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Ten lessons on making an impact: ‘What dilemmas will you face?’ 04 April 2022
In the booklet ‘Research with Windows Wide Open’, eight professors in the social sciences and humanities advise colleagues who want to make an impact ...
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Autism with borders 31 March 2022
Autistic people have problems communicating their borders towards the non-autistic community and often do not feel respected. To not only change daily...
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Psychologists participate in high-tech biomarker research in health care 24 March 2022
Next generation immunodermatology (NGID) is a nationwide, large-scale project, funded by a large grant of the Dutch NWO to unravel novel biomarkers fo...
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Assume that animals have feelings too 16 March 2022
We should assume that animals can have feelings too. From an ethical point of view this should inform our dealings with animals, researchers from Leid...
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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’ 16 February 2022
For 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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Why do we like winners so much? 03 February 2022
Hardly 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 society 02 February 2022
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
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Trust me, I’m a university 31 January 2022
Technology 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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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care 28 January 2022
What 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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An app to help children overcome anxiety 14 January 2022
Anke 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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PTSD treatment can help patients with childhood trauma 10 January 2022
Adults who were abused or mistreated as a child and consequently suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can benefit greatly from cognitive ...
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"Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals" nominated for PhD publication award 21 December 2021
The Developmental and Educational Psychology unit nominated Jiemiao Chen's paper "Visual avoidance of faces in socially anxious individuals. The moder...
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Veni grant for ten Leiden researchers 14 December 2021
Ten Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant, of up to 280,000 euros, will enable them to elab...
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Giving makes you happy 03 December 2021
Receiving a gift is nice, but giving a present also makes you happy. Development psychologist Mara van der Meulen former member of the Leiden Consorti...
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Medical Delta professor Andrea Evers: ‘I find it important to look for new ways’ 18 November 2021
Prof. Andrea Evers is a health psychologist who studies the role of behavioural factors in health and disease. As a Medical Delta Professor, she is no...