Research Review Psychology

Research Review Psychology QANU April 2012 Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities (QANU) Catharijnesingel 56 PO Box 8035 3503 RA Utrecht The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0) 30 230 3100 Telefax: +31 (0) 30 230 3129 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.qanu.nl Project number: Q306 © 2012 QANU Text and numerical material from this publication may be reproduced in print, by photocopying or by any other means with the permission of QANU if the source is mentioned. 2 QANU / Psychology research assessment 2012 CONTENTS 1. The Review Committee and review procedures.......................................................................5 2. General Remarks.........................................................................................................................11 Assessment at institute and programme level 3. Leiden University........................................................................................................................21 4. Tilburg University .......................................................................................................................37 5. MaastrichtUniversity...................................................................................................................57 6. University of Groningen............................................................................................................71 7. University of Twente..................................................................................................................91 8. Utrecht University.....................................................................................................................105 9. VU University Amsterdam......................................................................................................121 10. University of Amsterdam.........................................................................................................137 Appendices Appendix A: Explanation of the SEP criteria and scores............................................................153 Appendix B: Programme for the site-visits....................................................................................155 Appendix C: Short curriculum vitae of the committee members...............................................163 Appendix D: Additional information regarding the Leiden Institute of Psychology ..............167 Appendix E: Additional information regarding the Tilburg School of Psychology.................171 Appendix F: Additional information regarding the Maastricht Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience..............................................................................................................177 Appendix G: Additional information regarding the Groningen Heymans Institute for Psychological Research .............................................................................................181 Appendix H: Additional information regarding the Twente Faculty of Behavioural Sciences ......................................................................................................................................185 Appendix I: Additional information regarding the Utrecht Faculty Social and Behavioral Sciences........................................................................................................................189 Appendix J: Additional information regarding the VU Faculty of Psychology and Education ......................................................................................................................................195 Appendix K: Additional information regarding the Psychology Research Institute UvA......199 QANU / Psychology Research assessment 2012 3 4 QANU / Psychology research assessment 2012 1. THE REVIEW COMMITTEE AND REVIEW PROCEDURES Scope of the assessment The Psychology Committee was asked to perform an assessment of the research in psychology at Leiden University (LEI), Tilburg University (UvT), Maastricht University (UM), University of Groningen (RUG), University of Twente (UT), Utrecht University (UU), VU Amsterdam (VU) and University of Amsterdam (UvA). This assessment covers the research conducted in the period 2005-2010. In accordance with the Standard Evaluation Protocol 2009-2015 for Research Assessment in the Netherlands (SEP), the committee’s tasks were to assess the quality of the institutes and the research programmes on the basis of the information provided by the institutes and interviews with the management and the research leaders, and to advise on how they might be improved. Composition of the Committee The composition of the Psychology Committee was as follows: • Prof. G.J. (Don) Mellenbergh (chair), emeritus professor of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam; • Prof. M. (Marc) Brysbaert, professor of Experimental Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium; • Prof. D. (David) Guest, professor of Organizational Psychology and HRM at King’s College London, UK; • Prof. K. (Kenneth) Hugdahl, professor of Biological and Medical Psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway; • Prof. A. (Annette) Karmiloff-Smith, Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck , University of London, United Kingdom; • Prof. J. (Jürgen) Margraf, Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; • Prof. I. (Iven) van Mechelen, professor of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences at the KU Leuven, Belgium; • Prof. C. (Constantine) Sedikides, professor of Social and Personality Psychology at the Centre for Research on Self and Identity School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK. Dr. M.J.V. (Meg) Van Bogaert of QANU (Quality Assurance Netherlands Universities) was appointed secretary to the committee. A short curriculum vitae of the committee members can be found in Appendix C. The subject of six programmes did not lie within the expertise of any of the committee members. For these six programmes external assessors with the appropriate expertise were requested to provide a written assessment, based on the self-evaluation report and the key publications of the programme. The written assessment of the external assessors was used by the committee members in their preparation of the site visit, the assessment of the programme and the writing of the report. QANU / Psychology Research assessment 2012 5 The external assessors of the six programmes were: • Prof. I. (Ilana) Ritov, professor of Education and Psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel: assessor of the Social Decision Making programme at Tilburg University: • Prof. P.B. (Peter) Smith, emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK: assessor of the Cross-Cultural Psychology programme at Tilburg University; • Prof. T. (Tim) Bates, professor of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh, UK: assessor of the Genes, Behaviour and Health programme at the VU University Amsterdam; • Prof. E. (Edmund) Wascher, professor of Ergonomics at the Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors: assessor of the Cognition and Media programme at the University of Twente; • Prof. A. (Andreas) Roepstorff, associate professor of cognitive research, Aarhus University, Denmark: assessor of the Theory and History of Psychology programme at the University of Groningen; • Prof. H. (Hans) Spada, professor of Cognition, Emotion and Communication at the University of Freiburg, Germany: assessor of the Educational Psychology programme at the University of Twente. Independence All members of the committee signed a statement of independence to guarantee that they would assess the quality of the institutes and research programmes in an unbiased and independent way. Any existing personal or professional relationships between committee members and the programmes under review were reported and discussed in the committee meeting. The chairman (professor Mellenbergh) is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Methods at the University of Amsterdam. To guarantee independence of the methodological programmes, a methodologist from abroad (professor Van Mechelen) was appointed to the committee, and to guarantee independence of the University of Amsterdam, the following measures were taken. First, the visit to the University of Amsterdam was chaired by another committee member (professor Guest). Second, professor Mellenbergh was absent at the interview with the methodological programme of the University of Amsterdam. Third, he was present at the other interviews, but he did not contribute to them. Fourth, he was absent when the assessments of the programmes of the University of Amsterdam were made. Data provided to the committee The committee received detailed documentation consisting of the following parts: 1. Self-evaluation reports of the units under review, including all the information required by the Standard Evaluation Protocol (SEP), with appendices; 2. Key publications per research programme, with a maximum of five articles and five books; 3. Publication lists of staff members per research programme; 4. Results of the bibliometric study carried out by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). Committee remarks regarding the data provided A draft version of the CWTS report was provided to the committee only four days prior to the first part of the site visit. The final report was provided two weeks later. Unfortunately, 6 QANU / Psychology research assessment 2012 some participating universities criticized the outcomes

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