Arianne J. Van Der Wal Email & Phone Number

Leiden

Behavioral researcher for Kenniscentrum Psychologie en Economisch Gedrag and coordinating teacher within the Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology department with expertise in the field of environmental psychology. - Working together with the Municipality of Leiden, as principal investigator and contact person in the context of Leiden Kennisstad, addressing topics of energy transition, circular economy and climate adaptation.- Conducting various applied research for municipalities, zoos and companies and translating results into advice by means of reports, presentations and contributions to events.- Teacher and coordinator of bachelor and master courses, including Environmental Psychology and Economic and Consumer Psychology, and thesis supervisor of bachelor and master students.

Amsterdam

My dissertation offers a broad scope on the usefulness of adopting an evolutionary perspective in investigating and promoting sustainable behavior. Each chapter was built on a different premise that derived from a diverse set of evolutionary theories, such as sexual selection, competitive altruism theory, life history theory, and the biophilia hypothesis. Specifically, these premises match four of people’s ultimate motivations studied: humans are self-interested by nature (Chapter 2), humans are driven by relative status motives (Chapter 3), humans are temporal myopic (Chapter 4), and humans are biophilic (Chapter 5). The dissertation’s findings show that tuning-in to these ultimate motivations not merely increases sustainable attitudes and behavioral intentions, but also actual sustainable behavior. This is of utmost importance, as humans’ non-sustainable behavior is seen as the main cause of the environmental problems the world is facing nowadays. Moreover, the findings yield practical and relatively easy implementable implications for marketers, public policy makers, and NGOs: create sustainability competitions, make sustainability a status symbol (with some caution), highlight the immediate benefits of sustainability, and expose people to nature scenery. Hopefully, altogether this dissertation contributes to the growth of a more sustainable world.

Teaching student different research methods and tools for reflecting on and critically evaluating the paradigms, strategies and methods used in scientific researchTeaching students multiple statistical tests in SPSSGuiding students by setting up hypotheses, statistical testing of results, and writing a full research reportEvaluating and grading the research reports and the written methodological essays

Amsterdam En Omgeving, Nederland

Assisting in the “Groene schoolpleinen project” of dr. Jolanda Maas and professor Mark van VugtCoding of video-recorded behavioral dataSystematic processing and analyzing of research dataWriting and editing of scientific articlesAssisting in an fMRI lab

Developing a future orientation test, called the T(oekomst)-testAnalyzing the data and presenting the findings orally and in writingPress releaseView article in Trouw on: http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4332/Groen/article/detail/3341651/2012/11/02/Leef-in-het-nu-maar-kijk-ook-vooruit.dhtml

Amsterdam

Research topic: sustainable promotional gifts and its effect on customers Designing and running a fieldstudy on request of the company Guide 2 Gifts Analyzing and presenting of research findings

Evaluating the Research Master Social Psychology curriculum and proposing improvements

Identifying the problems that students have within the curriculumThinking about educational improvements for the students

Den Haag

Responsible for careful preparation of policy documents and adequate public information on the issues of Agriculture, Nature, Environment, Food, Energy and Traffic Carefully analyzing scientific research and translating research findings into concrete policy documents

Amsterdam

Assisting in a longitudinal study by Catrin Finkenauer, investigating multiple aspects of romantic relationships

Utrecht

Bringing psychological scientists and practitioners more togetherOrganizing members evening with lectures by guest speakers

Amsterdam

Msc (Research) Social Psychology - Cum Laude (8,5)

Bsc Psychologie - Cum Laude (8,3)

Bodem, Water, Atmosfeer - Cum Laude Resultaten (8,2)

Propedeuse Aardwetenschappen - Cum Laude (8,0)

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