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P. Michiel Westenberg

P. Michiel Westenberg

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
9247
World Ranking
5939
National Ranking
283

Overview

P. Michiel Westenberg is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Westenberg has contributed extensively to topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, anxiety and depression, functional brain connectivity studies, stress responses, early childhood education, neuroscience and music perception, and mental health research.

Their recent published papers cover a range of subjects within these domains. Notable works include:

  • Can Schools Reduce Adolescent Psychological Stress? A Multilevel Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of School-Based Intervention Programs (2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
  • A systematic review of visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals: Influence of severity, type of social situation, and development (2020, Journal of Anxiety Disorders)
  • Trajectories of adolescent perceived stress and symptoms of depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Amygdala hyperreactivity to faces conditioned with a social-evaluative meaning - a multiplex, multigenerational fMRI study on social anxiety endophenotypes (2020, NeuroImage Clinical)
  • The effects of school-based interventions on physiological stress in adolescents: A meta-analysis (2021, Stress and Health)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Westenberg include Anne C. Miers, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Nic J.A. van der Wee, Amanda W. G. van Loon, and Hanneke E. Creemers.

Their research contributions have been published in multiple recognized venues, notably:

  • NeuroImage Clinical
  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Within the broad umbrella of psychology and neuroscience, Westenberg's work emphasizes clinical and experimental cognitive aspects, focusing on adolescent mental health and the neurobiological underpinnings of anxiety and stress.

Best Publications

  • Social Support from Parents, Friends, Classmates, and Teachers in Children and Adolescents Aged 9 to 18 Years: Who Is Perceived as Most Supportive?

    Caroline L. Bokhorst;Sindy R. Sumter;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • Adolescent risky decision-making: neurocognitive development of reward and control regions.

    Linda Van Leijenhorst;Bregtje Gunther Moor;Bregtje Gunther Moor;Zdeňa A. Op de Macks;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts

  • What Motivates the Adolescent? Brain Regions Mediating Reward Sensitivity across Adolescence

    Linda Van Leijenhorst;Kiki Zanolie;Kiki Zanolie;Catharina S. Van Meel;Catharina S. Van Meel;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • The developmental pattern of resistance to peer influence in adolescence: will the teenager ever be able to resist?

    Sindy R. Sumter;Caroline L. Bokhorst;Laurence Steinberg;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • A developmental analysis of self-reported fears in late childhood through mid-adolescence: social-evaluative fears on the rise?

    P. Michiel Westenberg;Martine J. Drewes;Arnold W. Goedhart;Berend M. Siebelink

  • Changing Brains, Changing Perspectives The Neurocognitive Development of Reciprocity

    Wouter van den Bos;Eric van Dijk;Michiel Westenberg;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts

  • What motivates repayment? Neural correlates of reciprocity in the Trust Game

    Wouter van den Bos;Eric van Dijk;Michiel Westenberg;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts

  • Interpretation bias and social anxiety in adolescents

    Anne C. Miers;Anke. W. Blöte;Susan M. Bögels;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • The relation between public speaking anxiety and social anxiety: A review

    Anke W. Blöte;Marcia J.W. Kint;Anne C. Miers;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • A Developmental Study of Risky Decisions on the Cake Gambling Task: Age and Gender Analyses of Probability Estimation and Reward Evaluation

    Linda Van Leijenhorst;P Michiel Westenberg;Eveline A Crone

  • Trajectories of Social Anxiety during Adolescence and Relations with Cognition, Social Competence, and Temperament

    A. C. Miers;A. W. Blöte;M. de Rooij;C. L. Bokhorst

  • Intelligence and maturity: meta-analytic evidence for the incremental and discriminant validity of Loevinger's measure of ego development.

    Lawrence D. Cohn;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • Age and puberty differences in stress responses during a public speaking task: Do adolescents grow more sensitive to social evaluation?

    S.R. Sumter;C.L. Bokhorst;A.C. Miers;J. Van Pelt

  • Development of Trust and Reciprocity in Adolescence.

    Wouter van den Bos;Michiel Westenberg;Eric van Dijk;Eveline A. Crone

  • Neural mechanisms supporting flexible performance adjustment during development

    Eveline A. Crone;Kiki Zanolie;Kiki Zanolie;Linda Van Leijenhorst;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • A prepared speech in front of a pre-recorded audience: subjective, physiological, and neuroendocrine responses to the Leiden Public Speaking Task.

    P. Michiel Westenberg;Caroline L. Bokhorst;Anne C. Miers;Sindy R. Sumter

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Anxious Adolescents: Developmental Influences on Treatment Design and Delivery

    Floor M. Sauter;David Heyne;P. Michiel Westenberg

  • Social Evaluation Fear in Childhood and Adolescence: Normative Developmental Course and Continuity of Individual Differences.

    P. Michiel. Westenberg;Eleonora Gullone;Caroline L. Bokhorst;David A. Heyne

  • School refusal and anxiety in adolescence: non-randomized trial of a developmentally sensitive cognitive behavioral therapy

    David Heyne;Floor M. Sauter;Brigit M. Van Widenfelt;Robert Vermeiren

  • Adolescents' Increasing Stress Response to Social Evaluation: Pubertal Effects on Cortisol and Alpha-Amylase during Public Speaking.

    Esther van den Bos;Mark de Rooij;Anne C. Miers;Caroline L. Bokhorst

  • Ego Development during the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: A 9-Year Longitudinal Study ☆ ☆☆

    P.Michiel Westenberg;Per F. Gjerde

Frequent Co-Authors

David Heyne
David Heyne Leiden University
Nic J.A. van der Wee
Nic J.A. van der Wee Leiden University Medical Center
Jessica J. Asscher
Jessica J. Asscher University of Amsterdam
Robert Vermeiren
Robert Vermeiren Leiden University Medical Center
Eveline A. Crone
Eveline A. Crone Erasmus University Rotterdam
Wim Meeus
Wim Meeus Utrecht University
Carolien Rieffe
Carolien Rieffe University of Twente
David M. Clark
David M. Clark University of Oxford
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
P. Eline Slagboom
P. Eline Slagboom Leiden University Medical Center

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