Biography
Biography
Dr. Sophie van der Zee has a multi-disciplinary background in psychology, economics, and computer science. She combines this multi-disciplinary background in a double position as assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Economics and at the Erasmus School of Law. At the law faculty, Sophie is the director of the Centre for the Law and Economics of Cyber Security (CLECS). In this research centre, researchers from a variety of backgrounds together study how legislation, economic incentives, and human behaviour affects cyber security. At the economics faculty, Sophie is the academic director of the MSc Behavioural Economics.
Sophie is specialised in the prevention and detection of deception and dishonest behaviour, both in a face-to-face and online setting. She developed a method for automatically measuring human behavior using motion capture equipment and applied this method to the context of deception detection. She also developed the first personalized deception detection model based on the tweets of former US president Donald Trump. A relevant application area of her research concerns the human factor in cyber, where she investigated how scammers persuade their potential victims, how people put themselves at risk by noncompliance with online banking regulations, and why people do not report cybercrime victimization. In her most recent study, she investigates to which extent cyber awareness questionnaires are a useful tool for predicting real world cyber secure behaviour.
Sophie actively brings deception researchers across the world together. Together with Vincent Denault, she founded the Deception Research Society. This society organises two types of events. They organise Decepticon, the first interdisciplinary conference on deception. Previous conferences have taken place at the University of Cambridge (UK), Stanford (US), and online. And every first Tuesday of the month, they organise Lies and Allies’ Tuesdays, a free webinar where deception researchers and practitioners from around the world share the latest insights and knowledge.
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Work
- Sophie Van Der Zee, Tamarah Verhoog, Theo Post, Pilar Garcia-Gomez, Erik M. van Raaij, Jan Carel Diehl & Nicole Hunfeld (2024) - Nudging intensive care unit personnel towards sustainable behaviour - Nursing in critical care - doi: 10.1111/nicc.13086 - [link]
- Ronald Poppe, Sophie van der Zee, Paul J. Taylor, Ross J. Anderson & Remco C. Veltkamp (2024) - Mining Bodily Cues to Deception - Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 48 (1), 137-159 - doi: 10.1007/s10919-023-00450-9 - [link]
- Nicole Hunfeld, Jan Carel Diehl, Sophie van der Zee, Diederik Gommers & Erik van Raaij (2023) - The Green Intensive Care: From Environmental Hotspot to Action - ICU Management & Practice, 23 (3), 106-109 - [link]
- Herman Bolhaar, Kim Brouwers, Madeleine van der Bruggen, Suzanne Kok, Maryam Peters & Sophie van der Zee (2022) - Bouwen aan Bescherming: Onderzoek naar de aanbevelingen van vier onderzoekscommissies naar seksueel geweld in de Rooms-Katholieke kerk, de sport en de jeugdzorg - [link]
- Paul K. Miller, Sophie Van Der Zee & David Elliott (2022) - Pain, Culture and Pedagogy: A Preliminary Investigation of Attitudes Towards “Reasonable” Pain Tolerance in the Grassroots Reproduction of a Culture of Risk - Psychological Reports, 125 (2), 1086-1102 - doi: 10.1177/0033294120988096 - [link]
- Sophie Van Der Zee, Ronald Poppe, Alice Havrileck & Aurélien Baillon (2021) - A Personal Model of Trumpery: Linguistic Deception Detection in a Real-World High-Stakes Setting - Psychological Science, 33 (1), 3-17 - doi: 10.1177/09567976211015941 - [link]
- Sophie Van der Zee, Paul Taylor, Ruth Wong, John Dixon & Tarek Menacere (2021) - A liar and a copycat: nonverbal coordination increases with lie difficulty - Royal Society Open Science, 8 (1) - doi: 10.1098/rsos.200839 - [link]
- Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Rutger Leukfeldt & Sophie van der Zee (2021) - Cybercrime Reporting Behaviors Among Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Netherlands - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_17
- Sophie Van Der Zee (2021) - Shifting the Blame?: Investigation of User Compliance with Digital Payment Regulations - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-60527-8_5
- Sophie van der Zee (2020) - Hoe taal kan helpen een onderscheid te maken tussen feit en fictie. - [link]
- Sophie van der Zee (30 januari 2022) - Trump's Tweets: Telling Truth From Fiction From The Words He Used
- Sophie van der Zee (22 september 2021) - -Erasmus University Rotterdam: Technology better at lie detection than humans
- Sophie van der Zee (30 januari 2021) - New sign to catch men LYING revealed by psychologists
- Sophie van der Zee (15 januari 2021) - How can you spot a liar? See if their moves look a bit too familiar
- Sophie van der Zee (13 januari 2021) - How to tell if someone is lying? See if they copy your body language, says study
- Sophie van der Zee (12 mei 2019) - What’s behind Donald Trump’s astounding avalanche of lies? Nothing good
Deception research society
- Start date approval
- november 2021
- End date approval
- november 2024
- Place
- 3512VR
- Description
- Oprichter en bestuur Deception research society
Raad van Advies
- Start date approval
- november 2021
- End date approval
- november 2024
- Place
- 3512VR
- Description
- Raad van Advies Security Awareness NL
Thesis Hub Master Economics & Business
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM61007H
Seminar Applied Behavioural Economics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM11165