About
My research focuses on positive emotions, reward anticipation, and reward learning in everyday contexts of people aged 12-25, conducted through open-science and citizen-science collaborations.
I supervise two PhD students and lead a team of junior researchers, support staff and student assistants, partnering with drop-in centres and organisations such as PEERS, @Ease, JoinUs and Ixta Noa to co-design youth-centred, evidence-based eHealth interventions. Additionally, I develop AI-driven tools - such as chatbots and social-media photo analysis - to predict and support youth mental health.
Expertise: Youths' mental health and well-being, resilience in youth, depressive symptoms, anhedonia, reward functioning in daily life, Experience-sampling (ESM)/ Ecological momentary assessment (EMA), Open Science
See my full CV here.Interests
- Mental health and well-being
- Depressive symptoms
- Emotion dynamics
- Meta-science
- Multiverse analysis
- Open Science
Education
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PhD in Psychiatry, 2017
University Medical Center Groningen
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MSc (research) Sociology, 2013
Interuniversity Centre Social Sciences & Methodology (ICS)
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BSc in Social Work/ Psychology, 2011
Hanze University of Applied Sciences
Research lines
Domains Of Pleasure Scale (DOPS)
Instrument
External Project
An example of linking directly to an external project website using external_link.
I just ran a thousand analyses
Article
Ieder Kind Is Anders
Large national crowdsourcing study into child and adolescent mental health and well-being.
Internal Project
An example of using the in-built project page.
Multiverse tool
Article
No Fun No Glory project
No Fun No Glory.
Open Science Community Groningen
The Open Science Community Groningen facilitates more accessible, reproducible and transparent research.
Personalized lifestyle intervention
Study protocol
Psychopathology and positive emotions in daily life
Short review article (accepted for publication)
The dynamical signature of anhedonia in major depressive disorder
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. The cardinal features of MDD are depressed mood and anhedonia. Anhedonia is defined as a markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities of the day, and has generally been investigated on group-level using retrospective data (e.
The happy, the sad, and the anhedonic
PhD thesis (2017)
Recent Publications
Psychopathology and positive emotions in daily life
A multiverse analysis of early attempts to replicate memory suppression with the Think/No-think Task
The dynamical signature of anhedonia in major depressive disorder
Emotion-Based Learning by Iowa and Bangor Gambling Tasks - Similar but not the same?
Domains Of Pleasure Scale (DOPS)
Teaching experience
Co-develop/ redesign course
Teacher
Psychiatry Research (2014) & Statistics VI (2018) & Research Methods: Theory and Ethics (2019/2020)
Master theses
Evaluated 8 master theses
