Developmental Psychology, Coaching, Intercultural Competence, Leadership, Longitudinal Research, Dynamic System methods

Researcher at the University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation.

Focussing on action-perception learning and development from a combined perspective of Ecological Psychology and dynamical systems theory. Using Uncontrolled Manifold analyses and multifractal analyses to asses stability, variability, and interaction dynamics of the action-perception system. Studies exploratory processes to determine how new behaviors emerge and are stabilized during developmentand and learning. Uses a task perspective to develop serious games to train upper limb prosthetic use.

Keywords: Perception-Action, Motor Control, Motor Development, Motor Learning, Rehabilitation Training, Upper Limb Prosthetics, Tool Use, Motor Variability, Reaching, Grasping, Upper-Limb Control, Muscle Synergies

Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology, Hemispheric specialization, child neuropsychology, neuropsychological assessment, and dementia.

Theory and history of (lifespan) developmental psychology; tensions between parents and educationalists; the relationship between art and psychology (in particular children's drawings); childhood in psychology, autobiography, art and fiction; children and the experience of war.

social networks, social capital, peer learning, learning communities, learning environment, internship experiences, self efficacy, coping, leadership in school teams (distributed leadership), professional development, professional commitment, wellbeing versus burnout, stress, healthcare education, educational innovations, quatitative and qualitative analysis

gender identity, brain development, puberty and adolescence, body perception, 

Theory and history of developmental psychology (esp. the Cold War popularization of Jean Piaget by American psychologists and educators), archival history (esp. Piaget's unpublished causality manuscripts), historiography, knowledge translation & indigenization / internationalization, taxonomic incommensurability, indeterminacy in translation, digital humanities, PsycINFO

Childhood adversity, genetics, resilience, risk and protective factors, physiological stress response, cortisol, youth development and functioning.

Early Assessment and Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Motor Development, Pediatric Health Psychology, Dance Movement Therapy

Developmental psychopathology; Psychiatric genetics; Reward sensitivity; Personality.

social and cognitive development
perception-action
embodiment
complex dynamical systems
empirical aesthetics
art experience

I am intrigued by the possibilities for learning and development that engaging in joint action can offer, which I study from a dynamical systems perspective. I investigate the process of discovering possibilities for action (affordances) within a social system, by integrating theory and methodology from movement sciences and psychology in embodied naturalistic tasks.

For more information, please visit: www.drlauracuijpers.com

Coordination dynamics || Motor Development and learning || Sport Sciences

Expertise over de ontwikkeling van het kind in dynamische interactie met met zijn of haar omgeving. Thema's: dynamiek van de ouder-kindinteractie, (eerste en tweede) taalverwerving, welbevinden, voedingsproblemen, verbaal redeneren en creativiteit, intra-indivuele variabiliteit, observatie van gedrag, procesonderzoek, complexe dynamische systemen.

within individual processes
identity development
career decision making
early school leaving
motivation

Suicidality among youth

My research is centrally concerned with how social environments (ranging from cultural resources and discourses to everyday social interactions) influence individual development. For example, my PhD research project focuses on how sexual identity construction is influenced by conversation partners, who mediate the influence of cultural conceptions on sexual identity development in the context of everyday interactions. I am also interested in developing methods and theoretical frameworks for understanding how discursive processes can account for the emergence of psychological properties that are commonly understood as latent traits. I have a specific expertise in: dynamic systems theory, thematic analysis, narrative analysis, time series analysis, discourse and conversation analysis, identity construction, queer theory, LGBTQ* psychology, and identity development.

Placement and internships, Labour Market Faculty of Arts

My research draws together psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and pedagogy with the aim to unravel the psychosocial mechanisms of resilience in youth. Expertise: Mental health and well-being; Depressive symptoms; Emotion dynamics (how emotions vary over time); Multiverse analysis; Open Science.

Teacher-student interaction in primary education, creativity, music education

The development of (proneness to) somatic symptoms in children.

See https://huijzer.xyz/about.

Master of Paediatric Physical Therapy

Bertus Jeronimus studies individual differences in what humans feel, think, want and do (personality) and their subjective wellbeing ("happiness") and lifespan trajectories of these phenomena and their link to stress, anxiety, depression and the socioecology in which one lives and grows, especially intimate support relationships, daily activities, adverse events, culture, and history. Jeronimus works at the University of Groningen in the Department of Psychology and in the Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation (www.ICPE.NL). See Google.Scholar or  Researchgate for details. Currently focused on happy neurotics, the stress process, and the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic and the psychosocial consequences.

Deconstructing Depression (VICI project); Depression and Cardiovascular Disease (VIDI project); Stress in Action (Gravitation project)

education, human development, multimodal communication, gestures, interpersonal attunement of behavior, complex dynamical systems, coordination dynamics, ecological psychology

Resilience and mental health development | Intergenerational transmission| Family and peer experiences | Parent-child interactions | Longitudinal data-analysis |Differential susceptibility | Gene-environment interactions 

psychological needs, intergroup relations, cultural adaptation, motivation

Social development across the lifespan, with a focus on genetic and environmental origins of individual differences

identity development, dynamic systems modeling, career choice development

Teacher-student interactions, complex dynamical systems, motivation/ engagement and well-being, creativity, (special) educational needs

Seconc Language Learning, Bilingualism and Multilingualism in (Primary) Education, Young Refugee Students, Well-being, Trauma

Beginning Teacher Coaching, Motivation, Psychological Needs, Human Resource Management, Intercultural Competence in Business

Sportpsychology, Resilience, Within-Person Dynamics, Science of the Individual, Ergodicity, Ecological Momentary Assessment, Monitoring, Time Series Analysis, Dynamical Networks, Nonverbal Behavior, Emotions

Developmental Psychopathology; Depression; Anxiety; Adolescents; Applied video games; Serious video games; Predicting psychopathology onset

Anxiety and depressive symptoms in children and adults, psychiatric epidemiology, systematic reviews, meta-analysis, publication bias

I study the ontology or process mechanisms of self and identity (and related concepts) as situated in time and context, and I am primarily interested in family and educational contexts. In much of my research I adopt a complex dynamic systems approach, which I apply to theoretical or micro-genetic work. In much of my current research I am inspired by critical psychology, discursive psychology, and philosophical psychology. 

Sportpsychologie, psychologisch momentum

Perception-action, perceptual-motor development, physical activity and cognition in children

animal-assisted therapy and interventions, micro-developmental research, observational research, child-adult interactions, child-animal interactions, time-serial coding and analysis, dynamic systems theory, cross-recurrence quantification analysis, autism spectrum disorders, down syndrome, developmental disabilities.Currently working on Veni 2018 grant project: (How) Does animal assisted therapy work?  Animal-assisted therapy is gaining popularity, but there is no conclusive evidence for its effect. This study investigates the effect of dog-assisted therapy for children with Down Syndrome and Autism, and looks for a possible mechanism to explain this effect: Increased synchronization between the movements of child and therapy dog.

dyadic interaction in educational contexts and play contexts
children's talented behavior and how it can be stimulated
process analyses in studying the effects of educational interventions

Sport, learning and performance; talent development; sport and cognition

diagnostiek - gespreksvaardigheden - interventie - stage

Development and treatment of affective disorders (mood and anxiety) over the life course, meta-science.

Positive bias | Optimism | Information processing bias | Mental health | Depression | Loss of pleasure | Experience sampling | Intergenerational transmission | Peer experiences

My main research interest is positive bias, the phenomenon that many people see the world more brightly and more positive than it really is. Positive bias may protect us from developing mental health problems. Where do individual differences in optimism come from? As part of my Veni project The bright side of life: understanding the origins of optimism, I investigate to what extent and how parents transmit their optimism to offspring.

I am passionate about improving scientific practice. I am a member of my department’s Ethics Committee and of the Open Science Community Groningen, where I give pre-registration workshops. Examples of open science practices in my work are pre-registrations, sharing syntax and data, and publishing open access.

More information about my research can be found on my website .