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Eva Janssen is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University in the Department of Educational Sciences. She graduated cum laude as a pedagogue in 2013 from Utrecht University with a master’s degree in Youth, Education, and Society. Following this, she completed a two-year research master program, also at Utrecht University, graduating cum laude in 2015. In 2020, she obtained her PhD, focusing on research and teaching of critical thinking in higher education. During her PhD studies, Eva spent several months at Université Paris-Descartes (Paris-V), part of Université Sorbonne Paris Cité. She is a member of the education committee at the Interuniversity Center Educational Sciences (ICO) and serves as the PhD coordinator for the ICO theme group on Learning and Instruction. Eva's research centers on teaching critical thinking, with a particular focus on the cognitive biases that affect reasoning and decision-making. She has conducted studies on the cognitive processes that underlie biased reasoning and the recognition of fake news. Currently, she is researching strategies to improve self-regulated learning among students.
Department of Psychology