Biography
Biography
Dr. Sophie van der Zee has a multi-disciplinary background in psychology, economics, and computer science. She holds a position as assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Economics. She also serves as the academic director of the MSc Behavioural Economics and takes part in Sectorplan SSH-Breed.
Sophie combines this multi-disciplinary background to conduct research on the interplay of human behavior and security. She is specialised in the prevention and detection of deception and dishonest behaviour, both in a face-to-face and online setting. She developed a method for automatically measuring human behavior using motion capture equipment and applied this method to the context of deception detection. She also developed the first personalized deception detection model based on the tweets of former US president Donald Trump. A relevant application area of her research concerns the human factor in cyber, where she investigated how scammers persuade their potential victims, how people put themselves at risk by noncompliance with online banking regulations, and why people do not report cybercrime victimization. In her most recent line of research, she investigates to which extent cyber awareness questionnaires are a useful tool for predicting real world cyber secure behaviour. From a behavioral economics perspective, Sophie also conducts research on promoting sustainable behavior in a hospital context as part of the ESCH-R consortium.
Sophie actively brings deception researchers across the world together. She founded the Deception Research Society. This society organises two types of events. They organise Decepticon, the first interdisciplinary conference on deception. Previous conferences have taken place at the University of Cambridge (UK), Stanford (US), and online. And every first Tuesday of the month, they organise Lies and Allies’ Tuesdays, a free webinar where deception researchers and practitioners from around the world share the latest insights and knowledge.
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Work
- Sophie Van Der Zee, Tamarah Verhoog, Theo Post, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Erik M. van Raaij, Jan Carel Diehl & Nicole Hunfeld (2024) - Nudging intensive care unit personnel towards sustainable behaviour - Nursing in critical care - doi: 10.1111/nicc.13086 - [link]
- Ronald Poppe, Sophie van der Zee, Paul J. Taylor, Ross J. Anderson & Remco C. Veltkamp (2024) - Mining Bodily Cues to Deception - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 48 (1), 137-159 - doi: 10.1007/s10919-023-00450-9 - [link]
- Nicole Hunfeld, Jan Carel Diehl, Sophie van der Zee, Diederik Gommers & Erik van Raaij (2023) - The Green Intensive Care: From Environmental Hotspot to Action - ICU Management & Practice, 23 (3), 106-109 - [link]
- Herman Bolhaar, Kim Brouwers, Madeleine van der Bruggen, Suzanne Kok, Maryam Peters & Sophie van der Zee (2022) - Bouwen aan Bescherming: Onderzoek naar de aanbevelingen van vier onderzoekscommissies naar seksueel geweld in de Rooms-Katholieke kerk, de sport en de jeugdzorg - [link]
- Paul K. Miller, Sophie Van Der Zee & David Elliott (2022) - Pain, Culture and Pedagogy: A Preliminary Investigation of Attitudes Towards “Reasonable” Pain Tolerance in the Grassroots Reproduction of a Culture of Risk - Psychological Reports, 125 (2), 1086-1102 - doi: 10.1177/0033294120988096 - [link]
- Sophie Van Der Zee, Ronald Poppe, Alice Havrileck & Aurélien Baillon (2021) - A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting - Psychological Science, 33 (1), 3-17 - doi: 10.1177/09567976211015941 - [link]
- Sophie Van der Zee, Paul Taylor, Ruth Wong, John Dixon & Tarek Menacere (2021) - A liar and a copycat: nonverbal coordination increases with lie difficulty - Royal Society Open Science, 8 (1) - doi: 10.1098/rsos.200839 - [link]
- Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Rutger Leukfeldt & Sophie van der Zee (2021) - Cybercrime Reporting Behaviors Among Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Netherlands - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_17
- Sophie Van Der Zee (2021) - Shifting the Blame?: Investigation of User Compliance with Digital Payment Regulations - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_5
- Sophie van der Zee (2020) - Hoe taal kan helpen een onderscheid te maken tussen feit en fictie. - [link]
- Iain Hamlin, Paul J. Taylor, Liam Cross, Katharina MacInnes & Sophie Van der Zee (2020) - A Psychometric Investigation into the Structure of Deception Strategy Use - Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology - doi: 10.1007/s11896-020-09380-4
- Steve van de Weijer, Rutger Leukfeldt & Sophie Van der Zee (2020) - Reporting cybercrime victimization: determinants, motives, and previous experiences - Policing, 43 (1), 17-34 - doi: 10.1108/PIJPSM-07-2019-0122 - [link]
- S.G.A. van de Weijer, E.R, Leukfeldt & Sophie van der Zee (2020) - Slachtoffer van online criminaliteit, wat nu?: Een onderzoek naar aangiftebereidheid onder burgers en ondernemers - [link]
- Sophie van der Zee, RW Poppe, PJ Taylor & R Anderson (2019) - To freeze or not to freeze: A culture-sensitive motion-capture approach to detecting deceit. - PLoS One (print), 14 (4) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215000 - [link]
- I Hamlin, G Wright, Sophie van der Zee & S Wilson (2018) - The Dimensions of Deception Detection: Self-reported Deception Cue Use is Underpinned by Two Broad Factors. - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32 (3), 307-314 - doi: 10.1002/acp.3402 - [link]
- Sophie van der Zee (2018) - Van top-down naar bottom-up: Hoe machine learning tot nieuwe inzichten in leugenachtig gedrag kan leiden - Stator - [link]
- A Vredeveldt & Sophie van der Zee (2017) - De betekenis van consistentie in verklaringen - [link]
- M Theeuwes, B van Lier, E Wesselingh, Sophie van der Zee & K de Heer (2017) - Digitale veiligheid in de regio: Wat zou de rol van veiligheidsregio’s kunnen zijn bij cyberincidenten? - Nationale veiligheid en crisisbeheersing, 15 (4), 27-29
- Jurjen Jansen, Marianne Junger, Joke Kort, Rutger Leukfeldt, Sander Veenstra, Johan van Wilsem & Sophie van der Zee (2017) - Victims - [link]
- Sophie van der Zee (26 November 2024) - Liegen? Kleine kans dat iemand je betrapt, zegt de expert
- Sophie van der Zee (5 November 2024) - Herken jij de leugenaar?
- Sophie van der Zee (23 September 2024) - Bluf tijdens een sollicitatiegesprek: zo prik je erdoorheen
- Sophie van der Zee (13 February 2023) - Leugenonderzoeker Sophie van der Zee: ‘Vrouwen liegen om aardig gevonden te worden, mannen doen het vaker voor eigen gewin’
- Sophie van der Zee (30 January 2022) - Trump's Tweets: Telling Truth From Fiction From The Words He Used
- Sophie van der Zee (22 September 2021) - -Erasmus University Rotterdam: Technology better at lie detection than humans
- Sophie van der Zee (30 January 2021) - New sign to catch men LYING revealed by psychologists
- Sophie van der Zee (15 January 2021) - How can you spot a liar? See if their moves look a bit too familiar
- Sophie van der Zee (13 January 2021) - How to tell if someone is lying? See if they copy your body language, says study
- Sophie van der Zee (12 May 2019) - What’s behind Donald Trump’s astounding avalanche of lies? Nothing good
Brainfeed
- Start date approval
- October 2024
- End date approval
- October 2027
- Place
- ZEIST
- Description
- Masterclass geven aan artsen
Deception research society
- Start date approval
- November 2024
- End date approval
- November 2027
- Place
- 3512VR
- Description
- Oprichter en bestuur Deception research society
Thesis Hub Master Economics & Business
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM61007H
Seminar Applied Behavioural Economics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM11165
