Morbid curiosity
My primary research interest is "morbid curiosity". Although we know from real life that people regularly approach and explore highly intense negative stimuli, we know very little about this phenomenon from the perspective of psychological science. In this research project, I study why and when people experience morbid curiosity and how this experience is represented in the brain. This project was funded by a NWO VENI grant.
How the brain constructs emotion
In another line of work, I investigate how the brain constructs emotions and other mental states. I am particularly interested in the neural overlap between systems that generate emotional experiences in the self and systems that represent the emotional experiences of other people.
The embodiment of emotion concepts
During my PhD project I examined the link between conceptual representations of emotion and bodily states. Based on embodied cognition theories I hypothesized that bodily states that occur during emotional experiences are simulated when people use emotion concepts or understand emotion language. This hypothesis was supported by several behavioral and physiological experiments. For example, I demonstrated that spontaneous bodily reactions occur when people think about emotion or process emotion language. More recently, I examined how neural systems implement different forms of simulation when people process emotional states and non-emotional states in language.
Snoek, L., Jack, R. E., Schyns, P. G., Garrod, O. G. B., Mittenbühler, M., Chen, C., Oosterwijk, S., & Scholte, H. S. (2023). Testing, explaining, and exploring models of facial expressions of emotions. Science Advances, 9(6), [abq8421]. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq8421[details]
Cristaldi, F. D. P., Gambarota, F., & Oosterwijk, S. (2022). Does Your Past Define You? The Role of Previous Visual Experience in Subjective Reactions to New Affective Pictures and Sounds. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001168
2021
MacCormack, J. K., Henry, T. R., Davis, B. M., Oosterwijk, S., & Lindquist, K. A. (2021). Aging bodies, aging emotions: Interoceptive differences in emotion representations and self-reports across adulthood. Emotion, 21(2), 227-246. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000699[details]
2020
Niehoff, E., & Oosterwijk, S. (2020). To know, to feel, to share? Exploring the motives that drive curiosity for negative content. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 35, 56-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.07.012[details]
Wolsink, I., Den Hartog, D. D., Belschak, F. D., & Oosterwijk, S. (2019). Do You Feel Like Being Proactive Today? Trait-Proactivity Moderates Affective Causes and Consequences of Proactive Behavior. PLoS ONE, 14(8), [e0220172]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220172[details]
Oosterwijk, S., Snoek, L., Rotteveel, M., Barrett, L. F., & Scholte, H. S. (2017). Shared states: using MVPA to test neural overlap between self-focused emotion imagery and other-focused emotion understanding. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1025-1035. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx037[details]
Oosterwijk, S., van der Leij, A. R., & Rotteveel, M. (2017). Associating LIPS and SWOLLEN: delayed attentional disengagement following words in sex contexts. Cognition & Emotion, 31(6), 1197-1210. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2016.1208150[details]
Oosterwijk, S., Lindquist, K. A., Adebayo, M., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2016). The neural representation of typical and atypical experiences of negative images: comparing fear, disgust and morbid fascination. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(1), 11-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv088[details]
Wagenmakers, E-J., Beek, T., Dijkhoff, L., Gronau, Q. F., Acosta, A., Adams, R. B., Albohn, D. N., Allard, E. S., Benning, S. D., Blouin-Hudon, E-M., Bulnes, L. C., Caldwell, T. L., Calin-Jageman, R. J., Capaldi, C. A., Carfagno, N. S., Chasten, K. T., Cleeremans, A., Connell, L., DeCicco, J. M., ... Zwaan, R. A. (2016). Registered Replication Report: Strack, Martin, & Stepper (1988). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(6), 917-928. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616674458[details]
Oosterwijk, S., Mackey, S., Wilson-Mendenhall, C., Winkielman, P., & Paulus, M. P. (2015). Concepts in context: processing mental state concepts with internal or external focus involves different neural systems. Social Neuroscience, 10(3), 294-307. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2014.998840[details]
2013
Fischer, A. H., Eagly, A. H., & Oosterwijk, S. (2013). The meaning of tears: Which sex seems emotional depends on the social context. European Journal of Social Psychology, 43(6), 505-515. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.1974[details]
Lindquist, K. A., Gendron, M., Oosterwijk, S., & Barrett, L. F. (2013). Do people essentialize emotions? Individual differences in emotion essentialism and emotional experience. Emotion, 13(4), 629-644. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032283[details]
2012
Oosterwijk, S., Lindquist, K. A., Anderson, E., Dautoff, R., Moriguchi, Y., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2012). States of mind: emotions, body feelings, and thoughts share distributed neural networks. NeuroImage, 62(3), 2110-2128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.05.079[details]
Oosterwijk, S., Winkielman, P., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. H. (2012). Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and nonemotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus. Memory & Cognition, 40(1), 93-100. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-011-0134-8[details]
2010
Oosterwijk, S., Topper, M., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. H. (2010). When the mind forms fear: embodied fear knowledge potentiates bodily reactions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(1), 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550609355328[details]
2009
Oosterwijk, S., Rotteveel, M., Fischer, A. H., & Hess, U. (2009). Embodied emotion concepts: How generating words about pride and disappointment influences posture. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39(3), 457-466. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.584[details]
Oosterwijk, S., Topper, M., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. H. (2009). Wanneer we denken over angst, leeft ons lichaam mee. Jaarboek Sociale Psychologie, 2009, 329-340. [details]
2022
Niehoff, E., Mittenbühler, M., & Oosterwijk, S. (2022). To read or not to read? Motives for reading negative COVID-19 news.https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/df6ye
2016
O'Brien, O., Oosterwijk, S., & Barrett, L. F. (2016). Where do people feel emotions in their body? A quantitative implementation of the Emotionally}Vague project. In P. Desmet, S. Fokkinga, G. Ludden, N. Cila, & H. Van Zuthem (Eds.), Celebration & contemplation: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Design and Emotion (pp. 547-552). Amsterdam: Design & Emotion Society. [details]
2015
Oosterwijk, S., Touroutoglou, A., & Lindquist, K. A. (2015). The neuroscience of construction: what neuroimaging approaches can tell us about how the brain creates the mind. In L. Feldman Barrett, & J. A. Russell (Eds.), The psychological construction of emotion (pp. 111-143). New York: Guilford Press. [details]
Oosterwijk, S., & Feldman Barret, L. (2014). Embodiment in the construction of emotion experience and emotion understanding. In L. Shapiro (Ed.), Routledge handbook of embodied cognition (pp. 250-260). (Routledge handbooks in philosophy). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315775845.ch24[details]
van der Linden, M., Bosch, S., Francken, J., van Gaal, S., Manneke, A., Oosterwijk, S., & Ploeger, A. (2017). Hersenwerk: Neurowetenschappen in de 21ste eeuw. Amsterdam: Boom. [details]
Oosterwijk, S. (2015). Rubriek "De rondvraag". Spiegeloog, Dec15.
Oosterwijk, S. (2015). Waarom dat nare gevoel in mijn buik als ik iets heftigs zie? Volkskrant / rubriek Gezond.
Oosterwijk, S. (2015). Where is my mind? Horizon Magazine, the online EU research and innovation magazine..
2012
Oosterwijk, S., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A. H. (2012). Denken met het lichaam. De Psycholoog, 47(3), 12-24.
2020
Duken, S. B., Neumayer, F., Oosterwijk, S., Kindt, M., & van Ast, V. A. (2020). To Remember Means To Relive: Memory Retrieval Leads To The Psychophysiological Re-Expression Of Emotional Episodes. Poster session presented at Annual meeting of the Society For Psychophysiological Research.
Prijs / subsidie
Oosterwijk, S. (2022). Aspasia premie.
Oosterwijk, S. (2018). Conference Grant awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for the organisation of the “Exploring Curiosity” conference.
Oosterwijk, S. (2017). Incentive Fund Open Access.
Oosterwijk, S. (2017). Incentive Fund Open Acces.
Oosterwijk, S. (2013). Innovative Research Incentives Scheme VENI grant.
Oosterwijk, S. (2010). Early career best paper award 2009 from the European Journal of Social Psychology..
Lidmaatschap / relevante positie
Oosterwijk, S. (2015). Organizing Committee: ASPO 2015 Conference, ASPO.
Oosterwijk, S. (18-03-2021). Waarom kijken we naar gruwelijke beelden? [Web] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTIXso1i9gQ&ab_channel=UniversiteitvanNederland. Waarom kijken we naar gruwelijke beelden? - Lecture for Universiteit van Nederland.
Oosterwijk, S. (speaker) (15-6-2018). Morbide nieuwsgierigheid: De aantrekkingskracht van het leed van anderen., Science Festival Bessensap Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
Oosterwijk, S. (speaker) (17-4-2018). Doing well., Invited master class for "The Research Group", Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Rotterdam.
Andere
Oosterwijk, S. (participant) (22-11-2018 - 23-11-2018). Exploring curiosity, Amsterdam. Organizer (organising a conference, workshop, ...). http://suzanneoosterwijk.com/index.html
Oosterwijk, S. (participant) (29-6-2018). ABC Networking Day of the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Centre (ABC), Amsterdam. Member of the organizing committee (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
Oosterwijk, S. (organiser) & Bliss-Moreau, E. (organiser) (10-7-2014). Preconference presented prior to the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) General Meeting of 2014, Amsterdam. Brain & Emotion (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
Oosterwijk, S. (organiser) & Noordewier, M. K. (organiser) (2014). Two-day track presented at the Kurt Lewin Institute (KLI) conference 2014, Zeist, the Netherlands. Emotion in the spotlight! (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2022
Snoek, L. (2022). Towards prediction: Studying the mind and brain in the age of machine learning. [details]
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