Dr. Namkje Koudenburg is currently working as an Associate Professor in Social Psychology. She is broadly interested in group dynamics and communication, and specifically on the question how everyday communications may work to catalyze polarization and social change. She obtained her PhD (cum laude) in 2014 at the University of Groningen, working together with Tom Postmes and Ernestine H. Gordijn. In this research, she focused on the role of conversational flow and silences in the emergence and regulation of social relationships. She received early career awards from the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP) and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and several dissertation awards, among others by the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP). In 2017, Dr. Koudenburg received a VENI-grant for her research project on the role of communication in social change. For more information, please visit her website.
Selected Publications
Van Mourik Broekman, A., Koudenburg,N., Gordijn, E.H., Krans, K., & Postmes, T. (2019). The Impact of Art: Exploring the social-psychological pathways that connect audiences to live performances. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 116(6), 942-965. doi: 10.1037/pspi0000159
Koudenburg, N., Greijdanus, H. J. E., & Scheepers, D. T. (2018). The Polarizing Effects of Group Discussion in a Negative Normative Context: Integrating Societal, Group and Individual level factors. Special section on Understanding rapid societal change: Emerging perspectives and methods, British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(1). doi: 10.1111/bjso.12282
Koudenburg, N., Gordijn, E.H., & Postmes, T. (2017). Beyond Content of Conversation: The Role of Conversational Form in the Emergence and Regulation of Social Structure. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21(1), 50-71.
Koudenburg, N. (2018). Regulating Shared Reality with Micro-Dynamics in the Form of Conversation. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 47-51. Doi: 1016/j.copsyc.2017.12.002
Koudenburg, N., Postmes, T, & Gordijn, E.H. (2013). Conversational Flow Promotes Solidarity. PLoS ONE 8(11): e78363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078363.