Tonko Zijlstra
PhD candidate
- Name
- T.W. Zijlstra MSc
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- t.w.zijlstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

Tonko Zijlstra is a PhD-candidate at the section of Cognitive Psychology, under supervision of Prof. dr. Mariska Kret. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Biology at Leiden University.
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Short C.V.
Tonko Zijlstra is a PhD-candidate at the section of Cognitive Psychology, under supervision of Prof. dr. Mariska Kret. He obtained his BSc and MSc in Biology at Leiden University.
Research
Tonko Zijlstra is interested in animal behaviour and cognition, evolutionary psychology and comparative psychology. His PhD project focuses on studying the production and perception of emotional expressions in humans and non-human primates.
Teaching
Supervisor BSc and MSc research projects
PhD candidate
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Cognitieve Psychologie
Guest
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Instituut Psychologie
- Cognitieve Psychologie
- Riddell C., Kret M., Zijlstra T. & Nikolic M. (2023), Fearful apes, happy apes: is fearfulness associated with uniquely human cooperation?, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46(e76): .
- Zijlstra T.W., Berlo E. van & Kret M.E. (2022), Attention Ttwards pupil size in Humanas and Bonobos (Pan paiscus), Affective Science 3: 761-771.
- Zijlstra T.W., Vries H. de & Sterck E.H.M. (2021), Emotional bookkeeping and differentiated affiliative relationships: exploring the role of dynamics and speed in updating relationship quality in the EMO-model, PLoS ONE : .