Mark Rotteveel  obtained his PhD in 2003 at the Psychonomics Department of the  University of Amsterdam . Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at the Social Psychology department till now. He was also member of the editorial board of Emotion ( as consulting editor from 2007 till 2012) and  Cognition & Emotion (as advisor from 2010 till 2012 and as an associated editor since 2015).

Research interests

Research mainly concerns affective information processing as a function of awareness. Particularly, I am interested in affective information processing and its bi-directional relationship with action tendencies, attitudes, feelings, emotional expressions (e.g.,facial expressions,body posture) and information processing tendencies. Further I am interested in cross-over phenomena of mood and affect with classic cognitive information processing (e.g., recognition performance). In studying these processes specific latency measures, questionnaires as well as psychophysiologicalmeasures (e.g., fEMG, GSR, ERP, as fMRI) are being used.

PhD Projects

• Elise Seip (supervisor with Dr. W.W. van Dijk and Prof. J. van der Pligt, internal funding with competition awarded in 2008)
• Hannah Nohlen (supervisor with Dr. F. van Harreveld and Prof. J. van der Pligt, NWO open competiton grant awarded in 2009)
• Luuk Albers (co-promotor with Prof. A. Dijksterhuis). Date of defense January 15th, 2010. Double you? Function and form of implicit and explicit self-esteem.
• Suzanne Oosterwijk   (supervisor with Prof. A.H. Fischer, internal funding 2006). Date of defense, March 18th, 2011. Moving the mind: Embodied emotion concepts and their consequences.
• Marleen Gillebaart (supervisor with Prof. J.A. F ö rster, internal funding 2008).
• Iris Schneider (supervisor with Dr. F. van Harreveld and Prof. J. van der Pligt, internal funding with competition awarded in 2008). 

Postdoc projects

• Lotte van Dillen (supervisor with Dr. W.W. van Dijk, Leiden University, NWO open competiton grant awarded in 2009)
• Suzanne Oosterwijk (Marie Curie Grant, Fp7, awarded in 2011)

• Rotteveel, M . , & Phaf, R.H. (2000). Stronger suboptimal than optimal affective priming? Consciousness and Cognition, 9(2): S66-67.
• Rotteveel, M., de Groot, P., Geutskens, A., & Phaf, R.H . (2001). Stronger suboptimal than optimal affective priming? Emotion, 1, 348-364.
• Rotteveel, M., Phaf, R.H. (2004). Loading working memory enhances affective priming? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 11(2), 326-331
• Rotteveel, M., & Phaf, R.H. (2004). Automatic affective evaluation does not automatically predispose for arm flexion and extension. Emotion, 4(2), 156-172.
• Rotteveel, M.,van Ditzhuijzen, J.,& Phaf, R.H.(2004). Loading working memoryinterferes with affect incongruent movements. In S.P. Shohov (Ed.), Advances in psychology research 31 (pp.111-122). NY: Nova Publishers. ISBN: 1-59033-958-4
• Rietveld,S., Spiering, M., Rotteveel, M., van Beest, I. (2004/2005). Visual performance of adults with prelingual auditory impairment. American Annals of the Deaf, 149(5), 421-427.
• Fischer, A.H., Rotteveel, M., Evers, C., & Manstead, A.S.R. (2004). Emotional assimilation: How we are influenced by others' emotions. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 22(2), 223-245 .
• Roelofs, K., Elzinga, B.M., & Rotteveel, M. (2005). The effects of stress-induced cortisol responses on approach-avoidance behavior. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30(7) , 665-677.
• Roelofs, K., Elzinga, B.M., & Rotteveel, M. (2005). Erratum to "The effectsof stress-induced cortisol responseson approach-avoidance behavior". Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30, 930.
• Phaf, R.H., & Roteveel, M. (2005). Affective modulation of recognition bias. Emotion, 5(3) , 309-318.
• Phaf, R.H., Wendte, R., & Rotteveel M. (2005). Privileged processing of low spatial frequencies in emotional faces? In: B.G. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds), Proceedings of the XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society , July 21-23, 2005, Stresa, Italy, Pp. 1744-1749. Mahwah , NJ : LawrenceErlbaum.
• Zeelenberg, R., Wagenmakers, E., & Rotteveel, M. (2006). The impact ofemotion on perception:Biased or enhanced processing. PsychologicalScience, 17 ,287-291.
• Rotteveel, M., & Phaf, R.H.(2007). Mere exposure in reverse: Mood and motion modulate memory bias. Cognition and Emotion, 21(6 ), 1323-1346.
• Van Peer, J. M., Roelofs, K., Rotteveel, M., van Dijk, J.G., Spinhoven, P.,& Ridderinkhof, R. (2007). The effects of cortisol administrationon approach-avoidance behavior: An event-related potential study. Biological Psychology, 76, 135-146.
• Albers, L., Rotteveel, M., Dijksterhuis, A. (2009). Towards optimizing the name letter test as a measure of implicit self-esteem. Self and Identity, 8(1), 63-77 .
• Van Harreveld, F., Rutjens, B.T., Rotteveel, M., Nordgren, L.F., & van der Pligt, J. (2009). Ambivalence and decisional conflict as a cause of psychological discomfort: Feeling tense before jumping off the fence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45(1) , 167-173.
• Oosterwijk, S., Rotteveel, M., Fischer, A.H., & Hess, U. (2009). Embodied emotion concepts: How generating words about pride and disappointment influences posture.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 45(1),  457-466 .   Winner early career best paperaward EJSP 2009.
• Seip,E.C., van Dijk, W.W.,& Rotteveel, M. (2009). On hotheads and dirty harries: Theprimacy of anger in altruisticpunishment. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,1167(1), 190-196.
• Phaf, R.H., & Rotteveel, M. (2009). Lookingat the bright side: The affective monitoring of direction . Emotion, 9(5), 729-733 .
• Van Peer, J., Rotteveel, M., Spinhoven, P.,Tollenaar, M.S., and, Roelofs, K. (2010). Affect-congruent approach and withdrawal movementsof happy and angryfaces facilitate affective categorization. Cognition and Emotion, 24(5), 863-875 .
• Oosterwijk, S., Topper, M., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A.H. (2010). When the mind forms fear: Embodied fear knowledge potentiates bodily reactions. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1(1 ), 65-72.
• van der Schalk, J., Fischer, A.H., Doosje, B., Wigboldus, D., Hawk, S., Rotteveel, M., Hess, U. (2011). Convergent and divergent responses to emotional displays of ingroup and outgroup. Emotion, 11(2 ), 286-298.
• Oosterwijk, S., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A.H. (2011). Remembering the self versus knowing the world: Emotional consequences of episodic and semantic fear representations. Psychophysiology, 48 , S1, 25-25.
• Fischer, A.H., Gillebaart, M., Rotteveel, M., Becker, D., Vliek, M.L.W. (2012). Veiled Emotions: The effect of covered faces on emotion perception and attitudes. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 266-273. DOI: 10.1177/1948550611418534
• Oosterwijk, S., Winkielman, P., Pecher, D., Zeelenberg, R., Rotteveel, M., Fischer, A.H. (2012). Mental states inside out: Switching costs for emotional and non-emotional sentences that differ in internal and external focus. Memory & Cognition,40(1),93-100.
• Van Dijk,W.W., Van Dillen,L.F., Seip, E.C., & Rotteveel, M. (2012). Emotional time travel: Emotion regulation and the overestimation of future anger and sadness.  European Journalof SocialPsychology, 42, 308-313. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1853
• Vliek,M.L.W., & Rotteveel, M. (2012). If time flies, are you more fun? The relative effect of expected exposure duration on the evaluation of social stimuli. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 327-333. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1857
• Gillebaart, M, Forster, J., & Rotteveel, M. (2012). Mere exposure revisited: The influence of growth versus security cues on evaluations of novel and familiar stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(4), 699-714. DOI: 10.1037/a0027612
• Phaf, R.H., & Rotteveel, M. (2012). Affective monitoring: A generic model for affect elicitation. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:47. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyq.2012.00047
• Oosterwijk  , S., Rotteveel, M., & Fischer, A.H. (2012). Denken met het lichaam.  De Psycholoog, 47(3) , 12-24.
• Schneider, I.K., Eerland, A., Van Harreveld, F., Rotteveel, M., Van der Pligt, J., Van der Stoep, N., & Zwaan, R. (2013). One way and the other: The bi-directional relationship between ambivalence and bodymovement. Psychological Science, 24, 319-325.

• Heerebout, B.T., Tap, A.E., Rotteveel, M., & Phaf, R.H. (2013). Gamma flicker elicits positive affect without awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 281-289 .

• Gillebaart, M., Foster, J., Rotteveel, M., & Jehle, A.C. (2013). Unraveling effects of novelty on creativity. Creativity Research Journal, 25, 280-285.
• Nohlen, H.U., van Harreveld, F., Rotteveel, M., Lelieveld, G., Crone, E.A. (2014). Evaluating ambivalence: Social-cognitive and affective brain regions associated with ambivalent decision-making. Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 9, 924-931

• Seip, E.C., Van Dijk, W.W., Rotteveel, M. (2014). Anger motivates costly punishment. Motivation and Emotion, 38(4),578-588.
• Seip, E.C., Rotteveel, M., Van Dillen, L.F., & van Dijk, W.W. (2014). Schadenfreude and the desire for vengeance. Schadenfreude: Understanding pleasure at the misfortune of others. Edited by W.W. van Dijk and J. Ouwerkerk. Ch. 14, pp. 227-242.
• Phaf, R.H., Mohr, S.E., Rotteveel, M., & Wicherts, J.M. (2014). Approach, avoidance, and affect: A meta-analysis of approach-avoidance tendencies in manual reaction time tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:378.
• Lodder, P., Rotteveel, M., & van Elk, M. (2014). Enactivism and neonatal imitation: Conceptual and empirical considerations and clarifications. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 967.
• Van Dillen, L.F., Harris, L.T., Van Dijk, W.W., & Rotteveel, M. (2015). Looking with different eyes: The psychological meaning of categorization goals moderates facial reactivity to facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 29(8), 1382-1400.
• Rotteveel, M., Gierholz, A., Koch, G., van Aalst, C., Pinto, Y., Matzke, D., Steingroever, H., Verhagen, J., Beek, T.F., Selker, R., Sasiadek, A., & Wagenmakers, E.J. (2015). On the automatic link between affect and tendencies to appraoch and avoid: Chen and Bargh (1999) revisited. Frontiers in Psychology, 5: 335.
• Wagenmakers, E.J., Beek, T.F., Rotteveel, M., Gierhoilz, A., Matzke, D., Steingroever, H., Ly, A., Verhagen, J., Selker, R., Sasiadek, A., Gronau, Q.F., Love, J., & Pinto, Y. (2015). Turning the hands of time again: A purely confirmatory replication study and a Bayesian analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 494.
• Schneider, I.K., Van Harreveld, F., Rotteveel, M., Topolinksy, S., Van der Pligt, J., Schwarz, N., & Koole, S. (2015). The path of ambivalence: Tracing the pull of opposing evaluations using mouse trajectories. Frontiers in Psychology, 7: 996.
• Carr, E. W., Rotteveel, M., & Winkielman, P. (in press).  Easy moves: Perceptual fluency facilitates approach-related action.   Emotion.
• Van Dijk, W.W., Van Dillen, L.F., Rotteveel, M., & Seip, E.C. (In press). Looking into the crystal ball of our emotional lives: Emotion regulation and the overestimation of future guilt and shame. Cognition and Emotion.
• Van Dillen, L.F., Enter, D., Peters, L.P.M., Van Dijk, W.W., & Rotteveel, M. (In press). Moral fixations: The role of moral integrity and social anxiety in the selective avoidance of social threat. Biological Psychology.
• Nohlen., H.U., van Harreveld, F., Rotteveel, M., & Larsen, J.T. (In press). On the affective nature of attitudinal ambivalenc: A facial EMG study on the role of choice and evaluative context in shaping affective responses to ambivalence. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
• Oosterwijk, S., Van der Leij, A., & Rotteveel, M. (In press). Associating LIPS and SWOLLEN: Delayed Attentional Disengagement Following Words in Sex Contexts. Cognition & Emotion.