Prof. Carolien Rieffe | Leiden University | University of Twente
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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.
January 5th, 2021
Understanding emotions from other people’s faces and from social situations is essential for daily social interaction. But how is that for children with hearing loss? Can they learn to understand emotions just as easily as hearing children?Through a collaboration between Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and Otorhinolaryngology (LUMC and Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital Taiwan), Yung-Ting’s unique eye-tracking studies show that daily "exposure" in the social environment in which emotions take place is essential for the development of this aspect of emotional intelligence. The results are now published in Emotion and Ear & Hearing.
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December 17th, 2020
On December 17th, the webinar with the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment in Beijing (北京中国听力语言康复研究中心) was held successfully. With the common goal of promoting the development and having the same enthusiasm for benefitting the wellbeing of children with hearing loss, this collaboration began in the year 2017, sponsored by the KNAW grant for China Exchange Program. Since then, this collaboration has achieved excellent results, including launching three new China Scholarship PhD projects and largescale longitudinal research tracking the social and emotional development of Chinese preschoolers with hearing loss. During the meeting, ideas on ongoing research and preliminary results were discussed in context with observations made by teachers at the centre.
Read more ...November 25th, 2020
The book 'Lifehacks voor meiden met autisme: Handige tips voor dagelijkse problemen' is newly released! Edited by board members of the Female Autism Network of The Netherlands (FANN), Els Blijd-Hoogewys, Marleen Bezemer, and Audrey Mol, this book consists of multiple tips to navigate daily life for girls 8-18 years old with autism and their friends or family on prominent topics for this age such as puberty, sexuality, and gossiping. Carolien wrote two chapters for this new book on emotion regulation and friendship.
Click here to take a look, and also see an introduction here.
November 11th, 2020
Yung-Ting successfully defended her dissertation on November 11th on social information processing in deaf or hard of hearing children. In a live setting, with some opponents questioning the candidate online, Yung-Ting calmly and professionally debated with the different committee members, not only showing her knowledge and skills on the topic, but also impressing the committee with her thoughtful responses. It was a great opportunity that the defence was streamed online for Yung-Ting's family to also tune in from Taiwan. Congratulations Dr. Tsou with this wonderful achievement! Read more about her research here.
November 27th, 2020
Starting in December, the China project team (Qi, Shannon and Zijian) will collect the 2nd wave of data about social-emotional development in DHH children online. We are once again working closely with the China Rehabilitation Research Center for Hearing and Speech Impairment (北京中国听力语言康复研究中心) in Beijing.
Read more ...October 14th, 2020
On October 14th, our star-student Maayan Cohen received her diploma for the Research Master (MPhil), cum laude! Maayan did her research with Carolien and Evelien on empathy in autistic adolescents.
Read more ...September 22nd, 2020
The September 21st broadcast of De Monitor was a documentary on Elijah Delsink, and his action to the Second Chamber to ban alternative treatments for "curing" autism. Carolien comments in the documentary: "Cease therapy is harmful, because the message is that you should cure autism."
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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.