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Valentina Carraro offers recommendations on strengthening the UN system14 February 2023At an international high-level conference, Valentina Carraro, Deputy Coordinator of the interdisciplinary programme Global Transformations and Governa...
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Fact or fiction? Debunking five common love myths with researcher Iliana Samara14 February 2023'You’ll know right away when you meet your true love’ or ‘Opposites attract’: Some persistent beliefs exist about love and attraction, but are they tr...
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Foraging skills may have made the essential difference in the evolution of our huge brain07 February 2023Hunter-gatherers acquire their food through complex gender-specific foraging techniques for a relatively stable and diverse supply of energy. New rese...
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European grant for Ellen de Bruijn: ‘Hormonal fluctuations in women have been ignored for too long in brain research’31 January 2023Psychologist Ellen de Bruijn studies the effects of hormonal fluctuations on behaviour and on the brain over a woman's life course. With an ERC Consol...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers31 January 2023From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages and more: six Leiden ...
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Healthy living? People often want to solve problems like debt or mouldy walls first25 January 2023Doctors can repair a lot, but preventing or delaying illness is better. This often requires lifestyle change and that turns out to be difficult. Dr. V...
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Bored or scared children? Teachers’ behaviour makes a big difference17 January 2023Teacher training should do more to prepare teachers for the pedagogical aspects of teaching, Professor of Educational Sciences Tim Mainhard will argue...
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Aukje Nauta: 'Shame in the workplace can lead to stress, conflict and even burnout'13 January 2023Aukje Nauta's professorship at Leiden University, brought about by by training institute Sioo, has been extended for another five years. She will furt...
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Bonobos, unlike humans, are more interested in the emotions of strangers than acquaintances11 January 2023Humans and bonobos show striking similarities as well as differences when they see pictures of conspecifics. Both are more interested in photos of con...
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Rethinking sex in neuroscience of mental health22 December 2022Even though it is generally known that Autism and ADHD are more common in men, and depression or anxiety disorders are more common among women, it is ...
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New SSH laboratories in Sylvius Building22 December 2022On the second floor of the Sylvius Laboratory, new labs are being built for researchers of the Faculties of Social and Behavioural Sciences and Humani...
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Two new functions for anthropologist Erik Bähre21 December 2022Erik Bähre has been elected to the board of the Society of Economic Anthropology of the American Anthropology Association. On top of this he has joine...
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Misleading bar and pie charts: How graphs can lead you astray19 December 2022Cutting off the y-axis, using 3D effects and only showing part of the available data: these are all tactics to mislead people with graphs. But they do...
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories19 December 2022Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the Unive...
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‘Migration’, ‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages16 December 2022How can teachers have a balanced conversation in the classroom about migration policy, asylum seekers or ethnic discrimination on the labour market? S...