Jan-Willem Simons

How Descriptive Norms and Peer Attitudes Shape Interethnic Dating Among Adolescents in Dutch Schools | Article | Social Inclusion Eva Jaspers, Pascale I. van Zantvliet, Jan-Willem Simons

New article: “How Descriptive Norms and Peer Attitudes Shape Interethnic Dating Among Adolescents in Dutch Schools”, co-authored with Eva Jaspers and Pascale van Zantvliet, now available in Social Inclusion. Access at: doi.org/10.17645/si....

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology | Wiley Online Library The use of exponential random graph models (ERGMs) is becoming prevalent in psychology due to their ability to explain and predict the formation of edges between vertices in a network. Valid inferenc...

New article: “A tutorial on Bayesian model averaging for exponential random graph models”, co-authored with Ihnwhi Heo and Hayian Liu, now available in The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology. Access at: doi.org/10.1111/bmsp...

The influence of observation sequence features on the performance of the Bayesian hidden Markov model: A Monte Carlo simulation study The hidden Markov model is a popular modeling strategy for describing and explaining latent process dynamics. There is a lack of information on the estimation performance of the Bayesian hidden Markov...

Semi-new article: “The influence of observation sequence features on the performance of the Bayesian hidden Markov model: A Monte Carlo simulation study” with Bart-Jan Boverhof and Emmeke Aarts, now available in Plos One. Access at: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence Negative attitudes of ethnic majorities towards ethnic minorities constitute a crucial obstacle to achieving social cohesion in ethnically diverse societies. There remains a paucity in the empirica...

New article: “Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence” with Eva Jaspers and @frankvantubergen.bsky.social is now available in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Access: doi.org/10.1080/1369...