Dr. Camiel J. Beukeboom

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Camiel Beukeboom is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Science. He studied Social Psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, after which he moved to a research position at the VU University in Amsterdam. Here he obtained his PhD. (Dr.) in Social Psychology in 2003 on a dissertation focusing on the effects of mood states on language use. After working as a Docent in Social Psychology he moved to Communication Science, where he currently teaches on interpersonal communication and on conducting research in various courses (e.g., Ba, Ma thesis). Besides that he coordinates the Ma thesis and internships for Ba students. In his research he focuses, in general, on the factors that influence the course and outcome of conversations and specifically on language use. He also studies the use of social media and the ways in which organizations can successfully intervene in social media (webcare). He publishes in, and reviews for, major scientific journals in the field.

Recent Research

• The influence of mood and emotional expressions in interpersonal communication
• The course and outcome of conversations
• Antecedents en consequences of language use (language abstraction, negations, irony)

Recent teaching

• Interpersonal communication (BA / PMC)
• Supervision BA, PMC en MA theses

Recent publications

• Tanis, M., & Beukeboom, C. J. (In press). Organizational Identification and the Communication of Identity: Effects of Message Characteristics on Cognitive and Affective Identification. British Journal of Social Psychology.
• Utz, S. & Beukeboom, C. J. (2011). The role of social network sites in romantic relationships: Effects on jealousy and relationship happiness. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 16(4), 511-527. DOI:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2011.01552.x
• Beukeboom, C. J., Finkenauer, C., & Wigboldus, D. H. J. (2010). The negation bias: When Negations Signal Stereotypic Expectancies. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 99(6), 978-992. abstract 
• Beukeboom, C. J. (2009). How on earth do people understand each other in interpersonal conversation? In Mind Magazine,8 article 
• Beukeboom, C. J. (2009). When words feel right: How affective expressions of listeners change a speaker’s language use. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 747-756. abstract
• Beukeboom, C. J. & De Jong, E. M. (2008). When Feelings Speak: How Affective and Proprioceptive Cues Change Language Abstraction. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 27, 110-122. abstract
• Beukeboom, C. J., & Semin, G. R. (2006). How mood turns on language. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 553-566. see PDF 
• Beukeboom, C. J., & Semin, G. R. (2005). Mood and representations of behaviour: The how and why. Cognition & Emotion, 19, 1242-1251. abstract

Other academic activities

• Memberships: International Communication Association (ICA), European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP), Associate member of the Netherlands School of Communications Research (NESCoR)
• Reviewing activities for several international journals