Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research

Understanding the psychology of economics

Tiber Who

Tiber faculty

Jan Potters
Marcel Zeelenberg
Rik Pieters
Ilja van Beest


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Tiber guests

Tiber welcomes and facilitates guests for longer and shorter visits. If you are interested to become part of the Tiber visiting program as a senior or junior researcher, please contact the Tiber Director, Marcel Zeelenberg, m.zeelenberg@uvt.nl.

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Marcel Zeelenberg
Marcel Zeelenberg is Professor of Economic Psychology, the Academic Director of Tiber, and the head of Department of Social Psychology, all at Tilburg University. Previously, he held a guest professorship in Behavioral Decision Making at CREED (University of Amsterdam), was affiliated with the Department of Marketing at Tilburg University, and held postdoc positions at Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Sussex (Brighton, UK). Marcel studies decision making in all its forms. In particular, he studies the interplay between emotions and behavior in consumer choice and in experimental games.

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Jan Potters
Jan Potters is Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Academic Director of CentERlab, the laboratory for experimentation in economics and business. He uses experiments to study individual economic behavior as well as interaction in games and markets.

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Rik Pieters
Rik Pieters is Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Business at Tilburg University. Rik studies the influence of perceptual and affective processes in consumer choice, and their implications for marketing decisions and effectiveness. He is excited about integrating substantive psychological and vision theories with strong analytic methods to understand consumer decisions. He believes in multilevel approaches to theory building and testing, and is an expert in visual attention.

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Ilja van Beest
Ilja van Beest is Professor of Social Psychology at Tilburg University. Van Beest enjoys research on social decision and all its aspects. A key theme is how social and financial incentives affect well-being and goal directed behaviors. In his research on coalition formation he focuses on those whodecide to include or exclude others from potential benefits and burdens. In his research on exclusion and ostracism he focuses on those who are excluded.

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Diana Vingerhoets (secretarial office)

Diana Vingerhoets is in charge of the secretarial office of the department Psychology, where she supports senior and junior staff, professors and researchers. For Tiber she is responsible for hosting national and international visitors. She is in charge of organizing activities such as seminars, conferences, talks, summer insitutes,etc.

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