In the media
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Michiel van Elk in The Conversation on the importance of mystical experiences for therapy24 February 2026In a new piece for The Conversation UK, Michiel van Elk examines whether mystical experiences are essential to psychedelic therapy. 'If the field is t...
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Laura Steenbergen in Health on probiotics and mood23 June 2025Decades of evidence suggests that the trillions of microorganisms living in people’s guts, called the microbiome, can influence the brain. And now, ne...
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Update #iamapsychologist: Why Psychology and the international bachelor's programme are essential22 May 2025It started with Judith Schomaker's #Ibeneenpsychologist initiative. Now the ikbeneenpsycholoog book with LindedIn posts has been published and sent to...
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Eline Dekeyster in Podcast Metabolic Mind: Can ketogenic therapy help with autism and mental health?21 April 2025Could ketogenic therapy change the future of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) treatment? Bret Scher sits down with Eline Dekeyster to explore how nutrit...
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Mariska Kret in the New York Post on the influence of subtle changes in eye appearance18 March 2025Subtle changes in eye appearance can influence how people perceive others and affect their generosity. Articles from PsyPost and The Washington Post h...
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Francesco Walker in The Conversation on how children look at art03 January 2025Adults and children view art in completely different ways, Cognitive psychologist Francesco Walker discovered at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. 'In a re...
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Psychology Media Presentation 202417 December 2024Also in 2024, our colleagues from the Institute of Psychology were visible in the media in various ways. Check out their appearances in Dutch media, f...
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Psychology Media Presentation 202417 December 2024In 2025, our colleagues from the Institute of Psychology once again made a strong presence in the media. From (inter)national newspapers to podcasts, ...
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Podcast: Revealing Your Mind with Psychedelic Experiences23 May 2024Can you only have psychedelic experiences by taking magic mushrooms? Not according to Aidan Lyon, philosophical researcher at the Institute of Psychol...
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Podcast: Starting a career in Psychology01 March 2023We talk with Sophia Dittmar about starting a career in Psychology. Dittmar is currently studying the master's specialisation in Economic and Consumer ...
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Podcast: A changing view on psychedelics16 December 2022We talk with Michiel van Elk, about his research into mapping what effects psychedelics have on the human brain and what this means for the possible c...
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Arko Ghosh in the Guardian about tappigraphy patterns on our smartphones09 November 2021The company QuantActions promises that through capturing and analysing the data of smartphones it will be able to “detect important indicators related...
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Psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds takes over the Twitter account @NL_Wetenschap27 September 2019Zsuzsika 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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ERC Advanced Grant for Bernhard Hommel31 March 2016Prof. 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...