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Overview

Wouter van den Bos is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and social sciences, with a focus on developmental and cognitive processes.

The primary fields of study for van den Bos include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Key subfields of study are:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Van den Bos has contributed to several notable publications. Recent papers encompass:

  • "The relationship between pubertal hormones and brain plasticity: Implications for cognitive training in adolescence" (2020), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences" (2021), published in npj Science of Learning
  • "Close proximity risk assessment for SARS-CoV-2 infection" (2021), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Opportunities for increased reproducibility and replicability of developmental neuroimaging" (2020), published in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • "Adolescent risk-taking in the context of exploration and social influence" (2021), published in Developmental Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with van den Bos include:

  • Simon Ciranka
  • Lucas Molleman
  • Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde
  • Damien S. Fleur
  • Bert Bredeweg

Their work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Adolescence
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Developmental Review

Best Publications

  • Striatum–Medial Prefrontal Cortex Connectivity Predicts Developmental Changes in Reinforcement Learning

    Wouter van den Bos;Wouter van den Bos;Michael X. Cohen;Thorsten Kahnt;Eveline A. Crone

  • 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

  • Adolescent impatience decreases with increased frontostriatal connectivity

    Wouter van den Bos;Christian A. Rodriguez;Julie B. Schweitzer;Samuel M. McClure

  • 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

  • Fairness considerations: Increasing understanding of intentionality during adolescence

    Berna Güroğlu;Wouter van den Bos;Eveline A. Crone

  • Connectivity Strength of Dissociable Striatal Tracts Predict Individual Differences in Temporal Discounting

    Wouter van den Bos;Christian A. Rodriguez;Julie B. Schweitzer;Samuel M. McClure

  • Unfair? It depends: Neural correlates of fairness in social context

    Berna Güroğlu;Wouter van den Bos;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts;Eveline A. Crone

  • Sharing and giving across adolescence: an experimental study examining the development of prosocial behavior

    Berna Güroğlu;Wouter van den Bos;Eveline A. Crone

  • Dissociable brain networks involved in development of fairness considerations: understanding intentionality behind unfairness.

    Berna Güroğlu;Wouter van den Bos;Eric van Dijk;Serge A.R.B. Rombouts

  • Adolescents display distinctive tolerance to ambiguity and to uncertainty during risky decision making.

    Wouter van den Bos;Ralph Hertwig

  • Development of Trust and Reciprocity in Adolescence.

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

  • Towards a general model of temporal discounting.

    Wouter van den Bos;Samuel M. McClure

  • Social Influence in Adolescent Decision-Making: A Formal Framework.

    Simon Kai Ciranka;Wouter van den Bos

  • The relationship between pubertal hormones and brain plasticity: Implications for cognitive training in adolescence.

    Corinna Laube;Wouter van den Bos;Yana Fandakova

  • Regions of the MPFC differentially tuned to social and nonsocial affective evaluation.

    Lasana T. Harris;Lasana T. Harris;Samuel M. McClure;Samuel M. McClure;Wouter Van Den Bos;Wouter Van Den Bos;Jonathan D. Cohen;Jonathan D. Cohen

  • Metacognition: ideas and insights from neuro- and educational sciences

    Damien S. Fleur;Bert Bredeweg;Bert Bredeweg;Wouter van den Bos;Wouter van den Bos

  • Early adversity and learning: implications for typical and atypical behavioral development

    Jamie L. Hanson;Wouter van den Bos;Barbara J. Roeber;Karen D. Rudolph

  • Better than expected or as bad as you thought? The neurocognitive development of probabilistic feedback processing

    Wouter van den Bos;Berna Güroğlu;Bianca G van den Bulk;Serge A R B Rombouts;Serge A R B Rombouts

  • Dealing with uncertainty: testing risk- and ambiguity-attitude across adolescence

    Neeltje E. Blankenstein;Eveline A. Crone;Wouter van den Bos;Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde

  • Toward an integrative account of social cognition: marrying theory of mind and interactionism to study the interplay of Type 1 and Type 2 processes

    Vivian Bohl;Vivian Bohl;Wouter van den Bos

  • Training cognition in ADHD: current findings, borrowed concepts, and future directions.

    Kyle J. Rutledge;Wouter van den Bos;Samuel M. McClure;Julie B. Schweitzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eveline A. Crone
Eveline A. Crone Erasmus University Rotterdam
Samuel M. McClure
Samuel M. McClure Arizona State University
Serge A.R.B. Rombouts
Serge A.R.B. Rombouts Leiden University
Jonathan D. Cohen
Jonathan D. Cohen Princeton University
Eric van Dijk
Eric van Dijk Leiden University
Stephen P. Hinshaw
Stephen P. Hinshaw University of California, Berkeley
Karen D. Rudolph
Karen D. Rudolph University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ronald E. Dahl
Ronald E. Dahl University of California, Berkeley
Susan T. Fiske
Susan T. Fiske Princeton University

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