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Dr. Marjolijn Vermande

Assistant Professor 
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Education and Pedagogy
Clinical Child and Family Studies
Clinical Child and Family Studies
Martinus J. Langeveldgebouw
Heidelberglaan 1
Kamer E2.34
3584 CS Utrecht

Dr. Marjolijn Vermande

Assistant Professor
Clinical Child and Family Studies
+31 30 253 2031
m.m.vermande@uu.nl
Profile CV Publications In the media Research Teaching Contact
Profile CV Publications In the media Research Teaching Contact
Research areas

Recent Projects and Grants

*RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Grant

  • Adapting Qualtrics for peer report questionnaires. (Utrecht University Research IT Innovation Fund 2019; awarded to Marjolijn Vermande & Jim Maarseveen)

*FRIENDSHIP AND AGGRESSION IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Grant

  • Friendship between aggressive and shy/withdrawn children (Ph.D. project; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) grant no. 400-03-340; awarded to Marjolijn Vermande & Marcel van Aken)

Selected publications

  • Palmen, J. M. H., Roij, J. C. L. M. van, Vermande, M. M., Dekovic, M., Aken, M. A. G. van. (2006). Vriendschappen van teruggetrokken en agressieve kinderen. Kind en Adolescent, 27, 44-56.
  • Palmen, J. M. H., Roij, J. C. L. M. van, Vermande, M. M., Dekovic, M., Aken, M. A. G. van. (2006). Over conceptverwarring en misperceptie. Kind en Adolescent, 27, 183-1852.
  • Palmen, H., Vermande, M. M., Dekovíc, M., &. Van Aken, M. A. G. (2010). Machiavellianism in elementary school children: Risk and adaptation. In C. T. Barry, P. K. Kerig, K. K. Stellwagen, & T. D. Barry (Eds.), Narcissism and machiavellism in youth: Implications for the development of adaptive and maladaptive behavior (pp. 233-249). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Palmen, H., Vermande, M. M., Dekovíc, M., &. Van Aken, M. A. G. (2011a). Competence, problem behavior, and the effects of having no friends, aggressive friends, or nonaggressive friends: A four-year longitudinal study. Merill-Palmer Quarterly, 57, 186-213.
  • Palmen, J. M. H., Vermande, M. M., Dekovic, M., Aken, M. A. G. van, & Rossem, R. van. (2011b). Vriendschappen van teruggetrokken en agressieve kinderen. Kind en Adolescent, 32, 18-32.

*BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

Grant

  • Bullying contextualized. A longitudinal study of its change and stability (Postdoc project; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) grant no. 431-09-031; awarded to Marjolijn Vermande)

Selected publications

  • Bouman, T., Van der Meulen, M., Goossens, F. A., Olthof, T., Vermande, M. M., & Aleva, E. A. (2012). Peer and self-reports of victimization and bullying: Their differential association with internalizing problems and social adjustment. Journal of School Psychology, 50, 759-774.
  • Garandeau, C. F., Vermande, M. M., Reijntjes, A. H. A., & Aarts, E. (2022). Classroom bullying norms and peer status: Effects on victim-oriented and bully-oriented defending. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(5), 401–410. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025419894722
  • Garandeau, C. F.,Yanagida, T., Vermande, M. M., Strohmeier, D., & Salmivalli, C. (20 September 2019). Classroom size and the prevalence of bullying and victimization: Testing three explanations for the negative association. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2125. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02125
  • Goossens, F., Vermande, M., & van der Meulen, M. (Red.). (2012). Pesten op school. Achtergronden en interventies [Bullying in schools. Background and interventions]. Den Haag: Boom Lemma.
  • Oldenburg, B., Barrera, D., Olthof, T., Goossens, F., Van der Meulen, M., Vermande, M., Aleva, E., Sentse, M., & Veenstra, R. (2015). Peer and self-reported victimization: Do non-victimized students give victimization nominations to classmates who are self-reported victims? Journal of School Psychology, 53, 309-321. (doi: org/10.1016/j.jsp.2015.05.003)
  • Olthof, T., Goossens, F. A., Vermande, M. M., Aleva, A. E., & Van der Meulen, M. (2011). Bullying as strategic behavior: Relations with desired and acquired dominance in the peer group. Journal of School Psychology, 49, 339-359.
  • Pronk, J., Olthof, T., Aleva, E. A., van der Meulen, M., Vermande, M. M., & Goossens, F. A. (2020). Longitudinal associations between adolescents’ bullying-related indirect defending, outsider behavior, and peer-group status. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 30(S1), 87–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12450
  • Reijntjes, A. H. A., Vermande, M. M., Olthof, T., Goossens, F. A., Van de Schoot, R., Aleva, L., & Van der Meulen (2013). Developmental trajectories of bullying and social dominance in youth. Child Abuse & Neglect, 37, 224-234. (doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2012.12.004)
  • Reijntjes, A. H. A., Vermande, M. M., Olthof, T., Goossens, F. A., Van de Schoot, R., Aleva, L., & Van der Meulen (2013). Costs and benefits of bullying in the context of the peer group: A three wave longitudinal analysis. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41, 1217-1229. (doi: 10.1007/s10802-013-9759-3)
  • Reijntjes, A. H. A., Vermande, M., Thomaes, S., Goossens, F., Olthof, T., Aleva, L., & Van Der Meulen, M. (2016). Narcissism, bullying, and social dominance in youth: A Longitudinal analysis. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 63-74. (doi: 10.1007/s10802-015-9974-1)
  • Reijntjes, A. H. A., Vermande, M., Olthof, T., Goossens, F. A., Aleva, L., & Van der Meulen, M. (2016). Defending victimized peers: Opposing the bully, supporting the victim, or both? Aggressive Behavior, 42, 585–597. (doi: 10.1002/ab.21653)
  • Vermande, M., Van der Meulen, M., & Reijntjes, A. (Eds.) (2015). Pesten op school. Achtergronden en interventies [Bullying in schools. Background and interventions] (2nd rev. Ed.). Amsterdam: Boom Lemma.
  • Vermande, M., Van der Meulen, M., Aleva, L., Olthof, T., & Goossens, F. (2011). Pesten. In M. Taal en C. Poleij (red.), Interventies in het onderwijs: werken aan goede verhoudingen (pp. 71-91). Den Haag: Boom Lemma.

*STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL DOMINANCE

Grants

  • Coercion and prosociality: strategies for resource control in children and monkeys (postdoc project; seed money grant from Utrecht University’s priority area “Dynamics of Youth” no. SM.YI.2013.11.GS; awarded to Albert Reijntjes, Liesbeth Sterck, Marjolijn Vermande and Han de Vries)
  • Coercion and prosociality: strategies for social dominance and resource control (postdoc project; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) grant no. 431-14-008; awarded to Marjolijn Vermande)

Selected publications

  • Overduin-de Vries, A. M., de Vries, H., Vermande, M. M., Reijntjes, A. H. A., & Sterck, E. H. M. (2020). Both aggressive and affiliative behaviour facilitate resource access in high-ranking female long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis). Behaviour, 157(3-4), 267-287. https://doi:10.1163/1568539X-bja10001
  • Overduin-de Vries, A. M., Vermande, M. M., Hessen, D. J., & Sterck, E. H. M. (2024). The ability to inhibit impulses is related to social behavior in long-tailed macaques. American Journal of Primatology, 86(2), e23587. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23587
  • Reijntjes, A., Vermande, M., Olthof, T., Goossens, F. A., Vink, G., Aleva, L., & Van der Meulen, M. (2018). Differences between resource control types revisited: A short term longitudinal study. Social Development, 27, 187–200. doi: : 10.1111/sode.12257
  • Vermande, M. M., Gilholm, P. A., Reijntjes, A. H. A., Hessen, D. J., Sterck, E. H. M., & Overduin-de Vries, A. M. (2018). Is inspiring group members an effective predictor of social dominance in early adolescence? Direct and moderated effects of behavioral strategies, social skills, and gender on resource control and popularity. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 1813–1829. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-018-0830-9
  • Vermande, M. M., & Sterck, E. H. M. (2020). How to get the biggest slice of the cake. A comparative view of social behaviour and resource access in human children and nonhuman primates. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 584815. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584815

 *SOCIAL TOLERANCE AND COOPERATION IN YOUNG CHILDREN

Grant

  • The evolutionary roots of human social tolerance and cooperation. (Postdoc project; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) grant no. 401.18.047; awarded to Liesbeth Sterck and Marjolijn Vermande)
  • Cooperation of children and students in a Stag Hunt game. (Postdoc project; UU, Dynamics of Youth, Invigoration Grant 2023; awarded to Marjolijn Vermande and Kris De Jaegher)

Publications

  • Hallers-Haalboom, E. T., Vermande, M. M. , van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Sterck, E. H. M. (2023). Food sharing with friends and acquaintances: A study in preschool boys and girls. Frontiers of Psychology, 14,1130632. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1130632
  • Hallers-Haalboom, E. T., Vermande, M. M., Van Leeuwen E. J. C., & Sterck, E. H. M. (2022). Food sharing in human children. Revue de Primatologie, 13. https://doi.org/10.4000/primatologie.13512

* Cooperation in OTHER PROJECTS (peer relations and sibling relations)

Selected publications

  • Baerveldt, C., Van de Bunt, G., & Vermande, M. (2014). Selection patterns, gender and friendship aim in classroom networks. Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 17, 171-188. (doi: 10.1007/s11618-014-0546-x)
  • Buist, K. L., & Vermande, M. (2014). Sibling relationship patterns and their associations with child competence and problem behavior. Journal of Family Psychology, 28, 529-537. (doi: 10.1037/a0036990)
  • Van Rossem, R., Vermande, M., Völker, B., & Baerveldt, C. (2015). Social capital in the classroom: a study of in-class social capital and school adjustment. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36, 669-688. (doi:10.1080/01425692.2013.848779)

 

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