A.P. Buunk was (nick name Bram), among others, from 1983-1984 a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 2000 and 2006 a Professor Invitado at the University of Valencia, Spain. He is also affiliated as a Professor Honario with Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, since 2006, and with the Universidad Catolica, Montevideo, since 2008.
Since 2005 he is Academy Professor on behalf of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, and since 2004 he is a member of this Academy. He has devoted much of his career to research on social exchange and social comparison in applied areas, including professional burnout, absenteeism, AIDS-prevention, loneliness, depression, marital satisfaction, well-being among the elderly, and coping with cancer.
Currently, he is primarily interested in evolutionary approaches of human social behavior, including mate choice, intrasexual competition, jealousy and the relationship between physical and physiological characteristics on the one hand, and psychological characteristics on the other hand.
Prof. Buunk has close to 500 scientific publications in a variety of journals and books, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Health Psychology, Patient Education and Counseling, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Psychology and Aging, Evolution and Human Behavior, and the European Journal of Social Psychology.
He has completed thus far the supervision of 44 doctoral dissertations. Prof. Buunk has held, and holds, many administrative positions. He was, among others, a vice-chair of the Program Committee on Succesful Aging, of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). He has also been a member of the Scientific Board for Social Oncology of the Dutch Cancer Foundation (NKB-KWF), and of the Scientific Board of the Dutch AIDS Foundation. Currently he is a member of the Program Committee on Evolution and Behavior of NWO.
Abraham P. Buunk
Social and Organizational Psychology
University of Groningen
Grote Kruisstraat 2/1
9712 TS Groningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 50 363 63 80
Fax: +31 50 363 45 81
Email: bram@apbuunk.com