Goal Setting |
| Person Perception |
| Social Cognition |
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Ap Dijksterhuis
Department of Psychology
University of Amsterdam
Roeterstraat 15
1018 WB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Home Page
Phone: +31 20 5256889
Fax: +31 20 6391896
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I am interested in the influence of various automatic and conscious processes on social behavior. My research basically highlights the automatic and unconscious side of behavior and although I do sometimes investigate conscious processes, I'm more and more inclined to draw the conclusion that consciousness is a pretty unimportant thing.
This general interest in behavior resulted in different research programs. The most time-consuming one is on the direct relation between social perception and social behavior. When we see others, we automatically activate stereotypes ("men", "women", "elderly", "professors", "hooligans", etc) and personality traits ("honest", "stupid"). This in turn elicits corresponding behavior. For instance, in the presence of professors we become (temporarily) smarter, while in the presence of elderly we tend to become forgetful. Other projects on the study of human behavior I am involved in include projects on habitual behavior, on physiological influences on behavior and on effects of immediate affective reactions on behavior. Apart from my work on behavior, I am also interested in the influence of social stereotypes on impressions we form of others.
Other things I like to do include: Travelling (in third-world countries); Reading (many different things); Going out (a lot); Listening to music (loud); Cooking (and eating). I'm also a dedicated football (soccer) fan.
 Journal Articles:
- Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (1999). Habits as knowledge structures: Automaticity in goal-directed behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
- Aarts, H., & Dijksterhuis, A. (1999). How often did I do it: Experienced ease of retrieval and self-estimates of performing mundane behaviors. Acta Psychologica.
- Aarts, H., Dijksterhuis, A., & Midden, C. (1999) To plan or not to plan? Goal achievement or interrupting the performance mundane behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology.
- Dijksterhuis, A., Macrae, C.N. & Haddock, G. (1999). When recollective experiences matter: Subjective ease of retrieval and stereotyping. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 760-768.
- Dijksterhuis, A., Spears, R., Postmes, T., Stapel, D.A., Koomen, W., van Knippenberg, A. & Scheepers, D. (1998). Seeing one thing and doing another: Contrast effects in automatic behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 862-871.
- Dijksterhuis, A., & van Knippenberg, A. (1999). Behavioral indecision: Effects of self-focus on automatic behavior. Social Cognition.
- Dijksterhuis, A., & van Knippenberg, A. (1999). On the parameters of associative strength: Central tendency and variability as determinants of stereotype accessibility. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25, 527-536.
- Dijksterhuis, A., van Knippenberg, A. (1998). The relation between perception and behavior or how to win a game of Trivial Pursuit. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 865-877.
- Koole, S., Smeets, K., van Knippenberg, A., & Dijksterhuis, A. (1999) The cessation of rumination through self-affirmation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 111-125.
- Van Knippenberg, A., Dijksterhuis, A. & Vermeulen, D. (1999). Judgment and memory of a criminal act: The effects of stereotypes and cognitive load. European Journal of Social Psychology, 29, 191-202.
Other Publications:
- Dijksterhuis, A., Bargh, J. A., & Miedema, J. (1999). Of men and mackerels: Attention and automatic behavior. In H. Bless & J. P. Forgas (Eds.), Subjective experience in social cognition and behavior. Philadelphia: Psychology Press (in press).
- Dijksterhuis, A. & van Knippenberg, A. (1998). Inhibition, Aberdeen and other cloudy subjects. In R.S. Wyer (Ed.), Advances in Social Cognition, Vol 11, 83-96.
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