dr. WJM (Mark) van Overveld

Biography

After graduating at Maastricht University from studies Mental Health Sciences at the Faculty of Health Sciences and Biological Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology, he started working as a PhD-student on the project ‘Disgust in relation to specific phobias’ at the Department of Clinical Psychological Science at Maastricht University and obtained his PhD in 2008.

Following, he obtained a post-doc position at Clinical Psychological Science at Maastricht University that ended in 2009. Following, he started at the Rotterdam School of Management as a post-doc researcher. Here, he participates in the EU-funded Pan-European xDelia-project (http://www.xdelia.org) where he examines the role of emotions, and particularly emotion regulation, in financial decision-making. Currently, his research involves investigating the effects of emotion regulation training (e.g., mindfulness) on financial decision-making.

Research interests: emotion regulation, mindfulness, psychophysiology, experimental psychology, disgust