Ype Poortinga, born in Grootegast, the Netherlands, in 1939. Ph.D. from the VU University, Amsterdam. Associate Professor of Psychology at Tilburg University.
Fellow (1 September 1984 – 31 August 1985)
Besides finishing a report on an empirical study of India and the Netherlands dealing that looked at to what extent cultural differences can influence basic personality variables, I worked on a draft of a textbook on cross-cultural psychology and devoted some time on the methodological problems of cross-cultural comparisons of psychological data.