Ruud Abma

Ruud Abma is a Research Professor at Utrecht University specializing in cultural psychology and history of science. Despite retirement, he maintains active research on interdisciplinary human sciences through the Descartes Center.

His extensive publications analyze psychology's societal role, Catholic reception of psychological theories, youth counterculture studies, and Dutch academic history. Key works examine psychologization processes in healthcare systems and epistemological boundaries between social/natural sciences.