Who is CENOF?

CENOF is a group of six top European researchers ready to explore fatherhood from different perspectives based on a broad spectrum of the psychological science, namely Evolu­tionary, Personality, Occupational and Developmental Psychology, as well as Biopsychology and Psychopathology.

The principal CENOF members (in alphabetical order) are:

CENOF’s European researchers resort to that kind of empirical experience that can be imme­diately used for the planned research study on fatherhood. Because a theoretical coherence for the topic is still missing, the CENOF group abstains from defining an overall theoretical framework from which the empirical work might start. Instead, a multi-perspective approach will be used for a Bottom-up strategy, and empirical outcomes will be generalized, in order to create a Top-down strategy which provides the theoretical expectations from which the empirical outcomes can be linked together. These turn-taking processes of both strategies, finally, might result in a theoretical coherent framework for future research on fatherhood.