I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Business Administration in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at the Harvard Business School.

I studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam, where I worked with Ap Dijksterhuis and graduated in Social Psychology in 2005. In November of that year I started my Ph.D. project on Unconscious Thought. After working at the University of Amsterdam for ten months, I started working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Unconscious Laboratory at Radboud University of Nijmegen.

My Ph.D. project was mainly on unconscious thought. Some of my other research interests are social influence, intelligence, and differing aspects of unconscious thought, including individual differences in unconscious thought and biological measures of unconscious thought. My most recent work is in the area of sleep research.

Primary Interests:

Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes and Beliefs
Judgment and Decision Making
Organizational Behavior
Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Applied Social Psychology
Attitudes and Beliefs
Judgment and Decision Making

Organizational Behavior
Persuasion, Social Influence
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Unconscious Laboratory
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Journal Articles:

Bos, M. W., Dijksterhuis, A., & Van Baaren, R. B. (2011). The benefits of “sleeping on things”: Unconscious thought leads to automatic weighting. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 21, 4-8.
Bos, M. W., Dijksterhuis, A., & Van Baaren, R. B. (2008). On the goal-dependency of unconscious thought. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1114-1120.
Dijksterhuis, A., Bos, M. W., Nordgren, L. F., & van Baaren, R. B. (2006). Complex choices better made unconsciously? Science, 313, 760-761.
Dijksterhuis, A., Bos, M. W., Nordgren, L. F., & van Baaren, R. B. (2006). Making choices without deliberation. Science, 312, 1472.
Dijksterhuis, A., Bos, M. W., Nordgren, L. F., & Van Baaren, R. B. (2006). On making the right choice: The deliberation-without-attention effect. Science, 311, 1005-1007.
Dijksterhuis, A., Bos, M. W., Van der Leij, A., & Van Baaren, R. B. (2009). Predicting soccer matches after unconscious and conscious thought as a function of expertise. Psychological Science, 20(11), 1381-1387.

Courses Taught:

Behavioral Approaches to Decision Making
Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Decision Making
Influence, Persuasion and Elaboration Likelihood
Master Class in Mobility Management
Social Influence (BA, MA and Research Master level)
Social Influence: Theory and Field Experiments

Behavioral Approaches to Decision Making
Conscious and Unconscious Processes: Decision Making
Influence, Persuasion and Elaboration Likelihood

Master Class in Mobility Management
Social Influence (BA, MA and Research Master level)
Social Influence: Theory and Field Experiments

Maarten Bos
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field Road, Baker Library
Boston, MA 02163
United States

Phone: (617) 495-2332