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Ruud Custers is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University, specializing in social cognition and motivation. He earned his PhD cum laude from Utrecht University in 2006, where his research focused on the roles of consciousness in goal-pursuit. In 2011, he began a new chapter at University College London as a Senior Lecturer in the Experimental Psychology department, before returning to Utrecht University in 2016 as an Associate Professor. Custers has a successful academic career, highlighted by receiving a Veni-grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) aimed at exploring the interplay between goal representations and behavior. As a prominent figure in the field, he has also served as an Associated Editor for the Journal of Experimental Psychology and is currently the President of the Society for Science Motivation. His research increasingly delves into the role of artificial intelligence and how people’s goal representations influence their interactions with AI agents.
Department of Psychology