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PhD (cum laude) in Social Psychology (2009), Tilburg University. Promotors Marcel Zeelenberg (professor of Social and Economic Psychology) and Rik Pieters (professor of Marketing). PhD project: The bright side of a deadly sin: The psychology of envy.

Doctoraal/M.Sc. (cum laude) in Social & Economic Psychology (2001 - 2005), Tilburg University. Thesis projects supervised by Marcel Zeelenberg (Tilburg University) and Thomas Gilovich (Cornell University).

Bachelor of Engineering in Business Engineering (1996 - 2001), Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven.

Other education

Kurt Lewin Institute, centre for graduate training and research, PhD member (2006 - 2009).

SISP, SPSP Summer Institute in Social Psychology at the University of Texas, Austin (2007). One of five Europeans selected to attend this summer school by the European Association of Social Psychology.

Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality in Psychology and Economics, at the Max Planck Institute on Human Development, Berlin (2006).

Assistant professor in Social Psychology (sep 2009 - present) at Tilburg University

Visiting Researcher (social psychology department, spring semester 2010) at Cornell University

PhD student (sep 2005 - aug 2009) at Tilburg University

NWO Rubicon, 2010

Sponsoring PhD project Financial Behavior of Adolescents by Stichting Weet Wat Je Besteedt, 2011

Tilburg University Dissertation prize 2010; award for the best dissertation at Tilburg University in the academic year 2009-2010.

ASPO Dissertation Award 2010; award for the best dissertation in the field of social psychology at a Dutch university in the academic year 2009-2010.

Co-promotor Irene Blanken and Terri Seuntjens (both with Marcel Zeelenberg)

N. van de Ven teaches the following subjects:

• Organizational Psychology (575032) Further information
• Psychology and Marketing (500855) Further information

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