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Dr. K.J. (Kees Jan) Kan

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Methods and statistics
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 127
Postal address
  • Postbus 15776
    1001 NG Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2023

    • van Dorresteijn, C. M., Kan, K. J., & Smits, N. (2023). Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: On the limited use of regression discontinuity analysis in higher education. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 48(1), 16-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2021.2016606

    2022

    • Heijerman-Holtgrefe, A., Huyser, C., Verdellen, C., van de Griendt, J., Beljaars, L., Kan, K-J., Lindauer, R., Cath, D., Hoekstra, P., & Utens, L. (2022). Effectiveness of 'Tackle Your Tics', a brief, intensive group-based exposure therapy programme for children with tic disorders: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 12(6), [e058534]. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058534 [details]
    • Rodrigues Pereira, C., Ensink, J. B. M., Güldner, M. G., Kan, K. J., De Jonge, M. V., Lindauer, R. J. L., & Utens, E. M. W. J. (2022). The validation of the selective mutism questionnaire for use in the Dutch population. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01387-8
    • Schrijvers, A. M., Kan, K-J., Van der Veen, F., Visser, M., Bos, H. M. W., Mochtar, M., & van Rooij, F. B. (2022). Unmet support needs in donor sperm treatment: consequences for parents and their donor-children. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, 44(5), 935-942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.12.009 [details]

    2021

    • Heijerman-Holtgrefe, A. P., Verdellen, C. W. J., van de Griendt, J. M. T. M., Beljaars, L. P. L., Kan, K. J., Cath, D., Hoekstra, P. J., Huyser, C., & Utens, E. M. W. J. (2021). Tackle your Tics: pilot findings of a brief, intensive group-based exposure therapy program for children with tic disorders. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 30(3), 461-473. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-020-01532-5 [details]

    2020

    • Kan, K. J., de Jonge, H., van der Maas, H. L. J., Levine, S. Z., & Epskamp, S. (2020). How to Compare Psychometric Factor and Network Models. Journal of Intelligence, 8(4), [35]. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence8040035 [details]
    • Rodrigues Pereira, C., Ensink, J. B. M., Güldner, M. G., Kan, K. J., de Jonge, M. V., Lindauer, R. J. L., & Utens, E. M. W. J. (2020). Effectiveness of a behavioral treatment protocol for selective mutism in children: Design of a randomized controlled trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 19, 100644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100644 [details]
    • Sendur, K. A., van Drie, J. P., van Boxtel, C. A. M., & Kan, K. J. (2020). Historical reasoning in an undergraduate CLIL course: Students’ progression and the role of language proficiency. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1844136
    • de Jonge, H., Jak, S., & Kan, K-J. (2020). Dealing with artficially dichotomized variables in Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 228(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1027/2151-2604/a000395 [details]

    2019

    2018

    • Waaktaar, T., Kan, K. J., & Torgersen, S. (2018). The genetic and environmental architecture of substance use development from early adolescence into young adulthood: A longitudinal twin study of comorbidity of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use . Addiction, 113(4), 740-748. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.14076 [details]

    2017

    • Hägg, S., Zhan, Y., Karlsson, R., Gerritsen, L., Ploner, A., van der Lee, S. J., Broer, L., Deelen, J., Marioni, R. E., Wong, A., Lundquist, A., Hansell, N. K., Zhu, G., Sillanpää, E., Fedko, I. O., Amin, N. A., Beekman, M., de Craen, A. J. M., Degerman, S., ... ENGAGE Consortium (2017). Short telomere length is associated with impaired cognitive performance in European ancestry cohorts. Translational Psychiatry, 7, [e1100]. https://doi.org/10.1038/tp.2017.73 [details]
    • Mackey, S., Chaarani, B., Kan, K-J., Spechler, P. A., Orr, C., Banaschewski, T., Barker, G., Bokde, A. L. W., Bromberg, U., Büchel, C., Cattrell, A., Conrod, P. J., Desrivières, S., Flor, H., Frouin, V., Gallinat, J., Gowland, P., Heinz, A., Itterman, B., ... The IMAGEN Consortium (2017). Brain regions related to impulsivity mediate the effects of early adversity on antisocial behavior. Biological Psychiatry, 82(4), 275-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.12.027 [details]
    • van der Maas, H. L. J., Kan, K. J., Marsman, M., & Stevenson, C. E. (2017). Network Models for Cognitive Development and Intelligence. Journal of Intelligence, 5(2), [16]. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence5020016 [details]

    2016

    • Kan, K-J., van der Maas, H. L. J., & Kievit, R. A. (2016). Process Overlap Theory: Strengths, Limitations, and Challenges. Psychological Inquiry, 27(3), 220-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2016.1182000 [details]
    • Mackey, S., Kan, K-J., Chaarani, B., Alia-Klein, N., Batalla, A., Brooks, S., Cousijn, J., Dagher, D., de Ruiter, M., Desrivieres, S., Feldstein Ewing, S. W., Goldstein, R. Z., Goudriaan, A. E., Heitzeg, M. M., Hutchison, K., Li, C. S. R., London, E. D., Lorenzetti, V., Luijten, M., ... Conrod, P. (2016). Genetic imaging consortium for addiction medicine: From neuroimaging to genes. In H. Ekhtiari, & M. Paulus (Eds.), Neuroscience for addiction medicine: from prevention to rehabilitation : methods and interventions (pp. 203-223). (Progress in Brain Research; Vol. 224). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2015.07.026 [details]

    2014

    2013

    • Kan, K. J., Dolan, C. V., Nivard, M. G., Middeldorp, C. M., van Beijsterveldt, C. E. M., Willemsen, G., & Boomsma, D. I. (2013). Genetic and environmental stability in attention problems across the lifespan: evidence from the Netherlands Twin Register. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(1), 12-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2012.10.009 [details]
    • Kan, K. J., Wicherts, J. M., Dolan, C. V., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2013). On the Nature and Nurture of Intelligence and Specific Cognitive Abilities: The More Heritable, the More Culture Dependent. Psychological Science, 24(12), 2420-2428. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613493292 [details]

    2012

    • Kan, K. J., Boomsma, D. I., Dolan, C. V., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2012). Commentary: The presence of bifurcations as a ‘third component of individual differences’: implications for quantitative (behaviour) genetics. International Journal of Epidemiology, 41(2), 346-351. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyr222 [details]
    • Kievit, R. A., van Rooijen, H., Wicherts, J. M., Waldorp, L. J., Kan, K-J., Scholte, H. S., & Borsboom, D. (2012). Intelligence and the brain: a model-based approach. Cognitive Neuroscience, 3(2), 89-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2011.628383 [details]

    2010

    2007

    2019

    • van der Maas, H. L. J., Savi, O. A., Hofman, A., Kan, K-J., & Marsman, M. (2019). The Network Approach to General Intelligence. In D. J. McFarland (Ed.), General and Specific Mental Abilities (pp. 108-131). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [details]

    2016

    • van der Maas, H. L. J., & Kan, K. J. (2016). Comment on “Residual group-level factor associations: Possibly negative implications for the mutualism theory of general intelligence” by Gilles E. Gignac (2016). Intelligence, 57, 81-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.03.008 [details]

    2012

    • Kievit, R. A., Waldorp, L. J., Kan, K. J., & Wicherts, J. M. (2012). Causality: populations, individuals, and assumptions. European Journal of Personality, 26(4), 400-401. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.1865 [details]

    2022

    • de Jonge, H., Kan, K. J., & Jak, S. (2022). Synthesizing Randomized Controlled Trial Data with Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling: Using d-to-r transformed effect sizes. Paper presented at International Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) 2022, Bologna, Italy.
    • de Jonge, H., Kan, K. J., & Jak, S. (2022). Using Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling to Synthesize Data of Randomized Controlled Trials. Paper presented at the conference "Structural Equation Modeling: New Developments and Applications" , Tilburg, Netherlands.

    2021

    • de Jonge, H., Kan, K. J., & Jak, S. (2021). Using Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling to Synthesize Data of Randomized Controlled Trials. Paper presented at The 9th European Congress of Methodology (EAM), Valencia, Spain.
    • van Rooij, F. B., Schrijvers, A. M., Kan, K. J., Van der Veen, F., Visser, M., Bos, H. M. W., & Mochtar, M. (2021). Unmet Support and Parental Stress Predict Parents’ Mental Health and Their Children’s Functioning. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2021.

    2020

    • Schrijvers, A. M., Kan, K. J., De Reus, E., Schoonenberg, M., Van der Veen, F., Visser, M., Bos, H. M. W., van Rooij, F. B., & Mochtar, M. (2020). Donor conception: the consequences of unmet support and parental stress on the mental health of parents and their childrens functioning. Paper presented at 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavoural Development (ISSBD) [cancelled] .
    • de Jonge, H., Jak, S., & Kan, K. J. (2020). Dealing with Artificially Dichotomized variables in Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling. Paper presented at Psychoco 2020: International Workshop on Psychometric Computing, Dortmund, Germany.

    2019

    • Nikolic, M., Van der Storm, L., Colonnesi, C., Brummelman, E., Kan, K. J., & Bögels, S. M. (2019). Socio-cognitive Abilities, self-consciousness, and social anxiety: Developmental and psychobiological perspective. Paper presented at International Convention of Psychological Science (2019), Paris, France.
    • de Jonge, H., Jak, S., & Kan, K. J. (2019). Dealing with Artificially Dichotomized Variables in Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling. Paper presented at 84th annual International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Santiago, Chile.
    • de Jonge, H., Jak, S., & Kan, K. J. (2019). Dealing with Artificially Dichotomized Variables in Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling. Paper presented at Research Synthesis 2019 , Dubrovnik , Croatia.

    Talk / presentation

    • Solms, L. (speaker), van Vianen, A. (speaker), Koen, J. (speaker), Kan, K. (speaker), de Hoog , M. (speaker) & de Pagter, A. P. J. (speaker) (25-11-2022). Physician Exhaustion and Work Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Resources and Support Interventions, EAOHP Small Group Meeting: Healthy Healthcare.
    • Solms, L. (speaker), van Vianen, A. (speaker), Koen, J. (speaker), Kan, K. (speaker), de Hoog, M. (speaker) & de Pagter, A. (speaker) (11-11-2022). Physician Exhaustion and Work Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Resources and Support Interventions, Dutch HRM Network Conference .
    • Psychogyiopoulos, A. (speaker), ten Hove, D. (speaker) & Kan, K. (speaker) (7-2021). Why Bifactor Models Outperform Higher-Order Factor Models for General Intelligence: A Network Perspective, 86th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society.
    • Nikolic, M. (speaker), Brummelman, E. (speaker), Kan, K. (speaker) & Colonnesi, C. (speaker) (19-11-2019). Parental mentalization and warmth as predictors of children’s self-conscious emotions and prosocial behaviours, VNOP – CAS Research Days 2019, Utrecht.

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