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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’16 February 2022For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can o...
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Can Russia be stopped?14 February 2022Tensions are rising between Russia and the West. Can an invasion of Ukraine and an international war be avoided? Political scientist and Russia expert...
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How Google, Facebook and other digital platforms are influencing the work of journalists09 February 2022Journalism is a rapidly changing profession. Digital journalism is transforming the way in which information and communication technologies are used b...
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Jan Kolen new Artificial Intelligence Coordinator at Leiden University03 February 2022The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Jan Kolen as the University’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Coordinator as of 1 February 2022. I...
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‘Let pupils actively engage with texts to improve their reading comprehension’03 February 2022Young Dutch people’s reading skills have been declining for years. The main reason for this is that many have difficulty with reading at greater depth...
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Why do we like winners so much?03 February 2022Hardly anyone in the Netherlands ever watches skeleton racing. But we’ll soon be glued to our TV sets when ‘our’ Kimberley Bos slides down the track a...
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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society02 February 2022Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
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Podcast: Prosocial Behaviour and Exclusion01 February 2022In this episode we talk with Mara van der Meulen about prosocial behaviour and social exclusion in children. Van der Meulen also explores the role of ...
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What drives anti-immigrant sentiment among youths in Ecuador?31 January 2022Four researchers from Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science have been awarded a grant to jointly investigate attitudes towards Venezuelan...
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Trust me, I’m a university31 January 2022Technology and privacy, trust and mistrust. A discussion about this broke out when the University installed scanners and students protested. On Wednes...
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New professor calls for more research with a ‘global lens’31 January 2022Jan Aart Scholte is the first professor on the new Leiden interdisciplinary programme, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. He researches...
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care28 January 2022What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? ...
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For long, government support for veterans was lacking24 January 2022For long, the government showed little empathy for military veterans with physical or psychological scars. This is what PhD research by Theo van den D...
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An app to help children overcome anxiety14 January 2022Anke Klein and her team have devised a fun and useful app to help anxious children. In the app, children can upload a video of themselves showing, for...
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Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work14 January 2022A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psyc...