"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/...

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...

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...

😍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).

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...

🚀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

“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-...

👽 “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.

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) 👇 doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

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...

🥳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

👑 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-...

🟣 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-....

😍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).

🟣 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-....

☯️ 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-...

🟣 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...

🟣 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...

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.

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

🟣 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....

🟣 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....

🟣 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....

😍 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...

🟣 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-...

🟣 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....

🟣 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....

🟣 This is the fifth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Cameron Hecht discusses his research showing that growth mindset classroom cultures can improve achievement, particularly for students from structurally disadvantaged backgrounds. boldscience.org/creating-a-c....

🟣 This is the fourth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Sarah Hofer discusses our research on why children from disadvantaged backgrounds may believe they are less smart than others—and how these self-views undermine achievement in school. boldscience.org/self-views-i....

🟣 This is the third interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Eryn Adams shares her perspective on how to make child development research—including studies using electroencephalography (EEG) and other neuroscience methods—more inclusive. boldscience.org/making-child...

🟣 This is the second interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Sharon Wolf discusses how nudges to parents can boost children’s learning and reduce educational inequalities, even in low-income rural settings in Côte d’Ivoire – but not for everyone. boldscience.org/helping-pare...

🪞Are narcissists happy or unhappy? Our cross-cultural meta-analysis shows that grandiose narcissists experienced greater well-being, especially in more individualistic countries. By contrast, vulnerable narcissists experienced poorer well-being. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

💫Join KiDLAB as a postdoc to study parental emotions and inequality. Supervised by Eddie Brummelman and Gerben van Kleef, this role is open to those who’ve completed their PhD or are in the final stages of doing so. Please share and reach out with questions! werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...

🟣BOLD has launched an interview series about our special collection on inequality in education for @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The first interview features Melody Wilson, who delves into her research on Black students' racial and mathematical identities: boldscience.org/culture-in-t...

New to Bluesky! KiDLAB studies children’s developing self-views. We are committed to using developmental science to address social problems, such as inequality in education. Here, we will post about our KiDLAB research and citizen science projects with children. Check out our work: kidlab.nl