Psychologist Myrthe Jansen conducted research into the performance monitoring that constantly takes place in our heads. People with obsessive-compulsi...

White girls receive significantly more positive comments from their teachers in their primary school reports than white boys and children from migrant...

There was a lot of interest. In front of nearly a hundred researchers, supporting colleagues and Martijn Ridderbos, the Vice-Chairman of the Executive...

Contrary to what one might expect, societal actors influence China’s foreign policy. PhD candidate Sabine Mokry investigated how Chinese academics and...

Infrastructure projects such as ports, highways and railways are intertwined with geopolitics, economic systems, political interests and cultural valu...

Women during tuber finding events were more likely to sing when they were in large groups, especially when group members were less familiar. That was ...

In the context of urban challenges, multidisciplinary knowledge adds value. The idea is that urban planners, sociologists, economists, and historians ...

Psychologist Leonie Vreeke is ready to start a new 5-year research project which was granted by ZonMw with nearly € 600.000,-. A PhD student and a res...

Is aggression always bad? PhD research by psychologist Simone Dobbelaar shows that it is not. In fact, children who occasionally fiercely defend thems...

‘Violence as a Population Health Problem’ is one of 33 interdisciplinary projects that have been launched thanks to a Kiem grant. The project team wil...

Despite the promising effects of technology in assessment and treatment, the actual use of novel technologies in juvenile justice context remains limi...

Dutch politician Caroline van der Plas recently said: ‘Populist sentiments matter’. As the elections approach, we focus on how people decide who or wh...

The placebo effect was completely new to her when Lingling Weng began the PhD project in Leiden. She is now a postdoc in China. 'It would be great to ...

The Leiden University Network for Health in Africa (LUNHA) aims to shift the focus of global health to be more about justice, fairness, and inclusion....

Leiden University publishes the highest percentage of preprints in the Netherlands. Why is that and why post your article online before it has been pe...