PAUL A.M. VAN LANGE

PAUL A.M. VAN LANGE

VU University, Amsterdam

phone: 31-20-5988852 fax: 31-20-5988921

 

Society & Media

  • Consultancy for the Katholieke Radio Omroep (KRO; consultancy regarding the psychology of everyday life dilemmas (1994-1996)

  • Consultancy for Eyeworks, a television program production company (2004-2005).

  • Regular contributor to two tv-programs: Editie.nl and "En Dan Nog Even Dit" (2012-now)

  • Regular contributor to Radio 1 (Pavlov, NTR Academie, Talkshows, 2012-now)

  • Regular contributor to the Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad (2011-now)

  • Teacher of course on "Trust and Communication" (a workshop for city mayors in The Netherlands, 2014-now)

  • Teacher of workshop "Psychology of Corruption" at the Anti-Corruption Academy (a workshop for policy makers of corruption, 2017, Austria)
    for interview see here

  • Contributor to play Terror by the Art and Inspiration Group, see 20-min video

  • University of The Netherlands (Universiteit van Nederland)  video about corona

Several published interviews in newspapers (international media and Dutch media)

  • "Geweld rondom het sportveld, VU-Connected October 24, 2012, [link]

  • More recently, May 23, 2013 [link] ( see also Charter with recommendations from science [pdf]

  • "In elk vakgebied gaat het soms mis" Volkskrant, November 26, 2011 pdf

  • "Je stemt zoals je bent" Volkskrant, September 8, 2012 [pdf]

  • "Reddingsboei van madeliefjes" NRC, December 2, 2012 [pdf]

  • "Nederlands zijn gelukkig vol vertrouwen" Volkskrant, July 6, 2013 [pdf]

  • "Why men need women" New York Times, July 20, 2013 [link]

  • "Men with female offspring are 'more generous'", DailyMail, July 22, 2013 [link]

  • "Vertrouwen zit niet in onze genen" Volkskrant, April 8, 2014 [pdf]

  • "Kiezen voor je zelf of voor elkaar" Elsevier, May 10, 2014 [pdf]

  • "Hoge heren"Een corrupte bende" NRC Handelsblad, August 1, 2014 [pdf]

  • "Why superstitions help athletes perform better, New York Magazine, June 11, 2015 [pdf]

  • "Very superstitious: Weird rituals help athletes perform better, CNN news, July 7, 2015 [pdf]

  • "Ons gedrag is nobel, dat van anderen niet" Volkskrant, Dec 5, 2015 [pdf]

  • "Hoe verklaren we Keulen?"" NRC Handelsblad, January 16, 2016 [pdf]

  • "Climate and Violence" in Daily Mail , National Geographic, Sciencenewsonline , NewsHub , and NeuroscienceNews

  • "Does climate make people more violent?" New York Magazine, June 30, 2016

  • "Do hot climates make people more violent?" CNN news, July 8, 2016

  • "Een groep gaat in het donker sneller over de schreef" Parool, October 30, 2016

  • "Een boete voor sissen?" Volkskrant, November 30, 2016

  • "Niet meer dan zeven politieke partijen" Volkskrant, December 8, 2016

  • "Leaping into corruption", Scientific American, February 21, 2017

  • "Soort zoekt soort", NRC Handelsblad, April 7, 2017

  • "MeToo en de rol van omstanders" De Groene Amsterdammer, December 20, 2017

  • "Waarom wij niet tegen ons verlies kunnen" Volkskrant, April 28, 2018

  • "Support for refugees increases when refugees participate in integration programs." The Conversation, July 6, 2018

  • "Neues vom Flurfunk: Klatsch und Tratsch"" Balance, September 2018 (in German)

  • Reducing climate change by making it less abstract, Scientific American, April 2019

  • "Waarom we niet willen of durven ingrijpen, NRC, May 2019

  • Could crushing crickets help reduce climate change? CBC, July 2019

  • Fortune is not equally distributed around the world, Weekendavisen, November 2019 (in Danish)

  • Does hunger increase selfishness? New York Times, November 2019

  • Psychological solutions to climate change Spektrum (in German) December 2019

  • Why pessimists sometimes are right. Financieel Dagblad, October 2020

  • The government can do so more to help mitigate climate change, NRC, August 2023

  • Global problems call for a club of wise people, from each continent one. Volkskrant, September 2023

  • How a conversation can help cope with Israel and Gaza, Volkskrant, November 2023

  • Let’s remove the word populism from the dictionary. Parool. January 2024

  • Want to build trust? Give just a bit more than you received. NRC. March 2024

  • Without outsider monitoring, fraternities remain sexist, NRC, April 2024

Guest on Television and Radio Programs:

  • De laatste Nazi's - illustration of experiment on obedience (conducted with Piero Bocchiaro and Phil Zimbardo), for video see [link]

  • En Dan Nog Even Dit "Altruism and Volunteering" November 28, 2014, for example [link]

  • Contributor to film for the Custums and Tax Museum (Rotterdam, 2012) [link]

  • NTR Academie Radio 1, September 16, 2014 [link]

  • Empathie. De nieuwe liefde, October 1, 2014, for video, see [link]

  • Lectures series in Nanjing and Shanghai (China), November 2014, see [link]

  • 1 Vandaag "Wanneer willen mensen ingrijpen bij agressie in trein" April 21, 2015 [link]

  • Radio 1 several interviews, such as "'replication in psychology" (March 4, 2016) or "Milgram" (March 31, 2016), "Escape Rooms" (April 11, 2016), or "Zuidas Art Exhibition" (May 23, 2016), "Too-much-talent-in-Soccer" (June 14, 2016), or "Voting in the USA" (November 2, 2016), or "Replication of Milgram" (March 15, 2017)

  • Keynote and debate about rapper Boef at Noorderslag 2018 (January 19, 2018)

  • Are norm violations becoming more common over time? Podcast BNR Quest radio (in Dutch)

  • Norm violations in times of COVID-19, Radio 1 , and why professional soccer should stay alive and kicking, Radio 1 (October, 2020)

  • Why do people prefer to interact in dyads (or pairs) rather than groups Radio 1 (January, 2021)