Simone Dobbelaar
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. S. Dobbelaar
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- s.dobbelaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2498-2809
Simone Dobbelaar works as postdoctoral researcher at the Developmental and Educational Psychology Unit of Leiden University's Institute of Psychology. Her research focuses on the role of social experiences in children's and adolescents' behavioural and neural development.
Simone Dobbelaar works as postdoctoral researcher at the Developmental and Educational Psychology Unit of Leiden University's Institute of Psychology. Her research focuses on the role of social experiences in children's and adolescents' behavioural and neural development.
Research
Simone Dobbelaar's research focuses on the the role of peers and social experiences in children’s and adolescents’ behavioral and neural development, with a specific focus on behaviors such as aggression regulation, prosocial behavior and reward processing. In addition, she aims to understand the role of the social environment on mental health outcomes. Simone studies development both on a behavioral and neural level, across different contexts and using different types of scientific methods (e.g., experimental tasks, fMRI, questionnaires, sociometrics).
Short CV
Simone Dobbelaar has a background in Psychobiology and Psychology, and obtained her Research Master Psychology at the University of Amsterdam with a specialization in Brain and Cognition and Clinical Psychology (cum laude). In 2023, she completed her PhD on the behavioral and neural development of social competence from childhood to adolescence at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Her PhD project was part of the Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID) and supervised by Prof. dr. Eveline Crone, Dr. Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Dr. Michelle Achterberg.
Simone currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS) project, where she studies the effects of peer relations on social and cognitive development in the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood.
Teaching
- Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Perspective on Career Planning
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Master's thesis
Postdoc
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Ontwikkelings- & Onderwijspsychologie
- Dobbelaar S., Kellij S., Veenstra R. & Güroğlu B. (2025), Neural correlates of vicarious reward processing and peer victimization experiences in late childhood, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 71: 101499 (101499).
- Mulder J.D., Dobbelaar S. & Achterberg M. (2024), Behavioral and neural responses to social rejection: Individual differences in developmental trajectories across childhood and adolescence, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 66: 101365.
- Kellij S., Dobbelaar S., Lodder G.M.A., Veenstra R. & Güroglu B. (2024), Here comes revenge : peer victimization relates to neural and behavioral responses to social exclusion, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 52: 1913–1930.
- Drunen L. van, Dobbelaar S., Crone E.A.M. & Wierenga L.M. (2024), Genetic and environmental influences on structural brain development from childhood to adolescence : a longitudinal twin study on cortical thickness, surface area, and subcortical volume, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 68: 101407 (101407).
- Dobbelaar S. (26 October 2023), Helping me, helping you: behavioral and neural development of social competence from childhood to adolescence (Dissertatie. Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University). Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Crone E.A., Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van & Achterberg M.
- Meulen M. van der, Dobbelaar S., Drunen L. van, Heunis J.S.,IJzendoorn M.H. van, Blankenstein N.E. & Crone E.A.M. (2023), Transitioning from childhood into adolescence: a comprehensive longitudinal behavioral and neuroimaging study on prosocial behavior and social inclusion, NeuroImage 284: 120445.
- Dobbelaar S., Achterberg M., Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van, IJzendoorn M.H. van & Crone E.A.M. (2023), Developmental patterns and individual differences in responding to social feedback: a longitudinal fMRI study from childhood to adolescence, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 62: 101264 (101264).
- Dobbelaar S., Achterberg M., van Drunen L., van Duijvenvoorde A.C.K., van IJzendoorn M.H. & Crone E.A. (2022), Development of social feedback processing and responses in childhood: an fMRI test-replication design in two age cohorts, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience : 1-13.
- Zondervan-Zwijnenburg M., Dobbelaar S., Meulen M. van der & Achterberg M. (2022), Longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and behavioral problems across childhood: a robust random-intercept cross-lagged panel model, Developmental Psychology 58(6): 1139-1155.
- Dobbelaar S., Duijvenvoorde A.C.K. van, Achterberg M., Meulen M. van der & Crone E.A. (2021), A bi-dimensional taxonomy of social responsivity in middle childhood: prosociality and reactive aggression predict externalizing behavior over time, Frontiers in Psychology 11: a586633.
- Achterberg M., Dobbelaar S., Boer O.D. & Crone E.A. (2021), Perceived stress as mediator for longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on wellbeing of parents and children, Scientific Reports 11: 2971 .
- Drunen L. van, Dobbelaar S., Cruijsen L.W.P. van der, Meulen M. van der, Achterberg M., Wierenga L.M. & Crone E.A.M (2021), The nature of the self: neural analyses and heritability estimates of self-evaluations in middle childhood, Human Brain Mapping 42(17): 5609-5625.
- Cox W.R., Dobbelaar S., Meeter M., Kindt M. & Ast V.A. van (2021), Episodic memory enhancement versus impairment is determined by contextual similarity across events, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(48): .
- Crone E.A.,M. Achterberg M., Dobbelaar S., Euser S., Bulk B.G. van den, Meulen M. van der, Drunen L. van, Wierenga L.M., Bakermans-Kranenburg M.J. & IJzendoorn M.H. van (2020), Neural and behavioral signatures of social evaluation and adaptation in childhood and adolescence: the Leiden consortium on individual development (L-CID), Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 45: 100805.