Utrecht Groups & Identity lab
Belle Derks
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2020
Aarntzen, L., Derks, B., van Steenbergen, E. & van der Lippe, T. (2020). How individual gender role beliefs, organizational gender norms, and
national gender norms predict parents’ work-family guilt in Europe. Community, Work & Family. doi: 10.1080/13668803.2020.1816901. Pdf
Domen, I., Derks, B., Van Veelen, R., & Scheepers, D. (2020). Gender identity relevance predicts
preferential neural processing of same-gendered faces. Social Neuroscience, 1-14. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2019.1703807 Pdf
Faniko, K., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2020). The Queen Bee phenomenon in Academia 15 years after: Does it still exist, and if so, why?. British
Journal of Social Psychology, e12408. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12408 Pdf
van Veelen, R., Veldman, J., Van Laar, C., & Derks, B. (2020). Distancing from a stigmatized social identity: State of the art and future research agenda
on self‐group distancing. European Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2714 Pdf
2019
Aarntzen, L., Derks, B., van Steenbergen, E., Ryan, M., & van der Lippe, T. (2019). Work-family guilt as a
straightjacket. An interview and diary study on consequences of mothers' work-family guilt. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 115, 103336. doi: 10.1016/j.jvb.2019.103336 Pdf
Van Veelen, R., Derks, B., & Endedijk, M. D. (2019). Double Trouble: How being Outnumbered and
Negatively Stereotyped Threatens Career Outcomes of Women in STEM. Frontiers in Psychology, 10,
150. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00150 Pdf
Van Veelen, R. & Derks, B. (2019). LNVH rapport: Verborgen verschillen in werktaken, hulpbronnen en onderhandelingen over
arbeidsvoorwaarden tussen vrouwelijke en mannelijke wetenschappers in Nederland. Link
Derks, B., Saguy, T. (2019). Rolbevestigende speelgoedmarketing houdt meisjes weg van techniek. Sociale Vraagstukken. Link
2018
Derks, B., van Veelen, R., & Handgraaf, M. (2018). Successful economists are highly masculine.
Economisch Statistische Berichten, 103, 16-19. Pdf
Derks, B., Vink, M., Aarntzen, L., & Riedijk, L. (2018). De keuze van vrouwen voor deeltijd is minder vrij
dan we denken. Sociale Vraagstukken. Link
Endendijk, J. J., Derks, B., & Mesman, J. (2018). Welke gevolgen heeft het ouderschap voor de
genderrolstereotypen en rolpatronen van ouders? Mens en Maatschappij, 93, 165-168. Pdf
Endendijk, J. J., Spencer, H., Bos, P. A., & Derks, B. (2018). Neural processing of gendered information is
more robustly associated with mothers’ gendered communication with children than mothers’ implicit
and explicit gender stereotypes. Social neuroscience, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2018.1468357Pdf
Maloku, E., Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2018). Stimulating interethnic contact in Kosovo: The
role of social identity complexity and distinctiveness threat. Group Processes and Intergroup
Relations, 1-20. doi: 10.1177/1368430218808884 Pdf
2017
Derks, B. (2017). The Queen Bee Syndrome. In S. G. Rogelberg, Encyclopedia of Industrial and
Organizational Psychology (2nd Edition). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Derks, B., & Scheepers, D. (2017). Neural and cardiovascular pathways from stigma to health. In B.
Major, J. F. Dovidio, & B. G. Link (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Stigma, Discrimination and Health.
Oxford University Press.
Derks, B. (2017). Streefcijfers zijn nog maar een begin: Het weerbarstige karakter van ongelijke
kansen. Gedrag en Organisatie, 30,89-103. Pdf
Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2017). Eenzaam aan de top: Negatieve bijwerkingen van
de ondervertegenwoordiging van vrouwen in hoge functies. In M. Luckerath-Rovers, B. Bier, H. van Ees, & M. Kaptein (Eds.) Jaarboek Corporate Governance 2017/2018 (pp. 43-55). Deventer: Wolters Kluwer.
Endendijk, J., Derks, B., & Mesman, J. (2017). Does Parenthood Change Implicit Gender-Role Stereotypes
and Behaviors?. Journal of Marriage and Family. 80, 61-79. doi:10.1111/jomf.12451 Pdf
Faniko, K., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2017). Nothing changes, really: Why women who break through
the glass ceiling end up reinforcing it. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43, 638-651. doi: 10.1177/0146167217695551 Pdf
Van Nunspeet, F., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2017). Social contexts and personal moral motives
reduce implicit prejudice: A direct comparison. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research and Practice. doi: 10.1037/gdn0000072 Pdf
2016
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2016). The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders
distance themselves from junior women. The Leadership Quarterly, 27(3), 456-469. doi: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2015.12.007 Pdf
Winner of Women in Financial Services Diversity Research Accelerator Award 2017
Faniko, K., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2016). Queen Bees and Alpha Males: Are successful women more
competitive than successful men?. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 903-913. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2198 Pdf
Maloku, E., Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2016). Building national identity in newborn Kosovo:
Challenges of interacting national identity with ethnic identity among Kosovar Albanians and Kosovar Serbs. In McKeown Jones, S., Haji, R., & Ferguson, N. (Eds.), Understanding peace and conflict through social identity theory: Contemporary and World-Wide Perspectives, 245-260. Springer. Pdf
Scheepers, D., & Derks, B. (2016). Revisiting social identity theory from a neuroscience perspective. Current
Opinion in Psychology, 11, 74-78. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.06.006 Pdf
2015
Derks, B., & Ellemers, N. (2015). Gender and social hierarchies: Introduction and overview. In Faniko, K.,
Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, F., Sarrasin, O., & Mayor, E. (Eds.), Gender and Social Hierarchies: Perspectives from Social Psychology, 1-7. Routlege.
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., Ellemers, N., & Raghoe, G. (2015). Extending the queen bee effect: How
Hindustani workers cope with disadvantage by distancing the self from the group. Journal of Social Issues, 71 (3), 476-496. Pdf
Derks, B., Stedehouder, J., & Ito, T. (2015). Social identity modifies face perception: An ERP study of
categorization. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 10 (5), 672-679. Pdf
Newheiser, A. K., Barreto, M., Ellemers, N., Derks, B., & Scheepers, D. (2015). Regulatory focus
moderates the social performance of individuals who conceal a stigmatized identity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 54 (4), 787-797. Pdf
Van Nunspeet, F., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2015). Moral impression management:
Evaluation by an in-group member during a moral IAT affects perceptual attention and conflict and response monitoring. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 6 (2),183-192. Pdf
Van Nunspeet, F., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2015). Reducing implicit bias: How moral motivation helps
people refrain from making “automatic” prejudiced associations. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 1(4), 382.
Sellaro, R., Derks, B., Nitsche, M.A., Hommel, B., Wildenberg, W.P., Van Dam, K. & Colzato,
L. (2015). Reducing prejudice through brain stimulation. Brain stimulation, 8 (5), 891-897. Pdf
Zaal, M., Van Laar, C., Stahl, T., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2015). "Self-promotion": How regulatory focus
affects the pursuit of self-interest at the expense of the group. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45 (5), 587-598. Pdf
2014
Van Nunspeet, F., Ellemers, N., Derks, B., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2014). Moral concerns increase attention
and response monitoring during IAT performance - ERP evidence. Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9 (2),141-149. Pdf
2013
Derks, B., Scheepers, D., & Ellemers, N. (2013). Neuroscience of Prejudice and Intergroup
Relations. Psychology Press. Pdf
Derks, B. (2013). The implicit effects of social identity: Measuring early social categorization with event-
related brain potentials. Neuroscience of Prejudice and Intergroup Relations, 45-62. Taylor & Francis. Pdf
Van Laar, C., Derks, B., & Ellemers, N. (2013). Motivation for education and work in young
Muslim women: The importance of value for ingroup domains. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 35 (1), 64-74. Pdf
Scheepers, D., Derks, B., Nieuwenhuis, S., Lelieveld, G.J., Van Nunspeet, F., Rombouts, S. A., & de Rover,
M. (2013). The neural correlates of in-group and self-face perception: Is there overlap for high identifiers? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7 (9). Pdf
Scheepers, D., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2013). The “nature” of prejudice: What neuroscience has to offer
to the study of intergroup relations. Neuroscience of Prejudice and Intergroup Relations,1-22. Taylor & Francis. Pdf
2012
Van Dillen, L.F., & Derks, B. (2012). Working memory load reduces facilitated processing of threatening
faces: an ERP study. Emotion, 12 (6),1340-1349. Pdf
Does, S., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & Scheepers, D. (2012). At the heart of egalitarianism: How morality
framing shapes cardiovascular challenge versus threat in whites. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3 (6), 747-753. Pdf
Ellemers, N., Rink, F., Derks, B., & Ryan, M. K. (2012). Women in high places: When and why promoting
women into top positions can harm them individually or as a group (and how to prevent this). Research in Organizational Behavior, 32,163-187. Pdf
Stahl, T, van Laar, C., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2012). Searching for acceptance: Prejudice expectations
direct attention towards social acceptance cues when under a promotion focus. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 15 (4), 523-538. Pdf
Zaal, M. P., Van Laar, C., Stahl, T., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2012). Social change as an important goal
or likely outcome: How regulatory focus affects commitment to collective action. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51 (1), 93-110. Pdf
2011
Derks, B., Ellemers, N., van Laar, C., & de Groot, K. (2011). Do sexist organizational cultures create the
Queen Bee? British Journal of Social Psychology, 50 (3), 519-535. Pdf
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., Ellemers, N., & de Groot, K. (2011). Gender-bias primes elicit Queen-Bee
responses among senior policewomen. Psychological Science, 22 (10),1243-1249. Pdf
Derks, B., Scheepers, D., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2011). The threat vs. challenge of car parking for
women - How self- and group affirmation affect cardiovascular responses. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (1), 178-183. Pdf
Does, S., Derks, B., & Ellemers, N. (2011). Thou shalt not discriminate: How emphasizing moral ideals
rather than obligations increases Whites' support for social equality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47 (3), 562-571.Pdf
Zaal, M. P., Van Laar, C., Stahl, T., Ellemers, N., & Derks, B. (2011). By any means necessary: The effect
of regulatory focus and moral conviction on hostile and benevolent forms of collective action. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50 (4), 670-689. Pdf
2010
Van Laar, C., Derks, B., Ellemers, N., & Bleeker, D. (2010). Valuing social identity: Consequences for
motivation and performance in low-status groups. Journal of Social Issues, 66 (3), 602-617. Pdf
Kang, S.K., Inzlicht, M., & Derks, B. (2010). Social neuroscience and public policy on intergroup relations:
a Hegelian analysis. Journal of Social Issues, 66 (3), 585-601. Pdf
2009
Derks, B., van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2009). Working for the self or working for the group - How self
versus group affirmation affects collective behavior in low-status groups. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96 (1),183-202. Pdf
2008
Derks, B., Inzlicht, M., & Kang, S. (2008). The neuroscience of stigma and stereotype threat. Group
Processes & Intergroup Relations, 11(2), 163-181 Pdf
2007
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2007a). Social creativity strikes back: Improving motivated
performance of low status group members by valuing ingroup dimensions. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37 (3), 470-493. Pdf
Derks, B., Van Laar, C., & Ellemers, N. (2007b). The beneficial effects of social identity protection on the
performance motivation of members of devalued groups: Social identity protection and motivation. Social Issues and Policy Review, 1 (1), 217-256. Pdf
2006
Derks, B, van Laar, C & Ellemers, Naomi (2006). Striving for success in outgroup settings - Effects of
contextually emphasizing ingroup dimensions on stigmatized group members' social identity and performance styles. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32 (5), 576-588. Pdf
2003
Van Laar, C., & Derks, B. (2003). Disidentification from the academic domain among members of
stigmatized groups. In Salili, F., & Hoosain, R. (Eds.), Learning and Motivation in a Multicultural Setting. (pp. 345-395). Greenwich: Information Ag.