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@kidlab.bsky.social

KiDLAB (PI: Eddie Brummelman) studies the developing self. We study the nature, origins, and consequences of children’s self-views. https://kidlab.nl/

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Hulp maakt kinderen minder gemotiveerd Je zou denken dat een kind wanneer iets niet lukt, graag hulp wil. Onderzoek toont echter aan dat dit vaak averechts werkt: het demotiveert, neemt uitdaging weg en kinderen voelen zich incompetent.

"Mama, ik kan het zelf!"
Interview 👇met NEMO-kennislink over ons onderzoek (met Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social )waarin we zagen dat hulp er toe kan leiden dat kinderen zich minder competent voelen en minder gemotiveerd raken.
www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

17.10.2025 07:45 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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BOLD explores… Children's self-esteem – BOLD What is self-esteem? Why do some children have higher self-esteem and others have low self-esteem? How does self-esteem impact children?

Why is self-esteem important for children? And how can parents and teachers cultivate it? An interview with Annie Brookman-Byrne for BOLD (@boldinsights.bsky.social & @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social) about our KiDLAB research: boldscience.org/bold-explore...

08.10.2025 13:44 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The shortcut to close bonds? Asking meaningful questions The right questions can help us connect with strangers – and create closer bonds between parents and children.

BBC article on our work showing that having deep conversations with their parents can make children feel more loved. "Rather than just talking about leisure and work, the parents and kids spoke about topics that really matter."

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

15.09.2025 10:22 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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😍KiDLAB at #ECDP2025 (eadp.bsky.social)! Hannah presented her work on entitlement. Eddie presented an overview of the lab’s ongoing work on how inequality becomes ingrained in children’s self-views. We met with many friends (on bsky: @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social & @jelliesierksma.bsky.social).

15.09.2025 08:22 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Vacature — Student-Assistent (Lab Manager) KiDLAB: Onderzoek naar Zelfbeeld en Ongelijkheid Wil je assisteren in onderzoek naar zelfbeeld en kansenongelijkheid bij kinderen? Dan zoeken wij jou als student-assistent (lab manager) bij KiDLAB (https://kidlab.nl/).

KiDLAB (kidlab.nl) is looking for a new lab manager! Are you a bachelor’s or master’s student in the NL and would you like to work with us? Please apply! You’ll help coordinate and carry out in-person research with children, parents, and teachers in the NL.

werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/st...

10.09.2025 08:58 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚀Have you booked your travel?
💼Are you already packing your bags?

Only two more months until ECDP! Our keynotes🔽

August 26th
⏰Livio Provenzi & Michael Pluess

August 27th
⏰Rasa Barkauskienė & Geertjan Overbeek

August 28th
⏰Eddie Brummelman & Lukas Blinka

Program: www.ecdp2025vilnius.eu

#ECDP

27.06.2025 15:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How parents can make their children feel more loved Simply asking and answering personal questions can help

“Self-disclosure characterises loving, warm relationships, and those are, of course, critical for child development.”
Melissa Hogenboom hears from Eddie Brummelman how asking and answering personal questions can help children feel more loved. boldscience.org/how-parents-...

15.07.2025 10:43 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Lil’Scientist - KiDLAB

Illustrator Edwin Stoop captured children's dreams in real time. Things got existential:
🕳️ “I want to study a black hole… but what if I never come back?”
🍦 “Is a non-melting ice cream even possible?”
🌌 “Why do we live, and are we really alone?”

lilscientist.nl

07.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With Daudi van Veen (@daudivanveen.nl), Lena-Emilia Schenker, and Lynn Weisscher, children drew what they think a scientist looks like — sometimes resembling Harry Potter 🧙🏽‍♀️ — and explored how to break stereotypes. Their message was clear: They want the university to be a place for everyone.

07.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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👽 “Everyone is welcome — yes, even aliens”
🦺 “No more dull, dusty white lab coats!”
🍕 “Beanbags everywhere, and pizza in the cafeteria”
What does the university of the future look like? On behalf of KiDLAB and Lil’Scientist, we asked children this question at the lustrum of The Young Academy.

07.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

New publication!

Children get help all the time – but how it affects them is unclear. Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I show that help can lead to negative self-views and reduced motivation in children (even the type of help that we often assume leads to mastery)
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doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

17.06.2025 13:40 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Better than you or who I used to be: Social comparison, but not temporal comparison, maintains narcissism in adolescence | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core Better than you or who I used to be: Social comparison, but not temporal comparison, maintains narcissism in adolescence

Why does narcissism stick? You’d think life’s challenges would deflate inflated self-views—but narcissists often stay narcissistic. Focusing on the key age of adolescence, our paper suggests one reason: they frequently think about how they’re better than others.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

28.05.2025 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inequality in education Practical takeaways and personal insights from authors of articles in a collection on understanding and addressing inequality in education in the journal npj Science of Learning.

🥳Our BOLD interview series is complete! In the final piece, we share tips to address inequality in the classroom: recognize structural barriers, give empowering feedback, and foster a growth mindset. boldscience.org/tag/inequali... (with @jelliesierksma.bsky.social) @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social

14.05.2025 18:34 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Narcissists Emerge as Leaders Even in Childhood Many children choose to follow peers with more narcissistic tendencies—and self-esteem may be part of the complex power dynamics involved

👑 Even children are drawn to narcissistic leaders. Here we show how this starts early—and why it matters.

🙏 Leadership is not fixed. Kids can learn to lead democratically, with purpose, and for the common good. Let's take leadership development seriously.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

05.05.2025 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The growing science of educational inequality Bringing together perspectives from different fields could help reduce inequality in education

🟣 This is the fifteenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Louise Elffers highlights why questioning how we define and measure inequality is key to impactful inter- and transdisciplinary research on educational inequality.
boldscience.org/the-growing-....

05.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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😍KiDLAB at #SRCD2025! Our symposium explored how teachers can unintentionally reinforce classroom inequality—and why. Chaired by Lena-Emilia Schenker, with talks from Kelly Ziemer, Marianna Zhang (@mariannazhang.bsky.social), and Elise Kaufman, joined by Julia Leonard (@julia-a-leonard.bsky.social).

02.05.2025 18:43 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hidden bias in standardized tests Low-SES students tend to score lower than expected on math items that refer to money, food, and social interactions

🟣 This is the fourteenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Marjolein Muskens emphasizes that education should promote empowerment and equality. Yet too often, the talents of students from disadvantaged backgrounds are overlooked:
boldscience.org/hidden-bias-....

28.04.2025 19:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
APA PsycNet

☯️ Who’s drawn to narcissistic leaders? KiDLAB research in American Psychologist shows that narcissistic leaders’ dominance and confidence mesh well with the submissiveness and insecurity of low self-esteem followers. Over time, this could create a toxic symbiosis.
🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

22.04.2025 20:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Children’s awareness of stereotypes about school pathways How do children think others view their path through school, and why does it matter?

🟣 This is the thirteenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Lisa Bardach (University of Giessen) asks: Might students in lower-ranked tracks hold negative stereotypes about their track, with detrimental long-term effects on their success?

boldscience.org/childrens-aw...

18.04.2025 10:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How preschoolers see inequality in the classroom Children think those who contribute more in class are more interested and intelligent

🟣 This is the twelfth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Sébastien Goudeau (@sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social) discuss his work on how preschoolers see inequality in the classroom: boldscience.org/how-preschoo...

04.04.2025 09:38 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Come work with us!

Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.

25.03.2025 20:13 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1
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PhD Position: 'The Psychological Consequences of Unequal Treatment in the Classroom' Do you want to know what goes on in children’s heads when they are treated unequally in the classroom? Then apply for this PhD-position and join our team! "The Psychological Consequences of Unequal Tr...

Two interdisciplinary PhD positions at the University of Amsterdam researching "the psychological consequences of unequal treatment in the classroom."

With BSky supervisors: @jelliesierksma.bsky.social & @kidlab.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

24.03.2025 21:54 — 👍 51    🔁 31    💬 0    📌 1
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Do educational interventions increase equality? Focusing on individual students and ignoring structural factors may reinforce inequality

🟣 This is the eleventh interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Allison Zengilowski and Irum Maqbool discuss their work showing that efforts to improve educational equality may inadvertently frame students as deficient rather than changing structures: boldscience.org/do-education....

21.03.2025 17:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Inflated praise can reinforce stereotypes However well-intentioned, it can send the wrong message

🟣 This is the tenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Eddie Brummelman discusses KiDLAB research on why children from disadvantaged backgrounds often receive seemingly well-intentioned but disabling messages from teachers, like inflated praise:
boldscience.org/inflated-pra....

14.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hi @nataliebrito.bsky.social, would you be able to add us as well? We'd really appreciate it—many thanks!

12.03.2025 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Can personalized learning increase educational equity? If not implemented well, personalized learning technologies risk harming the most disadvantaged students

🟣 This is the ninth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Hanna Dumont explains when and why personalized learning—adapting instruction to students’ individual needs—may reduce or ironically exacerbate achievement inequality.

boldscience.org/can-personal....

11.03.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Nature of Love Revisited: How Social Bonds Shape Development Click on the article title to read more.

😍 In his 1958 paper, The Nature of Love, Harlow laid the foundation for the scientific study of love. In a special issue we edited for Developmental Science, we make a new case for studying love in child development:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

06.03.2025 09:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why schools need to earn students’ trust Students who distrust institutions are more likely to drop out of school

🟣 This is the eighth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Catrin Finkenauer explains why schools and educators need to earn students’ trust—especially in those from financially insecure backgrounds—to prevent school dropout.

boldscience.org/why-schools-...

02.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Reducing children’s school-related stress Can bringing neurobiology and educational research together help children with difficult lives outside the classroom?

🟣 This is the seventh interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Madeline Harms discusses her research—combining insights from neuroscience and psychology—to better understand and reduce socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement.

boldscience.org/reducing-chi....

21.02.2025 12:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Helping children help each other Adults can guide children to help others in ways that reduce inequality

🟣 This is the sixth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Jellie Sierksma (@jelliesierksma.bsky.social) discusses her work showing that children perpetuate inequality in the classroom by offering disempowering help to those who are less competent.

boldscience.org/helping-chil....

13.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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