I received a Ph.D. from the University of Cologne (Germany) in 2012.
I study well-being and health, cynicism and trust, social perception and social relationships. I use a variety of methodological approaches, including online- and lab-experiments, cross-national surveys, longitudinal and intensive longitudinal designs, dyadic and linguistic analyses, and Big Data.
My work has been distinguished with the Rising Star Award from the Association of Psychological Science and is featured in many media outlets, including articles in the Harvard Business Review, the Times, Huffington Post and more.
I serve as Associate Editor at the European Journal of Social Psychology, as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Social Psychological and Personality Science , and host a blog at Psychology Today.
I have taught courses on work and organizational psychology, social psychology and economic psychology at Tilburg University and University of Cologne. I have supervised over 50 Bachelor- and Master theses.