Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human

Hans IJzerman Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Université Grenoble Alpes. Before he started his Ph.D., IJzerman founded In-Mind Magazine (www.in-mind.org), which is currently published in English, German, Italian, French, and Dutch. His lab website is available at www.corelab.io.

IJzerman’s work has been covered in reputable publications, like the New York Times, Huffington Post, NRC Handelsblad, and De Volkskrant, and his work is supported by a number of grants awarded to him and his colleagues (like the Veni grant). From February-April 2015 he was a fellow at NIAS. His work-in-progress can be followed at PsyArxiv. IJzerman was trained in social psychology, both in his Ph.D. at Utrecht University, as well as his Research Master's Degree at VU University. He received his Ph.D. in November 2010 on the topic of "Grounding Social Relations". In 2015, the Association for Psychological Science recognized IJzerman with the title of "Rising Star in Psychology" for his work on social thermoregulation.

In the last few years, he has worked with computer scientists to develop algorithms to record and detect infant crying. In 2015, he was trained in the Strange Situation Paradigm. His team is now working on developing sensor technology to measure skin temperature regulation within close relationships.

In addition, he is involved in large-scale collaborations to improve the state of science. He was a co-founder of the Collaborative Replication and Education Project (CREP) and currently serves as associate director of the Psychological Science Accelerator. IJzerman has a strong interest in replication and open science, and in letting theory benefit society, as he does with relationship therapists (www.creatingconnections.nl/science-of-love.html), and with the In-Mind Foundation (www.in-mind.org).