Albert Jan "Ap" Dijksterhuis (born 12 November 1968, Zutphen) is a Dutch Social Psychologist at Radboud University Nijmegen.
He received his Ph.D in Social Sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen in 1996.
His adviser was Ad van Knippenberg.
From 1996-1999, he did post-doc work as a Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, located in Amsterdam.
In 2000, he became a professor at the University of Amsterdam, returning to Radboud University Nijmegen in 2006.
In 2007, his first book was published, in Dutch, called ‘Het slimme onbewuste’ (‘The Smart Unconscious’).