Biography
Why do some adolescents develop anxiety disorders, while others do not? And how can we use this knowledge for more effective interventions?
I study neural and behavioral correlates of attention bias and social stress to answer these questions. I study social and neural moderators of the temperament-anxiety association using Generation R data, as part of my Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship. Before, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the NIMH with Dr. Daniel Pine and Prof. Nathan Fox. I led several fMRI and behavioral studies with children with and without anxiety disorders and analyzed data from a 16-year longitudinal fMRI study. I have received my PhD in Developmental Psychology from Leiden University (The Netherlands). My dissertation focused on delineating electrophysiological endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant professor | Clinical Psychology
- harrewijn@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Corey Richier, AndrĂ© Zugman, Anita Harrewijn, , Elise Cardinale, Parmis Khosravi, Moji Aghajani, Willem Bruin, Kevin Hilbert, NarcĂs Cardoner, Daniel Porta CasterĂ s, Marta Cano, Savannah Gosnell, Ramiro Salas, Andrea Jackowski, Pedro Pan, Giovanni Salum, Karina Blair, James Blair, Mohammed Milad, Katie Burkhouse, K Luan Phan, Heidi Schroeder, Jeffrey Strawn, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Neda Jahanshad, Sophia Thomopoulos, Jared Nielsen, Jordan Smoller, Jair Soares, Benson Mwangi, Mon-Ju Wu, Giovana Zunta Soares, Michal Assaf, Gretchen Diefenbach, Paolo Brambilla, Eleonora Maggioni, David Hofmann, Thomas Straube, Carmen Andreescu, Rebecca Price, Gisele Manfro, Federica Agosta, Elisa Canu, Camilla Cividini, Massimo Filippi, Milutin Kostic, Ana Munjiza Jovanovic, Brenda Benson, Gabrielle Freitag & Ellen Leibenluft (2025) - Brain Age Prediction in Generalized Anxiety Disorder using a Convolutional Neural Network - Research Square - doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6866544/v1
- Grace M. Stohr, Anita Harrewijn, Santiago Morales, Selin Zeytinoglu, Zoë E. Laky, Parmis Khosravi, Elise M. Cardinale, Nicole Lorenzo, Joel Stoddard, Daniel S. Pine, Nathan A. Fox, Melissa A. Brotman & Simone P. Haller (2025) - Adolescent cognitive control processing is associated with anxiety in young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic - Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience - doi: 10.3758/s13415-025-01293-1 - [link]
- Peter A Kirk, Purnima Qamar, Andre Zugman, Rany Abend, Samuel Frank, Grace V Ringlein, Laura Jett, Gwyneth A L DeLap, Anita Harrewijn, Daniel S Pine & Katharina Kircanski (2025) - The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and in-Scanner Motion - Human Brain Mapping, 46 (4) - doi: 10.1002/hbm.70163 - [link]
- Anita Harrewijn, Rosa H. Mulder, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, Matthias J. Wieser & Pauline W. Jansen (2025) - Four distinct peer interaction variables as moderators of the fearful temperament-anxiety association, using data from the Generation R Study - JCPP Advances, 5 (1) - doi: 10.1002/jcv2.12254 - [link]
- Elizabeth R. Kitt, Rany Abend, Paia Amelio, Jordan Galbraith, Anjali D. Poe, Dylan G. Gee, Daniel S. Pine & Anita Harrewijn (2025) - Using mobile eye-tracking to evaluate gaze behavior during a speech in pediatric anxiety disorders - Journal of Affective Disorders, 369, 462-466 - doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.024 - [link]
- Christel M. Portengen, Anita Harrewijn, Anneloes L. van Baar & Joyce J. Endendijk (2025) - Gender-Differentiated Emotion Socialization: Evoked by Child Behaviors, Parents’ Neural Responses Toward Gender-Stereotype Violations, or Both? - Parenting, 25 (1), 39-65 - doi: 10.1080/15295192.2024.2426679 - [link]
- Meghan E Byrne, Sara Kirschner, Anita Harrewijn, Rany Abend, Amit Lazarov, Lucrezia Liuzzi, Katharina Kircanski, Simone P Haller, Yair Bar-Haim & Daniel S Pine (2024) - Eye-tracking measurement of attention bias to social threat among youth: A replication and extension study - Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, 8 - doi: 10.1016/j.xjmad.2024.100075
- Kevin Hilbert, Ole Jonas Boeken, Till Langhammer, Nynke A. Groenewold, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Moji Aghajani, Andre Zugman, Fredrik Ahs, Volker Arolt, Katja Beesdo-Baum, Johannes Bjorkstrand, Jennifer U. Blackford, Laura Blanco-Hinojo, Joscha Boehnlein, Robin Buelow, Marta Cano, Narcis Cardoner, Xavier Caseras, Udo Dannlowski, Katharina Domschke, Lydia Fehm, Brandee Feola, Mats Fredrikson, Liesbet Goossens, Hans J. Grabe, Dominik Grotegerd, Raquel E. Gur, Alfons O. Hamm, Anita Harrewijn, Ingmar Heinig, Martin J. Herrmann, David Hofmann, Andrea P. Jackowski, Andreas Jansen, Antonia N. Kaczkurkin, Merel Kindt, Ellen N. Kingsley, Tilo Kircher, Anna L. Klahn, Katja Koelkebeck, Axel Krug, Harald Kugel, Bart Larsen, Elisabeth J. Leehr, Lieselotte Leonhardt, Martin Lotze, Juergen Margraf, Jaroslaw Michalowski, Markus Muehlhan, Igor Nenadic, Pedro M. Pan, Paul Pauli, Wenceslao Penate, Andre Pittig, Jens Plag, Jesus Pujol, Jan Richter, Francisco L. Rivero, Giovanni A. Salum, Theodore D. Satterthwaite, Axel Schaefer, Judith Schaefer, Anne Schienle, Silvia Schneider, Elisabeth Schrammen, Koen Schruers, Stefan M. Schulz, Esther Seidl, Rudolf M. Stark, Frederike Stein, Benjamin Straube, Thomas Straube, Andreas Stroehle, Boris Suchan, Sophia I. Thomopoulos, Carlos Ventura-Bort, Renee Visser, Henry Voelzke, Albert Wabnegger, Andre Wannemueller, Julia Wendt, Julian Wiemer, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Katharina Wittfeld, Barry Wright, Yunbo Yang, Anna Zilverstand, Peter Zwanzger, Dick J. Veltman, Anderson M. Winkler, Daniel S. Pine, Neda Jahanshad, Paul M. Thompson, Dan J. Stein, Nic J. A. Van der Wee & Ulrike Lueken (2024) - Cortical and Subcortical Brain Alterations in Specific Phobia and Its Animal and Blood-Injection-Injury Subtypes: A Mega-Analysis From the ENIGMA Anxiety Working Group - American Journal of Psychiatry, 181 (8), 728-740 - doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20230032 - [link]
- Yvette Grootjans, Anita Harrewijn, Laura Fornari, Tieme Janssen, Ellen R A de Bruijn, Nienke van Atteveldt & Ingmar H A Franken (2024) - Getting closer to social interactions using electroencephalography in developmental cognitive neuroscience - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 67 - doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101391 - [link]
- Judith Torzillo, Selin Topel, Anita Harrewijn, Melle J.W. van der Molen & Frederik van der Veen (2024) - Subjective pain and reward in a social judgment paradigm - Current Psychology, 43 (20), 18095-18108 - doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-05599-6 - [link]
- A (Anita) Harrewijn (2021) - Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
