In the media
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Simone Dobbelaar in BBC on developing friendships in children14 July 2025Friendships play a crucial role in our lives. For children, these relationships really start to blossom during middle school, when they begin to under...
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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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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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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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Bianca Boyer on why people with ADHD often experience overstimulation07 November 2023What happens in the mind of someone with ADHD? GZ psychologist Bianca Boyer discusses this in a two-part episode of the Dutch 'Podcast Psycholoog'. Sh...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde in Dutch media on social learning20 February 2023Developmental Psychologist Anna van Duijvenvoorde talks about her research on the development of brain and behaviour in adolescents. An important part...
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All episodes of Breingeheim now available on Spotify01 February 2023All five episodes of the first season of 'Breingeheim' are now available to listen on Spotify. The first season of the podcastseries is about the soci...
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Are the brains of males different from those of females? Psychologists produce a podcast on brain research and mental health20 December 2022Women are more often diagnosed with depression, whereas ADHD is much more frequently detected in men. And there are other more striking differences. W...
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Podcast on resilience gives a boost to worrying youths19 December 2022
What if you get excluded? Are apps against fear and stress effective? How do you keep your brain in shape? The first season of the new podcastseries ‘...
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Podcast: Training parents of anxiety prone toddlers21 July 2022In this episode, we talk with Leonie Vreeke and Nina Komrij about the Cool Little Kids research project. CLK explores the effectiveness of training pa...
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Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam about extreme shyness10 February 2020Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam is a neuroscientist at the Institute of Psychology and conducts research on the brains of families suffering from social anx...
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Eveline Crone in the media12 November 2018In 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 brain09 January 2018The 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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Attention for autism in girls12 April 2017Autism 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 contest04 October 2016A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...