Paul van Lange

Paul A.M. van Lange is a Dutch professor of psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, distinguished scholar at the [https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-paul-van-lange University of Oxford], and holds a [https://portal.uni-koeln.de/international/uoc-global/gf/global-faculty/prof-paul-a-m-van-lange global professorship] at the University of Cologne.

In his work on trust and human cooperation, he adopts psychological, economic, and ecological approaches to the brighter and darker sides of humankind. In so doing, he studies empathy, altruism, and fairness, as well as competition, norm violations, and hate, as well as broad societal issues such as [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X21000373 climate change], refugee crisis, or intergroup conflict (e.g., in soccer). He served as supervisor for more than 40 PhD students and Post-Docs, who completed research on topics such as cooperation in social dilemmas, gossip, bystander-effect, social mindfulness, and social relations ([https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214211002538 Vitamin S]).

He has (co)authored around 250 articles in journals such as ''Behavioral and Brain Sciences'', ''PNAS'', ''Nature Human Behavior'', ''Psychological Bulletin'', and ''Perspectives on Psychological Science'', and received various awards such as the Ig Nobel award, [https://ammodo-science-award.org/groundbreaking/winnaars/?_jaar=2020 Ammodo Science Prize] (for teams) by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, the [https://www.easp.eu/about/awards/kurt-lewin-medals/ Kurt Lewin Award] (mid-career), [https://www.easp.eu/about/awards/lifetimeachievement/? Lifetime Achievement Award] by the European Association of Social Psychology, and a [https://khmw.nl/verslag-uitreiking-van-der-aa-oeuvreprijs-van-der-knaap-proefschriftprijs-en-proefschriftprijs-interdisciplinariteit/ Lifetime Achievement Award (Van der Aa)] for his contributions to behavioral science by the [https://khmw.nl/ Dutch Royal Society of Science].

He has also (co)edited or authored 13 books on a variety of topics, including social dilemmas, how to publish, cheating and corruption, and power and politics, including [https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/handbook-of-theories-of-social-psychology/book233017 Handbook of theories of social psychology] (2012) and [https://www.guilford.com/books/Social-Psychology/Lange-Higgins-Kruglanski/9781462550241 Handbook of social psychology: Basic principles] (see "[https://www.paulvanlange.com official website]"). He is involved in many outreach activities, including contributions to (inter)national media, advice to national campaigns (SIRE, #DOESLIEF), and providing annual workshops for mayors and other professionals in the Netherlands and Europe. He has previously served as president of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology and scientific director of the [https://kurtlewininstituut.nl/about-kli/ Kurt Lewin Institute], is the founding editor of [https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology Current Opinion in Psychology] and [https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-research-in-ecological-and-social-psychology Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology], and served as associate editor for, among others, [https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/psp Journal of Personality and Social Psychology] and Psychological Science. Provided by Wikipedia