Geert-Jan Will
Affiliate
- Name
- Dr. G.J. Will
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- g.j.will@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1887-9829
Geert-Jan Will is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie “LEaDing” Fellow in the Clinical Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.
Summary
Geert-Jan Will received a B.Sc. in Psychology and an M.Sc. in Neuroscience from Utrecht University. He did a PhD supervised by Eveline Crone and Berna Güroğlu at Leiden University where he studied how social rejection affects social decision-making in adolescence. During his postdoc in the group of Ray Dolan at University College London, he explored the neural mechanisms that contribute to fluctuations in self-esteem when people learn what others think of them. He received a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (2017) to return to Leiden to examine how the neural mechanisms that underpin self-esteem are affected in adolescent depression in collaboration with Bernet Elzinga.
Research
My research seeks to understand how social experiences shape the way young people relate to the self and others. I use behavioral experiments, computational modeling, neuroimaging and pharmacological interventions to explore social determinants of self-esteem and decision-making. I combine these methods with measures of real-life social experiences to better understand how social adversity may lead to mental health problems such as depression.
Grants
- LEaDing Fellows Fellowship (2017) Horizon2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND Programme
- Travel Grant for Society for Neuroscience Meeting in San Diego, USA (2013) Leids universiteits fonds (€ 955)
- Funding for 6-month research fellowship at Harvard University (2010) Hendrik Muller vaderlandsch fonds (€ 1500) and K.F. Hein fonds (€ 1500)
Relevant links
Affiliate
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Klinische Psychologie
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M., Schie C.C. van, Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Sticky criticism? : Affective and neural responses to parental criticism and praise in adolescents with depression, Psychological Medicine : 1-10.
- Wever M.C.M., Van Houtum L.A.E.M., Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Spruit I.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2023), Looking into troubled waters: Childhood emotional maltreatment modulates neural responses to prolonged gazing into one’s own, but not others’ eyes, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 23: 1598–1609.
- Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Wentholt W.G.M., Tollenaar M.S., Will G.J. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Neural and affective responses to prolonged eye contact with one's own adolescent child and unfamiliar others, NeuroImage 260: 1-12 (119463).
- van Houtum L.A.E.M., Will G.J., Wever M.C.M., Janssen L.H.C., Schie C.C. van, Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2022), Adolescents’ affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism , Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 54: 1-12 (101099).
- Wever M.C.M., Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Janssen L.H.C., Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Neural signatures of parental empathic responses to imagined suffering of their adolescent child, NeuroImage 232(117886): 1-13.
- Houtum L.A.E.M. van, Wever M.C.M, Janssen L.H.C., Schie C.C. van, Will G.J., Tollenaar M.S. & Elzinga B.M. (2021), Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 16(4): 406-417.
- Will G.-J., Moutoussis M., Womack P.M., Bullmore E.T., Goodyer I.M., Fonagy P., Jones P.B., NSPN Consorium, Rutledge R.B. & Dolan R.J. (2020), Neurocomputational mechanisms underpinning aberrant social learning in young adults with low self-esteem, Translational Psychiatry 10: e96.
- Spaans J.P., Will G.J., Van Hoorn J. & Güroğlu B. (2019), Turning a Blind Eye? Punishment of Friends and Unfamiliar Peers After Observed Exclusion in Adolescence, Journal of Research on Adolescence 29(2): 508-522.
- Will G.J., Crone E.A.M., Van Lier P.A.C. & Güroğlu B. (2018), Longitudinal links between childhood peer acceptance and the neural correlates of sharing, Developmental Science 21(1): e12489.
- Schreuders E., Klapwijk E.T., Will G.J. & Güroğlu B. (2018), Friend versus foe: Neural correlates of prosocial decisions for liked and disliked peers, Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 18(1): 127-142.
- Will G.J., Crone E.A.M., Van Lier P.A.C. & Güroğlu B. (2016), Neural correlates of retaliatory and prosocial reactions to social exclusion: Associations with chronic peer rejection, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2016(19): 288-297.
- Will G.J. & Güroğlu B. (2016), A neurocognitive perspective on the development of social decision-making. In: Reuter M. & Montag C. (Eds.), Neuroeconomics. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. 293-309.
- Will G.J., Van Lier P.A., Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2016), Chronic childhood peer rejection is associated with heightened neural responses to social exclusion during adolescence, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 44(1): 43-55.
- Will G.J. & Güroğlu B. (2016), A neurocognitive perspective on the development of social decision-making. In: Reuter M. & Montag C. (Eds.), Neuroeconomics. Neuroeconomics, Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. 293-309.
- Will G.J. (4 June 2015), Acceptance, rejection, and the social brain in adolescence : toward a neuroscience of peer relations (Dissertatie, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Crone E.A., Güroğlu B.
- Will G.J., Crone E.A.M. & Güroglu B. (2015), Acting on social exclusion: neural correlates of punishment and forgiveness of excluders, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 10(2): 209-218.
- Will G.J. & Klapwijk E.T. (2014), Neural systems involved in moral judgment and moral action, Journal of Neuroscience 34(32): 10459-10461.
- Güroglu B., Will G.J. & Crone E.A.M. (2014), Neural correlates of advantageous and disadvantageous inequity in sharing decisions, PLoS ONE 9(9): e107996.
- Crone E.A., Will G.J., Overgaauw S. & Güroğlu B. (2014), Social decision-making in childhood and adolescence. In: Lange P.A.M. van, Rockenbach B. & Yamagishi T. (Eds.), Reward and Punishment in Social Dilemmas. New York: Oxford University Press. 161-181.
- Montoya E.R., Terburg D., Bos P.A., Will G.J., Buskens V., Raub W. & Van Honk J. (2013), Testosterone administration modulates moral judgments depending on second-to-fourth digit ratio, Psychoneuroendocrinology 38(8): 1362-1369.
- Will G.J., Van den Bos W., Crone E.A. & Güroğlu B. (2013), Acting on observed social exclusion: Developmental perspectives on punishment of excluders and compensation of victims, Developmental Psychology 49(12): 2236-2244.
- Güroğlu B., Will G.J. & Klapwijk E.T. (2013), Some bullies are more equal than others: Peer relationships modulate altruistic punishment of bullies after observing ostracism, International Journal of Developmental Science 7: 13-23.