Hanneke Scholtenonline
Short bio
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.
Top-3 games
- 30 Seconds (board game)
- Codenames (board game)
- Thomas was Alone
"Nothing any good, isn’t hard"
F. Scott Fitzgerald
About me
I was born in the Netherlands and obtained my Bachelor Pedagogy and Educational Sciences and Research Master Behavioural Science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In my second Research Master year I tested the effectiveness of an immersive 3D video game, Dojo, in preventing adolescents’ anxiety problems. Running the project and talking to the adolescents in the study, I became enthusiastic about the impact and possible reach of video games for mental health. With my PhD project in the Games for Emotional and Mental Health lab, I designed and tested a game to help youth quit smoking, since there is no intervention available for this age group. I was not only interested in the effectiveness of the intervention, but also wanted to understand why youth smoke and whether they want to quit, and how and why this game could achieve smoking cessation in young people. To do this, I took a multidisciplinary approach: I collaborated with game designers and programmers and used a variety of methods, such as a design thinking, participatory design, experimental cognitive tasks, text-based analyses, and electroencephalography (EEG). In my current position as postdoctoral researcher in the GEMH lab, I am focusing on the emotional and mental health of youth. I am driven to have an impact on as many youth as possible by taking away projects from the ‘scientific ivory tower' and bringing them into the lives of young people. To reach that goal I believe that we need to shift our perspective and update the methods that we use: it is essential to focus on participatory design, real time individual data, inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations, and implementation science. Based on these values, I have been (and still are) a vocal proponent of the potential impact of interactive media on behavior change and social and emotional health. To this end, I have published my work in a diverse set of international journals and delivered over 50 presentations, workshops, and lectures on this topic to audiences of diverse backgrounds, including the scientific community, parents, youth, teachers, designers, and psychologists.
Projects I’ve worked on
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CategorySubstance AbuseDate20/06/2021Study/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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CategoryResilienceDate31/08/2020Study/CourseLocation
Excavo: Realigning Your Digital Life
About the projectDigital media are designed to serve many different functions: socialising, working, building relationships, as well as playing and being entertained. In this project, we seek to understand the impact of different features of digital media, and help youth align what they value and love with what they do on digital platforms, in order to increase wellbeing and coherent identity development.
My updates
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First game ever approved as treatment against ADHD
Hanneke Scholten - 17-06-2020Akili Interactive’s game EndeavorRx is the first game approved by the FDA to be prescribed as treatment for children with ADHD in the US. What does this mean for other games developed to improve emotional and mental health and change behavior?
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Hot off the press: a paper about the use of design thinking to improve mental health interventions for youth
Hanneke Scholten - 15-01-2019A new paper by Hanneke Scholten and Isabela Granic is out, published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research! Find 'Use of the Principles of Design Thinking to Address Limitations of Digital Mental Health Interventions for Youth: Viewpoint' here or read about it here.
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GEMH lab featured in Het Jeugdjournaal
Hanneke Scholten - 26-11-2018Last Friday GEMH lab was featured in Het Jeugdjournaal to explain why games can help children to overcome their problems, such as anxiety. Het Jeugdjournaal is a Dutch news show that aims to educate children about worldwide and national news.
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A short CV of failures: how failing made me more successful
Hanneke Scholten - 29-10-2018We are all so afraid of failing that we do almost everything to avoid it. We work as hard as we can, we live the most interesting and exiting social lives according to our personal Facebook and Instagram pages, and train in the gym to achieve a ‘killer body’. At the same time depression, anxiety, burnout, and even suicide rates are raising to unimaginable lengths, especially in youth and young adults. What is going on here and what factors are responsible for this contradictory phenomenon?
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Smoking cessation among youth and young adults
Hanneke Scholten - 12-10-2017This month's theme is smoking cessation and behavior change. We are looking forward to share our activities and thoughts and to start a discussion with the community.
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OCTOBER - Smoking Cessation and Behavior Change
Hanneke Scholten - 01-10-2017This month's theme is smoking cessation and behavior change. We are looking forward to share our activities and thoughts and to start a discussion with the community.
Events View all events
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16JuneAbout the event
Behavioural Science Institute Day 2017
LocationBerg en Dal
Annual conference of our research institute. GEMH Lab member Hanneke Scholten will give a talk about co-designing interventions with target populations.
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UNTILL07March09MarchAbout the event
International Convention of Psychological Science 2019
LocationParis, France
Symposium: “Video Games for Promoting Emotional and Mental Health in Young People" at ICPS 2019
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UNTILL16May17MayAbout the event
Health By Tech
LocationGroningen, the Netherlands
Multidisciplinary conference on technological innovations for wellbeing Symposium: Video games for promoting emotional and mental health in young people
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UNTILL07March09MarchAbout the event
International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS)
LocationParis, France
ICPS is a one-of-a-kind event designed to showcase integrative science that crosses disciplinary and geographical boundaries. Held biennially, ICPS is the culmination of efforts by the Association for Psychological Science and an international network of organizations and individual scientists to stimulate global collaboration and scientific exploration. It features some of the world’s most distinguished investigators from not only psychological science, but from a range of disciplines including computer science, neurobiology, anthropology, and sociology.
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UNTILL16May17MayAbout the event
Supporting Health by Tech
LocationGroningen, The Netherlands
The conference Supporting Health by Technology (9th Edition) will be organised in the MartiniPlaza in Groningen (the Netherlands). The conference is organised by the Dept. of Health Psychology of the University Medical Center Groningen & the Dept. of Psychology, Health and Technology of the University of Twente (Centre for eHealth and Wellbeing Research), under the auspices of The Dutch eHealth Foundation (www.NeHS.nl)
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UNTILL19October23OctoberAbout the event
Cinekid for Professionals
LocationPakhuis de Zwijger
Cinekid for Professionals is an international industry event during the Cinekid Festival in October, this year streaming online.
My publications
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Hanneke Scholten on Google Scholar
Technology; mental health; smoking behavior; intervention science; transdisciplinary science
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 06-02-2020
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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 Medial Internet Research, 21(1), e11528. doi: 10.2196/11528
Author: Hanneke Scholten
Upload date: 06-16-2020
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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
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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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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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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
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
Director of GEMH Lab
In house game designer, artist, producer and lover of games. I bring diversity, design experience and the NOISE!!!!
Creative Director
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.
PhD-Candidate
Nerd, is fascinated by the brain even more than your average zombie, into etymology and reading, drawn to anything tech-related, especially artificial intelligence. Wants to explore social tech (such as social media) and how these relate to young people's wellbeing.
PhD-Candidate
I work with clients to design ecosystems, adapt bleeding edge research and develop end-to-end strategies that help improve the lives of their patients, practitioners and users.
Executive Creative Director - Collaborator
User Research Analyst at Ubisoft Montréal. My favorite games tell emotionally rich stories and challenge me to think differently
User Research Analyst
Rutger Engels
CEO at Trimbos Institute / Professor Developmental Psychopathology Utrecht University
Maartje Luijten
Assistant Professor
Marientina Gotsis
Research Assistant Professor
