Dr. Anouk van der Weiden
Assistant Professor - Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology
Education
2008-2012
PhD – Utrecht University
Graduation date: January 2013
PhD thesis: cognitive processes underlying the experience of self-agency over behavior.
(supervisors: Prof. dr. Henk Aarts & Dr. Kirsten I. Ruys).
2007-2008
Master Social Psychology, cum laude (GPA = 4) – Utrecht University
Graduation date: July 2008
Master thesis: How gaze shifts affect object desirability.
(supervisor: Prof. dr. Henk Aarts).
2004-2007
Bachelor Social Psychology – Utrecht University
graduation date: July 2007
Minor: Methods and Statistics for the Social Sciences
Bachelor thesis: The influence of self-esteem and model attractiveness on product
evaluation (supervisor: Dr. Michael Häfner).
Courses, Workshops, and Qualifications
2019
Developing Intercultural Competences - Utrecht University
Intro to JASP & hypothesis evaluation using the Bayes Factor - Utrecht University
2018
University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) - Utrecht University
2016
Teaching in the International Classroom - Utrecht University
Acquiring knowledge and techniques to deal with and benefit from the international classroom.
Workshop Column Writing - Utrecht University & In Breedste Zin
2015
Activating Audiences - Artesc (www.artesc.org)
Improving presentation and lecturing skills with tools used by actors, comedians,
and playwrights to mentally activate one’s audience.
The Art of Presenting Science - Artesc (www.artesc.org)
Improving presentation and lecturing skills with tools used by actors, comedians,
and playwrights to tell stories through performance.
fMRI course - Brain Science Tools (www.fmricourse.nl)
Hands-on experience with preprocessing and analyses of functional MRI and
restingstate connectivity in SPM, and knowledge of multi-voxel pattern analyses.
2013
Basic Life Support with Defibrilator (BLS-D) - UMC Utrecht.
Basic course on legislation and organization for clinical researchers - UMC Utrecht.
Workshop 'The New Statistics', by Geoff Cummings, on effect sizes, confidence intervals and meta-analysis.
Internship at the care unit for affective and psychotic illness - UMC Utrecht.
2008 – 2012
Postgraduate courses at the Kurt Lewin Institute (e.g., “Neuroscience of Action and Emotion”, “Applying Psychophysiological Measures to Social Psychological Research”) and the Linschoten Institute (e.g., and “Managing People and Projects”, “Teaching for PhD students”).
Assistant Professor | Leiden University | Psychology | Room 2.A29 | P.O. Box 9555 | 2300 RB | LEIDEN
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News
Comenius Teaching Fellow Grant 'Critical Investigation: training critical reading skills'
“In their future careers, our students will be asked for evidence-based advice and interventions. This requires a critical assessment of how valid and applicable findings and conclusions in scientific articles
are. However, students indicate that they do not know how to read critically. There are educational materials that focus on methods and statistics or offer general reading tips. What is lacking is a training that helps students to actively practice critical reading from introduction to discussion and translate
findings into follow-up research and interventions, while receiving immediate feedback. Together with students, we will develop a widely deployable online training.”
Psychology Teacher of the Year 2021, Leiden Univeristy
“Anouk van der Weiden has been our colleague in Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology for two years now. Really what you call an overwhelming start as a teacher. She came, saw and won the education prize."
"Anouk is known among students as a passionate, enthusiastic and creative teacher who challenges them to develop themselves further in their studies and future careers. According to the committee she is the convincing winner of the Psychology Teacher of the Year Award 2021.”