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Ellemers studied social psychology at Rijksuniversiteit Groningen from 1981 to1987 and graduated in 1991 in Groningen with her thesis Identity management strategies, followed by a position as assistant professor and later as associate professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Between 1999 and 2015 she was a professor at Universiteit Leiden with the assignment sociale psychologie van de organisatie (Social psychology of the organization). Since September 2015 she is distinguished professor at Universiteit Utrecht. In 2019 she became honorary professor at School of Psychology University of Queensland in Australia.]
From 2020 - 2022 she was chair of the KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) advisory committee Breeding ground prevention of undesirable behaviour in academia.
Work
Naomi Ellemers researches the way people live and work together in groups. She especially focusses on how people's behaviour is influenced by others around them - whether they are present or not. She does experiments on brain activity and physical stress, but also looks into how people behave at work.
Specialization: diversity & inclusion and integrity & ethical behaviour
In 2009, Ellemers received the KNAW Merianprijs (Academy Merian Prize). A year later she received the prestigious Spinoza Prize for her work regarding her specialization. In 2018 she received the senior Career Contribution Award of Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 2019 she received the Aristoteles Prize from the European Federation of Psychology Associates (EFPA), as well as an honorary doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain.
In 2005 she together with three other prominent female professors, Ineke Sluiter, Judi Mesman en Eveline Crone, established Athena's Angels, an organization which defend the interests of women academics
Ellemers is one of the lead applicants and chair of the board of the NWO Gravity Program Sustainable Cooperation (SCOOP). She is one of the initiators of The Netherlands Inclusiveness Monitor (NIM) which investigates the measures and actions organizations take to become more inclusive. It connects these findings to the experiences of employees and provides organizations with advice on which steps to take to become truly inclusive.
She cooperates with various compliance officers, among others Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM) in order to give advice on and to reinforce behaviour and culture in organizations.
In 2019 the Dutch feminist monthly magazine Opzij elected her for the Opzij top 100 of most powerful women of the Netherlands in the category education and science.
Awards
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: Psychology teaching award (1991)
Honorary Fellowships in recognition of distinguished contribution to science:
Association for Psychological Science (2000)
Society for Experimental Social Psychology (2009)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2013)
Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW, 2010)
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2011)
British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FBA, 2014)
Academia Europaea (MAE, 2020)
Society of Personality and Social Psychology’s Wall of Fame (2022)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)
American Philosophical Society (2023)
Publication awards:
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (2009)
Journal of Organizational Behavior (2010)
Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance (2017)
Women in Financial Services Diversity Research Accelerator Award (2017)
Professional association of public regulators – VIDE (2020)
Top 15 public relations insights of 2020 – Institute for public relations
National awards:
Merian Award for women in science (2010, KNAW).
Spinoza Award (2010, NWO), the highest scientific distinction in the Netherlands.
Top-100 most influential women in the Netherlands (2019; 2020, OPZIJ)
International awards:
European Award for early achievement (1990, EASP)
European Award for significant contribution (2008, EASP)
European Award for service to the field (2017, EASP)
Senior Career Contribution Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2019)
ISA Medal for Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Bologna University (2019)
Aristotle Prize, European Federation of Psychology Associations (2019)
Honorary Doctorate, UC Louvain, Belgium (2019)
Publications (selection)
Based on her academic acknowledgement, Ellemers writes popularizing texts about current issues. For the Dutch Financial Newspaper, Het Financieele Dagblad (FD), she writes a monthly expert column, and she writes a blog about 'social climates' for Psychology Today.
Her scientific work consist of more than 200 magazine articles, among others in Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, Academy of Management Review, Psychological Review, Annual Review of Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
A few distinctive publications are:
2023
International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality
Ellemers, N., Pagliaro, S., & Van Nunspeet, F.
Routledge
2023
The importance of morality for collective self-esteem and motivation to engage in socially responsible behavior at work among professionals in the finance industry
Chopova, T., Ellemers, N.
Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility
2022
The moral organization: Key issues, analyses and solutions.
Ellemers, N., & De Gilder, D.
Cham: Springer publishers
2021
The social responsibility of organizations: Perceptions of organizational morality as a key mechanism explaining the relation between CSR activities and stakeholder support
Categorization and identity as motivational principles in intergroup relations
Ellemers, N., & De Gilder, D.
Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles
pp 452-472
2020
Navigating the social world: Toward an integrated framework for evaluating self individuals and groups
Abele, A. E., Ellemers, N., Fiske, S. T., Koch, A., Yzerbyt, V.
Psychological Review
2020
Adversarial alignment enables competing models to engage in cooperative theory-building, toward cumulative science
Ellemers, N., Fiske, S., Abele, A.E., Koch, A., & Yzerbyt, V.
Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences
117, 7561-7567
2020
Social evaluation: Comparing models across interpersonal, intragroup, intergroup, several-group, and many-group contexts Academic Press
Koch, A., Yzerbyt, V., Abele, A., Ellemers, N., Fiske, S.
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
p. 68
2020
Neuroscience and the social origins of (im)moral behavior: How neural underpinnings of social categorization and conformity affect every day (im)moral behavior
Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response
Van Bavel, J. J., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N. Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., Kitayama, S., Mobbs, D., Napper, L. E., Packer, D. J., Pennycook, G., Peters, E., Petty, R. E., Rand, D. G., Reicher, S. D., Schnall, S., Shariff, A., Skitka, L. J., Smith, S. S., Sunstein, C. R., Tabri, N., Tucker, J. A., van der Linden, S., Van Lange, P. A. M., Weeden, K. A., Wohl, M. J. A., Zaki, J., Zion, S. & Willer, R.
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