November 2018:
  • Tineke's paper showing impaired reversal learning in child offenders has been published in CBMH
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September 2018: ​
April 2018:
  • Collaborative paper with the MoD lab @ Yale published on neural processing efficiency and psychopathic traits has been published in Psychophysiology. 
  • Josi's paper on latent profiles in antisocial offenders and their criminogenic and personality correlates has been published in Journal of Criminal Justice.

February 2018:
  • Our meta-analyses indicating that mediation has limited prosocial effects has been published in Scientific Reports​
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November 2017:
  • Anouk's paper on DTI and psychopathy scores in impulsive offenders has been accepted in Neuropsychology.

October 2017:
  • Paper on the link between risk, ambiguity and psychopathy-related features has been accepted for publication in PAID.

September 2017:
  • Josi published her first paper about pain experience, inflicting pain on others and psychopathic traits! See here   

June 2017:
  • Ivana's first (review) article on the link between stress, mindfulness-based interventions (e.g., yoga, Tai Chi, medidation) and changes in gene expression has been published in Frontiers in Immunology. The article has received a massive amount of attention from the media (see Altmetric overview and score here). 
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May 2017:
  • Paper showing that psychopathy is related to inaccurate representations during threat conditioning has been accepted in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI.
  • Paper on the relationship between parental rejection, aggression and cognitive distortions has been accepted in Psychology of Violence.

March 2017:
  • Paper highlighting the potential significance of neuroscience for the treatment of psychopathy has been published in Neuropraxis (Dutch).
  • Inti received the honor of being appointed as a Honorary Research Fellow at Conventry University in the UK.
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January 2017:
  • Paper with the MoD lab focusing on differentiating patterns of substance misuse by subtypes of antisocial traits in male offenders has been accepted for publication. Check it here.
  • Inti has been appointed as Guest Professor at Antwerp University. 
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October 2016:
  • Review on classification and treatment of antisocial personality and psychopathy accepted  in NBR. In this paper we propose a novel approach to classification that is based on biological and cognitive delineators instead of traditional clinical and personality instruments. Article available here.

August 2016:
  • I have been nominated for the New Scientist Award. Please click here to vote and give me your support. Voting can be done until 8 September 2016

April 2016:
  • Our paper on transfer of affective value to guide instrumental behaviour in psychopathy has been accepted in  Journal of Abnormal Psychology.

March 2016:
  • Our commentary in Behaviour and Brain Sciences suggesting the reduction of cognitive uncertainty as one reason for the emergence of Big Gods and prosocial behavior is now available online

January 2016:​
  • Our paper on personality factors that predict ward climate in high security forensic settings got accepted.
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November 2015:
  • I was awarded the prestigious Dutch Caribbean Science Pearl award. Getting this type of recognition from those sharing your roots certainly feels special.
  • I am having a fantastic weekend. Our review and meta-analyses showing that psychopaths DO seem to experience the emotion fear normally once fear and threat processing are untangled has been accepted in Psychological Bulletin.

July 2015:
  • I obtained a VENI grant from the NWO!! In my project I will employ computational models to uncover how antisocial and psychopathic offenders learn to make reinforcement-based choices.
  • Our paper on feedback processing during joint actions has been accepted in Biological Psychology.


June 2015:
  • Paper providing Preliminary evidence that yoga practice progressively improves mood and decreases stress in a sample of UK prisoners has been accepted in eCAM.

May 2015:
  • Overview paper on error-monitoring in psychopathy was accepted in Tijdschrift voor Neuropsychologie (Dutch) 

April 2015:
  • Paper on executive functions and their relationship to different measures of psychopathy was accepted in Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment.

March 2015:
​February 2015:
  • Flying solo for the first time, see here. There was also a popular piece about it on Medscape.

November 2014:
  • I was asked to be the scientific adviser for an article in the national newspaper Trouw. Click here to read it.
  • Our paper on psychopathy-related personality dimensions and the extent to which affective information is distracting has been accepted in PAID.
  • I am now also the owner of the Dissertation award from the Dutch Society for Neuropsychology (NVN). November has started out great.
  • I am now the proud owner of a Teaching Excellence award.

July 2014:
  • Our manuscript on the electrophysiological correlates of embodied language has been published.


February 2014

December 2013
  • My manuscript about a study in which we used computational modelling to quantify how much reward and social information people use during associative learning has been accepted for publication. 


November 2013
  • The Antilliaans Dagblad made a nice center spread about the work included in my thesis. See Popular Media
  • I was interviewed by DJ Maarten Schakel on Dolfijn FM
  • The news reached the island news outlets; article in Amigoe, blurb in Extra
  • I walked into the Aula with a common MSc degree, I walked out with one of those rare PhD diplomas that include the term 'Cum Laude'. Curious? Click here, here and here
  • I am now a qualified university teacher! :)


October 2013
  • See Popular Media for the University press release related to my upcoming PhD defense (Dutch)
  • After years of hard work, I am happy to announce that I will be defending my PhD thesis in public on 14 November 2013