Dr. R.D. (Richard) Ronay
- Plantage Muidergracht 12
- Room number: 1.16
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Postbus 15953
1001 NL Amsterdam
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Profile
Position
Associate Professor
Research Programme
Leadership and Management
Research Interests
Power and Status, Social Hierarchy, Leadership, Inequality, Overconfidence, Social Intelligence, Decision Making, Evolutionary Psychology, Social Neuroendocrinology
Dissertation Title
Male risk taking as a sexual display strategy: Proximal and distal explanations for young men's risk taking
Prizes and Honours
2019 - 2025 Lecturer Trophy – Executive Programme in Management Studies, University of Amsterdam Business School; 2015, Excellence in Teaching Award, Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 2015, Nominated for Vrije Universiteit Faculty Teaching Award; 2010, Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Theses, University of Queensland; 2009, Winner of University of Queensland Graduate School Three Minute Thesis Competition ($5000); 2003, John Anthill Prize for Theory and Practice of Survey Research, Macquarie University
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Teaching
Teaching Activities
Current Year
Data Driven Decision Making
Managing People Strategically
Ethics and the Future of Business
Ethical Issues in Management Research
Power, Conflict, and Cooperation
Managing Conflict With Confidence
Strategic Influence for Cybersecurity Leaders
Advanced Issues in Human Resource Management
Previously
Negotiations Strategies for Building Better Social Bridges
Research Foundations & Thesis Proposal
Theories of Leadership and Management
Leading People Strategically
Leadership and Organisations (Vrije Universiteit)
Negotiations (Columbia Business School; Vrije Universiteit)
Intercultural Psychology (Vrije Universiteit)
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Publications
2025
Laustsen, L., Sheng, X., Ahmad, M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., Banai, B., Banai, I. P., Barlev, M., Bastardoz, N., Bor, A., Cheng, J. T., Chmielińska, A., Cook, A., Fousiani, K., Garfield, Z. H., Ghossainy, M., Ha, S. E., Ji, T., Jones, B. C., Kandrik, M., ... van Vugt, M. (2025). Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study. Evolution and Human Behavior, 46(3), Article 106674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2025.106674 [details]- Ronay, R. (2025). Protecting the tribe from dominant leaders. In J. P. Forgas (Ed.), The Tribal Mind and The Psychology of Collectivism (pp. 146-168). (The Sydney Symposium of Social Psychology; Vol. 25). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003395836-10 [details]
- She, H. C. M., Ronay, R. D., & den Hartog, D. N. (2025). The Sociable and the Deviant: A Latent Profile Analysis of HEXACO and the Dark Triad. Journal of Business Ethics, 199(3), 529-547. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-024-05835-4 [details]
2024
- Mayoral, S., Ronay, R., & Oostrom, J. K. (2024). Overconfidence and the pursuit of high-status positions: a test of two behavioral strategies. Journal of Business and Psychology, 39(5), 1163-1186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-024-09936-9 [details]
- Ronay, R., Oostrom, J. K., She, M., & Maner, J. (2024). Banding together to avoid exploitation: Dominant (but not prestige-based) leaders motivate collective moral opposition from followers. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(1), 76-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231151942 [details]
2022
- Ronay, R., Maddux, W., & von Hippel, W. (2022). The cocksure conundrum: How evolution created a gendered currency of corporate overconfidence. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 8(4), 557–578. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-022-00197-5 [details]
2021
- Oostrom, J. K., Ronay, R., & van Kleef, G. A. (2021). The signalling effects of nonconforming dress style in personnel selection contexts: do applicants’ qualifications matter? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 30(1), 70-82. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2020.1813112 [details]
2020
- Ronay, R., Maddux, W. W., & von Hippel, W. (2020). Inequality Rules: Resource distribution and the evolution of dominance- and pres-tige-based leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(2), Article 101246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.04.004 [details]
2019
- Ronay, R., Oostrom, J. K., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., Mayoral, S., & Rusch, H. (2019). Playing the trump card: Why we select overconfident leaders and why it matters. The Leadership Quarterly, 30(6), Article 101316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2019.101316 [details]
- van Huijstee, D., & Ronay, R. (2019). “Make the world a better place”: Local leadership as a vehicle for personal and community development. In J. A. Allen, & R. Reiter-Palmon (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Organizational Community Engagement and Outreach (pp. 301-314). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108277693.017 [details]
2018
- Ronay, R. D., Mayoral, S., Jarrett, M., & Maddux, W. (2018). Last one standing: Costly signaling and perceptions of leadership potential. Manuscript submitted for publication.
- Ronay, R., van der Meij, L., Oostrom, J. K., & Pollet, T. V. (2018). No evidence for a relationship between testosterone hair samples and 2D:4D ratio or risk taking. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, Article 30. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00030 [details]
2017
- Oostrom, J. K., Köbis, N. C., Ronay, R., & Cremers, M. (2017). False consensus in situational judgment tests: What would others do? Journal of Research in Personality, 71, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.09.001 [details]
- Ronay, R., & Tybur, J. M. (2017). The wolf will live with the lamb. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, Article e42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16000637
- Ronay, R., Oostrom, J. K., Lehmann-Willenbrock, N., & Van Vugt, M. (2017). Pride before the fall: (Over)confidence predicts escalation of public commitment. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 69, 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2016.10.005 [details]
- Ronay, R., Tybur, J., van Huijstee, D., & Morssinkhof, M. (2017). Embodied power, testosterone, and overconfidence as a causal pathway to risk taking. Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology, 2(1), 28-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/23743603.2016.1248081
- Salam, A., Rainfords, E., van Vugt, M., & Ronay, R. (2017). Acute Stress Reduces Perceived Trustworthiness of Male Racial Outgroup Faces. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3(4), 282-292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-017-0065-0
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Laustsen, L., Sheng, X., Ahmad, M. G., Al-Shawaf, L., Banai, B., Banai, I. P., Barlev, M., Bastardoz, N., Bor, A., Cheng, J. T., Chmielińska, A., Cook, A., Fousiani, K., Garfield, Z. H., Ghossainy, M., Ha, S. E., Ji, T., Jones, B. C., Kandrik, M., ... van Vugt, M. (2025). Cross-cultural evidence that intergroup conflict heightens preferences for dominant leaders: A 25-country study. Evolution and Human Behavior, 46(3), Article 106674.