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Wim Meeus

Researcher at Utrecht University

Publications -  460
Citations -  25786

Wim Meeus is an academic researcher from Utrecht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Identity (social science) & Personality. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 445 publications receiving 22646 citations. Previous affiliations of Wim Meeus include Erasmus University Rotterdam & University of Amsterdam.

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Perspective taking and empathic concern in adolescence: Gender differences in developmental changes.

TL;DR: The results suggest that pubertal maturation plays a role in boys' development of empathic concern, and theoretical notions that perspective taking develops during adolescence as a result of cognitive development are supported.
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Emerging late adolescent friendship networks and Big Five personality traits: a social network approach.

TL;DR: Results indicated that friendship networks between just-acquainted individuals became increasingly more cohesive within the first 3 months and then stabilized, and individuals high on Agreeableness tended to be selected more as friends.
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Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Relationships with Their Parents

TL;DR: Results indicated that parent–adolescent relationships become more egalitarian during adolescence, and parents perceived by adolescents as powerful are viewed as supportive, especially in early adolescence.
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GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, genetic overlap with psychiatric traits, and a causal influence of schizophrenia

Joëlle A. Pasman, +50 more
- 27 Aug 2018 - 
TL;DR: A GWAS of lifetime cannabis use reveals new risk loci, shows that cannabis use has genetic overlap with smoking and alcohol use, and indicates that the likelihood of initiating cannabis use is causally influenced by schizophrenia.
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Studies on identity development in adolescence: An overview of research and some new data

TL;DR: In this paper, the Utrecht-Groningen Identity Development Scale (U-GIDS) is used to measure relational identity, measured with a new instrument, which allows the construction of four statuses: diffusion, moratorium, closed commitment and achieving commitment.