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dr. KT (Kirsten) Verkooijen

dr. KT (Kirsten) Verkooijen

Associate Professor

Biography

Biography

Kirsten Verkooijen is associate professor at the chair group Health and Society. She studied Health Sciences at Maastricht University and specialized in the topics Health Education & Health Promotion and Mental Health Sciences. She wrote her PhD-dissertation on the role of identity in health risk behaviour in adolescence at the University of Southern Denmark. Her current research deals with psychosocial determinants and outcomes of health behaviour with a special focus on physical activity and vulnerable groups.

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Personal information

Address

Hollandseweg 1, 6706KN, WAGENINGEN

Postal address

Postbus/POBox 8130, 6700EW, WAGENINGEN

Building

Leeuwenborch Hoofdvleugel, 201, 3059

Telephone

+31317482509

Secretary

+31317482184

Expertise

Consumer studies, Epidemiology, Choice behaviour, Attitudes, Risk behaviour, Health care, Social psychology, Social groups, Social learning, Appetite, Behaviour tests, Consumer behaviour, Decision making, Experimental psychology, Personality, Public health interventions, Social cognition, Psychology, Public health

Subdivision

Health and Society