Eric van Dijk

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Eric van Dijk is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric van Dijk has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 67 papers in Safety Research and 49 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Eric van Dijk's work include Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (67 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (44 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (30 papers). Eric van Dijk is often cited by papers focused on Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (67 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (44 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (30 papers). Eric van Dijk collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and China. Eric van Dijk's co-authors include David De Cremer, Ilja van Beest, Marcel Zeelenberg, Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Gerben A. van Kleef, Michel J. J. Handgraaf, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Craig D. Parks, Jeff Joireman and Eveline A. Crone and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Eric van Dijk

138 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans

2010 720 citations Carsten K. W. De Dreu, Lindred L. Greer et al. Science profile →
The psychology of social dilemmas: A review

2013 523 citations Paul A. M. Van Lange, Eric van Dijk et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric van Dijk Netherlands	47	2.9k	2.3k	1.6k	1.5k	1.1k	144	6.9k
Ap Dijksterhuis Netherlands	54	4.4k 1.5×	4.3k 1.8×	511 0.3×	4.0k 2.6×	3.0k 2.7×	138	12.6k
Bertram F. Malle United States	44	4.7k 1.7×	4.6k 1.9×	1.1k 0.7×	3.5k 2.3×	878 0.8×	131	9.8k
David Greene United States	14	1.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	711 0.4×	529 0.4×	754 0.7×	41	4.7k
Elliot Aronson United States	55	4.7k 1.7×	3.3k 1.4×	556 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	135	10.9k
Jens Förster Germany	47	2.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.5×	225 0.1×	2.1k 1.4×	2.5k 2.3×	114	8.8k
Joseph P. Forgas Australia	52	4.0k 1.4×	5.0k 2.1×	415 0.3×	2.0k 1.3×	2.2k 2.0×	176	10.4k
Leaf Van Boven United States	36	2.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	399 0.2×	835 0.6×	528 0.5×	109	5.2k
Azim Shariff United States	37	3.6k 1.2×	2.9k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.6×	733 0.7×	86	7.8k
Carey K. Morewedge United States	33	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	781 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	631 0.6×	83	5.5k
Frederick L. Oswald United States	42	1.9k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	419 0.3×	1.1k 0.7×	2.0k 1.8×	154	9.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric van Dijk

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Doesum, Niels J. Van, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Dorothee Mischkowski, & Eric van Dijk. (2025). Social mindfulness and the SoMi Paradigm: A decade of research on low-cost prosociality. European Review of Social Psychology. 1–51.

Lelieveld, Gert‐Jan, et al.. (2024). Evaluating Negotiators Who Deceptively Communicate Anger or Happiness: On the Importance of Morality, Sociability, and Competence. Journal of Business Ethics. 199(4). 799–817. 1 indexed citations

Ren, Dongning, et al.. (2023). Do targets of ostracism truthfully communicate their emotional reactions to sources?. Acta Psychologica. 237. 103956–103956. 3 indexed citations

Sun, Qian, et al.. (2022). Procedural fairness facilitates cooperative behavior by enhancing cooperative expectations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 16(12). 5 indexed citations

Stel, Mariëlle, et al.. (2020). The Limits of Conscious Deception Detection: When Reliance on False Deception Cues Contributes to Inaccurate Judgments. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 1331–1331. 4 indexed citations

Mulder, Laetitia B. & Eric van Dijk. (2020). Moral Rationalization Contributes More Strongly to Escalation of Unethical Behavior Among Low Moral Identifiers Than Among High Moral Identifiers. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 2912–2912. 30 indexed citations

Lambregts, Merel M. C., et al.. (2018). Determinants of in-hospital antibiotic prescription behaviour: a systematic review and formation of a comprehensive framework. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 25(5). 538–545. 53 indexed citations

Wu, Yin, Jingyi Lu, Eric van Dijk, Hong Li, & Simone Schnall. (2018). The Color Red Is Implicitly Associated With Social Status in the United Kingdom and China. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1902–1902. 12 indexed citations

Mooijman, Marlon, W. van Dijk, Naomi Ellemers, & Eric van Dijk. (2015). Why leaders punish: A power perspective.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 109(1). 75–89. 62 indexed citations

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Lelieveld, Gert‐Jan, Eric van Dijk, Ilja van Beest, & Gerben A. van Kleef. (2013). Does communicating disappointment in negotiations help or hurt? Solving an apparent inconsistency in the social-functional approach to emotions.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 105(4). 605–620. 44 indexed citations

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Wu, Yin, Eric van Dijk, & Xiaolin Zhou. (2012). Evaluating self- vs. other-owned objects: The modulatory role of oxytocin. Biological Psychology. 92(2). 179–184. 8 indexed citations

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Lelieveld, Gert‐Jan, Eric van Dijk, Berna Güroğlu, et al.. (2012). Behavioral and neural reactions to emotions of others in the distribution of resources. Social Neuroscience. 8(1). 52–62. 17 indexed citations

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Beest, Ilja van, et al.. (2012). Measurement-induced focusing and the magnitude of loss aversion: The difference between comparing gains to losses and losses to gains. Judgment and Decision Making. 7(4). 462–471. 7 indexed citations

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Wu, Yin, Yuqin Zhou, Eric van Dijk, Marijke C. Leliveld, & Xiaolin Zhou. (2011). Social Comparison Affects Brain Responses to Fairness in Asset Division: An ERP Study with the Ultimatum Game. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 5. 131–131. 91 indexed citations

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Dreu, Carsten K. W. De, Lindred L. Greer, Michel J. J. Handgraaf, et al.. (2010). The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans. Science. 328(5984). 1408–1411. 720 indexed citations breakdown →

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Putten, M. van, Marcel Zeelenberg, & Eric van Dijk. (2010). Who throws good money after bad? Action vs. state orientation moderates the sunk cost fallacy. Judgment and Decision Making. 5(1). 33–36. 35 indexed citations

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Handgraaf, Michel J. J., Eric van Dijk, Riël Vermunt, Henk Wilke, & Carsten K. W. De Dreu. (2008). Less power or powerless? Egocentric empathy gaps and the irony of having little versus no power in social decision making.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 95(5). 1136–1149. 140 indexed citations

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Lange, Paul A. M. Van, et al.. (2007). From aggression to altruism: Basic principles of social interaction. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 3 indexed citations

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Cremer, David De, Daan van Knippenberg, Eric van Dijk, & Esther van Leeuwen. (2007). Cooperating If One's Goals are Collective-Based: Social Identification Effects in Social Dilemmas as a Function of Goal-Transformation. Research portal (Tilburg University).

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Dijk, Eric van, et al.. (1980). Meandrina meandrites and Emblemariopsis diaphana, first record of an association between a stony coral and a fish, similar to anemone/fish relationships. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 50(1). 87–95. 1 indexed citations

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