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2026
Achterberg, M. (2026). In the moment, out of reach? Experience sampling with adolescents in the context of school smartphone bans and shifting societal norms. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 36, https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.70118
2025
Achterberg, M., Achterhof, R., & Smit, C. (2025). Leeftijdgenoten, sociale media en influencers. In R. Kok, N. Lucassen, M. Luijk, & F. van der Horst (Eds.), Opvoeden en opgroeien: Handboek Pedagogiek (pp. 232-249). Lannoo Campus. https://www.lannoocampus.nl/nl/opvoeden-en-opgroeien
Achterberg, M. & Veenstra, R. (2025). De rol van leeftijdgenoten. In W. Slot, M. van Aken & E. Crone (red.), Psychologie van de adolescentie, 27e druk. ThiemeMeulenhoff. https://www.thiememeulenhoff.nl/webshop/catalogus/hbo/psychologie-van-de-adolescentie-27e-druk
Brummer, E.C. & Achterberg, M. (2025). Public Report - Unplugged and Unheard: Dutch youth on smartphone policies in secondary schools. Open Science Framework. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5RW2V
Davis, M. M., Achterberg, M., Haughey, C., Boda, S., Lempres, S. M., Carpenter, K. L. H., Egger, H. L., Copeland, W. E., & Sheridan, M A., (2025). Neural Sensitivity to Social Feedback and Peer Context: Implications for Adolescent Mental Health. In-principal accepted registered report, Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science.
Toenders, Y. J., Crone, E., Muetzel, R., Achterberg, M., Bakkali, A., van den Bedem, N., Borkhuis, E., Figueroa, C., Van der Hallen, R., Harrewijn, A., Jansen, P., Schaap, J., Tempelaar, W., de Veld, D., & Remmerswaal, D. (2025). A Healthy Start: Een mentaal gezonde basis voor de huidige generatie jongeren. Jeugd in Ontwikkeling. https://doi.org/10.54447/JiO.19550
2024
Mulder, J.D., Dobbelaar, S. & Achterberg, M. (2024). Behavioral and neural responses to social rejection: Individual differences in developmental trajectories across childhood and adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 66, 101365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101365
-Preregistered
Toenders, Y.J., de Moor, M., van der Cruijsen, R., Green, K., Achterberg, M. & Crone, E.A. (2024). Within-person biological mechanisms of mood variability in adolescence. Human Brain Mapping, 45(11).https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26766
-Preregistered
2023
Dobbelaar, S., Achterberg, M., van Duijvenvoorde, A.C.K., van IJzendoorn, M.H. & Crone, E.A. (2023). Developmental patterns and individual differences in responding to social feedback: A longitudinal fMRI study from childhood to adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101264
-Preregistered
Dobbelaar, S., Achterberg, M., van Duijvenvoorde, A.C.K., van IJzendoorn, M.H., & Crone, E.A. (2023). Development of social feedback processing and responses in childhood: an fMRI test-replication design in two age cohorts. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsac039
-Preregistered
2022
Achterberg, M., Becht, A., van der Cruijsen, R., van de Groep, I. H., Spaans, J., Klapwijk, E., & Crone, E. (2022). Longitudinal associations between social media use, mental well-being and structural brain development across adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101088
-Preregistered
Crone E.A., & Achterberg, M. (2022). Prosocial development in adolescence. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 220-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.020
Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, M., Dobbelaar, S., van der Meulen, M., & Achterberg, M. (2022). Longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and behavioral problems across childhood: A robust random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. Developmental Psychology, 58(6), 1139–1155. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001346
-Preregistered
2021
Achterberg, M., Dobbelaar, S., Boer, O. D., & Crone, E. (2021). Perceived stress as mediator for longitudinal effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on wellbeing of parents and children. Scientific Reports, 11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81720-8
Dobbelaar, S., van Duijvenvoorde, A.C.K., Achterberg, M., van der Meulen, M. & Crone, E.A. (2021). A Bi-Dimensional Taxonomy of Social Responsivity in Middle Childhood: Prosociality and Reactive Aggression Predict Externalizing Behavior Over Time. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:586633. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586633
van de Groep, I.H., Bos, M.G.N, Jansen, L.M.C., Achterberg, M., Popma, A. & Crone, E.A. (2021). Overlapping and distinct neural correlates of self-evaluations and self-regulation from the perspective of self and others. Neuropsychologia, 161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108000
van Drunen, L., Dobbelaar, S., van der Cruijsen, R., van der Meulen, M., Achterberg, M., Wierenga, L., & Crone, E.A., (2021). The nature of the self: neural analyses and heritability estimates of self-evaluations in middle childhood. Human Brain Mapping, https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25641
2020
Achterberg, M., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & Crone, E. A. (2020). Longitudinal changes in DLPFC activation during childhood are related to decreased aggression following social rejection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 117 (15) 8602-8610 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915124117
Achterberg, M. (2020). Nature, nurture and neural mechanisms of social emotion regulation in childhood. Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/86283
Crone, E.A., Achterberg, M., Dobbelaar, S., Euser, S., van den Bulk, B. G., van der Meulen, M., van Drunen, L., Wierenga, L.M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J & van IJzendoorn, M.H. (2020). Neural and behavioral signatures of social evaluation and adaptation in childhood and adolescence: The Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100805
Konijn, E.A., & Achterberg, M. (2020). Neuropsychology of Emotional Responsiveness to Media. In J. van den Bulck (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology. John Wiley & Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119011071.iemp0319
Van der Meulen, M., Wierenga, L. M., Achterberg, M., Drenth, N., van IJzendoorn, M.H. & Crone, E. A. (2020). Shared genetic and environmental influences on structure of the social brain in children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100782
2019
Achterberg, M. & van der Meulen, M. (2019) Genetic and environmental influences on MRI scan quantity and quality. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100667
2018
Achterberg, M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., van IJzendoorn, M. H., van der Meulen, M., Tottenham, N. & Crone, E. A. (2018) Distinctive heritability patterns of subcortical-prefrontal cortex resting state connectivity in childhood: A twin study. Neuroimage, 175, pp. 138-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.076
Achterberg, M., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., van der Meulen, M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & Crone, E. A. (2018) Heritability of aggression following social evaluation in middle childhood: An fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping, 39, pp. 2828-2841. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24043
van der Meulen, M., Steinbeis, N., Achterberg, M., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Crone, E. A. (2018). Heritability of neural reactions to social exclusion and prosocial compensation in middle childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 34, 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.05.010
2017
Achterberg, M., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., van der Meulen, M., Euser, S., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & Crone, E. A. (2017) The neural and behavioral correlates of social evaluation in childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, pp. 107-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2017.02.007
Bos, D.J., Oranje, B., Achterberg, M., Vlaskamp, C., Ambrosino, S., de Reus, M. A., van der Heuvel, M. P. & Rombouts, S. A. R. B. (2017). Structural and functional connectivity in children and adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58, pp. 810-818. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12712
van der Meulen, M., Steinbeis, N., Achterberg, M., Bilo, E., van den Bulk, B. G., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Crone, E. A. (2017). The neural correlates of dealing with social exclusion in childhood. Neuropsychologia, 103, 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.07.008
2016
Achterberg, M.*, Peper, J. S*., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C., Mandl, R. C. & Crone, E. A. (2016). Frontostriatal White Matter Integrity Predicts Development of Delay of Gratification: A Longitudinal Study, Journal of Neuroscience, 36, pp. 1954-1961. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3459-15.2016
*shared first author
Achterberg, M., van Duijvenvoorde, A. C., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. & Crone, E. A. (2016) Control your anger! The neural basis of aggression regulation in response to negative social feedback. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11, pp. 712-720. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsv154
Van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., Achterberg, M., Braams, B. R., Peters, S., & Crone, E. A. (2016). Testing a dual-systems model of adolescent brain development using resting-state connectivity analyses. Neuroimage, 1, 409-420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.069