Organisation

Yield

Research Priority Area FMG

Yield conducts multidisciplinary research on the bioecology of human development, from infancy to young adulthood, with perspectives from Medicine, Psychology, Pedagogics, Education, Communication, Economics, and Psychometrics.

Yield

Within the gene-environment interactions that shape human development, we distinguish developmental and contextual factors:

  • developmental factors: biological (health), cognitive, and social-emotional factors
  • contextual factors: family, peers, health care, child and youth care, school, media, cultural and socioeconomic factors

 

Research questions concern:

  • the underlying processes of biological, cognitive, and social development
  • the reciprocal relationships between developmental and contextual factors
  • risk factors, protective factors, and interventions in health, cognitive, and social development

 

The RPA covers topics in:

The topics of research in these subareas of Yield are considered from various disciplinary perspectives. Developmental and contextual factors should not be studied in isolation. All factors interact, have reciprocal effects on each other, and simultaneously affect child and adolescent development.

We study typical and atypical development in typical and atypical situations. As the ultimate (albeit indirect) goal is to promote societal participation, we intend to conduct societally relevant research, with results that can be used to improve clinical and educational practice.

The director of Yield is Frans J. Oort (Research Institute of Child Development and Education)

Applicants

  • Susan M. Bögels (Child Development)
  • Denny Borsboom (Quantitative Methods)
  • Hilde M. Geurts (Brain & Cognition)
  • Martha A. Grootenhuis (Paediatric Psychology)
  • Hilde M. Huizenga (Developmental Psychology)
  • Peter F. de Jong (Education)
  • Han L.J. van der Maas (Quantitative Methods)
  • Henriëtte Maassen van den Brink (Human Capital)
  • Frans J. Oort (Methods and Statistics)
  • Geertjan Overbeek (Child Development)
  • Maartje E.J. Raijmakers (Developmental Psychology)
  • Geert Jan J.M. Stams (Child Development)
  • Patti M. Valkenburg (Youth and Media)
  • Monique L.L. Volman (Education)
  • Reinout W.H.J. Wiers (Developmental Psychology)

More information on Yield

Published by  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

25 January 2014