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Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someoneLove 13 May 2024Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and dis...
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Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives08 May 2024Taking responsibility concerning colonial heritage and restitution is a pressing issue for countries and museums worldwide. On 23 and 24 May, a Leiden...
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Leiden conference to look for emerging trends in global governance07 May 2024
Global challenges require global governance answers. For that reason, between 5 and 7 June, the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transforma...
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Call for Papers: Who rules over migrants? Autocratic elements in migration policies02 May 2024We are pleased to invite paper proposals for the 1.5-day interdisciplinary workshop: “Who rules over migrants? Autocratic elements in migration polici...
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Just to be sure... At any cost?01 May 2024Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as poli...
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Psychology Elevator Pitch: How do we solve social dilemmas?01 May 2024A clean street, public transportation, or taxes: these are all public goods that keep society running. But how do people decide which public good to i...
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How often are parents close to their child? This new method captures it live30 April 2024Using an innovative method, psychologist Loes Janssen and colleagues measure how long and how often parent and child are close in daily life, and how ...
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Panel discussion - 'The 2024 European Parliament election: what’s at stake?'29 April 2024On Wednesday 24 April 2024, the European Integration cluster at the Institute of Political Science and the Centre for the Study of Political Parties a...
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On this public day on psychedelics, researchers transcend the media hype29 April 2024Never before has so much research been carried out on the therapeutic effect of psychedelic drugs. Researchers at the LIBC Public Day are happy about ...
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Intriguing food reflex discovered with a smartphone25 April 2024Psychologist Hilmar Zech found that overweight people are actually more attracted to food pictures after eating than before. He did so using an old re...
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’16 April 2024Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, t...
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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...
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Calling on universities and funders: make research information open16 April 2024Crucial information about research, funding or how university rankings are created is often not freely accessible. The Barcelona Declaration on Open R...
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How a local shaman can help fight climate change11 April 2024Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar? ‘To tack...
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The internet has many bosses. It’s chaotic but it works08 April 2024Governing the internet is rather chaotic, says Professor Jan Aart Scholte. ‘But it works.’ Not only do national and local governments have a say but a...