Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg (born 19 June 1965) is a Dutch psychologist focused attachment and emotion regulation in parents and their children, with special emphasis on the neurobiological processes involved in parenting and development. She is currently a Full Professor at Ispa-Instituto Universitário (Portugal), a visiting Scholar & Research Associate in the Center for Attachment Research at The New School for Social Research (New York), and a visiting Consultant at the National Institute of Education of the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

She examined the underlying mechanisms of adults’ caregiving responses, using an experimental design with cry sounds as well as a life-like crying baby doll. With her team, she documented the effects of oxytocin administration on neural and behavioral responses to infant crying and infant laughter. She has served as a PI on nationally funded grants that examined parenting and child development, and on a research project examining neurobiological factors involved in fathers’ parenting, funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council. As part of this research project, they conducted a series of randomised controlled trials to test the effects of two pharmacological interventions (oxytocin and vasopressin) and two behavioral interventions (prenatal video feedback using ultrasound, and postnatal use of a soft infant carrier) on hormonal, neural, and behavioral functioning in first-time fathers.

From 1993 until 2022 she was professor at Leiden University (Netherlands) where she worked at the Centre for Child and Family Studies, having also worked at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) and held a position as a Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge (UK). Provided by Wikipedia
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