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Psychology Awards 2022 09 January 2023
Psychology teacher of the year is Roy de Kleijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Roosmarijn Goldbach en Matija Čuljak. Jeffrey Durieux receives the P...
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Anne Urai and Neuromatch colleagues win prize for open science 10 November 2022
Cognitive neuroscientist Anne Urai is part of the Neuromatch Conference team. With the prize for open science, Neuromatch wants to reduce or remove ba...
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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 2022
Neeltje 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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European grant for Birte Forstmann to create an atlas of the Human Deep Brain 27 September 2022
Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is the most promising surgical treatment for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, but is accompanied by unwanted side...
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Three Leiden scientists win IFCS Cluster Benchmarking Challenge 23 September 2022
At the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) conference 2022 in Porto, psychologists Tom Wilderjans, Jeffrey Durieux and Julian ...
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Lina van Drunen wins best poster prize at the international Flux Society Congress 21 September 2022
At the international Flux Society Congress 2022 in Paris, Lina van Drunen won the prize for best poster with her PhD research on how music influences ...
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Leiden researchers receive Ig Nobel Prize for research into romantic click 16 September 2022
Cognitive psychologists Eliska Prochazkova and Mariska Kret from Leiden University have won an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the romantic cli...
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Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau 29 August 2022
Emeritus professor Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe received the royal award from the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam for her great contribution to the quality o...
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Psychologists receive grant for social anxiety research 22 August 2022
“We are proud and happy to receive this grant. It will enable us to do truly innovative fundamental research with a direct link to practical applicati...
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YAL Outreach Grants to tackle disinformation 18 August 2022
Leiden psychologists receive an Outreach Grant from the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) to talk about facts and fables in their field of research. Marieke ...
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Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ 11 August 2022
Rüya Akdağ is part of a research team with the aim of further studying social anxiety. The Leiden psychologist receives the grant for her doctoral res...
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Mia Thomaïdou with Rubicon grant for research to US 25 July 2022
Mia Thomaïdou wants to investigate how criminal courts understand and use the increased knowledge of human behavior. Her Rubicon grant allows for two ...
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Kids become real scientists with Lil'Scientist 25 July 2022
Children are perfect scientists: they are bursting with curiosity, they want to know how the world works and they go exploring every day. Yet many chi...
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships 20 July 2022
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic...
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ERC Award for Mariska Kret bringing science to the zoo 18 July 2022
Mariska Kret, Professor in Cognitive psychology has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Public Engagement with Research Awards 2022. Kret...