Myself

I am Tim Janssen, a PhD-student at the University of Amsterdam, at the Developmental Psychology department. I have been working at the UvA since May 2009. Since this summer, I have also been living in Amsterdam, having studied Psychology in Maastricht before then. My origins are in Eindhoven, where I still travel to many a weekend to cheer for PSV, its local club, and play football with my friends.
In Amsterdam, I associate with my fellow PhD-students under Reinout Wiers, being Janna Cousijn, Denise van Deursen, Ozlem Korucuoglu. I am assisted mainly by the diligent staff of the TOP, particularly the Collaborative Psychoinformatics Unit integrated there with Wouter Boendermaker and Thomas Pronk, who I owe much to for assisting in my longitudinal project.
I practice guitar, adore sports (doing them and watching them), fitness, good food (restaurants or home-made), good books and films, good games and the excellent companionship I've enjoyed from my colleagues at the UvA.

My research

My reseearch involves the etiology of alcohol abuse among Dutch youth. To examine influences that determine alcohol abuse related outcomes, I am planning a longitudinal study among Dutch youth aged 12-16, asking them to fill out questionnaires and execute performance tasks measuring constructs previously related to alcohol use. In the case of the former, think of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) as a measure of alcohol abuse related outcomes and the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS) as a measure of risk personality. In the case of the latter, performance tasks, think of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure implicit associations with alcohol and the Dot Probe Test to measure attention bias.

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