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Psychologists at Lowlands Science: can virtual reality trigger a psychedelic experience?15 June 2023Fantastic plants, dizzying patterns and pulsating sounds: researchers from Leiden are going to study the effects of a simulated psychedelic trip on th...
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How to keep your brain healthy? Scientists provide tips at brain festival14 June 2023At science festival 'Over de kop', surprising brain facts alternate with confronting stories from the operating room. Researchers explain why our bra...
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Psychology Elevator Pitch: How a better sleep pattern makes students mentally healthier12 June 2023Do you often find yourself exhausted in the lecture hall or at your workplace? Not great for your mental well-being, as Laura Pape knows. She is inves...
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Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference12 June 2023Researchers and policymakers are welcome to attend the AI & Society Conference in The Hague on Friday 23 June. The SAILS interdisciplinary research pr...
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Rethinking Responsible Scholarship: ‘It is in so many day-to-day decisions, we forget to pause and reflect sometimes’09 June 2023Psychologists Anna van ‘t Veer and Eiko Fried will start a scientific integrity workshop tour after the summer, called Responsible Scholarship: Psycho...
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Sarah de Rijcke new dean Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences24 May 2023Prof. Sarah de Rijcke will succeed Paul Wouters as dean of Leiden University's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSW) from 1 January 2024. P...
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Working together in the Leiden Healthy Society Center: ‘It’s only when you make your research visible that you find each other'22 May 2023As coordinator and lead promoter respectively of the Leiden Healthy Society Center, psychologists Sandra van Dijk and Anke Klein use interdisciplinary...
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Young people's burning brain questions bundled in new research agenda10 May 2023During ExpeditionNEXT in Middelburg, NeurolabNL youth, together with researchers from Leiden University and Erasmus University, handed over a unique r...
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Does everybody get ‘a piece of the national cake’? How Nigerian politicians cooperate to distribute public resources.03 May 2023Since 2017, political scientist Leila Demarest has immersed herself into the dynamics of Nigeria’s National Assembly, the federal parliament of the co...
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations01 May 2023Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Sw...
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‘Not everyone has health goals top of mind’01 May 2023Doctors can fix a lot, but preventing or delaying disease is better. This often requires lifestyle changes, which turn out to be difficult. Sandra van...
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'Will you look at me?' How socially anxious people avoid eye contact21 April 2023Individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) consistently avoid eye contact. However, in a non-clinical population, gaze avoidance in soci...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people17 April 2023What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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New centre of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society14 April 2023Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore pro...
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You, too, have a bodily rhythm – and it affects your behaviour14 April 2023Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analysed the usage data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that our body has rhythms ranging b...