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Psychologist Bart Verkuil strikes a blow against burnout 20 January 2020
Burnout is on the increase. It is caused by group pressure, being ‘on’ all the time and asking too much of ourselves. Clinical psychologist Bart Verku...
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‘You end up in a completely different world’ 17 January 2020
What did psychology student Jessie learn while working at a psychiatric hospital in The Gambia? And why is Noman from Yemen now studying political sci...
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Genetic predisposition to social anxiety disorder measurable in the brain 13 January 2020
It was already known that social anxiety disorder often affects more than one person in the same family. But research by PhD student Janna Marie Bas-H...
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Three writers win the Peter van Straaten Psychology Prize 10 January 2020
Three novelists have won the first Leiden University Peter van Straaten Psychology Prizes: Esther Gerritsen, Yvonne Keuls, and Marieke Lucas Rijneveld...
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2019 Hall of fame 07 January 2020
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a...
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Recommendations from the Student Well-being Taskforce 06 January 2020
We know from national and international research that many students struggle with psychological problems. How about students in Leiden? Leiden Univers...
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Psychology Awards 2019 20 December 2019
The theses awards go to Maud van den Eijnden (MSc) and Michael Aristodemou (MSc research). PhD candidates Frank Doolaard and Meriem Manaï wrote the be...
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Annual Health, Medical and Neuropsychology awards 19 December 2019
During the 2019 Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Christmas lunch, several staff members and research (student) assistants were awarded.
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Winnie Gebhardt talking about research on health behaviour 16 December 2019
I am an associate professor in health psychology here at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. My main line of work is health behaviour and ...
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PhD candidate has patients barking up the wrong tree with virtual reality 09 December 2019
People with intermittent arterial claudication often experience severe pain when walking. Psychologist Anne Cuperus used virtual reality to trick 20 p...
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Social brain active in childhood already 09 December 2019
Exclusion elicits the same response in children as in adolescents and adults. That is what psychologist Mara van der Meulen found when she studied bra...
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Breach of academic integrity by former employee of Leiden University 29 November 2019
A former employee of Leiden University breached academic integrity. This is what the Academic Integrity Committee (CWI) of the University concludes in...
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’ 27 November 2019
Students, staff and alumni of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences joint forces to interact, debate, pitch, and speed date together at the C...
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Marketing tricks: keep your eyes peeled 25 November 2019
Mountains of pepernoten, shelves full of chocolate letters and adverts showing the perfect Christmas table. With the holidays approaching, supermarket...
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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights Festival 12 November 2019
It is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaborati...