In the media
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Psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds takes over the Twitter account @NL_Wetenschap 27 September 2019
Zsuzsika Sjoerds seems to be busy with her research, her teaching, and open science advocacy. She will also take over the Twitter account for Dutch sc...
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Stevin Prize winner Andrea Evers: 'This award is for the whole team' 25 June 2019
Health psychologist Andrea Evers has won the Stevin Prize – alongside the Spinoza Prize, the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. Evers: 'It’s...
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Wilco van Dijk on BBC about 'Schadenfreude' 10 December 2018
Leiden psychologist Wilco van Dijk and communication scientist Jaap Ouwerkerk of VU University Amsterdam published a book about the emotion Schadenfre...
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Eveline Crone in the media 12 November 2018
In the Dutch media lots of articles have recently appeared based on interviews with Eveline Crone about the adolescent brain.
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Media attention for the learning adolescent brain 09 January 2018
The brains of adolescents react more strongly to receiving rewards. This can lead to risky behaviour, but research in Leiden has shown that it also ha...
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Rebecca Schaefer on 'Learning with music can change brain structure' 10 July 2017
Using musical cues to learn a physical task significantly develops an important part of the brain, according to a new study co-authored by Leiden psyc...
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Attention for autism in girls 12 April 2017
Autism spectrum disorders are more often diagnosed in boys than in girls. For Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe this raises the quest...
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Leiden researchers win public award in Smartest Project contest 04 October 2016
A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...
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Multitalented psychology students Tessa and Naomi run relay race in Rio 10 August 2016
Tessa van Schagen and Naomi Sedney know exactly how to combine their Psychology study with top-level sport. Both students are running in the 4 x 100 m...
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Pokémon Go new opportunity for children with autism 19 July 2016
'A great result for the effect of Pokémon Go on children with autism', says Carolien Rieffe in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. 'Although we do not...
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Expectations can relieve pain 07 June 2016
To relieve a patient's pain, it can be effective to induce expectations. This finding is promising for optimising the effectiveness of treatments, con...
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Zsuzsa Bakk winner of PhD Dissertation Award 11 April 2016
Zsuzsa Bakk has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Classification Society for her thesis entitled 'Contr...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Bernhard Hommel 31 March 2016
Prof. Bernhard Hommel has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). With this grant of 2.5 million euros the cognitive ps...