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Jellie Sierksma is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology at the VU Amsterdam. Her research focuses on children’s prosocial behavior and the development of prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination. She studies these topics taking an interdisciplinary approach, combining insights from developmental, social, and educational psychology and by using experimental- and survey-methods.
Jellie obtained her Master degree in social psychology in 2010 (UVA; cum laude) and a PhD in social development in 2015 (University of Utrecht). She then obtained a grant to work as a post-doc at the Radboud University Nijmegen for 2 years, followed by a 2-year Rubicon-fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA. In 2019 she was awarded a Veni-grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Keywords
- BF Psychology
- social development
- discrimination
- prosocial behavior
- moral development
- stereotypes
- prejudice
- intergroup relations
- social cogniton
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Peer Group
Medicine & Life Sciences
outgroup
Social Sciences
Ethnic Groups
Medicine & Life Sciences
Group
Social Sciences
Helping Behavior
Medicine & Life Sciences
Child Behavior
Medicine & Life Sciences
Acculturation
Medicine & Life Sciences
social psychology
Social Sciences
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Research Output 2014 2020
When Helping Hurts: Children Think Groups That Receive Help Are Less Smart
Sierksma, J. & Shutts, K., 3 Jan 2020, In : Child Development.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Intelligence
intelligence
Group
Aptitude
helper
Children tell more prosocial lies in favor of in-group than out-group peers
Sierksma, J., Spaltman, M. & Lansu, T. A. M., Jul 2019, In : Developmental Psychology. 55, 7, p. 1428-1439 12 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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outgroup
Group
group membership
peer group
Majority group children expect that ethnic out-group peers feel fewer positive but more negative emotions than in-group peers
Sierksma, J. & Bijlstra, G., Sep 2019, In : Cognition and Emotion. 33, 6, p. 1210-1223 14 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Peer Group
Ethnic Groups
Emotions
Vulnerable Populations
Emotion
Children's helping behavior in an ethnic intergroup context: Evidence for outgroup helping
Sierksma, J., Lansu, T. A. M., Karremans, J. C. & Bijlstra, G., May 2018, In : Developmental Psychology. 54, 5, p. 916-928 13 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Helping Behavior
Peer Group
outgroup
Child Behavior
peer group
Costs of helping only influence children's intention to help ethnic out-group peers
Sierksma, J., Sep 2018, In : Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 173, p. 85-99 15 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Ethnic Groups
Costs and Cost Analysis
Helping Behavior
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