Judith van de Wetering is a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus SYNC lab (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands). She is interested in how adolescents (12-24-year-olds) are affected by and can contribute to societal challenges, including climate change. Her goal is to contribute to research that recognizes adolescents’ potential to be transformative frontrunners in society.
During her PhD project (2020-2024, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University) Judith studied how interventions that harness adolescents’ motives for autonomy and peer status can promote their climate-friendly behavior. Before her PhD, Judith obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2018) and research master’s degree in Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence (2020, cum laude) at Utrecht University.