Prof. dr. Daan Scheepers

Martinus J. Langeveldgebouw
Heidelberglaan 1
3584 CS Utrecht

Prof. dr. Daan Scheepers

Hoogleraar
Organisatiegedrag
d.t.scheepers@uu.nl

Publicaties

2026

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Stöckle, D., Scheepers, D., Barthelmäs, M., & Keller, J. (2026). When Challenge Turns into Threat at the Chessboard: Cardiovascular Reactivity and Flow Across Two Hours of Task Performance. Applied Psychophysiology Biofeedback. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Yan, J., Bultinck, F., Meng, L., Scheepers, D., & van Steenbergen, H. (2026). The Leiden Stroop-like Stress Task: A tool to reveal physiological dynamics using graded stress induction. Biological Psychology, 208, Article 109279. [DOI] [Repository]
Van den Berg, A. E., Dijkstra, K., Meuwese, D., Beute, F., Darcy, P. M., Dewitte, S., Gatersleben, B., Gidlow, C. J., Hägerhäll, C. M., Hipp, J. A., Joye, Y., De Kort, Y. A. W., Lechner, S. C. M., Neale, C., Ode Sang, S., Roe, J., Scheepers, D. T., Smolders, K., Staats, H., ... Koole, S. L. (2026). Psychophysiological recovery from viewing nature and urban settings: A multisite replication. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 111, Article 102956. [DOI] [Repository]
Long, F., Scheepers, D., Zingora, T., & Pliskin, R. (2026). The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups. Political Psychology, 47(1), Article e70029. [DOI] [Repository]

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Anderson, R. A., Scheepers, D., & Ruisch, B. C. (2025). "And the Next Thing You Know . . .": Ideological Differences in Slippery Slope Thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Ellemers, N., & Scheepers, D. (2025). Intergroup Relations. In D. Gilbert, S. Fiske, E. Finkel, & W. Mendes (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology (6th ed.). Situational Press. [DOI]
Long, F., Pliskin, R., & Scheepers, D. (2025). Leftists and Rightists Differ in Their Cardiovascular Responses to Changing Public Opinion on Migration. Psychophysiology, 62(9), Article e70140. [DOI] [Repository]
van Nunspeet, F., Veenstra, E. M., Monteiro Graça Casquinho, B., Ellemers, N., Scheepers, D., Wickham, M. I., Bacchini, E. A. M., & van der Toorn, J. (2025). Overcoming the threat of anti-bias interventions: Combining self-report and psychophysiological measures to capture the process of change. PLoS One, 20(1 January), Article e0314813. [DOI] [Repository]
Van Rossum, A., Laar, C. V., & Scheepers, D. (2025). Advancing the health and wellbeing of boys and men: Lessons from the social cure and curse framework. Social Issues and Policy Review, 19(1), Article e12107. [DOI] [Repository]
Donker, M. H., Scheepers, D., van Gog, T., van den Hove, M., McIntyre, N., & Mainhard, T. (2025). Handling Demanding Situations: Associations between Teachers’ Interpersonal Behavior, Physiological Responses, and Emotions. Journal of Experimental Education, 93(1), 91-109. [DOI] [Repository]

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Bacchini, E., Scheepers, D., Ellemers, N., & Naber, M. (2024). Traditionally advantaged group members’ responses to social change. Social Psychology, 55(6), 295-305. [DOI] [Repository]
Grosfeld, E., Scheepers, D., & Cuyvers, A. (2024). Mapping the moral foundations of the European Union: Why a lack of moral diversity may undermine perceived EU legitimacy. PNAS Nexus, 3(8), Article pgae282. [DOI] [Repository]
Cuyvers, A., Grosfeld, E., & Scheepers, D. (2024). Complementing IQ with EQ: Connecting EU law to social psychology. In R. Deplano, G. Giulia, L. Luigi, & T. Nowak (Eds.), Interdisciplinary research methods in EU law (pp. 133-153). Edward Elgar Publishing. [DOI] [Repository]
Long, F., Pliskin, R., & Scheepers, D. (2024). Norms of equality reduce prejudice towards migrants, but only among conservatives. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 34(4), Article e2836. [DOI] [Repository]
de Dreu, C. K. W., Gross, J., Arciniegas, A., Hoenig, L. C., Rojek-Giffin, M., & Scheepers, D. (2024). On being unpredictable and winning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 126(3), 369-389. [DOI] [Repository]
van der Lee, R., Ellemers, N., Zarzeczna, N., & Scheepers, D. (2024). Threatened by the immoral, challenged by the incompetent: Cardiovascular responses to intragroup morality vs. competence evaluations. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 27(1), 62-75. [DOI] [Repository]

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Scholl, A., Sassenberg, K., Ellemers, N., Scheepers, D., & de Wit, F. (2023). Construal of power: Review and summary of measures and manipulations. PsychArchives. [DOI] [Repository]
Scheepers, D., & Ellemers, N. (2023). Theorie der sozialen Identität. In K. Sassenberg, & M. L. W. Vliek (Eds.), Sozialpsychologie: Von der Theorie zur Anwendung (1 ed., pp. 141-157). Springer. [DOI]
Grosfeld, E., Cuyvers, A., & Scheepers, D. (2023). Towards evidence-based legitimacy interventions in EU law: Challenges and directions for empirical research. Utrecht Law Review, 19(2), 87-104. [DOI] [Repository]
Snijdewint, J., & Scheepers, D. (2023). Group-based flow: The influence of cardiovascular synchronization and identifiability. Psychophysiology, 60(5), Article e14227. [DOI] [Repository]

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Scheepers, D., & Keller, J. (2022). On the physiology of flow: Bridging flow theory with the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 182, 119-128. [DOI] [Repository]
Ruisch, B. C., Von Mohr, M., Naber, M., Tsakiris, M., Fazio, R. H., & Scheepers, D. T. (2022). Sensitive liberals and unfeeling conservatives? Interoceptive sensitivity predicts political liberalism. Politics and the Life Sciences, 41(2), 256-275. [DOI] [Repository]
Grosfeld, E., Scheepers, D., Cuyvers, A., & Ellemers, N. (2022). The Integration of Subgroups at the Supranational Level: The Relation Between Social Identity, National Threat, and Perceived Legitimacy of the EU. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(2), 607-623. [DOI] [Repository]
Domen, I., Scheepers, D., Derks, B., & van Veelen, R. (2022). It’s a man’s world; right? How women’s opinions about gender inequality affect physiological responses in men. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25(3), 703-726. [DOI] [Repository]
Scholl, A., Ellemers, N., Scheepers, D., & Sassenberg, K. (2022). Construal of power as opportunity or responsibility. In B. Gawronski (Ed.), Advances In Experimental Social Psychology (Vol. 65, pp. 57-107). (Advances in Experimental Social Psychology; Vol. 65). Academic Press. [DOI] [Repository]
Grosfeld, E., Scheepers, D., & Cuyvers, A. (2022). Value Alignment and Public Perceived Legitimacy of the European Union and the Court of Justice. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-9. Article 785892. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Cramwinckel, F. M., Scheepers, D. T., Wilderjans, T. F., & de Rooij, R.-J. B. (2021). Assessing the Effects of a Real-Life Contact Intervention on Prejudice Toward LGBT People. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50(7), 3035-3051. [DOI] [Repository]
Noordewier, M. K., Scheepers, D. T., Stins, J. F., & Hagenaars, M. A. (2021). On the physiology of interruption after unexpectedness. Biological Psychology, 165, 1-16. Article 108174. [DOI] [Repository]
Scholl, A., Wenzler, M., Ellemers, N., Scheepers, D., & Sassenberg, K. (2021). Just do it or do it right? How regulatory mode relates to perceived responsibility and opportunity in collaborations. Elsevier, 176(110776), 1-7. Article 110776. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Poppelaars, E. S., Klackl, J., Scheepers, D. T., Mühlberger, C., & Jonas, E. (2020). Reflecting on Existential Threats Elicits Self-Reported Negative Affect but No Physiological Arousal. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 962. [DOI] [Repository]
Burhan, O. K., van Leeuwen, E., & Scheepers, D. (2020). On the hiring of kin in organizations: Perceived nepotism and its implications for fairness perceptions and the willingness to join an organization. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 161, 34-48. [DOI]
Domen, I., Derks, B., Van Veelen, R., & Scheepers, D. (2020). Gender identity relevance predicts preferential neural processing of same-gendered faces. Social Neuroscience, 1-14. [DOI] [Repository]
Noordewier, M. K., Scheepers, D. T., & Hilbert, L. P. (2020). Freezing in response to social threat: A replication. Psychological Research, 84, 1890–1896. [DOI] [Repository]

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Scheepers, D. T., & Ellemers, N. (2019). Status stress: Explaining defensiveness in members of dominant groups. In The social psychology of inequality (pp. 267-288). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Scheepers, D. T., & Ellemers, N. (2019). Social identity theory. In K. Sassenberg, & M. Vliek (Eds.), Social psychology in action: Evidence‐based interventions from theory to practice (pp. 129-143). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Koudenburg, N., Greijdanus, H., & Scheepers, D. T. (2019). The polarizing effects of group discussion in a negative normative context: Integrating societal‐, group‐, and individual‐level factors. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(1), 150-174. [DOI] [Repository]
Scheepers, D. T., & Knight, E. (2019). Neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to shifting status. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 115-119. [DOI] [Repository]

Overige resultaten

Scheepers, D. T. (2019, Jul 5). De sociale psychofysiologie: In het hart van de samenleving. [Repository]

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Harinck, F., Kouzakova, M., Ellemers, N., & Scheepers, D. T. (2018). Coping with Conflict: Testosterone and Cortisol Changes in Men Dealing with Disagreement about Values versus Resources. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 11(4), 265-277. [DOI] [Repository]
van Prooijen, A., Ellemers, N., van der Lee, R., & Scheepers, D. T. (2018). What seems attractive may not always work well: Evaluative and cardiovascular responses to morality and competence levels in decision-making teams. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 21(1), 73-87. [DOI] [Repository]
Scheepers, D. T., & Ellemers, N. (2018). Stress and the stability of social systems: A review of neurophysiological research. European Review of Social Psychology, 29, 340-376. [DOI] [Repository]
Scholl, A., De Wit, F., Ellemers, N., Fetterman, AK., Sassenberg, K., & Scheepers, D. T. (2018). The burden of power: Construing power as responsibility (rather than as opportunity) alters threat-challenge responses. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 44(7), 1024-1038. [DOI] [Repository]
Cramwinckel, F. M., Scheepers, D. T., & van der Toorn, J. M. (2018). Interventions to reduce blatant and subtle Sexual Orientation- and Gender Identity Prejudice (SOGIP): Current knowledge and future directions. Social Issues and Policy Review, 12(1), 183-217. [DOI] [Repository]
Scholl, A., Sassenberg, K., Ellemers, N., Scheepers, D., & De Wit, F. (2018). Highly identified power-holders feel responsible: The interplay between social identification and social power within groups. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57, 112-129. [DOI] [Repository]
Derks, B., & Scheepers, D. (2018). Neural and Cardiovascular Pathways from Stigma to Suboptimal Health. In B. Major, J. F. Dovidio, & B. G. Link (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination and Health (pp. 241-264). Oxford University Press. [DOI] [Repository]

2017

Vakpublicaties

Ellemers, N., van Nunspeet, F. (Ed.), Derks, B. (Ed.), Scheepers, D. (Ed.), & van der Toorn, J. (Ed.) (2017). Wereld van verschil, sociale ongelijkheid vanuit een moreel perspectief. Amsterdam University Press.