L. (Lena-Emilia) Schenker MSc
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Profile
Lena-Emilia Schenker investigates self-views and achievement inequality in children. She does this as part of the “The Confidence Gap” project conducted by KiDLAB. The project is funded by an NOW-Vidi grant. She uses Virtual Reality (VR) experiments to study how achievement inequality is perpetuated through children’s academic self-views and teacher-child interactions. In the VR experiments, she examines how different teacher behaviors (such as differential praise or) affect children’s academic self-views. She also uses classroom observations with longitudinal follow-ups to investigate how the daily interactions of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds with teachers shape children’s academic self-views and achievement. Her supervisors are Eddie Brummelman and Jellie Sierksma.
Research expertise
- Children’s self-views
- teacher-child-interactions
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Research
Research methods
• Experiments
• Surveys
• Virtual Reality
• Observations
• Daily Diary
• Physiological Measurement -
Teaching
I supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s theses.
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Publications
2025
- Jaquet, J., Schenker, L., Bellingtier, J., Kornadt, A., & Riediger, M. (2025). Ageist attitudes are already evident in pre- and early-school children: A multi-method examination. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 43(4), 1027-1040. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.70000
2025
- Alders, L. N., Sierksma, J., Armstrong, H. K., Nelemans, S. A., Schenker, L., Vullings, N., & Brummelman, E. (2025). Socioeconomic Differences in Children’s Self-views. Poster session presented at VNOP-CAS Research Days 2025, Nijmegen.
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (2025). Comfort or Confidence? Teachers Signal Low Expectations for Low-SES Student Following Failure. Paper presented at VNOP-CAS Research Days 2025, Nijmegen.
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (in press). Can Praise Lead Children to Conclude They Are Not Smart? [Poster presentation]: Two Virtual Reality (VR) Experiments. Poster session presented at Essentialism in the Human Mind, Amherst, MA, United States.
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (in press). Does Teacher’s Praise Make You Feel Less Smart? Two Virtual Reality (VR) Experiments. Paper presented at SRCD 2025 Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, United States.
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (in press). Does your teacher’s praise make you feel bad?. Poster session presented at VNOP (Vereniging voor Nederlandse Ontwikkelings-Psychologie - Dutch Society for Developmental Psychology) Lab Visit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2024
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (2024). Does your teacher’s praise make you feel bad? Preliminary Results. Paper presented at VNOP Conference 2024, Tilburg, Netherlands.
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (in press). Does Your Teacher’s Praise Make You Feel Less Smart? A Virtual Reality (VR) Experiment. Poster session presented at VNOP Conference 2024, Tilburg, Netherlands.
2023
- Schenker, L., Sierksma, J., & Brummelman, E. (2023). Does Your Teacher’s Praise Make You Feel Less Smart? A Virtual Reality (VR) Experiment. Poster session presented at VNOP-CAS Research Days 2023, Utrecht.
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