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Marijke van Putten

I graduated in psychology at Leiden University and received my Ph.D. from Tilburg University. After this, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Marketing Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Since September 2009, I've worked at Leiden University as assistant professor of social and organizational psychology.

My research focuses on decision making -- specifically, on the question of when people decide not to act. For example, I study the roles of missed opportunities and mixed feelings about staying inactive, and I am interested in who especially tends to involve previous events in their decisions, when this leads to action/inaction, and when to positive/negative feelings.

Primary Interests:

  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Social Cognition
  • Applied Social Psychology
  • Emotion, Mood, Affect
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Personality, Individual Differences
  • Social Cognition

Journal Articles:

  • Van Putten, M., Zeelenberg, M., & Van Dijk, E. (2009). Dealing with missed opportunities: Action vs. state orientation moderates inaction inertia. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 808-815.
  • Van Putten, M., Zeelenberg, M., & Van Dijk, E. (2008). Multiple options in the past and the present: The impact on inaction inertia. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21, 519-531.
  • Van Putten, M., Zeelenberg, M., & Van Dijk, E. (2007). Decoupling the past from the present attenuates inaction inertia. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20, 65-79.
  • Zeelenberg, M., Nijstad, B., Van Putten, M., & Van Dijk, E. (2006). Inaction inertia, regret, and valuation: A closer look. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 101, 89-104.
  • Zeelenberg, M., & Van Putten, M. (2005). The dark side of discounts: How missing a discount may promote brand switching. Psychology and Marketing, 22, 611-622.

Courses Taught:

  • Cooperation and Conflict
  • Psychology of Selling and Advertising
  • Social Psychology of Organisational Behaviour
  • Cooperation and Conflict
  • Psychology of Selling and Advertising
  • Social Psychology of Organisational Behaviour

Marijke van Putten
Department of Social and Organizational Psychology
Leiden University
Wassenaarseweg 52
2300 RB Leiden
The Netherlands

Phone: +31 (0)71 5276845
Fax: +31 (0)71 5273619

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