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LUF grant for Neeltje Blankenstein: 'I want to study online risk behaviour of young people in its full depth'19 October 2022Neeltje Blankenstein receives an LUF grant to conduct research on online risk behaviour among young people. What risks do young people take online and...
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Education and Child Studies and Child Law to continue successful interdisciplinary collaboration10 October 2022Researchers from the Institute of Education and Child Studies and the Department Child Law will be collaborating in two new research projects. The res...
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Family matters06 October 2022Brothers and sisters within a family, with the same parents, experience their upbringing differently. As well as the impact of their own negative expe...
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When you know how your brain works, you better understand who you areBook launch 'Atlas van ons Brein' 04 October 2022On Sept. 29, Lara Wierenga, together with graphic designer Dirma Janse, presented their new book Atlas of our Brain. In the presence of fellow scienti...
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Update and reminder: Call for proposals Social Resilience & Security programme04 October 2022On behalf of the interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security, we would like to remind you of the call for proposals for seed funding (up ...
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3 October University: ‘Artificial intelligence is like young people and sex’04 October 2022‘Everyone’s talking about it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, but the reality is disappointing,’ says biochemist Gerard van Westen in his 3...
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Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration to meet the energy transition and adapt to climate change23 September 2022Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning argue that in the current moment of major crises ship channels necessitate radical reconsid...
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Social Resilience & Security seed funding for interdisciplinary research: call for proposals22 September 2022The interdisciplinary programme Social Resilience & Security is inviting proposals for seed funding. The programme aims to combine knowledge and expe...
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Public Scientific Day Brein & Recht: An overview of the latest developments in research22 September 2022How does our brain interpret traces of evidence? Can someone who is suffering from brain damage be held accountable for criminal offences? And should ...
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Three different perspectives on how the online world has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives20 September 2022In the ESOF2022 mini-symposium organized by the Social Resilience & Security programme, international experts with a background in psychology, philoso...
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Afraid of the dark? Anke Klein: 'Let your child have a say in finding a solution'20 September 2022On Sunday night 25 September, all the lights in Leiden will switch off and we will see the starry sky above us twinkling in all its glory. A unique op...
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“You look well,” said the oncologist, but she didn't feel that way at all12 September 2022Leiden psychologists Janine Westendorp and Liesbeth van Vliet have investigated types of communication that seriously ill patients may experience as h...
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Mariska Kret: ‘The arrogance of thinking we’re better than animals is downright stupid’06 September 2022Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret studies how humans and animals express emotions. Comparisons between humans and great apes offer import...
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Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit16 August 2022When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden...
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Behavioural expertise needed for lifestyle change14 July 2022The importance of a healthy lifestyle does not receive the attention it deserves, as the coronavirus pandemic made painfully clear. Twelve behavioural...