I am a PhD Candidate at the UvA, supervised by Dr. Bastiaan Rutjens and Dr. Nils Jostmann. I am researching topics on the social psychology of sustainability, specifically public perceptions of complexity in climate change mitigation. I am also interested in cognitive biases such as overconfidence, and working on a project to experimentally test the relationship between overconfidence and susceptibility to fake news.

Prior to starting my PhD, I completed my Master’s in Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I specialized in the topics of misinformation and political psychology, and my Bachelor’s in Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. 

Research fields and expertise

• Environmental psychology
• Misinformation 
• Cognitive biases
• Political psychology

Other links

Psychology of science

Research methods

• Experiments
• Surveys

Current research projects

Informational complexity: does framing sustainability as a complex, nonlinear issue lead to increased avoidance of further sustainability information?

• BSc courses: Practical Training for Psychological Research, Motivation, Attitudes and Behavior Change
• Supervision of theses (BSc/MSc)