Prof. Carolien Rieffe | Leiden University
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Robin Banerjee is a professor in Psychology at the University of Sussex. His work addresses social-cognitive and emotional processes associated with children's peer relations. He is collaborating with us on studies investigating children's strategies for coping with difficult emotions, and their understanding of emotional display rules.
December 18th, 2019
Today on December 18th, Naqi defended his PhD dissertation. Naqi's research focuses on the extent to which relationships between emotional experiences and aggressive behaviours in adolescents are affected by culture. He found that the traditional classification between individualistic Western countries and collectivistic Eastern countries was not fully supported when cultural values were assessed at individual levels, which may have important implications for future cross-cultural research and interventions. To know more about Naqi's research, click here for the university news article.
Congratulations, Dr. Naqi!
November 15th, 2019
A sense of fairness is assumed to be innate, but is it? Adva examined fairness in deaf / hard-of-hearing (DHH) and hearing adolescents, presenting the participants with different situations to distribute coins between a peer and oneself. Although young DHH adolescents had more difficulties than their hearing peers to live up to the equity principle when it would cost their peer a coin, older DHH participants had more difficulties with equity when this implied less coins for themselves. The paper is available open access in Social Development. Click here to read it.
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On Monday November 10th, Max van Duijn, who received a NWO-Veni grant, visited our lab for a research meeting. Max presented the outline of his work examining the relation between children's Theory of Mind and storytelling. Click here to read more about his grant and project.
November 6th, 2019
On November 5th, our team was invited by Joost Kok, Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) at the University of Twente, to discuss new developments using sensor techniques at the school playground over lunch with Nirvana Meratnia, who is part of the Pervasive Systems Group. The visit was completed with a tour through the lab at the Behavioural Management and Social Sciences (BMS) faculty.
October 18th, 2019
October 18th is the International Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) Awareness Day. Approximately 5-7% of the children experience severe problems acquiring and using their first language. However, these problems are often not recognized and understood. DLD affects schooling, socio-emotional development, self-esteem, and behaviors of children. With suitable support, these children are able to overcome many of these obstacles. Neeltje van den Bedem did her PhD project on social-emotional development of children and youngsters with DLD. The defense will follow soon! If you are curious about the results, click here to register for her lectures!
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December 12th, 2019
Naqi came back to Leiden for his PhD defence next Wednesday 18 December, and took the opportunity to study factor analysis in R with our new PhD student Zijian.
November 26th, 2019
Shannon and Qi attended the VNOP-CAS Research Days on the 22nd of November in Utrecht. They presented their research plans and preliminary findings from their first-wave data collection in China, focusing on emotional functioning in Chinese deaf and hard-of-hearing toddlers.
November 19th, 2019
On November 18th, Lisa and Anna welcomed 10 enthusiastic bachelor students who will join our lab for an internship.
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Our team is located at the department of Developmental Psychology of Leiden University in the Netherlands. We work in close collaboration with the Dutch Foundation for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Child (NSDSK), the ENT department of the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), the Centre for Autism, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), TU Delft, and University of Twente. Our group is dedicated to examining the emotional development of children and adolescents of all walks of life. We have a strong focus on the functionality of emotions, and its impact on children's social development. Besides typically developing children and adolescents, we are interested in the development of those who are deaf or hard-of-hearing, with autism spectrum disorders, or with specific language impairments.
On this site we regularly post news items about new publications, events, and so on. You can also read more about our ongoing projects, read about and download questionnaires we have developed,
see an overview of our publications per topic, or read about opportunities for students to join our team.