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The purpose of this website is to provide information and knowledge about my research and teaching in evolutionary social and organizational psychology (EVSOP). My particular interests and expertise lie in the applications of evolutionary psychology to group processes such as leadership, status, cooperation, group cohesion, and intergroup relations. I am also strongly interested in applications of evolutionary psychology theories to societal issues such as business and management, environmental conservation and sustainability, politics and warfare, economics and finance, health and poverty and charity giving.
This website provides a place to share information about these themes. As a researcher and teacher, I am deeply committed to knowledge transfer, learning, and an interdisciplinary perspective. Printouts of articles and book chapters are availaible as PDF, see publications. Please contact me if you have any questions about my website.
Thanks!
Mark Van Vugt, Professor of Psychology
Affiliations:
(1) Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, VU University Amsterdam,
Transitorium. room 1 B-57, 1081 BT Amsterdam, the Netherlands, m.van.vugt(at)psy.vu.nl
(2) Institute for Cogntive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
(3) Centre for the Study of Group Processes, University of Kent, UK |
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Here is a recent Radio 1-interview with me on the "Psychology of Dictators" (in Dutch).
My new book (together with science journalist Anjana Ahuja) "Naturally Selected: The Evolutionary Science of Leadership (Why some people lead, why othërs follow, and why it matters)" (Profile/Harper Collins/Random House) came out in the US in January and in Canada in March 2011. It has received quite a bit of media attention so far and was on the UK, German, and Chinese international Business Book Bestsellers list. The book has been reviewed in the journals Nature, New Scientist and newspapers Daily Telegraph, and Business Week. An extract of a chapter in the book, titled "7 Steps to Become a Successful Despot" was featured in the Canadian Globe and Mail newspaper.
The Dutch version "De Natuurlijke Leider" came out in January (Bruna) and reached the Top 10 Management Books in the Netherlands.
Here is the You Tube link to the "Selected" book lecture I gave for the Royal Society of Arts in London in September 2010 and a You Tube link to a Science documentary on Spanish TV "Who is in charge (hosted by Eduard Punset) which features my work on evolutionary leadership theory.
Triumph of the Commons (Helping the world share resources), New Scientist, 2009, with practical suggestions how to use social psychology to foster environmental sustainability (based on my and other's work on social dilemmas).
Published in New Scientist, 2008
What makes a good leader, look at evolution, says Mark van Vugt
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Current grant funded research projects are on "the psychology of intergroup helping" (Dutch Science Foundation; with Esther van Leeuwen), "ethnic leadership" (Dutch Science Foundation; with Astrid Homan), "leadership in social networks (US Naval Office), and "the social guilt hypothesis" (ESRC; with Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent).
We have also obtained KNAW funding for a NIAS/Lorentz workshop on "biological markets and social dilemmas"(with Ronald Noe) in January 2012.
Past research has been funded through the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), The British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, The US Office of Naval Research, and various governments and NGO's. |
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Call for papers special journal issue of Evolutionary Psychology on "Evolutionary psychology in the modern world: Applications, perspectives and strategies" (guest editors: Craig Roberts, Robin Dunbar, and Mark van Vugt); deadline abstracts 30 November.
Here is a chapter that I co-authored with Michael Price (Brunel) for a new book "Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior" (Arvey & Colarelli) in which we introduce a new "Service-for-Prestige" hypothesis of leader-follower relations which nicely follows from Evolutionary Leadership Theory. Here is the link to the draft chapter. Your comments are very welcome!
Presentations on The Evolutionary Science of Leadership and Followership, titled "Selected: Why Some lead, why others follow and why it matters [From Darwin to Obama]) for various outlets such as the Royal Society of Arts, London (September 2010), the School of Biology, University of Amsterdam (December 2010), the Rotman Business School, University of Toronto (February 2011), and the Business School of the National University of Singapore (March, 2011). Here are the presentation slides.
My inaugural lecture at the VU in February 2011. Here is the PDF of my lecture (in Dutch), titled "De Natuurlijke Selectie van Leiderschap: Van Darwin tot Obama."
Proofs of the chapter, titled "The Nature in Leadership: Evolutionary, Biological, and Social Neuroscience Approaches", for an edited Sage volume on the "Nature of Leadership" (D. Day and J. Antonakis, The nature of Leadership, Sage, 2011); I welcome your feedback
Blogging on Psychology Today (with Anjana Ahuja). The site gets about 7 million viewers per month. Our blog is titled "Naturally Selected: Understanding the Human Animal in the Work Place." Our new blog is titled "From Savannah to Boardroom: Five Ways to Become a Natural Leader."
There is a new book chapter coming out on "Evolutionary Perspectives on Group Dynamics" which I co-authored with my esteemed Japanese colleague Tatsuya Kameda in we try to integrate the evolutionary and social psychological literatures on Group Processes.
I have just finished a paper with my co-author Vladas Griskevicius, titled "Human Nature: Evolutionary Psychological Approaches to Environmental Sustainability." It is to our knowledge one of the first attempts to use evolutionary psychology to explain why humans destroy the environment and, based on knowledge about human nature, how we could try and solve the world's various environmental crises.
Together with Max Wildschut, the author of the book "Darwin for Managers" and a business consultant, we are developing a new Institute for Management and Evolutionary Psychology. |
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Currenty I have a number of collaborations with colleagues at the various Dutch universities participating in the "Executive Brain" project, .University of Kent (social guilt hypothesis), University of Edinburgh and Michigan State University(the male warrior hypothesis), Bristol University (evolutionary psychology of intergroup relations), University of Oxford (social laughter), University of Pennsylvania (evolution of leadership), University of Minnesota (evolutionary psychology of environmental sustainability), and Washington State University (book on social dilemmas)
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