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Nadia Bij De Vaate in het Jeugdjournaal

In het Jeugdjournaal van 9 maart vertelt Nadia Bij De Vaate wat zij vindt van de nieuwe Bold Glamourfilter op Tiktok. De filter zorgt ervoor dat je er extra goed uitziet. Volgens Nadia kunnen de effecten van zo'n filter per persoon verschillen. Bekijk de video hier

Recent Publications & Project Updates

July 06, 2026

Encouragement of suicide in the feeds of young Dutch people

Fenna van Loenhout from Nu.nl spoke with Project AWeSoMe post-doctoral researcher Rebecca Godrad about harmful content on the TikTok feeds of Dutch adolescents. Preliminary findings suggest that nearly all youth from a community-based sample encounter…

June 15, 2026

Project AWeSoMe wins Open Science Award ⭐

We are very proud that Project AWeSoMe has been awarded an Open Science Community Amsterdam (OSCA) Award in the category “Transparency / Metascience / Preregistration / Reproducibility” 🏆 Since the founding of AWeSoMe in 2018, Open Science principles…

May 19, 2026

Project AWeSoMe article among most-read in Child Development🥇

Project AWeSoMe is proud to share that the article Changing or stable? The effects of adolescents' social media use on psychosocial functioning by Loes Pouwels, Ine Beyens, Loes Keijsers, and Patti Valkenburg has ranked within the top 10% most-viewed…

April 28, 2026

Does feeling supported or ignored online have stronger impact when teens are already depressed?

📢 Project AWeSoMe celebrates a new publication! 📢 Teenagers spend a lot of time communicating with friends online, but how do those interactions actually affect their wellbeing? In a preregistered 100-day diary study with 479 adolescents, Loes Janssen…

April 15, 2026

Publication Alert: How are depression-related symptoms portrayed on TikTok?

Youths are increasingly turning to TikTok for mental health information, making the platform an important space where young people encounter portrayals of mental illness. Through a content analysis of 210 TikTok videos, the study examined how…

March 02, 2026

Publication Alert: How Does Social Media Make Adolescents Lonely?

How does using social media relate to feeling lonely, and why do some adolescents seem to be more affected than others? A new study by Rebecca Godard, Amber van der Wal, and Ine Beyens sheds light on these questions using intensive, real‑time data from…

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by a NWO Spinoza Prize awarded to Patti Valkenburg