Sonja van Well is a postdoctoral researcher at the Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE, section CREED) and Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC), University of Amsterdam. Her research concerns behavioral decision making and its underlying brain mechanisms during global risk.

      In March 2008 she obtained her PhD with a dissertation entitled "Individual differences in stress responses. Match effects in gender, ethnicity, and social support".  Thereafter, she conducted research on the acquisition, extinction and reconsolidation of fear and neuroimaging.

Publications

van Well, S., Visser, R., Scholte H. S., & Kindt, M. (2012). Neural substrates of individual differences in human fear learning: Evidence from concurrent fMRI, fear-potentiated startle, and US-expectancy data. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience , 12 , 499-512
van Well, S., Kolk, A. M., & Klugkist, I. G. (2008). The effects of sex, gender role identification, and the gender relevance of two types of stressors on physiological and subjective responses: Sex and gender match/mismatch effects. Behavior Modification , 32 , 427-449
van Well, S., & Kolk, A. M. (2008). Social support and cardiovascularresponses to laboratory stress: Moderating effects of gender role identification, sex, and type of support. Psychology & Health , 23 , 887-907
van Well, S., Kolk, A. M., & Oei, N. Y. L. (2007). Direct and indirect assessment of gender role identification. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research , 56 , 617-628
van Well, S., Kolk, A.M.M., & Arrindell, W.A. (2005). Cross-cultural validity of the masculine and feminine gender role stress scales. Journal of Personality Assessment , 84 , 271-278
van Well, S., & Kolk, A. M. (under review). Ethnic differences in cardiovascular responding: Match effects between ethnic group and the ethnic relevance of a stressor
Arrindell, W.A., van Well, S., Kolk, A.M.M., Barelds, D.P.H., & Oei, T.P.S. (in press). Higher levels of masculine gender role stress in masculine than feminine nations: A thirteen-nations study. Cross-Cultural Research .
Klugkist, I., van Wesel, F., van Well, S., & Kolk, A.M. (2008). Inequality constrained analysis of cavariance. In: Hoijtink, H., klugkist, I. and Boelen, P.A. (Eds). Bayesian evaluation of informative hypotheses in psychology . New York: Springer.
Kolk, A.M.M. & van Well, S. (2007). Cardiovascular responses across anticipation, stressor and recovery phases: The match of sex and gender with the relevance of the stressor. Journal of Psychosomatic Research , 62 , 197-205
Oei, N.Y.L., Everaerd, W.T.A.M., Elzinga, B.M., van Well, S., & Bermond, B. (2006). Psychosocial stress impairs working memory at high loads: An association with cortisol levels and memory retrieval. Stress: The International Journal on the Biology of Stress , 9 , 133-141
Assink, E.M.H., van Well, S., & Knuijt, P.P.N.A. (2003). Contrasting effects of age of acquisition in lexical decision and letter detection. American Journal of Psychology , 116 , 367-387
Assink, E.M.H., van Well, S., & Knuijt, P.P.N.A. (2003). Age-of-acquisition effects in native speakers and second-language learners. Memory & Cognition , 31 , 1218-1228

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