General interest: How does group membership influence our thinking (cognition), feeling (affect and emotions), and behaviour.
Specific research themes:
Allard Feddes is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has a PhD in Social Psychology (Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, 2007) and a MSc. in Social and Organizational Psychology (University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 2004). Allard has also studied at Maynooth University (Ireland) and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). He has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute (Portugal) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). Allard is broadly interested in the question how group membership influences our thinking (cognition), feeling (affect and emotions) and doing (behaviour). His research includes topics such as intergroup prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination; antecedents and consequences of hate-crime; collective action; radicalization and terrorism and populism. In addition, Allard is interested in developing interventions (i.e., countering discrimination) and how to best show what works and and what not (evidence-based evaluation).
Courses:
Fundamentals of Psychology (Introduction course in Psychology, PPLE-Politics, Psychology, Law & Economics- Bachelor Programme)
Emotions (PPLE Bachelor Programme)
Political Psychology (PPLE Bachelor Programme)
Intergroup Processes (Bachelor Programme, Department of Psychology)
Current topics: Polarization (Bachelor Programme, Department of Psychology)
Theses:
Supervision of Bachelor and (Research) Master theses (Department of Psychology)
Supervision of PhD students (Department of Psychology)
Internships:
Supervision of internships of Cultural Psychology and Social Influence Mastertrack students (Department of Psychology)
Supervision of internships of Research Master students (Department of Psychology)
Chair of the Programme Committee of the Graduate School of Psychology