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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 15919
    1001 NK Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Leon Hilbert’s research investigates psychological effects of having financial problems. Job insecurity, debts, or other forms of economic uncertainty often result in financial scarcity, which is the experience of lacking needed (financial) resources. Financial scarcity has been shown to affect people's cognition, emotions, and decision-making, with often detrimental effects for those in financial trouble. 

    In his research, Leon uses a broad range of empirical methods to study how financial scarcity affects perceived control, decisions, and performance. For example, he researches how scarcity affects financial avoidance, temporal discounting, and cooperation.

    Research expertise

    • Financial scarcity
    • Economic psychology
    • Behavioral economics
  • Research

    Research methods

    • Experiments
    • Longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys
    • Cross-cultural research
    • Physiological measurements

    Research grants

    • 2019: ODISSEI grant for data collection with the LISS Panel

    Current cooperation

  • Teaching

    BA

    • Thesis supervision

    MA

    • Thesis and internship supervision
    • Methodology: analysing, presenting, and writing
    • Recruitment, Selection, and Work performance
    • Intervision Research Master
  • Publications

    2024

    • Hilbert, L. P., Noordewier, M. K., Seck, L., & van Dijk, W. W. (2024). Financial scarcity and financial avoidance: an eye-tracking and behavioral experiment. Psychological Research, 88, 2211–2220. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-024-02019-7 [details]
    • Noordewier, M. K., Doolard, F. T., Lelieveld, G.-J., van Dijk, E., Hilbert, L. P., Marr, S., van Beest, I., Gallucci, M., & van Dijk, W. (2024). A longitudinal study on the association between financial scarcity and feelings of societal exclusion. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 102319, Article 102319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2024.102319
    • Röseler, L., Aldoh, A., Brick, C., Beitner, J., Hilbert, L. P., Pua, A. A., & Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT) (2024). The Replication Database: Documenting the Replicability of Psychological Science. Journal of Open Psychology Data, 12, Article 8. https://doi.org/10.5334/jopd.101 [details]

    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

    Media appearance

    Talk / presentation

    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (2024). De psychologische armoedefuik: Hoe geldgebrek invloed heeft op beslissen, uitstelgedrag, en grip op je leven, Schuldinfo Jaarcongres 2024, Appeldoorn.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (2024). Prosociality of the financially affluent and deprived, ASPO conference 2024, Groningen.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (2024). Prosociality of the financially affluent and deprived., International Conference of Social Dilemmas (ICSD), Leiden.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (2023). Financial scarcity increases temporal discounting: Experimental evidence from a household task, IMEBESS, Lisssabon.
    • Hilbert, L. (speaker) (2023). Financial scarcity and perceived control across the globe., ASPO conference 2023.

    Others

    • 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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