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Newly appointed assistant professor Lara Wierenga
Currently finishing up final waves of data collection at the Leiden- Consortium on Individual development Lara Wierenga, assistant professor Leiden University, WP2 My main interest is to unravel why some…
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PDI-SSH funding for harmonized metadata infrastructure
Connecting Data in Child Development (CD2) is a new initiative to develop a digital infrastructure that encompasses harmonized metadata for six longitudinal youth cohorts. CD2 was one of twelve projects to…
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Ecological validity and the “real world” – What are we really talking about?
Written by Gijs Holleman(PhD candidate Utrecht University) Many researchers in psychological science have advocated that more ‘ecologically valid’ experiments are needed to understand behaviour in the ‘real world’. However, a…
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First digital CIDYoung
On 13 May 2020 eighteen CID postdocs, PhD students and research assistants joined our first digital CIDyoung meeting. The COVID-19 crisis is particularly worrisome and stressful for those employed on…
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Advice on road safety from a neurodevelopmental angle
At first glance road safety and neurodevelopment form an unusual pairing, but Michelle Achterberg connects them in four short advisory videos for a Veilig Verkeer Nederland (VNN) campaign ‘Verkeersgedrag van…
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Meet our new PI: Catrin Finkenauer
Prof. Catrin Finkenauer will take over the role of CID PI in work package 1 from Prof. Wilma Vollebergh (who recently retired). Catrin is a professor in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences:…
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Michelle Achterberg cum laude PhD degree
On 12 March 2020 Michelle Achterberg successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled ‘Like me, or else… Nature, nurture and neural mechanisms of social emotion regulation in childhood’ at Leiden University….
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Three successful PhD defences
In the past three months CID welcomed three new Doctors in our midst. Congratulations are in order for: Mara van der Meulen (LU, WP2), The social brain in middle childhood – a…
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CID annual report 2018/2019 available online
Read about our NWO gravitation funded Consortium on Individual Development (CID) in our online annual report 2018/2019. CID unites the best in Dutch developmental research: >70 researchers in the social…
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Hestia grant to appoint refugee to NTR project
CID researchers Prof. dr. Dorret Boomsma, dr. Eveline de Zeeuw and dr. Elsje van Bergen were awarded a Hestia NWO grant to appoint Hekmat Alrouh MD to a 2-year research…
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