Publicaties
2023
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J. (2023). Children perpetuate competence-based inequality when they help peers. npj Science of Learning, 8(1), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-023-00192-9
2022
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J., Brey, E., & Shutts, K. (2022). Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(5), 660-685. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2022.2090945
Sierksma, J., Klootwijk, C. L. T., & Lee, N. C. (2022). Prosocial Choices: How Do Young Children Evaluate Considerate and Inconsiderate Behavior? Developmental Psychology, 58(11), 2013–2021. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001416
2021
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2021). Competence-based helping: Children's consideration of need when providing others with help. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, Article 105206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105206
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Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2021). When helping hurts: Children think groups that receive help are less smart. Paper presented at VNOP conference 2021.
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2021). Competence-based helping: Young children do not distribute help according to need. Paper presented at SRCD 2021 Biennial Meeting.
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2021). How receiving help affects children’s competence beliefs and task motivation.. Paper presented at SRCD 2021 Biennial Meeting.
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2021). Competence-based helping: Young children do not distribute help according to need. Paper presented at Conference Kurt Lewin Institute 2021.
Sierksma, J., Brey, E., & Shutts, K. (2021). Racial stereotype application in 4-to-8-year old white American children: Emergence and specificity. Paper presented at SRCD 2021 Biennial Meeting.
Sierksma, J. (2021). Do children help competent and incompetent children differently?. Paper presented at LEARN! Conference 2021.
2020
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2020). When helping hurts: Children think groups that receive help are less smart. Child Development, 91(3), 715-723. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13351
2019
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J., & Bijlstra, G. (2019). Majority group children expect that ethnic out-group peers feel fewer positive but more negative emotions than in-group peers. Cognition and Emotion, 33(6), 1210-1223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1546167
Spaltman, M., Lansu, T. A. M., & Sierksma, J. (2019). Children tell more prosocial lies in favor of in-group than out-group peers. Developmental Psychology, 55(7), 1428-1439. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000721
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J., & Shutts, K. (2019). When helping hurts: Children think groups that receive help are less smart. Paper presented at JENA EASP workshop on the evolution, emergence, development, and maintenance of stereotypes, Jena, Germany.
2018
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J. (2018). Costs of helping only influence children's intention to help ethnic out-group peers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.03.016
Sierksma, J. (2018). Over wanneer en waarom kinderen helpen. Kind en adolescent, 39(3), 205-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12453-018-0178-7
Sierksma, J., Lansu, T. A. M., Karremans, J. C., & Bijlstra, G. (2018). Children's helping behavior in an ethnic intergroup context: Evidence for outgroup helping. Developmental Psychology, 54(5), 916-928. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000478
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J., Lansu, T. A. M., Karremans, J., & Bijlstra, G. (2018). Negative out-group stereotypes can motivate children to help the out-group more. Paper presented at Society of Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Atlanta, United States.
2017
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Sierksma, J., & Thijs, J. T. (2017). Intergroup helping: How do children see it? In E. van Leeuwen, & Z. Hannah (Eds.), Intergroup Helping (pp. 65-75). Springer.
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J. (2017). Costs of helping only influence children’s intention to help ethnic out-group peers’. Poster session presented at Bi-Ennial Conference of the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, United States.
Sierksma, J., Lansu, T. A. M., Karremans, J., & Bijlstra, G. (2017). Negative out-group stereotypes can motivate children to help the out-group more. Paper presented at SRCD Biennial Meeting 2017, Austin, Texas, United States.
2015
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Verkuijten, M., Sierksma, J., & Martinovic, B. (2015). First Arrival and Collective Land Ownership: How Children Reason About Who Owns the Land. Social Development, 24(4), 868-882. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12128
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Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., & Verkuijten, M. J. A. M. (2015). In-group bias in children’s intention to help can be overpowered by inducing empathy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(1), 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12065
Sierksma, J. (2015). Bounded helping: How morality and intergroup relations shape children's reasoning about helping. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/306802/Sierksma.pdf?sequence=1
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Verkuijten, M., Sierksma, J., & Thijs, J. (2015). First arrival and owning the land: How children reason about ownership of territory. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 41, 58-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.11.007
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https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/309711/1_s2.0_S0272494414001042_main.pdf?sequence=1
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J. (2015). Children’s perception of intergroup emotions: The role of similarity and social identity. Paper presented at British Psychological Society's Developmental and Social Section Annual Conference, Manchester, United Kingdom.
2014
Wetenschappelijke publicaties
Verkuijten, M., Thijs, J., & Sierksma, J. (2014). Majority children's evaluation of acculturation preferences of immigrant and emigrant peers. Child Development, 85(1), 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12111
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuijten, M. (2014). Ethnic helping and group identity: A study among majority group children. Social Development, 23(4), 803-819. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12077
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., Verkuijten, M., & Komter, A. (2014). Children's reasoning about the refusal to help: The role of need, costs, and social perspective taking. Child Development, 85(3), 1134-1149. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12195
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuijten, M. (2014). Children's intergroup helping: The role of empathy and peer group norms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 369-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.06.002
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuijten, M. (2014). With a little help from my friends: Bystander context and children's attitude toward peer helping. Journal of Social Psychology, 154(2), 142-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2013.872595
Overige resultaten
Verkuijten, M., Sierksma, J., & Thijs, J. (2014). Children’s intergroup helping: The role of empathy and prosocial reputation. Paper presented at British Psychological Society’s Developmental Section Annual Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuijten, M. (2014). In-group bias in children's intention to help can be overpowered by inducing empathy. Poster session presented at Symposium 'Understanding each other: Towards an interdisciplinary conceptualization of empathy', Utrecht, Netherlands.
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuijten, M. (2014). From me to you: The role of empathy and reputation in children’s intergroup helping. Poster session presented at 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J., & Verkuijten, M. (2014). In-group bias in children’s helping can be overpowered by inducing empathy. Paper presented at British Psychological Society's Developmental Section Annual Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2013
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., & Verkuyten, M. J. A. M. (2013). From me to you: How need and accountability shape children’s helping intention towards in- and out-groups. Paper presented at Paper presented at the European Conference on Psychological Assessment 2013, San Sebastian, Spain.
Thijs, J. T., Verkuyten, M. J. A. M., & Sierksma, J. (2013). Majority children’s evaluation of acculturation preferences. Poster session presented at Poster presented at the SRCD Biennial Meeting, SRCD, Seattle, USA.
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., Verkuyten, M. J. A. M., & Komter, A. E. (2013). Children’s reasoning about the refusal to help: The Role of need, costs, and social perspective taking. Poster session presented at Poster presented at the Eighth Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, USA.
2012
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., & Verkuyten, M. J. A. M. (2012). Interethnic helping, morality, and group identity: A study among majority group children. Paper presented at Paper presented at the British Psychological Society's Social Psychological Section Annual Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 22.
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., & Verkuyten, M. J. A. M. (2012). Interethnic helping, morality, and group identity: A study among majority group children. Poster session presented at Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial meeting, Vancouver, Canada, March 10.
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., & Verkuyten, M. J. A. M. (2012). Helping you helps me: How the bystander intergroup context affects children's endorsement of out-group helping. Paper presented at Paper presented at the British Psychological Society's Social Psychological Section Annual Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 22.
2011
Overige resultaten
Sierksma, J., Thijs, J. T., & Verkuyten, M. J. A. M. (2011). Bounded Helping: Group Boundaries and Helping Behavior in Early Adolescents. Paper presented at Paper presented at the biennial meeting for Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.