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Carsten De Dreu

Carsten K.W. De Dreu is interfaculty research professor focusing on cooperation and social organization in human and non-human animals.

He obtained his PhD in social psychology and taught organizational psychology, behavioral economics, and economic decision-making at the Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden. He held visiting affiliations with Geneva University, Northwestern University, Yale School of Management, Sapienza University Rome, and the Deutsches Primatenzentrum Gottingen (Germany).

Primary Interests:

  • Aggression, Conflict, Peace
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Group Processes
  • Helping, Prosocial Behavior
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Interpersonal Processes
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Organizational Behavior

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Neurobiological Foundations of Parochialism

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    A Great Deal of Seemingly Strange Behaviour Has a Function

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    Spinoza Laureate 2018 (in Dutch with English subtitles)




Carsten De Dreu
Department of Sociology
Grote Rozenstraat 31
9712 TS Groningen
The Netherlands

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