Prof. Carolien Rieffe | Leiden University
On Saturday 14th of September Rachel will present a poster at the Autism Europe International Congress in Nice, France. She will be presenting research on the empathic responses of autistic girls and boys at the 'Gender & sexuality' poster session at 17:10.
September 23rd, 2019
Being bullied is not only bad at the moment itself, but also affects children in the long term. Carolien talks about this in a recent news item (in Dutch) on the Week Against Bullying, September 23-30, 2019.
September 19th, 2019
On September 18th, Bobbie van Zessen graduated cum laude for her master in Developmental Psychology. She worked with Adva on the inclusion of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing children in mainstream education. Congratulations, Bobbie!
September 18th, 2019
Spontaneously helping one another, why do we bother? It is believed that lending a hand to others promotes social bonding, helping us to connect with each other and even build friendships. Click here to read more about Rachel's newly published paper on spontaneous helping behavior of autistic adolescents. The paper is available open access in Autism Research, click here to read it.
September 2nd, 2019
August 30 to September 1, Adva, Boya, and Yung-Ting visited Athens, Greece, to attend the 19th European Conference on Developmental Psychology. In different symposia and paper sessions, they presented their latest research findings about children or adolescents with a hearing loss, or who have a Developmental Language Disorder. Yung-Ting presented her unique studies on children with a cochlear implant from Taiwan. Discussions focused on the fact that social participation does not come naturally when communication forms a barrier, and what impact it can have on other areas of development as well as the possible ways to cope with it.
July 17th, 2019
At the 16th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children in Florida on 10-13 July, Carolien gave a keynote talk on the emotional competence of children with a CI. In her presentation, Carolien stressed the fact that – in theory – children with a hearing loss and no additional disabilities could have a similar development compared to their hearing peers; yet all children need an inclusive social climate in which they are welcome and can participate to develop to their full potential. Especially, contact with peers is crucial in this respect. Professional's point of view on this keynote speech can be found on The Hearing Review.
September 20th, 2019
Danique Willems, our former research master student and student assistent, received her MPhil in Psychology today, cum laude. Congratulations Danique, we are very proud of you!
September 18th, 2019
Rachel attended the Autism Europe Congress in Nice, France from the 13th – 15th of September. She presented research on expressions of empathy of autistic and non-autistic girls and boys, which suggested that these groups express empathy in different ways.
Read more ...May 30th, 2019
Our lab will soon welcome another new PhD student from China. Qi Meng has been granted the Chinese Government Scholarship (also known as CSC) under Boya's supervision, which will support her four-year research project at our lab. Her project will focus on the social and emotional development of Chinese children with hearing loss.
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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.