News
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Research in progress: Eye-contact 23 May 2018
Jiemiao Chen is running a study on eye-contact with a virtual audience. The study involves introducing oneself to the audience while wearing eye-track...
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The best exam tips from Leiden’s student psychologists 16 May 2018
Are you a school or university student, and do you feel very anxious before and during exams? Take advantage of these tips by Leiden student psycholog...
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Fifty Shades of Stress 15 May 2018
The challenge: Building a tool to detect chemical compounds that individually cause non-lethal stress to bacteria, but that are lethal in combination....
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Cooperation is improving autism treatment 02 May 2018
There are effective treatments for people with autism, says Wouter Staal, professor of Autism Spectrum Disorders, in his inaugural lecture on 4 May. H...
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'Without empathy, you can't give good care' 01 May 2018
Patients who feel understood will recover faster. But how can doctors become more empathetic? By reading literary works, suggests emeritus Leiden Prof...
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Luana Colloca is coming to Leiden as a KNAW visiting professor in health psychology 23 April 2018
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has granted health psychologist Andrea Evers a visiting professorship funding for Luana Coll...
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Carsten de Dreu awarded ERC Advanced Grant for research on conflicts between groups 10 April 2018
Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology Carsten de Dreu has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council. This subsidy of...
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Article award for Andreas Burger 09 April 2018
At the annual meeting of the postgraduate school for Experimental Psychopathology (April 6th), Andreas Burger was awarded the article prize for best a...
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Adolescents who feel heard are less angry in online games 31 March 2018
How do young people react when an unknown person gets under their skin in an online game? A sense of control over their social environment can prevent...
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Bachelor and Master Speckmann Awards 2018 20 March 2018
Dominique Brommers, Lilly Brouwer, Annemiek Buijze and Kyra van Meijgaarden were granted the Bachelor Speckmann Award for their report ‘Community of H...
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Conference award and poster presentation for health psychologists 13 March 2018
During the 76th American Psychosomatic Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky from 7-10 march 2018 Aleksandrina Skvortsova was awarded with one of...
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Vincent Bakker wins second prize in Leiden University’s Thesis Award 19 February 2018
During this award ceremony for alumni op Saturday, 10 February 2018, Vincent Bakker was awarded second prize in Leiden University’s 2018 Thesis Award....
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Cultural Anthropology alumna shortlisted for the IIAS Master Thesis prize 2017 15 February 2018
MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology alumna Annelin Verkade is one of the four 'runners-up' for the IIAS Master Thesis prize 2017. Supe...
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Alumni meet students in Psychology Methodology & Statistics 01 February 2018
On February 15th 2018 former students in Methodology & Statistics (M&S) of Leiden University share their current and previous professional activities ...
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Sylvia van Beugen wins ARPH Best Thesis Award 29 January 2018
During the 7th annual meeting of the Association for Researchers in Psychology and Health (ARPH) Sylvia van Beugen, from the Health, Medical and Neuro...