Research projects
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Psychoeducation from a critical and normative perspective
The main question of the research project is how we can best understand the function and meaning of psychoeducation within the normative layer of behavioral science, its importance for clinical practice and its impact on society and individuals.
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Whether biased attention, interpretation and memory process are interacted
This project aims to better understand the underlying mechanisms of emotional and independence disorders and help develop multiple treatments targeting combined cognitive biases to intervene in the related symptoms.
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The role of interpersonal synchrony in building the client-therapist working alliance
The aim of this project is to disentangle and explain the relation between IS and the WA using a multimodal approach.
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Service dogs as stress buffer in police officers with PTSD
With this program we aim to test theories on social buffering in PTSD as well as to guide policy for the national police on use of service dogs.
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VR Biofeedback training for decision making in Police officers
This project aims to demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of training HRV through biofeedback in an active and arousing VR context.
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Transdiagnostic Avoidance in the Treatment of Anxiety and Depression
Our project aims to investigate how different types of avoidance relate to comorbid anxiety and depression in a clinical sample, and examine the contribution of these avoidance types to the maintenance of the disorders.
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Psychobioiogical Mechanisms of Individual Differences in Costly Avoidance Behaviour
This project studies the psychobiological mechanisms underlying avoidance behaviour and how it predict the outcome of anxiety and depressive disorders.
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The (dis)similarities of social anxiety and psychopathic tendencies
This project studies the (dis)similarities between social anxiety and psychopathy in terms of cognitive biases, behavioral tendencies and emotional experiences through self-reports, biological assessments, experimental tasks and longitudinal data.
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Intertemporal choice
This project studies intertemporal choice tendencies and how Pavlovian biases (elicited by cues signalling immediate rewards) interfer with goal-directed behaviour towards long-term rewards.
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The Development of Problematic Social Media Use in Adolescence
The current project aims to investigate the development of problematic SMU in adolescence, in particular who may be susceptible to problematic SMU and under which circumstances.
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Trajectories of heavy alcohol use during the transition to emerging adulthood
This PhD project aims to develop an integrative model of resilience to heavy drinking in emerging adulthood. This model will focus on two key resilience mechanisms (cognitive control and emotion regulation).
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Perceptions of travel in Byzantine saints' lives
In this PhD project Irene Jacobs examines how the Byzantine authors of monastic saints’ lives engaged with travel.
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Nineteenth-century Dutch authors travelling abroad
The main focus of this research willl be the changes nineteenth-century Dutch authors observed in the countries they visisted and what happened after they had left.
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Side by Side
This project counters the separation between the post-war novels of Native American Renaissance writers and their German-speaking contemporaries.
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Biogas to bioenergy
The project Biogas to bioenergy investigates how certain micro-organisms generate electricity, and how we can apply this quality for electricity production and for reducing methane emissions from e.g. water treatment plants.
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The ‘First Ladies’ of the Dutch Republic
By analyzing and comparing the political agency of four seventeenth-century Nassau consorts, this project will provide valuable new insights into the repertoires of power available to princely women.
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IO BIO
The IO BIO Project provides an open access online biographical dictionary with short biographies of Secretaries-General (SGs), or other executive heads with different titles, of International Organizations (IOs).
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Colonialism Inside Out
This interdisciplinary project focuses on how ordinary people in Sri Lanka experienced and navigated normative institutions of taxation, legal action and religion that were set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
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Emotion differentiation
This project attempts to answer how emotion differentiation (ED) facilitates effective emotion regulation, develops over adolescence, and contributes to psychopathology.
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‘Samen Happie!’
the main aim of this project is to develop and test the Samen Happie! app, in which both healthy parenting practices (related to the main risk factors of energy intake and expenditure) and parenting are manipulated to prevent early childhood obesity.