Research projects
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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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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.
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Multiple Alliances in Practice
This research intends to explore the potential of various methods to measure multiple alliances, create a methodological toolkit suitable for the therapeutic context, and subsequently empower practitioners to measure their own alliances in practice.
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The relationship between financial market and information diffusion of social media
This project aims to create a new theoretical approach of information diffusion theory and understand stock market volatility to prevent market crashes due to information diffusion.
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Tragic events in the news: Representation, perception, and effects
This project investigates how the news media visually portrays violent and tragic events such as homicides, accidents, and natural disasters.
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Media and Morality
The project focuses on the positive prosocial consequences of media, and how prosocial sensibility follows from viewer's moral reasoning of different types of media text.
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INtoEAT
INtoEAT aims at development and implementation of innovative digital tools that can improve healthy eating habits and lifestyle in elderly as a nutrition aid.
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How Resistance to Innovation Unfolds
This project aims to understand how specific social contexts can determine changes in human behaviour, and how this can help people adapt to changing environments
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Mind the people
This project developed a novel model to advance the quality of interpersonal relationships through mindfulness, by enhancing our understanding of whether, when and how mindfulness benefits prosocial and decreases anti-social behaviour.
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Attachment and emotion regulation in romantic relationships
This PhD project aims to investigate the mechanisms through which attachment orientations are associated with emotion regulation in romantic relationships.
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An Instrumental Learning Approach to Understanding and Changing Prejudice
Prejudice and discrimination remain major global issues with far-reaching consequences. People are not born prejudiced; rather, prejudice is learned. This research aims to understand how basic learning processes interact with prejudice.
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Emergent literacy development and teaching of children with complex communication needs
In this project the development and instruction of children with complex communication needs in Dutch schools for special education will be explored to determine the teachers’ support needs in providing emergent literacy instruction.
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Kandinsky Longitudinal Study
The Kandinsky Longitudinal Study (KLS) began in 2010 and was designed to investigate adolescent social-emotional wellbeing. Data from this project has been used to answer a wide array of research questions on topics such as bullying and popularity.