Published article in The Spanish Journal of Psychology about the research line “Quixoteism”.
Towards a Characterization of Quixoteism (Salgado & Oceja, 2011).
Posters accepted at The 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (San Antonio, Texas).
Empathy, Distress, and Rumination.
Motivational conflict provoked by presenting the victim as one among others.
Posters presented at Encuentros2010 Congress at Cambridge.
A measuring instrument of the facilitator process of the Quixoteism
The transcendent change orientation.. a facilitator process to activate the Quixoteism
Posters accepted at SSM
Posters aceppted at 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation
Activating the motive of Quixoteism: The transcendent-change orientation
Marc Heerdink
Marc Heerdink
As a student of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in 2009 Marc Heerdink participated in the Erasmus student exchange programme for a research internship in Grupo NEM, where he worked on Social Motives research. From april 2010, he’s started his PhD project in the Social Psychology department of the University of Amsterdam.
Sergio Salgado
Sergio Salgado is Doctor (PhD) in Social and Organizational Behavior by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM, 2009). His thesis, directed by Professor Luis Oceja, raised a first theoretical characterization and experimental verification of the motive whose ultimate goal is to increase the welfare of the world (i.e., Quixoteism). Currently, Sergio works as postdoctoral fellow sponsored by CONICYT (Chile) in the Department of Social Psychology and Methodology at the UAM, with a view to further investigation of prosocial motivation in general, and of Quixoteism in particular.
Research group about norms, emotions and social motives from Department of Social Psychology and Methodology. Autónoma University of Madrid 