Short Curriculum Vitae
Dries H. Bostyn
Born in Roeselare, Belgium
Lives & works in Ghent, Belgium
Publications
Bostyn, D. H., Gouwy, M.-C., De Craene, E., Vanmechelen, C., Scheirlinckx, J., Tissot, T. T., Van Severen, R., van den Bogaard, D., Waterschoot, M., Geenen, F., Depauw, H., Coenye, J., Taquet, J., Xu, X., Dierckx, K., Van Damme, S., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (2025). Beyond Hypothetical Trolleys: Moral Choices and Motivations in a Real-life Sacrificial Dilemma. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 129(5), 834.
Bostyn, D. H., & Knobe, J. (2025). The shape of blame: The relationship between statistical norms and judgments of blame and praise. Cognitive Science, 49(9), e70114.
Bostyn, D. H., Dierckx, K., Van Assche, J., Haesevoets, T., Valcke, B., De Souter, L., ... & Roets, A. (2025). Hypothetical Judgment and Real-Life Decision-Making in Sacrificial Dilemmas: A Replication of “of Mice, Men and Trolleys”. Collabra: Psychology, 11(1), 143715.
Wylie, J., Bostyn, D. H., & Gantman, A. (2025). People use norms, values, codification, and enforceability to determine if a rule was broken. Open Mind, 9, 1158-1184. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mvkwy_v4
Chandrashekar, S. P., Bostyn, D. H., De Clercq, J., & Roets, A. (2025). In Similarity We Trust: Like-Mindedness, Rather Than Just the Type of Moral Judgment, Drives Inferences of Trustworthiness. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506251348958
Gouwy, M. C., Bostyn, D. H., De Clercq, B., & Roets, A. (2025). The Development of a Moral Compass: Exploring Age and Gender Differences in Moral Foundations In Early and Mid‐Adolescence. Journal of Adolescence.
Van Den Bossche, T., Bostyn, D. H., De Backere, F., & Bex, S. (2025). Creating a supportive academic culture by preventing and responding to transgressive behavior. Nature Mental Health, 1-2.
Tissot, T. T., Van Hiel, A., Bostyn, D. H., Haerens, L., Willem, A., & Constandt, B. (2025). Ethics & Behavior, 1-23.
Giner-Sorolla, R., Montoya, A., Reifman, A., Aberson, C., Carpenter, T., Lewis Jr., N., Bostyn, D. H., Conrique, B., Ng, B., Schoemann, A., Soderberg, C. (2024). Power to Detect What? Considerations for Planning and Evaluating Sample Size, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 28(3), 276-301.
Bostyn, D. H., Chandrashekar, S. P., & Roets, A. (2023). Deontologists are not always trusted over utilitarians: revisiting inferences of trustworthiness from moral judgments. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 1665.
Paruzel-Czachura, M., Wojciechowska, D., & Bostyn, D.H. (2023). Online Moral Conformity: how powerful is a Group of Strangers when influencing an Individual’s Moral Judgments during a video meeting?. Current Psychology, 1-11.
Drieghe, L., Roets, A., De keersmaecker, J., Van Hiel, A., & Bostyn, D.H. (2022). Support for freedom of speech and concern for political correctness: The effects of trait emotional intelligence and cognitive ability. Journal of Individual Differences, 44(2).
Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2022). Sequential decision-making impacts moral judgment: How iterative dilemmas can expand our perspective on sacrificial harm. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104244
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Bostyn, D. H., Roets, A., & Conway, P. (2022). Sensitivity to Moral Principles Predicts Both Deontological and Utilitarian Response Tendencies in Sacrificial Dilemmas. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 13(2), 436-445
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Van Hiel, A., Onraet, E., Bostyn, D. H., Stadeus, J., Haesevoets, T., Van Assche, J., & Roets, A. (2020). A meta-analytic integration of research on the relationship between right-wing ideological attitudes and aggressive tendencies. European Review of Social Psychology, 31(1), 183-221.
Roets, A., Bostyn, D. H., De keersmaecker, J., Haesevoets, T., Van Assche, J., & Van Hiel, A. (2020). Utilitarianism in minimal‑group decision making is less common than equality‑based morality, mostly harm‑oriented, and rarely impartial. Scientific Reports, 10, 13373. doi: 0.1038/s41598-020-70199-4
Bostyn, D. H., De keersmaecker, J., Van Assche, J., & Roets, A. (2020). Bright Mind, Moral Mind? Intelligence is Unrelated to Consequentialist Moral Judgment in Sacrificial Moral Dilemmas. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 392-397.
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De keersmaecker, J., Bostyn, D. H., Van Hiel, A., & Roets (2020). Disliked but free to speak: Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech for groups across the ideological spectrum. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 1948550619896168.
Van Assche, J., Noor, M., Dierckx, K., Saleem, M., Bouchat, P., De Guissmé, L., ... & Chao, M. M. (2020). Can psychological interventions improve intergroup attitudes post terror attacks?. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(8), 1101-1109.
Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2019). Should Trolleys Be Scared of Mice? Replies to Evans and Brandt (2019); Białek, Turpin, and Fugelsang (2019); Colman, Gold, and Pulford (2019); and Plunkett and Greene (2019). Psychological Science, 30(9), 1392-1396.
Haesevoets, T., Van Hiel, A., Van Assche, J., Bostyn, D. H., Reinders Folmer, C. (2019). An exploration of the motivational basis of take-some and give-some games. Judgment and Decision Making, 14(5), 534-546
Roets, A., Bostyn, D. H., Van Assche, J., De keersmaecker, J., & Van Hiel, A. (2019). Generalized ingroup-stereotyping as a response to perceived individual failure. Personality and Individual Differences, 145, 15-18.
Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (2019). Beyond physical harm: How preference for consequentialism and primary psychopathy relate to decisions on a monetary trolley dilemma. Thinking & Reasoning, 25(2), 192-206.
Haesevoets, T., Reinders Folmer, C., Bostyn, D. H., & Van Hiel, A. (2018). Behavioral consistency within the prisoner’s dilemma game: The role of personality and situation. European Journal of Personality, 32(4), 405-426.
Haesevoets, T., Bostyn, D. H., Reinders Folmer, C., Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2018). Decision-making in the prisoner’s dilemma game: The effect of exit on cooperation and social welfare. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Online First, doi: 10.1002/bdm.2096
Van Hiel A., Van Assche, J., De Cremer, D., Onraet E., Bostyn, D. H., Haesevoets, T., & Roets, A. (2018). Can education change the world? Education amplifies differences in liberalization values and innovation between developed and developing countries. PLOS One, 13(6).
Bostyn, D. H., Sevenhant, S., & Roets, A. (2018). Of mice, men, and trolleys: Hypothetical judgment versus real-life behavior in trolley-style moral dilemmas. Psychological Science, 29(7), 1084-1093,
Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2017). Trust, trolleys and social dilemmas: A replication study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(5), e1.
Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2017). An asymmetric moral conformity effect: Subjects conform to deontological but not consequentialist majorities. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(3), 323-330.
De keersmaecker, J., Bostyn, D. H., Fontaine, J.R.J., Van Hiel, A., & Roets, A. (2017). Towards an integrated cognition perspective on ethnic prejudice: An investigation into the role of intelligence and need for cognitive closure. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 9(6), 719-726, doi: 10.1177/1948550617722201
Van Assche, J., Bostyn, D. H., De keersmaecker, J., Dardenne, B., & Hansenne, M. (2017). Intergroup reconciliation between Flemmings and Walloons: The predictive value of cognitive style, authoritarian ideology, and intergroup emotions. Psychologica Belgica, 57(6), 132-155. doi: 10.5334/pb.333
Haesevoets, T., Van Hiel, A., Pandelaere M., Bostyn, D. H., & De Cremer, D. (2017). How much compensation is too much? An investigation of the effectiveness of financial overcompensation as a means to enhance customer loyalty. Judgment and Decision Making, 12(2), 183-197.
Bostyn, D. H., & Roets, A. (2016). The morality of action: The asymmetry between judgments of praise and blame in the action–omission effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 19-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.11.005
Bostyn, D. H., Roets, A., & Van Hiel, A. (2016). Right-wing attitudes and moral cognition: Are Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation related to utilitarian judgment?. Personality and Individual Differences, 96, 164-171.
Van Hiel, A. Roets, A., Van Assche, J., Bostyn, D. H., De keersmaecker, J., Haesevoets, T. Joosten, A., Stadeaus, J., & Onraet, E. (2015). Defining the happiness gap. Science, 348(6240), 1216-1216.
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