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Dr. N.D.P. (Niels) Vanhasbroeck

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Psychological Methods
Area of expertise: Complex systems, System dynamics, Emotion, Pedestrian movement
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
  • Room number: G0.31
Postal address
  • Postbus 15906
    1001 NK Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Psychological Methods departement at the University of Amsterdam. My main interests lie in three research lines. 

    First, I am part of a team that is currently creating and validating an agent-based pedestrian model (Minds for Mobile Agents; M4MA). With this model, we aim to capture and predict pedestrian in a wide range of scenarios.  

    Additionally, I investigate the applicability of (non)linear models for understanding intensive longitudinal data, exemplified by my research on the Affective Ising Model (AIM). In this research, I typically focus on both the model’s assumptions and whether the model can reproduce the patterns we observe in the data, finding that nonlinear patterns cannot always be explained away. 

    Finally, I am interested in in a wide range of psychometric questions of which I am currently working on two. First, I am investigating the reliability and validity of the measurements we obtain from an RTLS positioning systems that we use to collect data for the M4MA project. Second, I am interested in the connection between the qualitative phenomena that we are interested in and the quantitative ratings that we typically obtain from our studies (e.g., rating scales in emotion research).

    Research expertise

    • Dynamical Systems
    • Affect Dynamics
    • Pedestrian Models

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  • Research

    Research methods

    • Drift-Diffusion Models
    • Agent-based Models
    • Experimental Research Design
    • Experience Sampling Method
    • System dynamics
    • Experimental research design
    • Intensive longitudinal data

    Current research projects

    • Minds for Mobile Agents: Creating and validating an agent-based model of pedestrian movement.

    Current cooperation

    • KU Leuven (Francis Tuerlinckx, Wolf Vanpaemel, Sigert Ariens)
    • University of Basel (Mirka Henninger)
    • University of Kansas (Katie Hoemann)
    • University of Tilburg (Dominique Maciejewski)
  • Teaching
    • Basic Skills in Mathematics, Statistics, & Programming (7203BM40XY)
  • Publications

    2024

    • Vanhasbroeck, N., Loossens, T., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2024). Two peas in a pod: Discounting models as a special case of the VARMAX. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 120-121, Article 102856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2024.102856
    • Vanhasbroeck, N., Niemeijer, K., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2024). Nonlinearity in Affect Dynamics Persists After Accounting for the Valence of Daily-Life Events. Emotion, 24(5), 1206-1223. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001336
    • Vanhasbroeck, N., Vanbelle, S., Moors, A., Vanpaemel, W., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2024). Chasing consistency: On the measurement error in self-reported affect in experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 3009-3022. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02290-3

    2023

    • Tanjitpiyanond, P., Jetten, J., Peters, K., Ashokkumar, A., Barry, O., Billet, M., Becker, M., Booth, R. W., Castro, D., Chinchilla, J., Costantini, G., Dejonckheere, E., Dimdins, G., Erbas, Y., Espinosa, A., Finchilescu, G., Gómez, Á., González, R., Goto, N., ... Yeung, V. W. L. (2023). A 32-society investigation of the influence of perceived economic inequality on social class stereotyping. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53(2), 367-382. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2908

    2022

    • Loossens, T., Meers, K., Vanhasbroeck, N., Anarat, N., Verdonck, S., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2022). Efficient estimation of bounded gradient-drift diffusion models for affect on CPU and GPU. Behavior Research Methods, 54(3), 1428-1443. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01674-7
    • Vanhasbroeck, N., Loossens, T., Anarat, N., Ariens, S., Vanpaemel, W., Moors, A., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2022). Stimulus-Driven Affective Change: Evaluating Computational Models of Affect Dynamics in Conjunction with Input. Affective Science, 3(3), 559-576. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00118-5

    2021

    • Vanhasbroeck, N., Ariens, S., Tuerlinckx, F., & Loossens, T. (2021). Computational models for affect dynamics. In Affect Dynamics (pp. 213-260). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82965-0_10
    • Vanhasbroeck, N., Devos, L., Pessers, S., Kuppens, P., Vanpaemel, W., Moors, A., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2021). Testing a computational model of subjective well-being: a preregistered replication of Rutledge et al. (2014). Cognition and Emotion, 35(4), 822-835. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2021.1891863

    2020

    • Chalkia, A., Schroyens, N., Leng, L., Vanhasbroeck, N., Zenses, A. K., Van Oudenhove, L., & Beckers, T. (2020). No persistent attenuation of fear memories in humans: A registered replication of the reactivation-extinction effect. Cortex, 129, 496-509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.017
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