Cosima Nimphy
Assistant professor
- Name
- C.A. Nimphy
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 6457
- c.a.nimphy@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5962-4641
The research of Cosima Nimphy dives into environmental factors that play a role in the development of anxiety disorders in children. She specifically focuses on intergenerational transmission of fear and anxiety via social learning pathways.
The research of Cosima Nimphy dives into environmental factors that play a role in the development of anxiety disorders in children. She specifically focuses on intergenerational transmission of fear and anxiety via social learning pathways.
Short CV
Cosima Nimphy obtained her bachelor’s degree (cum laude) in psychology from Leiden University. She went on to study Clinical and Health Psychology and completed the research master (cum laude) in 2019. Her PhD research “Led by Example: Parent to Child Fear Transmission via Social Fear Learning Pathways” focuses on intergenerational transmission of anxiety. Currently, she is an assistant professor in Clinical Psychology at Leiden University.
Grants
Education
Workgroup teacher for:
- Bachelor Course/Specialization: Clinical Psychology
- Master Course : Experimental Clinical Psychology
Co-coordinator and lecturer for:
- Bachelor Elective: Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice
Assistant professor
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Nimphy C.A., Kullberg M.L.J., Pittner K., Buisman R., Berg l. van den, Alink L., Bakermans-Kranenburg M., Elzinga B.M. & Tollenaar M.S. (2024), The role of psychopathology and emotion regulation in the intergenerational transmission of childhood abuse: a family study, Child Maltreatment : .
- Nimphy C.A. Elzinga B.M. Van der Does A.J.W. Van Bockstaele B. Pérez-Edgar K. Westenberg M Aktar E. (2024), “Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children’s Fear of Strangers, Developmental Psychobiology 66: 1-10 (e22526).
- Nimphy C.A., Elzinga B.M., Does A.J.W. van der & Aktar E. (2023), "Covid-19 is dangerous": the role of parental verbal threat information on children's fear of Covid-19, Journal of Adolescence 95(1): 147-156.
- Nimphy C.A., Venetikidi M., Elzinga B.M., Does A.J.W. van der & Aktar E. (2023), Parent to offspring fear transmission via modeling in early life: a systematic review and meta analysis, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review : 751-772.
- Tollenaar M.S.M. Pittner K.K. Buisman R.S.M.R. Knipping K.K. Garssen J.J. Nimphy C.A.C. van den Berg L.J.M.L. Bolijn J.E.A. Alink L. R.A.L. Elzinga B.M.B. Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J.M. IJzendoorn M.H.M. (2022), Salivary immune markers are not associated with self-reported childhood maltreatment or psychopathology in adults, Psychoneuroendocrinology 144: 1-7 (105867).
- Aktar E., Nimphy C.A., van Bockstaele B. & Pérez-Edgar K. (2022), The social learning of threat and safety in the family: parent-to-child transmission of social fears via verbal information, Developmental Psychobiology 64(e22257): 1-20.
- Aktar E., Nimphy C.A., Kret M.E., Perez-Edgar K., Raijmakers M.E.J. & Bogels S.M. (2022), Attention biases to threat in infants and parents: links to parental and infant anxiety dispositions, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 50(3): 387-402 .
- Nimphy C.A., Elzinga B.M., Van der Does A.J.W. & Aktar E. (2022), “Covid‐19 is dangerous”: The role of parental verbal threat information on children's fear of Covid‐19, Journal of Adolescence 95(1): 147-156.
- Tollenaar M.S., Pittner K., Buisman R.S.M., Knipping K., Garssen J., Nimphy C.A., Berg L.J.M. van den, Bolijn J.E., Alink L.R.A., Elzinga B.M., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. & IJzendoorn M.H. (2022), Salivary immune markers are not associated with self-reported childhood maltreatment or psychopathology in adults, Psychoneuroendocrinology 144: 1-7 (105867).
- Aktar E., Nimphy C.A., Kret M.E., Perez-Edgar K., Bogels S.M. & Raijmakers M.E.J. (2021), Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents, Developmental Psychobiology 63(7): e22190.