Telefoon:	+31 (0)70 800 9571
E-Mail:	m.dechesne@cdh.leidenuniv.nl
Faculteit / Onderdeel:	Faculteit Campus Den Haag, Centrum Regionale Kennisontwikkeling
Werkadres:	Stichthage Koningin Julianaplein 10 2595 AA Den Haag Kamernummer 2.04

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Dr. Mark Dechesne promoveerde in 2001 op een proefschrift over de effecten van angst op sociaal gedrag. Nadien richtten zijn onderzoeksactiviteiten zich in toenemende mate op motivatie van terroristen, de werking van terroristische organisaties, en reacties op terrorisme. Van begin 2006 tot september 2008 was hij verbonden aan de University of Maryland in de Verenigde Staten, waar hij werkte voor het DHS Center of Excellence NC-START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism). Vanaf 2008 is hij verbonden aan Universiteit Leiden - Campus Den Haag. Eerst als senior onderzoeker bij het Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism, en sinds september 2011 werkt hij bij het Centrum Regionale Kennisontwikkeling. Hij is verantwoordelijk voor de kwaliteitsbewaking en bevordering van de lopende duale promotietrajecten. Daarnaast werkt hij aan onderzoeksprojecten rond psychologische thema's als kennis, menselijke motivatie, angst, radicalisering en grootschalig geweld.

 

Publicaties

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Dechesne, M. (2009). Obedience to divinity? The Psychology of Jihadi WMD terrorism. To appear in J. Tamsett, & G. Ackerman (Eds.).  Catastrophic Jihad? Violent Islamists and Weapons of Mass Destruction (pp. 61-82). CRC Press, Boca Raton.  

Kruglanski, A., Dechesne, M., Orehek, E., & Pierro, A. (2009). Three decades of lay epistemics: The why, how, and who of knowledge formation. European Review of Social Psychology, 20, 146 – 191.

Kruganski, A., Chen, X., Dechesne, M., Fishman, S.,& Orehek (2009). Fully Committed: Suicide Bombers' Motivation and the Quest for Personal Significance. Political Psychology, 30, 331-357.

Dechesne, M., Kruglanski, A. W. (2009). Motivated Cognition in Its Interpersonal Context: Need for Closure and Its Implications for Individual Judgment and Social Interaction. In W. Affifi and T. Affifi (Eds). Uncertainty, Information Management, and Disclosure Decisions: Theories and Applications. New York: Routledge

Kruglanski, A., Dechesne, M. (2007). The Psychology of terrorism. In R. Baumeister and K. Vohs. Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications  

Dechesne, M. (in press). Obedience to divinity? The Psychology of Jihadi WMD terrorism. To appear in J. Tamsett, & G. Ackerman (Eds.). Catastrophic Jihad? Violent Islamists and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Fishman, S., Orehek, E., Dechesne, M., Chen, X., & Kruglanski, A. (in press). Support for terrorism in Indonesia, Pakistan, and Arab Countries: The role of individualistic and collectivistic goals. Political Psychology.

Kruglanski, M, Chen, X., Dechesne, M, Fishman, S., & Orehek, E. (in press). Fully committed: Suicide Bomber’s motivation and the quest for personal significance. Political Psychology.

Dechesne, M. & Kruglanski, A. (in press). Motivated Cognition in Its Interpersonal Context: Need for Closure and Its Implications for Individual Judgment and Social Interaction. In W. Affifi (Ed). Handbook of Information regulation in Interpersonal context.

Kruglanski, A., Dechesne, M. (in press). The Psychology of terrorism. In R. Baumeister and K. Vohs. The Encyclopedia of Social Psychology.

Dechesne, M., Van den Berg, C.,& Soeters, S. (2006). International collaboration under threat: A field study in Kabul. Conflict Management and Peace Sciences, 24, 25-36.

Castano, E., & Dechesne, M. (2005). On Defeating Death: Social Identification as a Strategy for Transcendence. In European Review of Social Psychology, 16, 221-255.

Dechesne, M., & Kruglanski, A. (2004). Terror’s Epistemic Consequences: Existential threats and the quest for certainty and closure. To appear in: Greenberg, J., Koole, S.,& Pyszczynski, T. (Eds.). Handbook of Experimental Existential Psychology (pp. 247-262). Guilford Press: New York.

Dechesne, M., Pyszczynski, T., Arndt, J., Ransom, S., Sheldon, K., Van Knippenberg, A. & Janssen, J. (2003). Literal and symbolic immortality: The effect of evidence of literal immortality on self-esteem striving in response to mortality salience. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 722-737.

Dechesne, M., Janssen, J., & Van Knippenberg, A (2000). Derogation and distancing as terror management strategies: The moderating role of need for closure and permeability of group boundaries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 923-932.