Toon Kuppens

 

Toon Kuppens Doctoral Student Division of Social and Organizational Psychology    Address: Department of Psychology Catholic University of Louvain Place du Cardinal Mercier 10 (E317) 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium  Phone: +32 (0)10478889  Fax.: +32 (0)10474834  E-Mail:       Research domains   Representative publications

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Research domains

My main current research is on group-based emotions.

• • Group-based emotions are emotions one feels as a group member.

In several lines of research I investigate how emotions are linked to social identity and to evaluations that people make of the situation of their group (i.e., group-based appraisals ).

 

A second interest of mine is evolutionary psychology. Often misunderstood, evolutionary psychology can be a great source for theoretical inspiration or generating novel hypotheses.

• • For example, based on an evolutionary rationale, I predicted and found that anger is related to ethnic intergroup bias, but not gender intergroup bias (and only for men).

Finally, I am strongly interested in data analysis and am currently looking at how to use multivariate multilevel models to analyze multivariate data typical for social and cognitive psychology.

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Representative publications

Kuppens, T. & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (submitted). Group-based emotions: The impact of social identity on appraisals, emotions, and behaviors .

Kuppens, T., Pollet, T. V., Teixeira, C. N., Roberts, S. C. & Little, A. C. (submitted). Anger and intergroup attitudes: A functional perspective.

Yzerbyt, V. Y. & Kuppens,  T. (2009). Group-based emotions: The social heart in the individual head, in Otten, S., Sassenberg, K., & Kessler,
T. Intergroup relations. The role of motivation and emotion. Hove: Psychology Press.

Roberts, S., Dunbar, R. I. M., Pollet, T. V. & Kuppens, T. (2009). Exploring variation in active network size: Constraints and ego characteristics, Social Networks,31, 138-146.

Glorieux, I., Kuppens, T., & Vandebroeck, D. (2007). Mind the gap. Societal limits to public library effectiveness. Library & Information Science Research, 29, 188-208.