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Dr. Sander Begeer completed his PhD-thesis entitled ‘Social and emotional skills and understanding of children with autism spectrum disorders’ in 2005 at the VU University of Amsterdam. Dr. Begeer is assistant professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology of the VU University of Amsterdam (director: prof. dr. H. M. Koot). Before his current position at VU University he has worked as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and a research assistant at Sussex University, Brighton, UK. In 2007, he obtained a grant for a large scale investigation of social emotional development in autism. Begeer coordinates various courses on the development and assessment of normal and pathological social emotional functioning.
www.psy.vu.nl/u/s.begeer; www.ara.vu.nl
Representative publications 2003-2009
Geurts, H., Begeer, S. & Stockmann, L. (2009). Inhibitory control of socially relevant stimuli in children with high functioning autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1603-1607.
Begeer, S., Meerum Terwogt, M., Lunenburg, P. & Stegge, H. (2009). Additive and subtractive counterfactual reasoning in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 1593-1597.
Bushman, B. J., Baumeister, R. F., Thomaes, S., Ryu, E., Begeer, S., & West, S. G. (2009). Looking again, and harder, for a link between low self-esteem and aggression. Journal of Personality, 11, 427-446.
Begeer, S., El Bouk, S., Boussaid, W., Meerum Terwogt, M. & Koot, H. M. (2009). Underdiagnosis and referral bias of autism in ethnic minorities. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 39, 142-148
Begeer, S., Koot, H. M., Rieffe, C., Meerum Terwogt, M., & Stegge, H. (2008). Emotional competence in children with autism: Diagnostic criteria and empirical evidence. Developmental Review, 28, 342-369.
Begeer, S., Banerjee, R., Lunenburg, P., Meerum Terwogt, M., Stegge, H., & Rieffe, C. (2008). Brief report: Self-presentation of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1187-1191.
Begeer, S., Rieffe, C., Meerum Terwogt, M., Stegge, H. & Koot, H. M. (2007). Do children with autism acknowledge the influence of mood on behaviour? Autism.11, 503-521.
Begeer, S., Rieffe, C., Meerum Terwogt, M. & Stockmann, L. (2006). Attention to facial emotional expressions in children with autism. Autism, 10, 37-51.
Begeer, S., Rieffe, C., Meerum Terwogt, M. & Stockmann, L. (2003). Theory of Mind based action in high-functioning children from the autistic spectrum. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 33, 479-487.