Prof. Dr. Arne Roets

	E-mail	Arne Roets
	Tel.nr.	09 264 64 17
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Cursussen	[K000799] Social Cognition and Group processes - Bachelor of Science in de Psychologie
	[H000022] Social Psychology I - Bachelor of Science in de Psychologie
	[B000534] Social Psychology - Bachelor of Science in Criminologische Wetenschappen
	[D002830] Social Psychology - Master of Science in de Gezondheidsvoorlichting (schakel)
	[K001056] Social Psychology - Bachelor of Science in Politieke Wetenschappen
	[K001091] Social Psychology - Bachelor of Science in Sociologie
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Onderzoek	1. Sociale Cognitie: Motivationele determinanten van besluitvorming, met vooral aandacht voor de impact van de Behoefte aan Cognitieve Afsluiting en stressoren op (sociale) beoordelingen.
	2. Politieke psychologie: Ideologie; Politiek extremisme; Politieke cognitie.
	3. Racisme: Dispositionele en situationele determinanten van racisme.
	4. Morele psychologie en oordeelvorming
	5. Persoonlijkheid: Openness to Experience, Relatie persoonlijkheid en ideologie.
	6. Implicaties van motivationeel-cognitive processen in klinische psychologie
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Bibliografie	Bibliografie
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	Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (in press). Of mice, men, and trolleys: Hypothetical judgment versus real-life behavior in trolley-style moral dilemmas. Psychological Science. De keersmaecker, J., Bostyn, D.H., Fontaine, J.R.J., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (in press). Towards an integrated cognition perspective on ethnic prejudice: An investigation into the role of intelligence and need for cognitive closure. Social Psychology and Personality Science. De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (in press). All victims are equally innocent, but some are more innocent than others: The role of group membership on victim blaming. Current Psychology. Dewitte, V., De Pauw, R., De Meulemeester, K., Peersman, W., Danneels, L., Bouche, K., Roets, A., & Cagnie, C. (2018). Clinical classification criteria for nonspecific low back pain: A Delphi-survey of clinical experts. Muscoskeletal Science and Practice [Formerly: Manual Therapy], 34, 66-76. Makwana, A. P., Dhont, K., De keersmaecker, J., Akhlagi-Ghaffarokh, P., Masure, M., & Roets, A. (in press). The motivated cognitive basis of transphobia: The role of right-wing ideologies and gender role beliefs. Sex Roles Szumowska, E., Kossowska, M., Roets, A. (in press). Motivation to comply with task rules and multitasking performance: The role of need for cognitive closure and goal importance. Motivation and Emotion Van Assche, J. Asbrock, F., Roets, A. & Kauff, M. (in press). Positive Neighborhood Norms Buffer Ethnic Diversity Effects on Neighborhood Dissatisfaction, Perceived Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Moving Intentions. Personality and social psychology Bulletin. Van Assche, J., Asbrock, F., Dhont, K., & Roets, A. (in press). The Diversity Challenge for High and Low Authoritarians: Multilevel and Longitudinal Effects through Intergroup Contact and Threat. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Van Assche, J., Dhont, K., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (in press). Ethnic Diversity and Support for Populist Parties: The "Right" Road through Political Cynicism and Lack of Trust. Social Psychology. Van Assche, J., Van Hiel, A., Dhont, K., & Roets, A. (in press). Broadening the Individual Differences Lens on Party Support and Voting Behavior: Cynicism and Prejudice as Relevant Attitudes Referring to Modern-Day Political Alignments. European Journal of Social Psychology.
2017	Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2017). Trust, Trolleys and Social Dilemmas: A Replication Study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, e1-e7. Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2017). An asymmetric moral conformity effect: subjects conform to deontological but not consequentialist majorities. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 310-322 De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2017). 'Fake news': Incorrect, but hard to correct. The role of cognitive ability on the impact of false information on social impressions. Intelligence, 65, 107-110. De keersmaecker, J., Onraet, E., Lepouttre, N., & Roets, A. (2017). The opposite effects of actual and self-perceived intelligence on racial prejudice. Personality and Individual Differences, 112, 136-138. De keersmaecker, J., & Roets, A. (2017). Group-centrism in the absence of group norms: The role of need for closure in social projection. Motivation and Emotion,41, 591-599. De keersmaecker, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., Van Assche, J., Onraet, E., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). Need for closure and perceived threat as bases of right-wing authoritarianism: A longitudinal moderation approach. Social Cognition, 35, 431 -447. Onraet, E., Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Haesevoets, T., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). The Happiness Gap Between Conservatives and Liberals Depends on Country-Level Threat: A Worldwide Multilevel Study. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 11-19. Van Assche, J., Roets, A., De keersmaecker, J., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). The mobilizing effect of right-wing ideological climates: Cross-level interaction effects on different types of outgroup attitudes. Political Psychology, 37, 757-776 Van Assche, J., Van Hiel, A., Stadeus, J., Bushman, B. J., De Cremer, D., & Roets, A. (2017). When the Heat is On: The Effect of Temperature on Voter Behavior in Presidential Elections. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 929
2016	Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2016). The morality of action: The assymmetry between judgments of praise and blame in the action-omission effect . Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 19-25.
	Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2016). Right-wing attitudes and moral cognition: are Right-Wing Authoritarianism and social dominance Orientation related to utilitarian Judgement? Personality and Individual differences, 96, 164-171.
	De keersmaecker, J., Van Assche, J., & Roets, A. (2016). Need for Closure effects on affective and cognitive responses to culture fusion . Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47, 1294-1306.
	Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., & Van Hiel, A. (2016). The Association between Actual and Perceived Diversity: The Moderating Role of Authoritarianism and Implications for Outgroup Threat, Anxiety, and Mistrust. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 807-817 .
	Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Roets, A., & Gast, A. (2016). Failures to Change Stimulus Evaluations by means of Subliminal Approach and Avoidance Training. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110, e1-e15.
	Van Hiel, A., Onraet, E., Crowson, H. M., & Roets, A. (2016). The Relationship Between Right-wing Attitudes and Cognitive Style: A Comparison of Self-report and Behavioural Measures of Rigidity and Intolerance of Ambiguity. European Journal of Personality, 30, 523-531. .
2015	Roets, A., Au E. W. M., & Van Hiel, A. (2015). Can authoritarianism lead to greater liking of out-groups? The intriguing case of Singapore . Psychological Science, 26, 1972-1974.
	Roets, A., Kruglanski, A. W., Kossowska, M., Pierro, A., & Hong, Y-y. (2015). The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: New Directions in Need for Closure Theory and Research. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 52, 221 - 283. .
	Van Hiel, A. Roets, A., Van Assche, J., Bostyn, D., De keersmaecker, J., Haesevoets, T. Joosten, A., Stadeaus, J., & Onraet, E. (2015). Defining the happiness gap. Science, 348, 1216-1216.
	De Houwer, J., Heider, N., Spruyt, A., Roets, A., & Hughes, S. (2015). The Relational Responding Task: Toward a New Implicit Measure of Beliefs.Frontiers in Psychology, 6, art. No 319. [Direct Open Access]
2014	Roets, A., Soetens, B., Au, E. W. M., & Guan, Y. (2014). Personal choice: A blessing or a burden, or both? A cross-cultural investigation on need for closure effects in two Western and two East-Asian societies. International Journal of Psychology, 49, 216-221.
	Roets, A., Cornelis, I. & Van Hiel, A. (2014). Openness as Predictor of Political Orientation and Activism across Europe . Journal of Personality Assessment (SI), 96, 53-63. .
	Roets, A., Raman, E., Heytens, S., & Avonts, D. (2014). Effects of dispositional need for closure and training on medical decision making. Medical Decision Making, 34, 144-146.
	Soetens, B. Roets, A., & Raes, F. (2014). Food for memory: food-related memory bias and the role of thought suppression in high and low restrained eaters. Psychological Record, 64, 105-114.
	Van Assche, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., & Van Hiel, A. (2014). Diversity and Out-Group Attitudes in the Netherlands: The Role of Authoritarianism and Social Threat in the Neighbourhood. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40, 1414-1430.
2013	Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2013). When motivation backfires: Optimal levels of motivation as a function of cognitive capacity in information relevance perception and social judgment. Motivation and Emotion, 37, 261-273. .
	Dhont, K. , Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2013). The intergenerational transmission of need for closure underlies the transmission of authoritarianism and anti-immigrant prejudice. Personality and Individual Differences, 54 , 779-784. .
2012	Roets, A., Schwartz, B., & Guan, Y. (2012). The tyranny of choice: a cross-cultural investigation of maximizing-satisficing effects on well-being . Judgment and Decision Making, 17, 689-704. [Direct open access]
	Dhont, K., Van Hiel, A., De Bolle, M., & Roets, A. (2012). Longitudinal intergroup contact effects on prejudice using self- and observer-reports. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 221-238. .
	Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Dhont, K. (2012). Is sexism a gender issue? A motivated social cognition perspective on men’s and women’s sexist attitudes toward the own and other gender. European Journal of Personality, 26, 350-359. .
	Richter, M., Baeriswyl, E., & Roets, A. (2012). Personality Effects on Cardiovascular Reactivity: Need for Closure Moderates the Impact of Task Difficulty on Engagement-related Myocardial Beta-adrenergic Activity. Psychophysiology, 49, 704-707. .
2011	Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Allport’s Prejudiced personality today: Need for closure as the motivated cognitive basis of prejudice . Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 349-354. .
	Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Impaired performance as a source of reduced energy investment in judgment under stressors. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 23, 625-632. .
	Onraet, E., Van Hiel, A., Roets, A., & Cornelis, I. (2011). The closed mind: ‘Experience’ and ‘cognition’ aspects of openness to experience and need for closure as psychological bases for right-wing attitudes. European Journal of Personality, 25, 184-197. .
	Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). An integrative process approach on judgment and decision making: the impact of arousal, affect, motivation, and cognitive ability. Psychological Record, 64, 497-520. .
	Dhont, K., Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Opening Closed Minds: The Combined Effects of Intergroup Contact and Need for Closure on Prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 514-528. .
	Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). The role of need for closure in essentialist entitativity beliefs and prejudice: An epistemic needs approach to racial categorisation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 52-73. .
	Roets, A. & Van Hiel, A. (2011). Item selection and validation of a brief, 15-item version of the need for closure scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 90-94. .
2010	Geyskens, K., Soetens, B., & Roets, A. (2010). Exposure makes the hearth grow less fond: The effects of exposure to palatable foods on the subsequent attention processing of food cues. Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 230-238. .
	Roets, A., & Soetens, B. (2010). Need and ability to achieve closure: Relationships with symptoms of psychopathology. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 155-160. .
	Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I. & Roets, A. (2010). To have or to be? A comparison of materialism-based theories and self-determination theory as explanatory frameworks of prejudice. Journal of Personality, 78, 1037-1070. .
2009	Cornelis, I., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (2009). Age effects on conservatism: Evidence on the mediating effects of Personality and Cognitive Style. Journal of Personality, 77, 51-88. .
	Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2009). The ideal politician: Impact of voters' ideology. Personality and Individual Differences, 46, 60-65. .
2008	Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I., & Soetens, B. (2008). Determinants of task performance and invested effort: A need for closure by ability interaction analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 779-792. .
	Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2008). Why some hate to dillydally and others do not: The arousal-invoking capacity of decision-making for low and high-scoring need for closure individuals. Social Cognition, 26, 333-346. .
	Soetens, B., Braet, C., Vanvlierberghe L., & Roets, A. (2008). Resisting temptation: Effects of exposure to a forbidden food on eating behaviour. Appetite, 51, 202-205. .
2007	Cools, A. M., De Witte, V., Lansweert, F., Notebaert, D., Roets, A., Soetens, B., et al. (2007). Rehabilitation of scapular muscle balance: Which exercises to prescribe? American Journal of Sports Medicine, 35, 1744-1751. .
	Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2007). Separating ability from need: Clarifying the dimensional structure of the need for closure scale. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 266-280. .
	Van Hiel, A., Cornelis, I., & Roets, A. (2007). The intervening role of social worldviews in the relationship between the Five-Factor Model of personality and political ideology. European Journal of Personality, 21, 131-148. .
	Van Hiel, A., Cornelis I., & Roets, A. (2007). A comparison of various authoritarianism scales in Belgian Flanders. European Journal of Personality, 21, 149-168 .
2006	Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Cornelis, I. (2006). The dimensional structure of the Need for Cognitive Closure Scale: Relationships with “seizing” and “freezing” processes. Social Cognition, 24, 22-45. .
	Roets, A., Van Hiel, A., & Cornelis, I. (2006). Does materialism predict racism? Materialism as a distinctive social attitude and a predictor of prejudice. European Journal of Personality, 20, 155-168. .
	Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2006). Need for closure relations with authoritarianism, conservative beliefs and racism: The impact of urgency and permanence tendencies. Psychologica Belgica, 46, 235-252. .
	Soetens, B., Braet, C., Dejonckheere, P.J.N., & Roets, A. (2006). ‘When suppression backfires’: The ironic effects of suppressing eating-related thoughts. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 655-668 .

De keersmaecker, J., Roets, A., Dhont, K., Van Assche, J., Onraet, E., & Van Hiel, A. (2017). Need for closure and perceived threat as bases of right-wing authoritarianism: A longitudinal moderation approach. Social Cognition, 35, 431 -447.

Vakgroep Ontwikkelings-, Persoonlijkheids- en Sociale Psychologie

Prof. Dr. Arne Roets