dr. V.E. Heininga

• Deficits, Distress, and Disorders
  BSS Interdisciplinary project

Gaining a better understanding of human deficits, psychological distress, and psychopathological disorders using a transdiagnostic and interdisciplinary approach? Challenge accepted! Within the focal area Deficits, Distress, and Disorders, I combine insights from among others, sociology, psychology, pedagogics, educational science, and psychometrics to investigate the causal mechanisms of psychopathological disorders, and their effects on everyday functioning.

January 29: https://myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/medewerkers/gmw/announcements/deficits-distress-and-disorders-in-children-%28january-29%29-brainstorm\

• Micro-mechanisms of anhedonia, and its consequences for future mental health
  Postdoctoral Mandate (PDM) together with prof. dr. Kuppens

This study aims to investigate emotion dynamics in clinically depressed people and controls with the help of Experience Sampling Methods (ESM), in order to gain more insight into micro-mechanisms of anhedonia and its consequences for future well-being.

• 'No Fun, No Glory'
  VICI project prof. dr. Oldehinkel

This study is a biopsychosocial study of how young people lose the ability to experience pleasure and how they can regain it, looking, among other things, at whether pleasure could be recovered through a parachute jump.