Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Kruger, J., Derks, B., Manzi Cembrano, F., Aarntzen, L., Domen, I., Riedijk, L., Rijshouwer, D., van Veelen, R., Vink, M., & van der Wal, R. (2022). Will Work-Family Guilt Experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic Straitjacket Women into Prioritizing their Family? (pp. 1-47). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dgtn3

Veldman, J., & Vial, A. C. (2026). Masculinity contest cultures lead to self-group distancing in women. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 122, 104832.

Aarntzen, L., Seijmonsbergen-Schermers, A., Blom, R., Henrichs, J., & Derks, B. (2025). Dutch midwives’ views on father-involvement practices. Midwifery, 145, 104371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2025.104371.

Block, K., Olsson, M. I. T., van Grootel, S., Schuster, C., Meeussen, L., Van Laar, C., Martiny, S., Croft, A., Sun, M. S., Wee, S., Ainsaar, M., Aarntzen, L., Adamus, M., Anderson, J., Atkinson, C., Avicenna, M., Bąbel, P., Barth, M., Benson-Greenwald, T. M., . . . Schmader, T. (2025). The gender gap in the care economy is larger in highly developed countries: Sociocultural explanations for paradoxical findings. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001512.

Cannaerts, M., Craps, S., Veldman, J., Laar, C. V., Draulans, V., & Langie, G. (2025). Belonging in engineering education: a systematic literature review of its impact on recruitment and retention for female students and students from ethnic minority backgrounds. European Journal of Engineering Education, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2024.2449212.

Derks, B., Manzi, F., Van Laar, C., Ellemers, N., & Faniko, K. (2025). Do not blame ‘queen bees’ for gender inequality in academia. Nature Human Behaviour. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02100-6.

Hsueh, T., Park, H. J., Veldman, J., & Kachanoff, F. (2025). They don’t understand us: implications of felt understanding for psychological well-being in diverse communities. Self and Identity, 1-33.

Jacobs, C., Veldman, J., Hu, Z., Van De Mieroop, D., & Van Laar, C. (2025). Daily experiences of ethnic minority women at work: Moving toward ingroups and outgroups is related to identity motives fulfillment. Self and Identity, 1-23.

van Laar, C., Veldman, J., & Van Rossum, A. (2025). A threats, support and hidden costs framework of coping with challenges to social identity. European Review of Social Psychology, 1-40.

Meinderts, I., Veldman, J., & Van Laar, C. (2025). Daily Evaluation Threat and Instability in the Ability Self‐Concept Among Stereotype‐Aware Women. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 55(3), 190-205.

Reimer, N. K., Branković, M., Essien, I., Goh, J. X., Goudeau, S., Lantos, N. A., & Veldman, J. (2025). Double standards in judging collective action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Schindler, S., Schuster, C., Olsson, M. I., Froehlich, L., Hübner, A. K., Block, K., ... & Martiny, S. E. (2025). Policy as normative influence? On the relationship between parental leave policy and social norms in gender division of childcare across 48 countries. British journal of social psychology, 64(2), e12806. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12806.

Schregardus, E., Van Veelen, R., Vink, M., & Derks, B. (2025). “We bieden fulltime, parttime of flexibel”: Hoe worden werknormen in vacatureteksten in de verpleegkunde, het primair onderwijs, ICT en techniek gecommuniceerd? Tijdschrift voor HRM, 27(4), 1-35. https://doi.org/10.5117/THRM2024.4.012.SCHR.
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/250853969/THRM2024.4.012.SCHR.pdf.

Meinderts, Iris & Veldman, Jenny & Laar, Colette. (2024). Daily feedback suspicion and ability-uncertainty among junior researchers in competitive work climates in STEM. Social Psychology of Education. 1-25. 10.1007/s11218-024-09898-z.

Ramaekers, M. J. M., van der Lippe, T., & Derks, B. (2024). Why Neighbors Would Help: A Vignette Experiment on Reciprocity in Informal Helping. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640241241323.

Riedijk, L., Aarntzen, L., van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2024). Gender (in)equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how parents’ coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality. British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(2), 681-707. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12698
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/.

Aarntzen, L., Nieuwenhuis, M., Endedijk, M. D., van Veelen, R., & Kelders, S. M. (2023). STEM Students’ Academic Well-Being at University before and during Later Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Cohort and Longitudinal Study. Sustainability, 15(19), 14267.

Aarntzen, L., Derks, B., van Steenbergen, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2023). When work-family guilt becomes a women's issue: Internalized gender stereotypes predict high guilt in working mothers but low guilt in working fathers. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 12-29. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12575.

Cheng, Joey & Hemelrijk, Charlotte & Hentschel, Tanja & Huchard, Elise & Kappeler, Peter & Veldman, Jenny. (2023). Editorial: Sex and gender effects on power, status, dominance, and leadership – an interdisciplinary look at human and other mammalian societies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 10.3389/fevo.2023.1340095.

Cheng, J. T., Huchard, E., Hemelrijk, C. K., Hentschel, T., Kappeler, P. M., & Veldman, J. Sex and Gender Effects on Power, Status, Dominance, and Leadership-An Interdisciplinary Look at Human and Other Mammalian Societies. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1340095. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1340095.

Riedijk, L., Aarntzen, L., van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2023). Gender (in) equality at the kitchen table: A diary study on how Parents' coordination facilitates an equal task division and relationship quality. British Journal of Social Psychology. https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjso.12698.

Vink, M., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & van der Lippe, T. (2022). All is nice and well unless she outshines him: Higher social status benefits women's well‐being and relationship quality but not if they surpass their male partner. Journal of Social Issues, 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12573

Vink, M., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & van der Lippe, T. (2022). Penalized for challenging traditional gender roles: Why heterosexual relationships in which women wear the pants may be more precarious. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-022-01339-5

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. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211042669

van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2022). Equal representation does not mean equal opportunity: Women academics perceive a thicker glass ceiling in social and behavioral fields than in the natural sciences and economics. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-19. [790211]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.790211

Vink, M., van der Lippe, T., Derks, B., & Ellemers, N. (2022). Does national context matter when women surpass their partner in status? Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-13. [670439]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.670439

Van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2022). Academics as Agentic Superheroes: Female academics’ lack of fit with the agentic stereotype of success limits their career advancement. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(3), 748-767. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12515

Kruger, J. (Author), Yerkes, M. (Author), Derks, B. (Author), & van Veelen, R. (Author). (2022). Hidden Costs of the Pandemic on Gender Equality: Has COVID-19 Taught Working Mothers to Prioritize Their Family (Again)?. Web publication/site, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/hidden-costs-of-the-pandemic-on-gender-equality-has-covid-19-taught-working-mothers-to-prioritize-their-family-again?utm_source=user_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=notify_contributor_about_creating_a_post

van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2022). Equal representation does not mean equal opportunity: Women academics perceive a thicker glass ceiling in social and behavioral fields than in the natural sciences and economics. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.790211

Aarntzen, L., van der Lippe, T., van Steenbergen, E., & Derks, B. (2021). How individual gender role beliefs, organizational gender norms, and national gender norms predict parents’ work-Family guilt in Europe. Community, Work and Family, 24(2), 120-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2020.1816901

van Veelen, R., Veldman, J., Van Laar, C., & Derks, B. (2020). Distancing from a stigmatized social identity: State of the art and future research agenda on self‐group distancing. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50(6), 1089-1107. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2714

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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2019.1703807

van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2020). Optimising labour market potential of women in STEM: From surface-level to deep-level diversity and inclusion. OECD publication. (The Forum Network: Inclusive Growth). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/optimising-labour-market-potential-of-women-in-stem-from-surface-level-to-deep-level-diversity-and-inclusion?badge_id=1420-tackling-covid-19

van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2020). Optimising labour market potential of women in STEM: From surface-level to deep-level diversity and inclusion. OECD publication. (The Forum Network: Inclusive Growth). Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). https://www.oecd-forum.org/posts/optimising-labour-market-potential-of-women-in-stem-from-surface-level-to-deep-level-diversity-and-inclusion?badge_id=1420-tackling-covid-19

Vink, M. (2020). Who brings home the bacon? How gender stereotypes straitjacket men and women into traditional relationships. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. https://doi.org/10.33540/275

van Veelen, R., Derks, B., & Endedijk, M. D. (2019). Double Trouble: How Being Outnumbered and Negatively Stereotyped Threatens Career Outcomes of Women in STEM. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, [150]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00150

Aarntzen, L., Derks, B., van Steenbergen, E., Ryan, M., & van der Lippe, T. (2019). Work-family guilt as a straightjacket: An interview and diary study on consequences of mothers' work-family guilt. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115, [103336]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103336

van Veelen, R., & Derks, B. (2019). Verborgen verschillen in werktaken, hulpbronnen en onderhandelingen over arbeidsvoorwaarden tussen vrouwelijke en mannelijke wetenschappers in Nederland: Onderzoek uitgevoerd in opdracht van het Landelijk Netwerk Vrouwelijke Hoogleraren. LNVH. https://www.lnvh.nl/uploads/moxiemanager/beloningsverschillen2020_LNVH_web.pdf

van Veelen, R., Derks, B., & Endedijk, M. D. (2019). Double Trouble: How Being Outnumbered and Negatively Stereotyped Threatens Career Outcomes of Women in STEM. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, [150]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00150

Aarntzen, L., Derks, B., van Steenbergen, E., Ryan, M., & van der Lippe, T. (2019). Work-family guilt as a straightjacket: An interview and diary study on consequences of mothers' work-family guilt. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115, [103336]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103336

Sahin, O., van der Toorn, J., Jansen, W.S., Boezeman, E.J. & Ellemers, N. (27-03-2019). Looking Beyond Our Similarities: How Perceived (In)Visible Dissimilarity Relates to Feelings of Inclusion at Work. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 (13 p.).

Derks, B., van Veelen, R., & Handgraaf, M. (2018). Successful economists are highly masculine. Economische Statistische Berichten, 103(4767S), 16-19.

Endendijk, J. J., Derks, B., & Mesman, J. (2018). Does parenthood change implicit gender-role stereotypes and behaviors? Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12451

Endendijk, J. J., Derks, B., & Mesman, J. (2018). Welke gevolgen heeft het ouderschap voor de genderrolstereotypen en rolpatronen van ouders? Mens en Maatschappij, 93(2), 165-168. https://doi.org/10.5117/MEM2018.2.INDE

Derks, B. (2017). Streefcijfers zijn nog maar een begin: Het weerbarstige karakter van ongelijke kansen. Gedrag en Organisatie, 30(2), 89-103. https://doi.org/10.5117/2017.030.002.001
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/359966/streefcijfers.pdf?sequence=1