About
Vera Heininga is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Groningen. She draws together sociology, psychology, and psychiatry to study the biopsychosocial mechanisms that underlie emotional development.
Currently, she is involved in the Every Child Is Different project (www.iederkindisanders.nl), a large Dutch crowdsourcing study that aims to examine positive mental health and mental health problems in children and adolescents.
She is a passionate Open Science advocate, and co-founder and chair of the Open Science Community Groningen (www.openscience-groningen.nl).
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Interests
- Adolescent mental health and well-being
- Emotional development
- Emotion dynamics
- 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
