Dr. Ymke de Bruijn

Universitair docent
Interdisciplinaire Sociale Wetenschap
y.debruijn@uu.nl

Publicaties

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2025). Critical Reflection into Action: Facilitating Conditions of Antiracist Action among White Youth in the Netherlands. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 54(8), 1902-1916. Article e20191765. [DOI] [Portal]
de Bruijn, Y., Emmen, R. A. G., & Mesman, J. (2025). Color-evasiveness and white normativity: Examples set by parents in parent-child interactions in the Netherlands. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 31(2), 333–346. [DOI] [Portal]

Populariserende publicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2025). Meer kleur in je prentenboekenkast: Waar let je op?. Web publication/site, Utrecht University. https://earlyyearsblog.nl/2025/03/21/meer-kleur-in-je-prentenboekenkast-waar-let-je-op/

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

de Bruijn, Y., Yang, Y., & Mesman, J. (2024). ‘Dutch’ according to children and mothers: Nationality stereotypes and citizenship representation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54(4), 813-828. [DOI] [Portal]

Populariserende publicaties

de Bruijn, Y., & Mesman, J. (2024). Opgroeien in kleur – Deel 1 – Zijn kinderen ‘kleurenblind’?. Web publication/site https://www.judimesman.com/zijn-kinderen-kleurenblind/
de Bruijn, Y. (2024). Opgroeien in kleur – Deel 2 – ‘Etnische verschillen bespreken of het onderwerp juist vermijden?’. Web publication/site https://www.judimesman.com/opgroeien-in-kleur-deel-2-etnische-verschillen-bespreken-of-het-onderwerp-juist-vermijden/
de Bruijn, Y., & Mesman, J. (2024). Opgroeien in kleur – Deel 4 – Kleur en racisme bespreekbaar maken: hoe doe je dat?. Web publication/site https://www.judimesman.com/kleur_en_racisme/

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Yang, Y., Emmen, R., de Bruijn, Y., & Mesman, J. (2023). Crisis and bias: Exploring ethnic prejudice among Chinese-Dutch children before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Infant and Child Development, 32(6), Article e2462. [DOI] [Repository]

Populariserende publicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2023). Antiracisme onder jongeren: Bewustzijn, motivatie, en actie. Web publication/site https://blogjeugdstudies.sites.uu.nl/2023/03/21/antiracisme-onder-jongeren-bewustzijn-motivatie-en-actie/

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2022). Child interethnic prejudice in the Netherlands: Social learning from parents and picture books.
Yang, Y., Emmen, R., de Bruijn, Y., & Mesman, J. (2022). White prevalence and White preference in children’s books in China. SN Social Sciences, 2, 1-19. Article 228. [DOI] [Repository]
de Bruijn, Y., Emmen, R. A. G., van Veen, D., & Mesman, J. (2022). Priming attachment and diversity ideologies: Effects on ethnic bias in children's altruistic sharing in a dictator game. Acta Psychologica, 230, 1-9. Article 103746. [DOI] [Repository]
de Bruijn, Y., Emmen, R. A. G., & Mesman, J. (2022). Navigating diversity: Maternal ideologies and associations with child interethnic prejudice in the Netherlands. Social Development, 31(3), 811-828. [DOI]
de Bruijn, Y., Emmen, R. A. G., & Mesman, J. (2022). Maternal Attitudes Toward Child Interethnic Relations in the Netherlands: Facilitating Intergroup Contact Effects? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(8), 2316-2339. [DOI]
Mesman, J., de Bruijn, Y., van Veen, D., Pektas, F., & Emmen, R. A. G. (2022). Maternal color-consciousness is related to more positive and less negative attitudes toward ethnic-racial outgroups in children in White Dutch families. Child Development, 93(3), 668-680. [DOI]

Vakpublicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2022). Opgroeien in een etnisch diverse samenleving. SWP. https://www.kinderopvangkennis.nl/p/opgroeien-in-een-etnisch-diverse-samenleving/7024
de Bruijn, Y., & Mesman, J. (2022). Diversiteit en collectievorming bij de Bibliotheek op school. Stichting Lezen.

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

de Bruijn, Y., Emmen, R. A. G., & Mesman, J. (2021). What do we read to our children? Messages concerning ethnic diversity in popular children’s books in the Netherlands. SN Social Sciences, 1, 1-21. Article 206. [DOI] [Repository]

Populariserende publicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2021). Vooroordelen en kinderboeken. Web publication/site

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

de Bruijn, Y., Amoureus, C., Emmen, R. A. G., & Mesman, J. (2020). Interethnic Prejudice Against Muslims Among White Dutch Children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(3-4), 203–221. [DOI]
de Bruijn, Y., Emmen, R. A. G., & Mesman, J. (2020). Ethnic Diversity in Children’s Books in the Netherlands. Early Childhood Education Journal, 49, 413–423. [DOI]

Populariserende publicaties

de Bruijn, Y. (2020). Prejudice and children's literature. Web publication/site

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Ziermans, T., de Bruijn, Y., Dijkhuis, R., Staal, W., & Swaab, H. (2019). Impairments in cognitive empathy and alexithymia occur independently of executive functioning in college students with autism. Autism, 23(6), 1519–1530. [DOI]