Wendy Andrews

Wendy Andrews joined academia after a broad career in business. After obtaining a Master degree in Engineering and working for several year in commercial-engineering roles and as a business consultant, she obtained an MBA in general management from IESE Business School (Barcelona). She started her academic career with a Master in Research in Organizational Behavior from London Business School, and wrote her PhD on status and hierarchy in face-to-face groups at the Center for Research on Self and Identity (Southampton, UK). Since then she has written a range of articles, focusing primarily on hierarchy, leadership, competition, and in/exclusion.

In 2009 Wendy returned to the Netherlands where she worked at several Universities. In 2018 she joined the VU Amsterdam as Assistant Professor in Organizational Psychology. There, she is an active member of the Institute of Brain and Behavior Amsterdam and the faculty Impact Board, and the Business Director of the Amsterdam Leadership Lab. She has also created a web-based leadership assessment tool, SALT, for use by organizations.

In all her work, Wendy seeks to use her unique experience within as well as outside academia to build connections between universities and the business world. Ultimately, she strives to develop knowledge and create tools that find their way to the managers and organizations that can benefit from them.

Recent publications

• W de Waal-Andrews & M van Vugt (2020) The triad model of follower needs: theory and review. Current opinion in psychology 33, 142-147
• W De Waal-Andrews & I Van Beest (2020) Reactions to claimed and granted overinclusion: Extending research on the effects of claimball versus cyberball. The Journal of social psychology 160 (1), 105-116
• W de Waal-Andrews & M van Vugt (2020) VU Research Portal. Current Opinion in Psychology 33, 142-147
• W de Waal-Andrews & I Van Beest (2018) A sweeter win: When others help us outperform them. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 74, 218-230
• N Mahadevan, AP Gregg, C Sedikides & WG de Waal-Andrews (2016) Winners, losers, insiders, and outsiders: Comparing hierometer and sociometer theories of self-regard. Frontiers in psychology 7, 334
• W de Waal‐Andrews, AP Gregg & J Lammers (2015) When status is grabbed and when status is granted: Getting ahead in dominance and prestige hierarchies. British Journal of Social Psychology 54 (3), 445-464
• W de Waal-Andrews & I Van Beest (2012) When you don’t quite get what you want: Psychological and interpersonal consequences of claiming inclusion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38 (10), 1367-1377
• W de Waal-Andrews & I van Beest (2012) Claimed Inclusion: Not Quite as Good as You May Have Hoped.
• WG de Waal-Andrews (2012) What it takes to attain status in face-to-face groups: the importance of distinguishing between dominance and prestige hierarchies. University of Southampton
• AP Gregg & W De Waal-Andrews (2007) Choices for, and perceptions of, global and specific hypothetical feedback of differential valence. Unpublished raw data, School of Psychology, University of Southampton, UK
• N Nicholson & W De Waal‐Andrews (2005) Playing to win: Biological imperatives, self‐regulation, and trade‐offs in the game of career success. Journal of Organizational Behavior: The International Journal of Industrial …
• SAY Poelmans & WG De Waal-Andrews (2005) Launching flexible work-arrangements within Procter and Gamble EMEA. Work and Family: An International Research Perspective, 357-377
• W Andrews & S Poelmans (2002) Victoria Dalí – CompuGraphics Inc. (A & B). case studies DPO-7-E & DPO-8-E, IESE Publishing
• W Andrews & S Poelmans (2002) Launching Flexible Work-Arrangements within Procter & Gamble EMEA (A & B). case studies FH-716-E & FH-717-E, IESE Publishing