News
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Four Leiden professors appointed to KHMW 20 February 2020
Four Leiden University professors have been appointed to The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Andrea Evers, Erwin Muller, Sjaak Neefj...
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High school students from Haarlem visit Babylab Leiden 04 February 2020
Students from the Coornhert Lyceum from Haarlem visited the Babylab Leiden together with their teacher Roos Bannenberg. The 5-VWO students follow modu...
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'Art therapy effective in treating anxiety in women' 21 January 2020
On 22 January, Annemarie Madani-Abbing will defend her dissertation 'Art therapy and anxiety' regarding her research into the effectiveness of anthrop...
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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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Faculty prizes & New Year's speech 14 January 2020
At the FSW New Year’s reception 2020, the Faculty honoured prize winners Claire Vergerio, Shirley van der Maarel and Camila Espinoza Chaparro raised ...
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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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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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‘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...