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Professor Arne Roets is a prominent social psychologist at Ghent University (UGent) with an extensive publication record spanning over 15 years. His research primarily focuses on social and political psychology, with particular expertise in moral decision-making, prejudice, authoritarianism, and cognitive closure. As a highly productive scholar, he maintains active collaborations with numerous researchers across multiple disciplines.
Roets' research interests center on understanding the psychological mechanisms underlying ideological attitudes, moral judgments, and social cognition. His work explores how cognitive styles and personality traits influence political beliefs, prejudice formation, and decision-making processes. He has made significant contributions to the understanding of need for closure as a motivational state that shapes social perception and intergroup relations. His recent work extends into the domains of AI perception, moral development in adolescents, and anti-rape attitude formation.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals a strong focus on moral psychology, particularly examining trolley dilemmas, moral foundations, and decision-making processes. His work increasingly addresses contemporary issues including AI in governance, participatory democracy, and sexual violence prevention. Roets demonstrates methodological diversity, employing experimental, cross-cultural, and longitudinal approaches across his research portfolio.
Professor Roets has successfully supervised several PhD students to completion, including Jonas De keersmaecker (2020), Dries Bostyn (2019), and Jasper Van Assche (2018). His research program has generated numerous collaborative projects examining prejudice, political attitudes, and moral cognition across diverse populations. He maintains particularly strong research partnerships with Alain Van Hiel (52 co-authored publications), Jasper Van Assche, Dries Bostyn, and Jonas De keersmaecker.
