
Thijs Bouman, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
t.bouman@rug.nl
+31 50 3636473
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1
9712 TS Groningen
the Netherlands
Room 476
Summary of work: I am strongly interested in the personal and social motives behind people’s behaviours. My research focuses on personal and group values, as well as media coverage, and their influence on sustainable behaviours and intergroup attitudes. Currently, I study the interplay between these social factors and more technological energy solutions, aimed at engaging people in smart grids and energy transitions.
Research Projects
In my research I focus on how values affect environmental behaviours. I specifically focus on group and cultural values (e.g., China and the Netherlands), how they interact with personal values, and how they influence (collective) environmental behaviours. In addition, my research focuses on how technological innovations could be used to motivate and promote pro-environmental behaviours.
Efficient demand and supply matching by incentivizing end-users in buildings (MatchIT)
Incentives and algorithms for efficient, reliable, sustainable and socially acceptable energy system integration (ERSAS
Effective and acceptable energy management systems and user interfaces to match energy demand and supply (MERGE)
BeijIng Groningen Smart energy cities (BIGS)
European Commission research project on Societal Appreciation of Security of energy Supply (SASOS)
Energysense survey design
Welcome to the Village - DORP
Feeding the City / Almere / The psychology behind healthy and sustainable choices
PhD project: Local Globalism (sep 2010 - jan 2016)
Co-supervising PhDs:
- Steph Johnson-Zawadzki – University of Groningen
- Nieke Lemmen – University of Groningen
- Lu Liu – University of Groningen
- Wang Xiao – University of Groningen & Fudan University (Shanghai, China)
Supervision of student theses:
- Master’s theses
- Bachelor’s theses
- Member of Master thesis evaluation committee
Teaching and coordinating courses:
Summer School DORP Welcome to the Village festival
In DORP, this is something we are working on. Long before the festival takes place, we work on solutions for problems in sustainability with entrepreneurs, scientists, students, artists and other smartypants. Possible solutions are tested at the festival straight away. This year we already have some possible themes and cases for you to work on, so you can either sign up for one of those cases or come up with your own idea or project.
Social Environment and Behaviour
Summer School Migration Matters (2016)
Personal, Social and Cultural Change (2015 - 2016)
Current Topics of Intergroup Relations in Society (2015 - 2016)
Designing interventions (2015 - 2016)
2020
Bouman, T. & Steg, L. (2020, in press). Engaging city residents in climate action: Addressing the personal and group value-base behind residents’ climate actions. Urbanisation, in press.
Bouman, T., Verschoor, M., Albers, C.J., Böhm, G., Fisher, S.D., Poortinga, W., Whitmarsh, L. & Steg, L. (2020, in press). When worry about climate change leads to climate action: How values, worry and personal responsibility relate to various climate actions. Global Environmental Change, in press.
Liu, L., Bouman, T., Perlaviciute, G. & Steg, L. (2020). Effects of competence- and integrity-based trust on public acceptability of renewable energy projects in China and the Netherlands. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 67. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101390
2019
Bouman, T., & Steg, L. (2019). Motivating Society-wide Pro-environmental Change. One Earth, 1(1), 27-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.08.002
Liu, L., Bouman, T., Perlaviciute, G., & Steg, L. (2019). Effects of trust and public participation on acceptability of renewable energy projects in the Netherlands and China. Energy Research and Social Science, 53, 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2019.03.006
Giaccaria, S., Longo, A., Efthimiadis, T., & Bouman, T. (2019). Societal Appreciation of energy security: Volume 4: Value of Lost Load – Greece. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/823702
Giaccaria, S., Efthimiadis, T., Longo, A., & Bouman, T. (2019). Societal appreciation of energy security: Volume 3: Non-household actors (EE, NL and PT) . Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/672568
Giaccaria, S., Bouman, T., Longo, A., & Efthimiadis, T. (2019). Societal appreciation of energy security: Volume 2: Long-term security (EE, NL and PT). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/05174
Longo, A., Giaccaria, S., Bouman, T., & Efthimiadis, T. (2019). Societal appreciation of energy security: Volume 1: Value of lost load – households (EE, NL and PT). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://doi.org/10.2760/139585
2018
Bouman, T., Steg L., Kiers H.A.L. (2018). Measuring Values in Environmental Research: A Test of an Environmental Portrait Value Questionnaire. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 564, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00564
Jans, L., Bouman, T., & Fielding, K. (2018). A part of the energy “In crowd”: Changing people’s energy behavior via group-based approaches. IEEE Power and Energy Magazine, 16(1), 35-41. DOI: 10.1109/MPE.2017.2759883
2016
Georgievski, I., & Bouman, T. (2016). On the relationship between automation and occupants in smart buildings. 240-241.
Bouman, T. (2016). Threat by association: How distant events can affect local intergroup relations [Groningen]: University of Groningen
2015
Bouman, T., van Zomeren, M., & Otten, S. (2015). When threats foreign turn domestic: Two ways for distant realistic intergroup threats to carry over into local intolerance. British Journal of Social Psychology, 54(3), 581-600. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12098
2014
Bouman, T., van Zomeren, M., & Otten, S. (2014). Threat by association: Do distant intergroup threats carry-over into local intolerance? British Journal of Social Psychology, 53(3), 405-421. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12046
Bouman, T. (2014). Threat by Association: From distant threats to local intolerance. Poster session presented at EASP General Meeting 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2013
Bouman, T., van der Meulen, M., Goossens, F. A., Olthof, T., Vermande, M. M., & Aleva, E. A. (2013). Peer and self-reports of victimization and bullying: Their differential association with internalizing problems and social adjustment (vol 50, pg 759, 2012). Journal of School Psychology, 51(3), 435-435. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2013.04.001
Bouman, T., van Zomeren, M., & Otten, S. (2013). Threat by association: From distant threats to local intolerance. Poster session presented at SPSP annual meeting, New Orleans, United States.
2012
Bouman, T., van der Meulen, M., Goossens, F. A., Olthof, T., Vermande, M. M., & Aleva, E. A. (2012). Peer and self-reports of victimization and bullying: Their differential association with internalizing problems and social adjustment. Journal of School Psychology, 50(6), 759-774. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2012.08.004
2011
Bouman, T., van Zomeren, M., & Otten, S. (2011). De Overdraagbaarheid van Verre Groepsdreigingen. Paper presented at Annual conference meeting of ASPO , Tilburg, Netherlands.
2019
NRC – 2019, October – ‘Zichtbaar duurzaam gedrag motiveert anderen’
Dagblad van het Noorden – 2019, September 6 – ‘Wow! Ik heb een egel geaaid!’
2017
Radio 1 – 2017, May 24 – De nieuwsgieren
BNR – 2017, March 16 – Parijs en duurzame keuzes
2016
P+ – 2016, December 20 – Groene breinbreker
Het Parool – 2016, January 30 – Slecht nieuws uit Turkije stigmatiseert Turken hier
Leeuwarder Courant – 2016, January 24 – Gekleurd beeld
BNR – 2016, January 18 – ‘Verre’ vreemdeling lijdt ook onder onterechte associaties met zijn land
Mindwise – 2016, January 13 – Foreign threats, nearby consequences
Radio 1 – 2016, January 11 – De Ochtend (10:58 min)
Dagblad van het Noorden – 2016, January 9 – Nederlandse moslims lijden onder IS
NRC.next – 2016, January 8 – Nieuws van ver kleurt je blik thuis
De Volkskrant – 2016, January 6 – Impact van slecht nieuws is grenzeloos
UK – 2016, January 6 – Angst zonder grenzen
Duurzaam nieuws – 2016, January 5 – Negatief nieuws uit verre landen versterkt intolerantie
Scientias – 2016, January 4 – Globalisering vergroot begrip van wereld niet
ScienceGuide – 2016, January 4 – Globalisering vergroot begrip van wereld niet
2015
De kennis van nu (NPO) – 2015, August 14 – Crisis Griekenland straalt af op Turkse en Marokkaanse Nederlanders
OOG omroep Groningen – 2015, augustus 12 – Nieuws van ver veroorzaakt lokale intolerantie
Unifocus – 2015, augustus 11 – De overdraagbaarheid van verre groepsdreigingen | Threat by association
Member of ERA Net’s knowledge community
Member of EERA energy system integration group
Member of Scientific Board for Nederlandse Vereniging Dierentuinen Werkgroep Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Member of Scientific Board for DORP at Welcome to the Village Festival Leeuwarden
Active reviewer for journals like:
- Journal of Environmental Psychology
- British Journal of Social Psychology
- Sustainability Science
- China Economic Review
- Energy Efficiency
- Environment and Behaviour
- Energy Efficiency
- European Journal of Social Psychology
- Psychological Science
- Social Psychological and Personality Science
- Frontiers in Psychology