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Peter Theuns, PhD

Professor 

Tel. +32 2 629 20 56 / Fax +32 2 629 25 32
E-mail: peter.theuns@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Methods of Social Scientific Inquiry
  • Methods of Social Scientific Inquiry (Lab)

Education:
Doctor of Psychology - 1992
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Masters of Business Administration - 1989
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Aggregation Higher Secondary Education - 1986
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Licentiate in Psychological Sciences - 1985
School of Clinical Psychology Children & Adolescents + Clinical Psychology Adults, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Research Interests:
  • Psychophysics and Psychometrics of rating scales: (fundamental) research on measurement quality obtained with rating scales in surveys
  • Measurement of subjective constructs like “Quality of Life, Fatigue, etc.
  • Analysis of binary data: Boolean analysis
  • Quantitative Personnel management

Select Publications:

Anamnestic Comparative Self-Assessment (ACSA) to measure QOL. II. Advantages of an internal standard. Qual of Life Res, 12: 835. Theuns, P., Bernheim, JL., Mazaheri M., Rose, M. (2003).


Anamnestic comparative self assessment (ACSA) I. Sensitivity, reliability and proneness to retrospectivity bias and response-shift. Qual of Life Res, 12: 759. Theuns, P., Bernheim, JL. Ledure, G., Souris M, Razavi , D. (2003)

Languages:
Dutch, English, French and German

Nationality:
Belgian