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Jan-Willem Van Prooijen

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ID910489
NOMEJan-Willem Van Prooijen
PRENOMESJan-Willem
SOBRENOMEVan Prooijen
ASSINATURAVAN PROOIJEN J
AFILIAÇÕESVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0001-6236-0819
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TOTAL DE OBRAS110
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES833
TOTAL COMO AUTOR107
TOTAL COMO EDITOR3
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2001
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H16
  • Nobody Knows Better

    Open Access•Haiyan Wang, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Applied Cognitive Psychology•2026

    This research explored the relationship between overconfidence and conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1, cross‐sectional analyses demonstrated that both overconfidence in general knowledge and in climate change knowledge were positively associated with climate change conspiracy beliefs. In Study 2, we extended this approach to the COVID‐19 domain, assessing overconfidence in COVID‐19 knowledge and related conspiracy beliefs. An experimental manipulatio…

  • From ‘Great Awakening’ to sending death threats

    Open Access•Lisa van Es, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Criminology•2026

    Criminal offences associated with conspiracy theories have caused media headlines in recent years. Previous research has mainly investigated the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and intentions to, or support for, committing crimes, often relying on self-report data. We used police report data to investigate actual criminal behaviour committed in the Netherlands between January 2019 and December 2022 associated with conspiracy theories. In …

  • The Roles of Conspiracy Theories and Political Participation on Justifying Violence in the Capitol Hill Riots

    Open Access•Jesse Koster, Fengyu Dou et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2026

    We investigated the relationship between conspiracy theories, political participation, and justification of political violence during the 2021 Capitol Hill riots in two studies. Study 1 was a correlational survey of participants who voted for Trump in 2020, measuring their conspiracy mentality, belief in the 2020 U.S. presidential election fraud conspiracy theory, political participation, and justification of the violence used during the Capitol …

  • The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism

    Open Access•Alex P Schmid, Robin Bergh et al.•BOOK•Cambridge Handbook of the…•2025

    Psychology, with its dedication to understanding human behavior and its complexities, is a key part in comprehending the underpinnings of violent extremism. This comprehensive resource encompasses all major psychological frameworks related to violent extremism, making it essential reading for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students determined to enact positive change in this critical area. This handbook provides a state-of-the-art ove…

  • How Pseudolegal Advice Manifests Itself in Criminal Offending and Suspect Interrogations of Sovereign Citizens in the Netherlands

    Lisa van Es, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Deviant Behavior•2025•Referências: 16

    Dutch security services noticed in 2024 that crimes associated with the sovereign citizen movement have increased in frequency and severity. While most sovereign citizens obey the law, key influential people within the movement might inspire others to commit crimes using their own interpretations of the law, also known as "pseudolaw". We compared popular literary sources within the sovereign citizen movement with police interrogations of sovereig…

  • Sweet poison’ and ‘mild medicine’

    Open Access•Jia‐yan Mao, Cai‐Yu Tian et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 56

    Collective narcissism and non‐narcissistic ingroup positivity (notably collective self‐esteem) are associated differently with conspiracy beliefs. We conducted three cross‐sectional surveys in China and the United States that distinguished between ingroup and outgroup conspiracy beliefs, to explore the intricate relationships and underlying mechanisms of these variables. Studies 1 ( N = 800) and 2 ( N = 385) showed that, in China, collective narc…

  • Popcorn politics

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Julia Kipperman et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2025•Referências: 45

    Populism refers to a political style that describes society as a struggle between corrupt elites versus noble people and occurs across the political spectrum. What explains the appeal of populist leaders? In the present contribution, we tested the hypothesis that entertainment appraisals predict support more strongly for populist than non‐populist leaders. Four preregistered studies conducted among US participants supported this hypothesis, compa…

  • The ‘sour grapes’ of conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Kostas Papaioannou, Myrto Pantazi et al.•ARTICLE•Acta Politica•2025•Referências: 114

  • How Do People Morally Judge Corruption? A Comparison Between the Netherlands and Indonesia

    Open Access•Meta Zahro Aurelia, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 71

    Extant research on corruption has uncovered the important role of norms. Yet, little is known about how people view specific acts of corruption in countries that differ in the prevalence of corruption. The present research examines moral judgements of four different types of corrupt acts in a high‐ versus low‐corruption country, thereby providing a critical test of two opposing hypotheses. The descriptive norms approach predicts that citizens of …

  • When Fear Breeds Division

    Open Access•Xiao‐na Xie, Zhao‐xie Zeng et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2025•Referências: 59

    Previous research has examined how people with different ideological positions develop negative attitudes towards each other in threatening situations. However, there remains limited understanding of these dynamics in non‐Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) populations, particularly regarding the psychological processes that drive negative attitudes between individuals with opposing views on specific issues rather than …

  • The Evil Enemy

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kyriaki Fousiani et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2025•Referências: 62

    Political leaders often justify war with conspiracy theories. How effective are such conspiracy theories in gathering public support for war? The present research has investigated the effects of conspiracy theories on people's war‐related attitudes. Studies 1 and 2 were two‐wave panel studies showing that conspiracy theories about Ukraine and its allies (e.g., the United States) predicted increased support for the Russian invasion over time, as w…

  • Not a real meritocracy? How conspiracy beliefs reduce perceived distributive justice

    Open Access•Qi Zhao, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2025•Referências: 81

    The meritocracy principle, along with other distributive justice principles such as equality and need, is fundamental to the healthy functioning of modern societies. However, our understanding of the factors that shape citizens' perceptions of these principles remains limited. We proposed that conspiracy beliefs are negatively related to distributive perceptions and tested these relationships in four studies. Study 1 analyzed a global dataset (90…

  • Dissatisfied democrats, but democrats nonetheless?” Unraveling the democratic paradox between populism and preference for alternative political systems

    Open Access•Kostas Papaioannou, Sam Slewe et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2025•Referências: 69

    Populism presents a democratic paradox, portrayed both as a democratic threat and a fundamental tenet of democracy. We investigate the paradoxical relationship between populism and pro‐ and anti‐democratic attitudes, focusing on the role of status quo rejection, feelings of powerlessness, and social justice support. Study 1 ( United Kingdom, N = 293 ) and Study ( United Kingdom, N = 350, pre‐registered ) show that populist attitudes are associate…

  • An adversarial collaboration on the rigidity‐of‐the‐right, symmetry thesis, or rigidity‐of‐extremes

    Open Access•Shauna M Bowe, Cory J Clark et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2025•Referências: 49

    In an adversarial collaboration, two preregistered U.S.‐based studies (total N = 6181) tested three hypotheses regarding the relationship between political ideology and belief rigidity (operationalized as less evidence‐based belief updating): rigidity‐of‐the‐right, symmetry, and rigidity‐of‐extremes. Across both studies, general and social conservatism were weakly associated with rigidity (|b| ~ .05), and conservatives were more rigid than libera…

  • Why existential threats increase conspiracy beliefs

    Open Access•Jia‐yan Mao, Zhao‐xie Zeng et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 68

    This research investigates the cognitive mechanisms linking health-related existential threats to conspiracy beliefs within a Chinese context. Study 1 (N = 199) demonstrated that the relationship between perceived existential threats and outgroup conspiracy beliefs is mediated by hypersensitive agency detection through an experimental manipulation involving a monkeypox virus threat. Studies 2a (N = 198) and 2b (N = 200) revealed that illusory pat…

  • How belief in conspiracy theories could harm sustainability

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jakub Šrol et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2025•Citada por: 1•Referências: 148

  • How perceived coercion polarizes unvaccinated people

    Open Access•Haiyan Wang, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Health Psychology•2025•Referências: 57

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, different policies were implemented to increase vaccination uptake. Meanwhile, conspiracy theories spread widely, and vaccinated versus unvaccinated people increasingly polarized against each other. This study examined the associations between perceived vaccination coercion, conspiracy beliefs and polarization. We tested the relationship of vaccination status with perceived vaccination coercion, conspiracy beliefs, a…

  • Seeing through Troubled Water

    Open Access•Astrid Bastiaens, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Terrorism and Political Violence•2025

    Prevention strategies for terrorist attacks commonly incorporate all aspects of radicalization, aiming to deter terrorist attacks by countering radical beliefs. In this article, however, we argue that the cognitive aspect of radicalization is not necessarily interconnected with its behavioral aspect and thus cannot reliably predict terrorist violence. It is therefore necessary to distinguish between them in prevention efforts, and to differentiat…

  • Status cues and moral judgment

    Open Access•Ming Dong, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2024

    Status-related impressions influence important interpersonal dynamics, including moral judgments of good or bad, and right or wrong, whereas these impressions can be formed based on subtle cues (e.g., formal versus casual attire of transgressors). The current research examined how attire influences moral judgments in transgressive contexts and for different transgressions. We proposed that attire would have different effects on moral judgments de…

  • Anti-establishment sentiments

    Open Access•David Abadi, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Cognition & Emotion•2024

    Previous research has found that populist attitudes and conspiracy mentality - here summarised as anti-establishment attitudes - increase when people feel threatened. Two types of intergroup threat have been distinguished, namely realistic threats (pertaining to socio-economic resources, climate, or health), and symbolic threats (pertaining to cultural values). However, there is no agreement on which types of threat and corresponding appraisals w…

  • The link between EU identification and responses to a war between non‐EU countries over time

    Open Access•Kyriaki Fousiani, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Scandinavian Journal of Psychology•2024

    The European Union (EU) is portrayed as a “normative power” that promotes democracy. How does identifying with the EU identity predict citizens' responses to a war between two non‐EU countries, where one (Ukraine) appears as the victim (i.e., a nation suffering significant harm as a result of military aggression by another country) and the other (Russia) as the aggressor (i.e., a nation initiating military aggression against another country)? Thi…

  • Do Conspiracy Theories Shape or Rationalize Vaccination Hesitancy Over Time

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Nienke Böhm•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2024

    Conspiracy beliefs are associated with vaccination hesitancy, which is commonly interpreted as evidence that conspiracy theories contribute to a worldview that damages public health. An alternative, and often ignored, explanation for this relationship is that people may rationalize their existing vaccination hesitancy through conspiracy theories. In two panel studies conducted at multiple time points during the vaccination campaign of 2021, we te…

  • Delusion-proneness predicts Covid-19 vaccination behavior

    Open Access•Kasim Acar, Ariadni Karagiannidou et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Psychiatry•2024

    Our results suggest that delusion-proneness is a key factor for attaining conspiracy beliefs, at least in relation to COVID-19 pandemic, and associated with lower vaccination rates as well as longer time to get vaccinated

  • Group-oriented motivations underlying conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2024•Citada por: 13•Referências: 27

    By assuming that a group of nefarious actors collude to harm a perceiver’s ingroup, conspiracy theories are an intergroup phenomenon. What are the group-oriented motivations underlying belief in conspiracy theories? This contribution proposes that conspiracy theories are associated with both symbolic, identity-based motivations and realistic, harm-based motivations. As symbolic motivations, conspiracy theories help people develop, maintain, and p…

  • Explaining the paradox of conspiracy theories and system‐justifying beliefs from an intergroup perspective

    Open Access•Jia‐yan Mao, Zhao‐xie Zeng et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2024•Citada por: 8•Referências: 60

    By distinguishing between ingroup versus outgroup conspiracy theories, this research seeks to explain a paradox in conspiracy theory research, namely, that conspiracy beliefs are associated with both derogation and justification of the social system. Study 1 (N = 1,481) was a survey in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic in China, and the results revealed a negative correlation between belief in ingroup conspiracy theories and system‐justifying …

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  • Conspiracy theories as part of history

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Karen M Douglas•ARTICLE•Memory Studies•2017•Citada por: 148•Referências: 7

    In the present contribution, we examine the link between societal crisis situations and belief in conspiracy theories. Contrary to common assumptions, belief in conspiracy theories has been prevalent throughout human history. We first illustrate historical incidents suggesting that societal crisis situations-defined as impactful and rapid societal change that calls established power structures, norms of conduct, or even the existence of specific …

  • Does extreme political ideology predict conspiracy beliefs, economic evaluations and political trust? Evidence from Sweden

    Open Access•André Krouwel, Yordan Kutiyski et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social and Political…•2017•Citada por: 55•Referências: 25

    A large volume of academic research has demonstrated that individuals who profess radical political ideology, both left- and right-wing, tend to share similar underlying psychological patterns. By utilizing data collected through a voting advice application in Sweden, this study aims to assess whether extreme leftists and rightists share similarities in the psychological and political understanding of how society functions. We propose three hypot…

  • Belief in conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2018•Citada por: 51•Referências: 79

    In this introduction to the EJSP Special Issue on conspiracy theories as a social psychological phenomenon, we describe how this emerging research domain has developed over the past decade and distill four basic principles that characterize belief in conspiracy theories. Specifically, conspiracy theories are consequential as they have a real impact on people's health, relationships, and safety; they are universal in that belief in them is widespr…

  • Belief in conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2013•Citada por: 48•Referências: 36

    In the present research, we examined people's tendency to endorse or question belief in conspiracy theories. In two studies, we tested the hypothesis that the perceived morality of authorities influences conspiracy beliefs, particularly when people experience uncertainty. Study 1 revealed that information about the morality of oil companies influenced beliefs that these companies were involved in planning the war in Iraq, but only when uncertaint…

  • Conspiracy mentality and political orientation across 26 countries

    Open Access•Roland Imhoff, Felix Zimmer et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2022•Citada por: 40•Referências: 71

  • Populist Gullibility

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Talia Cohen Rodrigues et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2022•Citada por: 34•Referências: 54

    The present research examines the relationship between populist attitudes—that construe society as a struggle between the “corrupt elites” versus the “noble people”—and beliefs in unsubstantiated epistemic claims. We specifically sought to assess the often assumed link between conspiracy beliefs and populist attitudes; moreover, we examined if populist attitudes predict conspiracy beliefs in particular, or rather, credulity of unsubstantiated epi…

  • Power to the People

    Open Access•Myrto Pantazi, Kostas Papaioannou et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2022•Citada por: 33•Referências: 48

    Although an increasing volume of research has identified several negative sociopolitical attitudes as correlates of conspiracy theories, to date it remains unclear whether belief in conspiracy theories is necessarily in conflict with support for democratic governance. In this contribution, we integrate previous findings suggesting inconsistent relationships between belief in conspiracy theories and support for democratic governance. Study 1 (N = …

  • Connecting the dots

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Karen M Douglas et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2018•Citada por: 32•Referências: 66

    A common assumption is that belief in conspiracy theories and supernatural phenomena are grounded in illusory pattern perception. In the present research we systematically tested this assumption. Study 1 revealed that such irrational beliefs are related to perceiving patterns in randomly generated coin toss outcomes. In Study 2, pattern search instructions exerted an indirect effect on irrational beliefs through pattern perception. Study 3 reveal…

  • Investigating the Links Between Cultural Values and Belief in Conspiracy Theories

    Open Access•Jais Adam‐troian, Pascal Wagner‐egger et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2021•Citada por: 26•Referências: 71

    Research suggests that belief in conspiracy theories (CT) stems from basic psychological mechanisms and is linked to other belief systems (e.g., religious beliefs). While previous research has extensively examined individual and contextual variables associated with CT beliefs, it has not yet investigated the role of culture. In the current research, we tested, based on a situated cultural cognition perspective, the extent to which culture predict…

  • Make It Great Again

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Sabine Rosema et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2022•Citada por: 23•Referências: 35

    Populist movements typically endorse a pessimistic view that blames the “elites” for societal problems. Why is this populist worldview so appealing to many citizens? We propose that populism is associated with nostalgia: A bittersweet feeling defined as a sentimental longing for a better past. We tested this idea in three preregistered studies. Study 1 revealed that both personal and collective nostalgia (i.e., referring to either personal memori…

  • The cultural dimension of intergroup conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Mengdi Song•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2021•Citada por: 21•Referências: 42

    Although conspiracy theories are ubiquitous across times and cultures, research has not investigated how cultural dimensions may predict conspiracy beliefs. The present research examined intergroup conspiracy beliefs in United States and Chinese samples at the peak of the trade war. In two studies (one pre-registered; total N = 1,092), we asked US participants to what extent they believed Chinese institutions and companies were conspiring against…

  • Be aware to care

    Open Access•Marco van Bommel, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2012•Citada por: 21•Referências: 24

  • Group Belongingness and Procedural Justice

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2004•Citada por: 20•Referências: 48

    The authors focus on the relation between group membership and procedural justice. They argue that whether people are socially included or excluded by their peers influences their reactions to unrelated experiences of procedural justice. Findings from 2 experiments corroborate the prediction that reactions to voice as opposed to no-voice procedures are affected more strongly when people are included in a group than when they are excluded from a g…

  • When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Eric Van Dijk•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2014•Citada por: 18•Referências: 45

  • Referent Cognitions Theory

    Kees Van Den Bos, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2001•Citada por: 17•Referências: 37

    The most generally accepted and best documented manipulation in procedural justice experiments is varying whether or not participants are allowed an opportunity to voice their opinion about a decision. To better understand the psychology of voice, the authors focus on Referent Cognitions Theory (RCT). It is argued that thus far RCT has not been used to explain the psychology of voice and that previous RCT research suffers from methodological prob…

  • Is democracy under threat? Why belief in conspiracy theories predicts autocratic attitudes

    Open Access•Kostas Papaioannou, Myrto Pantazi et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2023•Citada por: 16•Referências: 62

    Scholars and policy‐makers are increasingly concerned with the detrimental effects of conspiracy theories. Yet, it remains unclear whether conspiracy beliefs actually pose a threat to democracy by rendering people less supportive of democratic governance. Three studies suggest that conspiracy theories may incite support for autocratic regimes. A first nationally representative sample ( Greece , N = 492), established a link between conspiracy beli…

  • Personal Contact with Refugees is Key to Welcoming Them

    Open Access•Lena Knappert, Hans Van Dijk et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2021•Citada por: 15•Referências: 68

    Politicians are influential both in directing policies about refugees and in framing public discourse about them. However, unlike other host country residents, politicians' attitudes towards refugees and integration are remarkably understudied. We therefore examine similarities and differences between politicians' attitudes towards refugee integration and those held by citizens. Based on the stereotype content model, we expect that political ideo…

  • Procedural justice as autonomy regulation

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2009•Citada por: 15•Referências: 19

    The present research investigated the relation between autonomy (i.e., freedom of choice) and procedural justice. Three studies tested the hypothesis that people would be particularly sensitive to the fairness of decision-making procedures when they experience deprivation of autonomy needs. Study 1 indicated that procedural justice judgments indeed were influenced more strongly by variations in decision-making procedures among participants who ex…

  • The entertainment value of conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Joline Ligthart et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2022•Citada por: 14•Referências: 60

    Many citizens around the globe believe conspiracy theories. Why are conspiracy theories so appealing? Here, we propose that conspiracy theories elicit intense emotions independent of emotional valence. People therefore find conspiracy theories entertaining - that is, narratives that people perceive as interesting, exciting, and attention-grabbing - and such entertainment appraisals are positively associated with belief in them. Five studies suppo…

  • Procedural justice and intragroup status

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2005•Citada por: 14•Referências: 33

  • Group-oriented motivations underlying conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2024•Citada por: 13•Referências: 27

    By assuming that a group of nefarious actors collude to harm a perceiver’s ingroup, conspiracy theories are an intergroup phenomenon. What are the group-oriented motivations underlying belief in conspiracy theories? This contribution proposes that conspiracy theories are associated with both symbolic, identity-based motivations and realistic, harm-based motivations. As symbolic motivations, conspiracy theories help people develop, maintain, and p…

  • Unravelling the relationship between populism and belief in conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Kostas Papaioannou, Myrto Pantazi et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Psychology•2023•Citada por: 13•Referências: 42

    In recent years, it has been argued that conspiracy beliefs and populist attitudes go hand in hand. Despite their theoretical and empirical similarities, it remains unclear why these constructs are so closely associated. Across three studies, we examined the processes underlying the relationship between belief in conspiracy theories and populist attitudes. Study 1 (Greece, N = 275) and Study 2 (United Kingdom, N = 300) revealed that the relations…

  • Retributive versus compensatory justice

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2010•Citada por: 13•Referências: 39

    In the current paper, the author examines whether independent observers of criminal offenses have a relative preference for either retributive justice (i.e., punishing the offender) or compensatory justice (i.e., compensating the victim for the harm done). In Study 1, results revealed that participants recommended higher sums of money if a financial transaction was framed as offender punishment (i.e., the offender would pay money to the victim) t…

  • Political extremism and distrust

    Open Access•Yordan Kutiyski, André Krouwel et al.•ARTICLE•The Social Science Journal•2019•Citada por: 12•Referências: 27

    Institutional and political distrust are often associated with the improved electoral performance of extremist parties. This study analyses to what extent political distrust and Euroscepticism are associated with extreme left and right ideological positions. We specifically examine voters in the Netherlands – a country with wide array of political parties spanning a broad ideological spectrum. The study utilises probability samples from the Dutch…

  • Sometimes inclusion breeds suspicion

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2016•Citada por: 10•Referências: 66

    In the present contribution, the author investigated the idea that messages communicating inclusion by others lead to stronger conspiracy beliefs about impactful societal events than messages communicating exclusion by others. These effects of belongingness, however, were expected only among people who experience high levels of self‐uncertainty. In Study 1, a manipulation of belongingness predicted belief in conspiracy theories only among people …

  • Confirmatory Analysis of Exploratively Obtained Factor Structures

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Willem A van der Kloot•ARTICLE•Educational and Psychological…•2001

    Factor structures obtained by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) often turn out to fit poorly in confirmative follow-up studies. In the present study, the authors assessed the extent to which results obtained in EFA studies can be replicated by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) in the same sample. More specifically, the authors used CFA to test three different factor models on several correlation matrices of exploratively obtained factor structur…

  • Referent Cognitions Theory

    Kees Van Den Bos, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2001•Citada por: 17•Referências: 37

    The most generally accepted and best documented manipulation in procedural justice experiments is varying whether or not participants are allowed an opportunity to voice their opinion about a decision. To better understand the psychology of voice, the authors focus on Referent Cognitions Theory (RCT). It is argued that thus far RCT has not been used to explain the psychology of voice and that previous RCT research suffers from methodological prob…

  • Procedural justice and status

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2002•Citada por: 1•Referências: 2

    The current article explores status as an antecedent of procedural fairness effects (the findings that perceived procedural fairness affects people's reactions, e.g., their relational judgments). On the basis of the literature, the authors proposed that salience of the general concept of status leads people to be more attentive to procedural fairness information and that, as a consequence, stronger procedural fairness effects should be found. In …

  • The role of standing in the psychology of procedural justice

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Review of Social…•2004

    In the current chapter, the authors explore the relation between social standing and procedural justice. Standing is an important construct in procedural justice theories and tends to be broadly defined as the position that people have in social groups. It is argued that the standing construct suffers from conceptual ambiguity: In procedural justice literature two distinct interpretations of standing can be distinguished, one defining standing as…

  • On the psychology of procedural justice

    Open Access•Tomas Ståhl, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2004•Citada por: 4•Referências: 24

    Theorizing on procedural justice has assumed that people's reactions to outgroup authorities are to a large extent based on instrumental concerns. Therefore, attention is primarily directed to outcomes rather than procedures in encounters with outgroup authorities. In the current article we propose that in order for people dealing with outgroup authorities to be strongly affected by procedural fairness, the available outcome information should be…

  • Group Belongingness and Procedural Justice

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2004•Citada por: 20•Referências: 48

    The authors focus on the relation between group membership and procedural justice. They argue that whether people are socially included or excluded by their peers influences their reactions to unrelated experiences of procedural justice. Findings from 2 experiments corroborate the prediction that reactions to voice as opposed to no-voice procedures are affected more strongly when people are included in a group than when they are excluded from a g…

  • How do people react to negative procedures? On the moderating role of authority’s biased attitudes

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2005•Citada por: 9•Referências: 35

  • Procedural justice and intragroup status

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2005•Citada por: 14•Referências: 33

  • Procedural justice and the hedonic principle

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Johan C Karremans et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2006•Citada por: 8

    The authors investigate the relation between the hedonic principle (people's motivations to approach pleasure and to avoid pain) and procedural justice. They explore whether approach or avoidance motivation increases the effect that people feel they were treated more fairly following procedures that do versus do not allow them an opportunity to voice their opinion. Experiments 1 and 2 reveal that these procedures influence procedural justice judg…

  • Retributive justice and social categorizations

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jerôme Lam•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2007•Citada por: 7•Referências: 36

    In the current research, the authors investigate the influence of intergroup status and social categorizations on retributive justice judgments, that is, the extent to which observers perceive punishment as fair. Building on social identity theory and the model of subjective group dynamics, it is predicted that when the ingroup has higher status than the outgroup, people are relatively less concerned about punishment of an outgroup offender than …

  • Procedural justice in authority relations

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Kees Van Den Bos et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2007•Citada por: 3•Referências: 28

    In this article, we study how the strength of outcome dependence, defined as the extent to which people's outcomes depend on authority's decisions, influences their reactions to voice or no‐voice procedures. We suggest that in situations where people are strongly outcome dependent they assume that the authority may not consider their views, and therefore voice procedures exert less influence on people's procedure judgments than in situations wher…

  • Self-construal level and voice procedures

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Frederike Zwenk•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2008•Citada por: 5•Referências: 31

    In the current article, we investigate the influence of self-construal level on procedural fairness effects, that is, the finding that fair versus unfair procedures influence people’s evaluations of their relation with decision-making authorities. In two experiments, we manipulated self-construal level by activating the individual self (“I”) or the social self (“We”), and we induced a control condition. Furthermore, we manipulated procedural fair…

  • The egocentric nature of procedural justice

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, David De Cremer et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2008•Citada por: 6•Referências: 60

    In four studies, the authors investigated the individual-oriented versus social-oriented nature of procedural justice effects by comparing fairness-based responses to decision-making procedures among proself versus prosocial oriented individuals. In Studies 1 through 3, we measured participants’ social value orientation and manipulated whether or not they were granted or denied voice in a decision-making process. Results consistently revealed tha…

  • Just World and the Emotional Defense of Self

    Hans I Jzerman, Hans Ijzerman et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychology•2008•Referências: 10

    This research examines how individuals with different affect regulation strategies cope with just-world threats. Our study demonstrated that individuals who poorly downregulate negative affect (a state-oriented style) more avidly attempt to defend a just world after this opportunity is offered via an authority figure when that belief of a just world was threatened than do individuals who successfully downregulate negative affect (an action-orient…

  • Procedural justice as autonomy regulation

    Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2009•Citada por: 15•Referências: 19

    The present research investigated the relation between autonomy (i.e., freedom of choice) and procedural justice. Three studies tested the hypothesis that people would be particularly sensitive to the fairness of decision-making procedures when they experience deprivation of autonomy needs. Study 1 indicated that procedural justice judgments indeed were influenced more strongly by variations in decision-making procedures among participants who ex…

  • Retributive versus compensatory justice

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2010•Citada por: 13•Referências: 39

    In the current paper, the author examines whether independent observers of criminal offenses have a relative preference for either retributive justice (i.e., punishing the offender) or compensatory justice (i.e., compensating the victim for the harm done). In Study 1, results revealed that participants recommended higher sums of money if a financial transaction was framed as offender punishment (i.e., the offender would pay money to the victim) t…

  • Perceiving Pure Evil

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Evelien Van De Veer•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2010•Citada por: 3•Referências: 18

    The present research sought to investigate the psychological dynamics underlying demonizing, that is, the tendency to see others as personifications of pure evilness. Building on an integrative theoretical framework, it is hypothesized that the extent to which a perpetrator matches prototypical expectations of evilness shapes demonizing responses to offenders particularly when cognitive resources are impaired. In two experiments, participants wer…

  • Be aware to care

    Open Access•Marco van Bommel, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2012•Citada por: 21•Referências: 24

  • Retribution and forgiveness

    Open Access•Peter Strelan, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2013•Citada por: 8•Referências: 46

    Although punishment and forgiveness frequently are considered to be opposites, in the present paper we propose that victims who punish their offender are subsequently more likely to forgive. Notably, punishment means that victims get justice (i.e. just deserts), which facilitates forgiveness. Study 1 reveals that participants were more likely to forgive a friend's negligence after being primed with punishment than after being primed with inabilit…

  • Belief in conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jan‐Willem van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2013•Citada por: 48•Referências: 36

    In the present research, we examined people's tendency to endorse or question belief in conspiracy theories. In two studies, we tested the hypothesis that the perceived morality of authorities influences conspiracy beliefs, particularly when people experience uncertainty. Study 1 revealed that information about the morality of oil companies influenced beliefs that these companies were involved in planning the war in Iraq, but only when uncertaint…

  • Power and retributive justice

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jennifer Coffeng et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 55

  • What is Fair Punishment for Alex or Ahmed? Perspective Taking Increases Racial Bias in Retributive Justice Judgments

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Jennifer Coffeng et al.•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2013•Citada por: 2•Referências: 44

  • Power, Politics, and Paranoia

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Paul A M Van Lange•BOOK•Power, Politics, and Paranoia•2014

    Powerful societal leaders - such as politicians and Chief Executives - are frequently met with substantial distrust by the public. But why are people so suspicious of their leaders? One possibility is that 'power corrupts', and therefore people are right in their reservations. Indeed, there are numerous examples of unethical leadership, even at the highest level, as the Watergate and Enron scandals clearly illustrate. Another possibility is that …

  • Intervene to be Seen

    Open Access•Marco van Bommel, Jan-Willem Van Prooijen et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2014

    Security cameras became such a part of everyday life that their presence may escape from our conscious attention. The present research examines the impact of cameras on intervening in crime, a situation in which the classic bystander effect has been uncovered. In our experimental set up, participants witnessed how another participant (a confederate) stole money, in the presence of either two or no other bystanders. Moreover, we used a security ca…

  • When consequence size predicts belief in conspiracy theories

    Open Access•Jan-Willem Van Prooijen, Eric Van Dijk•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2014•Citada por: 18•Referências: 45

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