2025
van Noord, J., Spruyt, B., Van Droogenbroeck, F., & Kuppens, T. (2025). Caught between ideology and self‐interest: Subjective social status and meritocratic beliefs shape whether people perceive, feel anger about, and want to change economic conflict, The British Journal of Sociology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13185. Download.
Rimicci, A., Kuppens, T., Easterbrook, M. J., & Spears, R. (2025). Perceptions of misalignment and the academic achievement of underrepresented groups in higher education. Topics in Cognitive Psychology
2024
van Noord, J., Kuppens, T., Spruyt, B., Kavadias, L., Darnon, C., & Marot, M. (in press). Education-based affective attitudes: higher educated-bias is related to more political trust and less populism. Acta Politica. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00322-6. Download.
Turner-Zwinkels, F. M., van Noord, J., Kesberg, R., García-Sánchez, E., Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., ... & Turner-Zwinkels, T. (in press). Affective Polarization and Political Belief Systems: The Role of Political Identity and the Content and Structure of Political Beliefs. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 01461672231183935. Open access
van Noord, J., Turner-Zwinkels, F. M., Kesberg, R., Brandt, M. J., Easterbrook, M. J., Kuppens, T., & Spruyt, B. (2024). The nature and structure of European belief systems: Exploring the varieties of belief systems across 23 European countries. European Sociological Review, jcae011. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae011
García-Sánchez, E., Turner-Zwinkels, F., Kesberg, R., Marot, M., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Willis, G. B., & Kuppens, T. (2024). Economic Threats, Political and National Identification Predict Affective Polarization: Longitudinal Evidence From Spain. International Review of Social Psychology, 37(1), Article 838. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.838
Kavadias, L., Spruyt, B., & Kuppens, T. (2024). Religious life in schooled society? A global study of the relationship between schooling and religiosity in 76 countries. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 65, 3, 237-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/00207152231177238. Open access
Koudenburg, N., Kutlaca, M., & Kuppens, T. (2024). The experience and emergence of attitudinal consensus in conversations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 1, 66-80. DOI:10.1002/ejsp.2992. Open access
2023
van Noord, J., Spruyt, B., Kuppens, T., & Spears, R. (2023). Classified out of society? How educational classification induces political alienation through feelings of misrecognition. The British Journal of Sociology 73, 5, 858-872. Doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.13040. Open acces
Easterbrook, M. J., Kuppens, T., & Grigoryan, L. (2023). Introduction to the special issue: nuances of social class and socioeconomic status. International Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 3, 493-507. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2023.2239577. Open access.
van Noord, J., Spruyt, B., Kuppens, T., & Spears, R. (2023). In the Shadow of the Schooled Society: Feelings of Misrecognition and the Education Ladder. Social Problems, 70, 831-848. Open access
van Breen, J. A., de Lemus, S., Kuppens, T., Barreto, M., & Spears, R. (2023). Extending the scope for resistance to gender-based devaluation. European Review of Social Psychology, . Open access
van Noord, J., Kuppens, T., Spruyt, B., & Spears, R. (2023). When and why people prefer higher educated politicians: Ingroup bias, deference, and resistance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 585-599. Open access
2022
van Breen, J. A., de Lemus, S., Spears, R., & Kuppens, T. (2022). Counteracting subliminal cues that threaten social identity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61, 143-166. Open access
2021
Gootjes, F., Kuppens, T., Postmes, T., & Gordijn, E.H. (2021). Disentangling societal discontent and intergroup threat: Explaining actions towards refugees and towards the state. International Review of Social Psychology. Download preprint
van Noord, J., Spruyt, B., Kuppens, T., & Spears, R. (in press). In the shadow of the schooled society. Feelings of misrecognition and the education ladder. Social Problems. doi:
2020
Brandt, M. J., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Andrighetto, L., Autin, F., Babincak, Badea, C., Batruch, A., Becker, J. C., Bocian, K., Bodroža, B., Bourguignon, D., Bukowski, M., Butera, F., Butler, S. E., Chryssochoou, X., Conway, P., Crawford, J. T. ... Zimmerman, J. L. (2020). Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries. European Journal of Social Psychology. Download preprint
Leander, N.P., Agostini, M., Stroebe, W., Kreienkamp, J., Spears, R., Kuppens, T., Van Zomeren, M., Otten, S., & Kruglanski, A.W. (2020). Frustration-affirmation? Thwarted goals motivate compliance with social norms for violence and nonviolence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi: 10.1037/pspa0000190
Easterbrook, M.J., Kuppens, T., & Manstead, A.S.R. (2020). Socioeconomic status and the structure of the self-concept. British Journal of Social Psychology, 59, 1, 66-86. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12334 Download preprint
Manstead, A.S.R., Easterbrook, M.J., & Kuppens, T. (2020). The socioecology of social class. Current Opinion in Psychology, 32, 95-99. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.06.037 Download preprint
Spruyt, B., Kuppens, T., Spears, R., & van Noord, J. (2020). Talking politics? Educational category salience reinforces differences in people's willingness to participate in deliberative initiatives. Political Psychology, 41, 3, 461-478. doi: 10.1111/pops.12558 Download preprint
2019
Van Noord, J., Spruyt, B., Kuppens, T., Spears, R. (2019). Education-based status in comparative perspective: The legitimization of education as a basis for social stratification. Social Forces, 98, 2, 649-676. doi: 10.1093/sf/soz012 Download preprint
2018
van Breen, J. A., Spears, R., Kuppens, T., & de Lemus, S. (2018). Subliminal gender stereotypes: Who can resist? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. doi:10.1177/0146167218771895 Download preprint
Kuppens, T., Spears, R., Manstead, A. S. R., Spruyt, B., & Easterbrook, M. J. (2018). Educationism and the irony of meritocracy: Negative attitudes of higher educated people towards the less educated. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 76, 429-447. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2017.11.001 Download preprint
2017
Pollet, T. V., Stoevenbelt, A. H., & Kuppens, T. (2017). The potential pitfalls of studying adult sex rations at aggregate levels in humans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 372, 20160317. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0317
van Breen, J. A., Spears, R., Kuppens, T., & Soledad de Lemus (2017). A multiple identity approach to gender: Identification with women, identification with feminists, and their interaction. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1019. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01019
Gordijn, E. H., Vacher, L., & Kuppens, T. (2017). "To serve and protect" when expecting to be seen negatively: The relations between police officers' contact with citizens, meta-stereotyping, and work-related well-being. Community & Applied Social Psychology, 27, 253-268. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2310
2016
Easterbrook, M. J., Kuppens, T., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2016). The education effect: Higher educational qualifications are robustly associated with personal and socio-political outcomes. Social Indicators Research, 126, 3, 1261-1298. doi: 10.1007/s11205-015-0946-1. Download submitted version
Yzerbyt, V., Kuppens, T., & Mathieu, B. (2016). When talking makes you feel like a group: The emergence of group-based emotions. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 33-50. doi:10.1080/02699931.2015.1045454 . Download
2015
Spruyt, B. & Kuppens, T. (2015). Education based thinking and behaving? Towards an identity perspective for studying education differentials in public opinion and political participation. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2, 291-312. doi: 10.1080/23254823.2016.1150689 Download
Kuppens, T., Pollet, T. V. (2015). Gender equality probably does not affect performance at the Olympic games: A comment on Berdahl, Uhlmann, and Bai. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 61, 144-147. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.06.002. Download paper including supplemental robustness checks. Download data. And here is a comment on Bai et al.'s (2015) rejoinder.
Kuppens, T., Easterbrook, M. J., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2015). Life at both ends of the ladder: Education-based identification and its association with well-being and social attitudes. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1260-1275. doi: 10.1177/0146167215594122kj Download
van der Schalk, J., Kuppens, T., Bruder, M., & Manstead, A.S.R. (2015). The social power of regret: The effect of social appraisals and anticipated emotions on fair and unfair allocations in resource dilemmas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 151-157. See here or download.
Spruyt, B., & Kuppens, T. (2015). Warm, cold, competent, or incompetent? An empirical assessment of public perceptions of the higher and less educated. Current Sociology, 63, 7, 1058-1077. doi: 10.1177/0011392114554843. See here or download submitted version
2014
Kuppens, T., & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2014). When are emotions related to group-based appraisals? A comparison between group-based emotions and general group emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40, 1574-1588. See here or download submitted version
Kuppens, T., & Pollet, T. V. (2014). Mind the level: Problems with two recent nation-level analyses in psychology. Frontiers in Psychology - Personality and Social Psychology, 5, 1110. Available here
Kuppens, T., & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2014). Predicting variability: Using multilevel modelling to assess differences in variance. European Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 7, 691-700. See here or Download
Maio, G.R., Hahn, U., Frost, J.-M., Kuppens, T., Rehman, N., & Kamble, S. (2014). Social values as arguments. Similar is convincing. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 829. Available here
Kuppens, T., & Spears, R. (2014). You don't have to be well-educated to be an aversive racist, but it helps. Social Science Research, 45, 211-223. Download
2013 and older
Kuppens, T., Yzerbyt, V. Y., Dandache, S., Fischer, A. H., & van der Schalk, J. (2013). Social identity salience shapes group-based emotions through group-based appraisals. Cognition & Emotion, 27, 8, 1359-1377. Download
Kuppens, T., Pollet, T. V., Teixeira, C. N., Demoulin, S., Roberts, S. C. & Little, A. C. (2012). Emotions in context: Anger causes ethnic but not gender bias in men but not women. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 432-441.
Kuppens, T. & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2012). Group-based emotions: The impact of social identity on appraisals, emotions, and behaviors. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34, 20-33. Download
Dedonder, J., Corneille, O., Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Kuppens, T. (2010). Evaluative conditioning of high-novelty stimuli does not seem to be based on an automatic form of associative learning, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 1118-1121.
Roberts, S. C., Dunbar, R. I. M., Pollet, T. V., & Kuppens, T. (2009). Exploring variation in active network size: Constraints and ego characteristics, Social Networks, 31, 138-146.
Glorieux, I., Kuppens, T., & Vandebroeck, D. (2007). Mind the gap. Societal limits to public library effectiveness. Library & Information Science Research, 29, 188-208. Download
Pollet, T.V., Kuppens, T., & Dunbar, R. (2006). When nieces and nephews become important: differences between childless women and mothers in relationships with nieces and nephews. Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 4, 2, 83-93.
Elchardus, M. & Kuppens, T. (2003). ‘Mi moaten, mi moaten’. Conformisme, groepsbinding en studieprestaties [‘Mi moaten, mi moaten’. Conformism, social cohesion, and educational achievement], Tijdschrift voor Onderwijsrecht & Onderwijsbeleid, 6, juli/augustus: 483-493.