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Pol A. C. van Lier is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research expertise lies primarily within the field of psychology, with specific focus areas in clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, speech and hearing, health, and general health professions.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, adolescent and pediatric healthcare, health disparities and outcomes, child and adolescent health, early childhood education and development, and stress responses including cortisol. These thematic interests reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding psychological and health-related processes during developmental stages.

Pol A. C. van Lier's publication record includes contributions to peer-reviewed journals across multiple venues:

  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • International Journal for Equity in Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • JCPP Advances
  • Kind & Adolescent Praktijk

Recent papers demonstrate the scientist's engagement with contemporary issues in adolescent mental health, social inequalities, and stress-related mechanisms. Notable examples include:

  • Polygenic Risk for Major Depression Interacts with Parental Criticism in Predicting Adolescent Depressive Symptom Development (2020), Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Trajectories of Socioeconomic Inequality in Early Child Development: A Cohort Analysis (2022), International Journal for Equity in Health
  • The Role of Stress and Mineralocorticoid Receptor Haplotypes in the Development of Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety During Adolescence (2020), Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The Potential Moderating Role of Living in a Conflict Area on the Link Between Classroom Psychosocial Stressors, Perceived Stress and Change in Anxiety Symptoms in Israeli School Children (2022), JCPP Advances
  • Kinderen van Migranten Staan Met 10-0 Achter (2022), Kind & Adolescent Praktijk

Collaboration is evident through frequent co-authorship with several researchers including Stefanie A. Nelemans, Marco P. Boks, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus, and J. Marieke Buil, each appearing multiple times as a coauthor on various projects.

Best Publications

  • Perspective taking and empathic concern in adolescence: Gender differences in developmental changes.

    Jolien Van der Graaff;Susan Branje;Minet De Wied;Skyler Hawk

  • Multidimensional assessment of emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale.

    Anna Neumann;Pol A. C. van Lier;Kim L. Gratz;Hans M. Koot

  • GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia

    Joëlle A. Pasman;Karin J. H. Verweij;Karin J. H. Verweij;Zachary Gerring;Sven Stringer

  • Peer Victimization, Poor Academic Achievement, and the Link Between Childhood Externalizing and Internalizing Problems

    Pol A. C. van Lier;Frank Vitaro;Edward D. Barker;Mara Brendgen

  • The Role of Teacher Behavior Management in the Development of Disruptive Behaviors: An Intervention Study with the Good Behavior Game.

    Geertje Leflot;Pol A. C. van Lier;Patrick Onghena;Hilde Colpin

  • Developmental cascades of peer relations and symptoms of externalizing and internalizing problems from kindergarten to fourth-grade elementary school.

    Pol A. C. van Lier;Hans M. Koot

  • Genome-wide DNA methylation levels and altered cortisol stress reactivity following childhood trauma in humans

    Lotte C. Houtepen;Lotte C. Houtepen;Christiaan H. Vinkers;Tania Carrillo-Roa;Marieke Hiemstra

  • Preventing disruptive behavior in elementary schoolchildren: impact of a universal classroom-based intervention.

    Pol A. C. van Lier;Bengt O. Muthén;Ria M. van der Sar;Alfons A. M. Crijnen

  • Daily Dynamics of Personal Identity and Self–Concept Clarity:

    Seth J. Schwartz;Theo A. Klimstra;Koen Luyckx;William W. Hale

  • The role of fathers' versus mothers' parenting in emotion-regulation development from mid-late adolescence: Disentangling between-family differences from within-family effects.

    Caspar J. Van Lissa;Renske Keizer;Pol A. C. Van Lier;Wim H. J. Meeus

  • Forbidden friends as forbidden fruit: parental supervision of friendships, contact with deviant peers, and adolescent delinquency.

    Loes Keijsers;Susan Branje;Skyler T. Hawk;Seth J. Schwartz

  • Language skills, peer rejection, and the development of externalizing behavior from kindergarten to fourth grade

    Barbara Menting;Pol A.C. van Lier;Hans M. Koot

  • Early risk indicators of internalizing problems in late childhood: a 9‐year longitudinal study

    Janka Ashford;Filip Smit;Filip Smit;Pol A.C. Van Lier;Pim Cuijpers

  • Which forms of child/adolescent externalizing behaviors account for late adolescent risky sexual behavior and substance use?

    Maartje Timmermans;Pol A. C. van Lier;Hans M. Koot

  • Early adolescent depressive symptoms: prediction from clique isolation, loneliness, and perceived social acceptance

    Miranda Witvliet;Mara Brendgen;Pol A. C. van Lier;Hans M. Koot

  • Chronic childhood peer rejection is associated with heightened neural responses to social exclusion during adolescence

    Geert-Jan Will;Geert-Jan Will;Pol A. C. van Lier;Eveline A. Crone;Eveline A. Crone;Eveline A. Crone;Berna Güroğlu;Berna Güroğlu

  • Short-term fluctuations in identity: introducing a micro-level approach to identity formation.

    Theo A. Klimstra;Koen Luyckx;William A. Hale Iii;Tom Frijns

  • Which better predicts conduct problems? The relationship of trajectories of conduct problems with ODD and ADHD symptoms from childhood into adolescence.

    Pol A.C. Van Lier;Pol A.C. Van Lier;Jan van Der Ende;Hans M. Koot;Frank C. Verhulst

  • Gender Differences in Developmental Links Among Antisocial Behavior, Friends' Antisocial Behavior, and Peer Rejection in Childhood: Results From Two Cultures

    Pol A. C. van Lier;Frank Vitaro;Brigitte Wanner;Patricia Vuijk

  • Testing links between childhood positive peer relations and externalizing outcomes through a randomized controlled intervention study.

    Miranda Witvliet;Pol A. C. van Lier;Pim Cuijpers;Hans M. Koot

Frequent Co-Authors

Wim Meeus
Wim Meeus Utrecht University
Hans M. Koot
Hans M. Koot Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Susan Branje
Susan Branje Utrecht University
Frank C. Verhulst
Frank C. Verhulst Erasmus University Rotterdam
Anja C. Huizink
Anja C. Huizink Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Marco P. Boks
Marco P. Boks University of Amsterdam
Karin J. H. Verweij
Karin J. H. Verweij University of Amsterdam
Frank Vitaro
Frank Vitaro University of Montreal
Loes Keijsers
Loes Keijsers Erasmus University Rotterdam
Skyler T. Hawk
Skyler T. Hawk Chinese University of Hong Kong

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