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Social brain active in childhood already 09 December 2019
Exclusion elicits the same response in children as in adolescents and adults. That is what psychologist Mara van der Meulen found when she studied bra...
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’ 27 November 2019
Students, staff and alumni of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences joint forces to interact, debate, pitch, and speed date together at the C...
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Marketing tricks: keep your eyes peeled 25 November 2019
Mountains of pepernoten, shelves full of chocolate letters and adverts showing the perfect Christmas table. With the holidays approaching, supermarket...
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Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooks 13 November 2019
Textbooks in the Netherlands contain significantly fewer female than male characters and relatively few characters from a non-Western background. They...
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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights Festival 12 November 2019
It is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaborati...
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Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences 07 November 2019
Each year, Latin American diplomats meet the researchers and students from Leiden University who specialise in their region. This year, they visited t...
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School absenteeism: A universal problem in need of solutions 01 November 2019
The International Network for School Attendance launched an inaugural conference in Norway, playing host to 14 countries, 254 participants. Lead of th...
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Eveline Crone new ERC Vice-President 31 October 2019
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Development Psychology at Leiden University, has been elected as the new Vice President of the European Res...
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Leiden University receives gift for research into psychology of economic behaviour 30 October 2019
Leiden University has received a gift of over 2m euros from the Utopa Foundation for its Department of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology....
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Pavlov revisited. About the placebo effect of rose scent 28 October 2019
Health psychologist Aleksandrina Skvortsova has made clever use of the Pavlov effect to link the ‘cuddle’ hormone oxytocin with the placebo effect. Th...
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Direct relationship between depression and inflammation called into question 28 October 2019
Depression has traditionally been linked to increased inflammation. Innovative research by psychologist Eiko Fried refutes this popular assumption. He...
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Donations for research projects with relevance to society 20 October 2019
Psychologists Marieke Tollenaar, Anne Miers and Esther van den Bos received donations from the Leiden University Fund and Stichting Praesidium Liberta...
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Recalling good memories together 18 October 2019
Recalling positive memories can help you feel better about yourself. Charlotte van Schie is aiming to use this fact to help people with a borderline p...
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The healing power of light 15 October 2019
Light makes us flourish – in this respect we humans are just like a rose or an azalea. Light can also be used to treat people who are ill. In Leiden, ...
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Alfons Chorus, founder of the Institute of Psychology: who was he really? 14 October 2019
Alfons Chorus was the ‘founding father’ of Psychology in Leiden. His son Rogier Chorus recently obtained his PhD at Leiden University based on his bio...