Prof. Dr. Joeri Hofmans

Loopbaan

Opleiding

• Doctor in Psychological Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2007
• Licentiate in Psychological Sciences, Work & Organizational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2004

Academisch

• Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2015-current position
• Assistant Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2010-2015
• Post Doctoral Researcher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2007-2010
• Research Assistant, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2004-2007

Werkveld

• Chief R&D, Twegos, 2016-present
• Internship TNS Dimarso, market researcher, 2003-2004

Lesgeven

• Introduction to work and organizational psychology
• Survey research
• Masterproof I
• Internships

Onderzoeksinteresses

• Personality dynamics
• Contextualised personality and emotion research
• Leadership 
• Within-person fluctuations
• Research methods

Publicaties

• Hofmans, J., De Clercq, B., Kuppens, P., Verbeke, L., & Widiger, T.A. (in press). Testing the structure and process of personality using ambulatory assessment data: An overview of within-person and person-specific techniques. Psychological Assessment
• Hofmans, J., Dóci, E., Solinger, O.N., Choi, W., & Judge, T.A. (in press). Capturing the dynamics of leader-follower interactions: stalemates and future theoretical progress. Journal of Organizational Behavior
• Hofmans, J., & Vantilborgh, T. (in press). Capturing perceptions of psychological contract fulfilment and breach. In Y. Griep and C. Cooper (Eds.). Handbook of research on the psychological contract at work. Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Hofmans, J., Vantilborgh, T., & Solinger, O.N. (in press). k-centres Functional Clustering: A person-centered approach to modeling complex nonlinear growth trajectories. Organizational Research Methods
• Sosnowska, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (in press). Relating emotional arousal to work vigour: A dynamic systems perspective. Personality and Individual Differences
• Sosnowska, J., Hofmans, J., & Lievens, F. (in press). Assessing personality dynamics in personnel selection. In J. F. Rauthmann (Ed.). The handbook of personality dynamics and processes. Elsevier
• Straub, C., Vinkenburg, C., van Kleef, M., & Hofmans, J. (in press). Effective HR implementation: The impact of supervisor support for policy use on employee perceptions and attitudes. The International Journal of Human Resource Management
• Vantilborgh, T., Hofmans, J., & Judge, T.A. (in press). The time has come to study dynamics at work. Journal of Organizational Behavior
• Vergauwe, J., Kaiser, R., Wille, B., De Fruyt, F., & Hofmans, J. (in press). A method for capturing context in the assessment of leaders: The "Too Little/Too Much" rating scale. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice.
• De Gieter, S., Hofmans, J., & Bakker, A.B. (2018). Need satisfaction at work, job strain, and performance: a diary study. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 23, 361-372.
• Joly, J.K., Hofmans, J., & Loewen, P. (2018). Personality and party ideology among politicians. A closer look at political elites from Canada and Belgium. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00552
• Vergauwe, J., Wille, B., Hofmans, J., Kaiser, R., & De Fruyt, F. (2018). The double-edged sword of leader charisma: Understanding the curvilinear relationship between charismatic personality and leader effectiveness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114, 110-130.
• Vergauwe, J., Wille, B., Hofmans, J., Kaiser, R., & De Fruyt, F. (2018). Too much charisma can make leaders look less effective. Leadership Presence, Harvard Business Review's Emotional Intelligence Series.
• Bal, M.P., Hofmans, J., & Polat, T. (2017). Breaking psychological contracts with the burden of workload: A weekly study of job resources as moderators. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 66, 143-167.
• Bidee, J., Vantilborgh, T., Pepermans, R., Willems, J., Jegers, M., & Hofmans, J. (2017). Daily motivation of volunteers in health care organizations: Relating team inclusion and intrinsic motivation using self-determination theory. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26, 325-336.
• Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2017). Core Self-Evaluations as a moderator of the relationship between task complexity, job resources and performance. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26, 411-420.
• Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2017). The multiple face(t)s of state conscientiousness: Predicting task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Research in Personality, 69, 78-85.
• De Clercq, B., Hofmans, J., Vergauwe, J., De Fruyt, F., & Sharp, C. (2017). Developmental pathways of childhood dark traits. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 126, 843-858.
• De Clercq, B., Verbeke, L., De Caluwé, E., Vercruysse, T., & Hofmans, J. (2017). Understanding adolescent personality pathology from growth trajectories of childhood oddity. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 1403-1411.
• Hofmans, J. (2017). Modeling psychological contract violation using dual regime models: an event-based approach. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01948
• Judge, T.A., Hofmans, J., & Wille, B. (2017). Situational judgement tests and the measurement of personality: some answers and more questions. European Journal of Personality, 31, 441-502.
• Mullet, E., Hofmans, J., & Schlottmann, A. (2017). Individual differences in information integration studies of children’s judgment/decision-making: Combining group with single-subject design via cluster analysis. In M. Toplak & J. Weller (Eds.). Individual differences in judgment and decision making from a developmental context (pp. 186-209). New York: Routledge.
• Vergauwe, J., Wille, B., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2017). Development of a Five-Factor Model charisma compound and its relations to career outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 99, 24-39.
• Vergauwe, J., Wille, B., Hofmans, J., Kaiser, R., & De Fruyt, F. (2017). The "Too Little/Too Much" Scale: A new rating format for detecting curvilinear effects. Organizational Research Methods, 20, 518-544.
• Vergauwe, J., Wille, B., Hofmans, J., Kaiser, R., & De Fruyt, F. (2017). Too much charisma can make leaders look less effective. Harvard Business Review, vol. published online.
• Bidee, J., Vantilborgh, T., Pepermans, R., Griep, Y., & Hofmans, J. (2016). Temporal dynamics of need satisfaction and need frustration. Two sides of the same coin? European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25, 900-913.
• Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2016). The effect of state Core Self-Evaluations on task performance, organizational citizenship behaviour, and counterproductive work behaviour. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25, 89-104.
• Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2016). From State Neuroticism to Momentary Task Performance: A Person x Situation Approach. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 25, 301-315.
• Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2016). Do personality states predict momentary task performance? The moderating role of personality variability. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89, 330-351.
• Solinger, O.N., Hofmans, J., Bal, P.M., & Jansen, P.G.W. (2016). Bouncing back from psychological contract breach: How commitment recovers over time. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37, 494-514. 
• Spanouli, A., & Hofmans, J. (2016). Walking the tightrope: Counterproductive work behavior as compensation for citizenship demands. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01530
• Vantilborgh, T., Bidee, J., Pepermans, R., Griep, Y., & Hofmans, J. (2016). Antecedents of psychological contract breach: The role of job demands, job resources, and affect. PloS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0154696.
• De Gieter, S., & Hofmans, J. (2015). How reward satisfaction affects employees' turnover intentions and performance: An individual differences approach. Human Resource Management Journal, 25, 200-216.
• Dóci, E., & Hofmans, J. (2015). Task complexity and transformational leadership: the mediating role of leaders' state core self-evaluations. The Leadership Quarterly, 26, 436-447.
• Dóci, E., Stouten, J., & Hofmans, J. (2015). The cognitive-behavioral system of leadership: Cognitive antecedents of active and passive leadership behaviors. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1344. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01344
• Hofmans, J., Debusscher, J., Dóci, E., Spanouli, A., & De Fruyt, F. (2015). The curvilinear relationship between work pressure and momentary task performance: The role of state and trait Core Self-Evaluations. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1680. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01680
• Hofmans, J., Ceulemans, E., Steinley, D., & Van Mechelen, I. (2015). On the added value of bootstrap analysis for K-means clustering. Journal of Classification, 32, 268-284.
• Gelens, J., Dries, N., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2015). Affective commitment of employees designated as talent: Signalling perceived organisational support. European Journal of International Management, 9, 9-27.
• Solinger, O.N., Hofmans, J., & Van Olffen, W. (2015). The dynamic microstructure of organizational commitment. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 88, 773-796.
• Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2014). The Curvilinear Relationship Between State Neuroticism and Momentary Task Performance. PloS ONE, 9. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106989
• Frederickx, S., & Hofmans, J. (2014). The role of personality in the initiation of communication situations. Journal of Individual Differences, 35, 30-37.
• Gelens, J., Hofmans, J., Dries, N., & Pepermans, R. (2014). Talent Management and Organizational Justice: Employee Reactions to High Potential Identification. Human Resource Management Journal, 24, 159-175.
• Haivas, S.M., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2014). What motivates you doesn't motivate me: Individual differences in the needs satisfaction – motivation relationship of Romanian volunteers. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 63, 326-343.
• Hofmans, J., Gelens, J., & Theuns, P. (2014). Enjoyment as a mediator in the relationship between task characteristics and work effort: An experience sampling study. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 23, 693-705.
• Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2014). Conjoint measurement. In A.C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer
• Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2014). Self-anchoring rating scale. In A.C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer
• Mairesse, O., De Valck, E., Quanten, S., Neu, D., Cortoos, A., Pattyn, N., Theuns, P., Cluydts, R., & Hofmans, J. (2014). Sleepiness phenomics: Modeling individual differences in subjective sleepiness profiles. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93, 150-161.
• Theuns, P., & Hofmans (2014). Functional measurement. In A.C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer
• Theuns, P., Hofmans, J., & Bernheim, J.L. (2014). Anamnestic Comparative Self Assessment (ACSA). In A.C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer
• Van den Broeck, J., Bastiaansen, L., Rossi, G., Dierckx, E., de Clercq, B., & Hofmans, J. (2014). Hierarchical structure of maladaptive personality traits in older adults: Joint factor analysis of the PID-5 and the DAPP-BQ. Journal of Personality Disorders, 28, 198-211.
• Van den Broeck, J., Bastiaansen, L., Rossi, G., Dierckx, E., Mikolajczak-Degrauwe, K., & Hofmans, J. (2014). Factorial validity of the Personality Adjectives Checklist in a Dutch-speaking sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 96, 245-251.
• Van den Broeck, W., Hofmans, J., Cooremans, S, & Staels, E. (2014). Factorial validity and measurement invariance across intelligence levels and gender of the Overexcitabilities Questionnaire-II (OEQ-II). Psychological Assessment, 26, 55-68.
• Vandercammen, L., Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2014). The mediating role of affect in the relationship between need satisfaction and autonomous motivation. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 87, 62-79.
• Vandercammen, L., Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2014). Relating specific emotions to intrinsic motivation: On the moderating role of positive and negative emotion differentiation. PLoS ONE; 9. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115396.
• Vandercammen, L., Hofmans, J., Theuns, P., & Kuppens, P. (2014). On the role of specific emotions in autonomous and controlled motivated behavior. European Journal of Personality, 28, 437-448.
• Wille, B., Hofmans, J., Feys, M., & De Fruyt, F. (2014). Maturation of work attitudes: Correlated change with Big Five personality traits and reciprocal effects over 15 years. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 35, 507-529.
• Bastiaansen, L., De Fruyt, F., Rossi, G., Schotte, C., & Hofmans, J. (2013). Personality disorder dysfunction versus traits: Structural and conceptual issues. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 4, 293-303.
• Bidee, J., Vantilborgh, T., Pepermans, R., Huybrechts, G., Willems, J., Jegers, M., & Hofmans, J. (2013). Autonomous motivation stimulates volunteers' work effort: A self-determination theory approach to volunteerism. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 24, 32-47.
• Frederickx, S., Verduyn, P., Koval, P., Brans, K., Brunner, B., De Laet, B., Ogrinz, B., Pe, M., & Hofmans, J. (2013). The relationship between arousal and the remembered duration of positive events. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 27, 493-496.
• Gelens, J., Dries, N., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2013). The role of perceived organizational justice in shaping talent management outcomes: A research agenda. Human Resource Management Review, 23, 341-353.
• Haivas, S.M., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2013). Volunteer engagement and intention to quit from a self-determination theory perspective. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1869-1880.
• Hofmans, J., De Gieter, S., & Pepermans, R. (2013). Individual differences in the relationship between satisfaction with job rewards and job satisfaction. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 82, 1-9.
• Hofmans, J., & Mullet, E. (2013). Towards unveiling individual differences in different stages of information processing: A clustering-based approach. Quality & Quantity, 47, 455-464.
• Solinger, O.N., Van Olffen, W., Roe, R.A., & Hofmans, J. (2013). On becoming (un)committed: A taxonomy and test of newcomer on-boarding scenarios. Organization Science, 24, 1640-1661.
• De Gieter, S., De Cooman, R., Hofmans, J., Pepermans, R., & Jegers, M. (2012). Pay level satisfaction and psychological reward satisfaction as mediators of the organizational justice-turnover intention relationship. International Studies of Management & Organization, 42, 50-67.
• Haivas, S.M., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2012). Self-Determination Theory as a Framework for Exploring the Impact of the Organizational Context on Volunteer Motivation: A Study of Romanian Volunteers. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 41, 1195-1214.
• Hofmans, J. (2012). Individual differences in equity models. Psicologica, 33, 473-482.
• Hofmans, J., Shanteau, J., & Masin, S. (2012). Information integration theory and functional measurement: Applications in psychology. Psicologica, 33, 419-423.
• Mairesse, O., Neu, D., Migeotte, P., Pattyn, N., Hofmans, J., Theuns, P., Cluydts, R., & De Valck, E. (2012). Judgment of daytime sleepiness in self-reported short, long and midrange sleepers. Psicologica, 33, 609-629.
• De Gieter, S., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2011). Revisiting the impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on nurse turnover intention: An individual differences analysis. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48, 1562-1569.
• Hofmans, J. (2010). Editorial: Applications of Functional Measurement in psychology. Psicologica, 31, 431-439.
• Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2010). Testing the impact of predefined and self-defined end anchors on the linearity of the category rating scale. Quality & Quantity, 44, 397-408.
• Mairesse, O., Hofmans, J., Neu, D., de Oliveira, A., Cluydts, R., & Theuns, P. (2010). The algebra of sleepiness: investigating the interaction of homeostatic (S) and circadian (C) processes in sleepiness using linear metrics. Psicologica, 31, 541-559.
• Theuns, P., Hofmans, J., Mazaheri, M., Van Acker, F., & Bernheim, J.L. (2010). Cross-national comparability of the WHOQOL-BREF: A measurement invariance approach. Quality of Life Research, 19, 219-224.
• De Gieter, S., Hofmans, J., De Cooman, R., & Pepermans, R. (2009). Measurement invariance of the Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire across gender: Explaining the 'contented female worker paradox' more thoroughly. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 69, 843-854.
• Dries, N., Pepermans, R., Hofmans, J., & Rypens, L. (2009). Development and validation of an objective intra-organizational career success measure for managers. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 30, 543-560.
• Hofmans, J., Pepermans, R., & Loix, E. (2009). Measurement invariance matters: a case made for the ORTOFIN. Journal of Economic Psychology, 30 , 667-674.
• Hofmans, J., Theuns, P., & Van Acker, F. (2009). Combining quality and quantity. A psychometric evaluation of the self-anchoring scale. Quality & Quantity, 43, 703-716.
• Schepers, J., & Hofmans, J. (2009). TwoMP: A MATLAB graphical user interface for two-mode partitioning. Behavior Research Methods, 41, 507-514.
• Hofmans, J., Dries, N., & Pepermans, R. (2008). The Career Satisfaction Scale: Response Bias Among Men and Women. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 397-403.
• Hofmans, J., Kuppens, P., & Allik, J. (2008). Is short in length short in content? An examination of the domain representation of the Ten Item Personality Inventory scales in Dutch Language. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 750-755.
• Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2008). On the linearity of predefined and self-anchoring Visual Analogue Scales. British Journal of Mathematical & Statistical Psychology, 61, 401-413.
• Mairesse, O., Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2008). The functional measurement experiment builder suite: two JAVA-based programs to generate and run functional measurement experiments. Behavior Research Methods, 40, 408-412.
• Hofmans, J., Mairesse, O., & Theuns, P. (2007). An aternative for prescribed integration rules in testing the linearity of a response measure. Teorie & Modelli, 12, 259-268.
• Hofmans, J., Theuns, P., Baekelandt, S., Mairesse, O., Schillewaert, N., & Cools, W. (2007). Bias and changes in perceived intensity of verbal qualifiers effected by scale orientation. Survey Research Methods, 1, 97-108.
• Hofmans, J., Theuns, P., & Mairesse, O. (2007). On the impact of the number of response categories on linearity and sensitivity of 'Self Anchoring Scales'. A Functional Measurement approach. Methodology, 3, 160-169.
• Mairesse, O., Hofmans, J., De Valck, E., Cluydts, R., & Theuns, P. (2007). On the linearity of subjective sleepiness measures. Teorie & Modelli, 12, 289-298.
• Theuns, P., Hofmans, J., & Verresen, N. (2007). A functional measurement inquiry on the contribution of different life domains to overall subjective well-being. Teorie & Modelli, 12, 181-189.
• Van Acker, F., Theuns, P., Hofmans, J., & Mairesse, O. (2007). Test of the effect of scale labels on response linearity. Teorie & Modelli, 12, 269-276.
• Bernheim, J., Theuns, P., Mazaheri, M., Hofmans, J., Flieghe, J., & Rose, M. (2006). The potential of Anamnestic Comparative Self Assessment (ACSA) to reduce bias in the measurement of Subjective Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 7, 227-250.
• Cools, W., Hofmans, J., & Theuns, P. (2006). Context in category scales: is "fully agree" equal to twice agree? European Review of Applied Psychology, 56, 223-229.

Awards

• 2017 SIOP Hogan award for personality and work performance: Best paper in applied personality research in the field of industrial and organizational psychology for the paper: “Debusscher, J., Hofmans, J., & De Fruyt, F. (2016). Do personality states predict momentary task performance? The moderating role of personality variability. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 89, 330-351.”
• 2016 Runner-up prize for best paper in Journal of organizational behavior for the paper: “Solinger, O.N., Hofmans, J., Bal, P.M., & Jansen, P.G.W. (2016). Bouncing back from psychological contract breach: How commitment recovers over time. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 37, 494-514.”
• 2014 Best Faculty Paper Award (of the past 5 years) on the Amsterdam Business Research Institute’s fifth anniversary symposium for the paper: “Solinger, O., Van Olffen, W., Roe, R. A., & Hofmans, J. (2013). On becoming (un)committed: A taxonomy and test of newcomer on-boarding scenarios. Organization Science, 24, 1640-1661.“
• 2013 Best Romanian publication in organizational psychology for the paper: “Haivas, S. M., Hofmans, J., & Pepermans, R. (2013). Volunteer engagement and intention to quit from a self-determination theory perspective. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1869-1880.”