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Psychology Research Institute Psychology Research Institute

Dr. L.P. (Leon) Hilbert

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group Work and Organizational Psychology
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 129
  • Room number: G 2.11
Postal address
  • Postbus 15915
    1001 NK Amsterdam
Contact details
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  • Profile

    Leon Hilbert’s research investigates psychological and behavioral effects of financial hardship and economic inequality. 

    Research expertise

    • Economic Inequality 
    • Financial scarcity and poverty
    • Social decision-making (e.g., prosociality, trust, cooperation)
    • Individual decision-making (e.g., temporal discounting, risk taking, avoidance)
    • Perceived control
  • Research

    Research methods

    • Behavioral experiments and economic games
    • Longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys
    • Cross-cultural research
    • Physiological measurements

    Research grants

    • 2025: KLI Many-labs grant
    • 2025: ASPO, EADM, and IAREP Workshop grants
    • 2019: ODISSEI grant for data collection with the LISS Panel

    Current cooperation

  • Teaching

    BA

    • Thesis supervision
    • Methodology: Operationalisation, Design, Analyses
    • Recruitment, Selection, and Work performance

    MA

    • Master Thesis coordination
    • Thesis and internship supervision
    • Methodology: Analysing, Presenting, and Writing
    • Intervision Research Master
  • Publications

    2026

    2024

    2023

    2022

    • Hilbert, L. P., Noordewier, M. K., & van Dijk, W. W. (2022). Financial scarcity increases discounting of gains and losses: Experimental evidence from a household task. Journal of Economic Psychology, 92, Article 102546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2022.102546
    • Hilbert, L. P., Noordewier, M. K., & van Dijk, W. W. (2022). The prospective associations between financial scarcity and financial avoidance. Journal of Economic Psychology, 88, Article 102459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102459

    2020

    • Noordewier, M. K., Scheepers, D. T., & Hilbert, L. P. (2020). Freezing in response to social threat: A replication. Psychological Research, 84, 1890–1896. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01203-4
    • Rosenbusch, H., Hilbert, L. P., Evans, T., & Zeelenberg, M. (2020). StatBreak: Identifying “lucky” data points through genetic algorithms. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3, 216-228. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920917950

    2024

    2022

    Prize / grant

    Membership / relevant position

    • Hilbert, L. (2025-2026). Board member (not chair)., Dutch Association for Social Psychology (ASPO).

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (11-3-2026). De psychologische armoedefuik, The Social Animal 2026, Utrecht.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (21-11-2025). Inequality and trust: A multi-lab registered report, ASPO conference 2025, Maastricht.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (10-9-2025). Prosociality of the rich and poor, AOWI2025, Lüneburg.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (5-6-2025). Inequality and Trust: A many-labs registered report, Economic Inequality Network meeting, Tilburg.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (13-12-2024). Prosociality of the financially affluent and deprived, ASPO conference 2024, Groningen.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (3-10-2024). De psychologische armoedefuik: Hoe geldgebrek invloed heeft op beslissen, uitstelgedrag, en grip op je leven, Schuldinfo Jaarcongres 2024, Appeldoorn.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (2-7-2024). Prosociality of the financially affluent and deprived., International Conference of Social Dilemmas (ICSD), Leiden.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (21-5-2023). Financial scarcity increases temporal discounting: Experimental evidence from a household task, IMEBESS, Lisssabon.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (21-4-2023). Financial scarcity and perceived control across the globe., ASPO conference 2023.

    Others

    • Hilbert, L. (organiser), Oosterwijk, S. (organiser), Rutjens, B. (organiser), Feddes, A. (member of programme committee), Cook, S. (member of programme committee) & D'Amore, C. (member of programme committee) (9-12-2026 - 10-12-2026). ASPO conference 2026, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hilbert, L. (member of programme committee) (11-5-2026 - 12-5-2026). KLI conference 2026 (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hilbert, L. (organiser), Amasino, D. (organiser) & Vahed, S. (organiser) (9-10-2025 - 10-10-2025). Workshop on the Psychological and Economic Perspectives of Economic Inequality, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hilbert, L. (organiser) & Amasino, D. (organiser) (5-6-2025). Economic Inequality Network meeting, Tilburg (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Hilbert, L. (consultant) (2025 - 2026). Consulting on statistics and methodology, Verwey Jonker Instituut (consultancy).
    • Hilbert, L. (participant) (2024). Constituting meeting of the Economic Inequality Network, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2024

    • Hilbert, L. P. (2024). Decisions under Financial Scarcity. [Thesis, fully external, Universiteit Leiden, Leiden].

    2023

    • Stallen, M., Snijder, L., Gross, J., Hilbert, L. P. & de Dreu, C. (2023). Partner choice and cooperation in social dilemmas can increase resource inequality. DataverseNL. https://doi.org/10.34894/eyfm5l
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