dr. M.J.J. (Maarten) Wubben
Maarten Wubben holds a senior lecturer position in the Department of Business-Society Management at Rotterdam School of Management. His dissertation earned him a PhD in Management (cum laude) from Erasmus University (2010), as well as the ERIM Dissertation Award. In 2012, Maarten decided to follow his passion for teaching. With his background in behavioural research, Maarten now pursues teaching interests related to topics such as Sustainability and Business Ethics, but also Quantitative Research Methods and Personal Development. In the past decade, he has taught, coordinated and innovated various well-received Bachelor, Master, MPhil and PhD courses on these topics, mostly at RSM. He is the academic director of the Global Business & Sustainability Master.
PhD Track Social Functions of Emotions in Social Dilemmas
Social dilemmas, or situations in which individual and collective interests collide, elicit strong emotions. But are these emotions socially functional in that they help establish cooperation? Generally, they are, as four empirical chapters showed. In dyadic relations, refusal to return a favour is best reciprocated while expressing disappointment instead of anger or no emotion. This does not even lead to a negative impression. When not recipients but observers can reciprocate cooperative acts, non-cooperation out of anger or disappointment is perceived by observers as a just action to retaliate against defectors and is therefore met cooperatively. In situations where group members have to coordinate their contributions to obtain a public good, anger signals bleaker prospects than guilt does, especially when communicated by an influential fellow group member. This makes that group members are more likely to exit the group or install a democratic leader. Guilt actually promotes successful coordination by signalling that both the person that experiences guilt and the person towards guilt is experienced will contribute, which encourages people to cooperate even when coordination is difficult. Thus, emotions are indispensable, socially informative cues that typically help to establish cooperation, facilitate coordination and implement structural solutions in social dilemmas.
- Keywords
- Social Dilemmas, Emotion, Cooperation, Communication, Reciprocity, Public Good Dilemmas, Anger, Guilt, Disappointment, Coordination
- Time frame
- 2008 - 2010
Publications
Article (9)
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Academic (9)
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Reinders Folmer, C. P., De Cremer, D., Wubben, M., & van Dijke, M. (2020). We can’t go on together with suspicious minds: Forecasting errors in evaluating the appreciation of denials. Journal of Trust Research, 10(1), 4-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2020.1738944
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Wubben, M., De Cremer, D., & van Dijk, E. (2012). Is Pride Prosocial? Interpersonal Effects of Authentic and Hubristic Pride. Cognition & Emotion, 26(6), 1084-1097. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.646956
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Wubben, M., De Cremer, D., & van Dijk, E. (2011). The communication of anger and disappointment helps to establish cooperation through indirect reciprocity. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32(3), 489-501. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2011.03.016
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De Cremer, D., & Wubben, M. (2010). When does voice have to be more than only listening? Procedural justice effects as a function of confident leadership. Journal of Personnel Psychology, 9(2), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1027/1866-5888/a000011
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Wubben, M., De Cremer, D., & van Dijk, E. (2009). When and how communicated guilt affects contributions in public good dilemmas. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(1), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2008.07.015
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Wubben, M., De Cremer, D., & van Dijk, E. (2009). How emotion communication guides reciprocity: establishing cooperation through disappointment and anger. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(4), 987-990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2009.04.010
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Wubben, M., De Cremer, D., & van Dijk, E. (2008). When emotions of others affect decisions in public good dilemmas: An instrumental view. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38(5), 823-835. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.531
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De Cremer, D., Wubben, M., & Brebels, LGG. (2008). When unfair treatment leads to anger: The effects of interpersonal emotions and ambiguous unfair procedures. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 38(10), 2518-2549. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00402.x
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Wubben, M., & Vingerhoets, AJJM. (2008). The health benefits of crying. Emotion Researcher, 23(1), 15-17.
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Chapter (1)
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Academic (1)
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De Cremer, D., van Kleef, G., & Wubben, M. (2007). Do the emotions of others shape justice effects? An interpersonal approach. In D. De Cremer (Ed.), Advances in the psychology of justice and affect (pp. 35-57). Information Age Publishing.
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Doctoral Thesis (1)
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Internal (1)
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Wubben, M. (2010). Social functions of emotions in social dilemmas. [Doctoral Thesis, Erasmus University Rotterdam]. Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR).
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Event (1)
Award (1)
- ERIM Dissertation Award (2011)
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