Stephanie Van Goozen

Biography

PhD (Experimental Psychology), University of Amsterdam, June 1994. MS Psychology (Experimental Psychology), University of Amsterdam, August 1988 (cum laude).Member of the Health Council of the Netherlands. Elected council member of the International Society for Research on Aggression. Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal Review of Aggression and Violent Behavior. 2008-date: Professor, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. 2007-date: Visiting Professor of Developmental Neuroscience, Leiden University. 2004-2008: Reader, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. 2002-2003: Senior Research Associate, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 1998-2002: Senior Research Fellow, Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht (tenured position). 1994-1997: Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Utrecht (UMCU).

Research Interest

She is a biological psychologist interested in developmental psychopathology. She is particularly interested in antisocial behaviour and study risk mechanisms underlying antisocial development from infancy onward. An important goal of her research is to better understand the mechanisms that are involved in the development of persistent antisocial behaviour so that we can ultimately develop more effective prevention and treatment programmes. There is a growing consensus that both child-specific factors (i.e., genetic, temperamental) and social factors (e.g., early social adversity) contribute to the development and maintenance of antisocial behaviour. Her research focuses on those individual factors that explain or accentuate (mediate and/or moderate) risk to those who live with early social adversity. To that end She use an interdisciplinary research strategy that combines observational, cognitive-experimental, neuroendocrinological, psychophysiological, and fMRI/MRI methods.