abstract:Mark van Vugt (born 9 May 1967, Amsterdam) is a Netherlands evolutionary psychologist who holds a professorship in group and organizational psychology at the VU University (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Van Vugt has affiliate positions at the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Kent, UK.
Thefindingscome fromastudy by ProfessorMarkvanVugtandDr Johanna van Hooff of the University of Amsterdam, and postgraduate student HelenCrawford from the University of Kent.