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Andries Sanders

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Andries Frans Sanders (born 4 April 1933) is a Dutch psychologist. In the 1980s he was professor at RWTH Aachen Technical University and served as director of its Institut für Psychologie. Sanders was professor of psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1989 and 1998.

Life

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Sanders was born on 4 April 1933 in Amsterdam.[1] In 1957 Sanders started working at the Institute for Perception RVO-TNO (Dutch: Instituut voor Zintuigfysiologie) and became the first psychologist employed there.[2][3] He first worked under supervision of John van de Geer,[4] but received his PhD with honors in 1963 at Utrecht University under supervision of Johannes Linschoten. In 1966 he organised and convened a meeting on attention and performance which would subsequently become a symposium series.[5][6] In 1968 he was one of the founders of the Dutch association for psychonomy.[7] In the 1980s he worked as professor and director of the Institut für Psychologie of RWTH Aachen University.[8][9]

Sanders was a professor of cognitive psychology, psychonomics, experimental psychology and theoretical psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1989 and 1998.[10][11][12] At the Vrije Universiteit he also served as dean of the faculty of social sciences.[13]

Sanders was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996.[11] He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.[14]

Research

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Sanders' published research is characterised by a close relationship between basic and applied ergonomic questions. This is already evident from his early work on the effect of loud noise on performance [15] and on his dissertation work on orientation in the functional visual field.[16] Another research theme was the analysis of choice reactions, inspired by the Additive Factors Method developed by Saul Sternberg in the 1960s.[17] In this work application was evident in his studies on the effects of psychopharma and sleep deprivation on choice reaction processes; this led to his most quoted publication "Towards a model of stress and Human performance".[18] Sanders also worked on short-term memory, basic as well as applied in situations where people are required to briefly remember a sequence of letters or digits.[19] In 1998 he published "Elements of Human performance" a review of the literature of his main interests in which, again, the cohesion between basic and applied research was a main theme.[20]

References

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  1. ^ D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 333. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
  2. ^ John Michon (29 October 2013). "Psychonomie – 45 jaren vóór Nu" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020.
  3. ^ H.C.J. Duijker; A.M.J. Chorus; F.J.Th. Rutten; J.Th. Snijders (26 January 2018). Zeven grondleggers van de psychologie. Prometheus. p. 310. ISBN 978-90-351-4051-6.
  4. ^ "Willem Albert Wagenaar" (in Dutch). Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 2012. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017.
  5. ^ Acta Psychologica, vol. 27 (1967)
  6. ^ "Organization". The International Association for the Study of Attention and Performance. Archived from the original on 6 November 2020.
  7. ^ H.C.J. Duijker; A.M.J. Chorus; F.J.Th. Rutten; J.Th. Snijders (26 January 2018). Zeven grondleggers van de psychologie. Prometheus. p. 13. ISBN 978-90-351-4051-6.
  8. ^ Ahmet F. Özok; Gavriel Salvendy (1987). Handbook of Human Factors. Wiley. p. vi. ISBN 978-0-471-88015-8.
  9. ^ Herbert Heuer; Andries Sanders (7 July 2016). Perspectives on Perception and Action. Taylor & Francis. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-317-23969-7.
  10. ^ Andries F. Sanders (2 November 2001). "De dood als laatste taboe" (in Dutch). Trouw. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Andries Sanders". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020.
  12. ^ "Sanders, A.F. prof.dr. (1933-)". Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Universiteitsbibliotheek, Beeldbank. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020.
  13. ^ Peter Breedveld (23 September 2013). "'Je houdt er geen rekening mee, dat iemand liegt'" (in Dutch). Advalvas. Archived from the original on 10 October 2020.
  14. ^ "Doctor honoris causa 2003 - 2019" (in Dutch). Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.
  15. ^ Ergononomics, 1961 4, 253-258; Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Psychologie, 1961, 16, 460-475.
  16. ^ van Gorkum publisher, Assen, 1963
  17. ^ Acta Psychologica, vol. 30, 276-315 (1969)
  18. ^ Acta Psychologica, vol. 53, 61-97 (1983)
  19. ^ Attention & Performance Vol. 5, London Academic Press.
  20. ^ Erlbaum publisher, Mawhaw NJ 1998


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