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Short bio
PhD candidate interested in using social regulation of emotion and multidisciplinary game design to promote mental health in youth. Disheveled multi-tasker and provider of snacks.
Top-3 games
- Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
- Monument Valley
- Betrayal at House on the Hill (board game)
''Fear is a superpower. Fear can make you faster, and cleverer , and stronger. Fear doesn’t have to make you cruel or cowardly. Fear can make you kind.''
Steven Moffat
About me
I am a PhD-candidate at the Developmental Psychopathology program of the Behavioural Science Institute in Nijmegen. In my doctorial research I plan to design and test a video game to help youth cope with stress and promote emotional resilience.
Prior to my appointment as PhD-candidate, I obtained a master's degree in Communication Science and a research master degree in Behavioural Science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. During my research master, I collaborated with the GEMH lab to help design and study a video game to train inhibitory control. Working within this multidisciplinary team I became passionate about the potential of video games as a research and intervention tool.
Projects I’ve worked on
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CategoryBehavior RegulationDate22/06/2025Study/CourseLocation
Designing and Testing a Game Intervention to Help Youth Quit Smoking
About the projectSmoking is one of the leading public health problems in the world. In the Netherlands today, still 1 in 4 youth between the ages of 16 and 25 smoke. Even more worrisome is that there are almost no evidence-based interventions available to help them quit smoking. That’s why we, in collaboration with scientists, game designers and smoking youth, developed and tested a game to help youth quit smoking. HitnRun is a mobile game in which you can train your impulse control, and in which you collaborate in teams, support each other’s quit attempts, and compete against other teams.
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CategoryDate24/04/2018Study/CourseLocation
Facing the Challenge Together: a Social Game for Emotional Resilience
About the projectOur research aims to transform young people’s mental health by developing and testing a social game for resiliency when facing stress events. Working in collaboration with the Award winning studio Aardman Animations, we want to harness the important mental health implications of both social support and mindsets, to develop a fun and engaging intervention.
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My publications
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Mechanisms of Change in a Go/No-Go Training Game for Young Adult Smokers
Scholten, H., Luijten, M., Poppelaars, A., Johnson-Glenberg, M. C., & Granic, I. (2021). Health Psychology, 40(12), 998-1008. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001068
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 07-01-2021
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When Winning is Losing: A Randomized Controlled Trial Testing a Video Game to Train Food-Specific Inhibitory Control
Poppelaars, A., Scholten, H., Granic, I., Veling, H., Johnson-Glenberg, M. C., & Luijten, M. (2018). Appetite, 129, 143-154. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.039
Author: Anouk Poppelaars
Upload date: 10-01-2018
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Anouk Poppelaars on Google Scholar
Video Games, Adolescence, Developmental Psychopathology, Social Support
Author: Anouk Poppelaars
Upload date: 06-22-2025
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A Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Effectiveness of a Peer-Based Social Mobile Game Intervention to Reduce Smoking in Youth
Scholten, H., Luijten, M., & Granic, I. (2019). Development and Psychopathology, 31, 1923-1943. doi: 10.1017/S0954579419001378
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 06-17-2020
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Use of the Principles of Design Thinking to Address Limitations of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth: Viewpoint
Scholten, H., & Granic, I. (2019). Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21(1), e11528. doi: 10.2196/11528
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 06-16-2020
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Designing and testing a game intervention to help youth quit smoking [Doctoral Dissertation]
H. Scholten (2020). Designing and testing a game intervention to help youth quit smoking. Doctoral Thesis. Radboud University.
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 01-30-2020
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Behavioral Trainings and Manipulations to Reduce Delay Discounting: A Systematic Review.
Scholten, H., Scheres, A., De Water, E., Graf, U., Granic, I., & Luijten, M. (2019). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 1803-1849. doi: 10.3758/s13423-019-01629-2
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 07-03-2019
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Do Smokers Devaluate Smoking Cues after Go/NoGo Training?
Scholten, H., Granic, I., Chen, Z., Veling, H., & Luijten, M. (2019). Psychology & Health, 34(5), 609-625. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2018.1554184
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 01-29-2019
Worked together with
Professor and Chair of the Developmental Psychopathology department in the Behavioural Science Institute; writer; voracious podcast consumer; mother of two upstanding little gamers
Professor at McMaster's University & Co-founder of PlayNice Interactive
Researcher, interdisciplinary work and collaboration, wants to understand the how's and why's, loves her high heels and coffee in the morning, walks and talks too fast.
Assistant Professor at Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital
I help really cool people craft really cool experiences that leave a real impact on the world. I can confidently bridge the gap between high level design and technical implementation, and I believe building trust is the key to any team success.
Founder of Koontz Interactive
Associate Professor within the Developmental Psychopathology group, currently interested in belongingness needs, emotional processes, and internalizing problems in adolescents.
Behavioural Science Institute - Radboud University
Maartje Luijten
Associate ProfessorI both perform research and teach in the area of developmental psychopathology. My main expertise involves neurocognitive aspects of substance use.
Behavioural Science Institute - Radboud University