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First diplomas for International Bachelor in Psychology 19 September 2016
Around 50 students have graduated from the new International Bachelor in Psychology (IBP) programme within three years. Inspiring speeches sketched an...
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Neuropsychologist Mariska Kret through to top 5 Science Talent 12 September 2016
Neuropsychologist Mariska Kret is through to the next round in the 2016 Science Talent contest organised by New Scientist magazine.
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Training children in self-control 07 September 2016
What is the effect of training children to exercise self-control? Niko Steinbeis has been awarded a major European subsidy to find the answer to this ...
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ERC grants for Leiden scientists 06 September 2016
Leiden research on psychology and archaeology will boosted by two subsidies. Both research projects focus on children.
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Vote for a super-talented Leiden scientist 22 August 2016
The New Scientist magazine has selected two young Leiden scientists for its Top 25 Young Talents in the Netherlands and Flanders: historian Karwan Fat...
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Psychologist Davood Ghara Gozli received a Veni grant 15 July 2016
Davood Ghara Gozli (Cognitive Psychology) has received a Veni grant. As such, he is officially recognised as a promising young scientist by science f...
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Rubicon for psychologist Barbara Braams 01 July 2016
Developmental psychologist Barbara Braams has moved to Harvard University to study social influences on adolescents’ decision making in risky and ambi...
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NWO grant for Pavlov’s conditioning during sleep 27 June 2016
Andrea Evers has received an NWO research talent grant with Jelle van Leusden as the PhD candidate. This grant enables them to start a research projec...
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Sylvia van Beugen wins award for publication on psychodermatology 24 May 2016
Sylvia van Beugen has won the Herman Musaph Literature award 2016 for the best publication about psychodermatology. Her publication describes the impo...
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Zsuzsa Bakk winner of PhD Dissertation Award 11 April 2016
Zsuzsa Bakk has been selected as the winner of the 2016 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the Classification Society for her thesis entitled 'Contr...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Bernhard Hommel 31 March 2016
Prof. Bernhard Hommel has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). With this grant of 2.5 million euros the cognitive ps...
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Inge Schilperoord nominated for the Dutch Libris Prize 2016 15 March 2016
Psychology alumna Inge Schilperoord works as a forensic psychologist in the Pieter Baan Centre, a psychiatric observation clinic. Her debut novel 'Mui...
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Health psychologist Jos Brosschot professor by special appointment 25 February 2016
Jos F. Brosschot has been appointed as a professor by special appointment on the chair ‘psychophysiological mechanisms of stress in daily life’. This ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone 19 January 2016
Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that yo...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016
The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...