Robert Renes

Dr. Robert Renes is an Assistant Professor at University College Utrecht, Utrecht University. He specializes in Psychology, with a focus on Interdisciplinary Education, Quantitative Research Methods, and Self-agency in health and schizophrenia.

• Current teaching: Introduction to Psychology (PSY11) (Fall), Social Psychology (PSY21) (Spring), Research in Practice (MET12) (Spring), and PSY Thesis Supervision.
• Research: Investigates self-agency in schizophrenia using fMRI, cognitive experiments, and neural imaging, with implications for symptoms and social functioning.

Recent publications explore topics such as agency inference, frontal lobe dysfunction, and implicit self-agency processing in schizophrenia. Earlier work links anger to motivated approach behavior in social contexts.