Elly A. Konijn (Ph.D. 1994) is a full professor in Media Psychology at the Department of Communication Science and a Fenna Diemer-Lindeboom endowed chair at ĢƵ.She is the initiator and chair of the program at ĢƵ.
prof. dr. Elly Konijn
Full Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Communication Science
Full Professor, Network Institute
Full Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Communication Choices, Content and Consequences (CCCC)
Personal information
Research
Her scientific research program focuses on three main lines:
- Relating to media figures, virtual humans, and social robots.
- Emotions and media-based reality perceptions (e.g., social reality perceptions shaped through media use, including moral standards).
- Media use among adolescents (e.g., cyberbullying, violent video game effects, thin-body ideal, self-presentation).
In each domain, she has published in major scientific journals ()
Documentaries
Professional documentaries based on research of Elly Konijn:
- Acteurs Spelen Emoties / Actors Acting Emotions (NPS/ K. ter Braak, ; )
- / (Doxy/ Burger, 2015) -- About ahumanoid robot visiting elderly.
- National TV-broadcast prime-time news for children about robot tutor, “Jeugdjournaal” (2016):
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"Leren leren leren"/ New techology in the future of education: https:// . Link to the website of underlying research:
- Forthcoming: Documentary Series ‘Man 2.0’ (working title) about AI and future society (by Kepach Prod., Italy, Dir. M. Brega & G. Zaninotto).
Teaching
- Psychology of Media Use
- Individual MA-theses
- Media and Entertainment
- Essentials of Media Psychology
- Individual Processing of Media
- PhD supervision
Ancillary activities
- Stichting STIPA | Amsterdam | Bestuurder | 2013-12-02 - present
- Taalcentrum VU RvC | Amsterdam | Commissaris | 2025-01-15 - present
Ancillary activities are updated daily

Profiel
Keywords
- H Social Sciences, media psychology, social robots, affective processing, mediat...
Publicaties
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