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From innovative idea to start-up: during new workshops psychology students learn about doing businessEntrepeneurship 19 August 2025In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their valuable insights about lecturing. This month: Franz Wurm is developing entrepreneurship w...
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From hormone differences to valid questionnaires: psychology students present their research at the Science Day 202519 June 2025How do you measure over-protective parenting? Why are girls more likely to develop anxiety disorders? And do the social skills of therapists really ma...
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Honesty doesn’t always pay in negotiations12 June 2025When negotiating a salary or a purchase, negotiators often make strategic use of emotions. Social psychologist Zi Ye demonstrates how one negotiator m...
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Suicide prevention professor: ‘Talking saves lives’Inaugural lecture 22 May 2025Despite an increase in prevention efforts, the suicide rate in the Netherlands has not decreased in recent years. According to Professor of Suicide Pr...
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How e-learning makes writing a thesis easier for lecturers and studentsE-learning 13 May 2025In the Educatips column, Psychology lecturers share their most valuable insights on teaching. This month: Laura Nawijn and colleagues are designing an...
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Practising with AI: a chatbot for suicide preventionAI 24 April 2025In the ‘Educatips’ column, Psychology lecturers share their most important insights about teaching. This month, Joanne Mouthaan and Anna Hudson talk a...
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AI in the workgroup: ‘The moment I give students an assignment, they browse to ChatGPT’AI 24 March 2025In the ‘Educatips’ column, Psychology lecturers share their most important insights about teaching. This month: Ambra Brizi uses AI to encourage stude...
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Alumnus teaching at a Texan university: pizza, guns and heated debate in the lecture theatre17 October 2024Americans are electing a new president in November but they also have other choices to make in the polling booth. Alumnus Sanne Rijkhoff works at a Te...
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Special training and testing reveal children's potential for learning09 October 2024Traditional school tests, like the Dutch CITO, largely reflect students' existing knowledge and abilities. However, dynamic testing sheds light on stu...
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Don’t take everything in a scientific journal at face value, students learn in this new module08 October 2024In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Anouk van der Weiden, together with a tea...
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Psychology students talk about their research at the Science Day 202409 July 2024The celebration of our up-and-coming science talent, that is the Psychology Science Day. Students stand proudly by their research posters and enrich t...
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Using VR to experience how it feels when a patient throws a shoe at you08 July 2024Psychology students usually only get to meet patients late in their studies. Therefore, neuroscientists Ineke van der Ham and Judith Schomaker want to...
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Renske Gilissen Professor by Special Appointment of Suicide Prevention01 July 2024Every day, five people die by suicide in the Netherlands. Suicide is a complex phenomenon and consequently many questions remain about how to reduce t...
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Taarique teaches career planning but doesn’t want students to plan their future too strictly: ‘Keep on experimenting’27 May 2024In the ‘Educatips’ column, psychology lecturers share their most important insights on teaching. This month: Taarique Debidin thinks making contact wi...
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How these young researchers are preparing for their first scientific conference16 April 2024Three Psychology students will present a poster of their thesis research on Alzheimer’s and dementia at the international conference AAIC Neuroscience...