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Laura Steenbergen and Christian Eistrup win Leiden FameLab 15 February 2017
Which young scientists are best at explaining their research in three minutes and can take part in the national finals? These questions were answered ...
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Designing a smart city together 31 January 2017
How can we make clever use of new technologies to improve quality of life in cities? The answer is in the NL Smart City Strategy, which Mark Rutte off...
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Highly gifted children benefit from explanation as much as their peers 17 January 2017
We often assume that highly gifted children always perform at maximum capacity. Psychologist Bart Vogelaar discovered that this group too benefits fr...
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Eveline Crone in Social Sciences Council 06 January 2017
From 1 January 2017, Professor of neurocognitive developmental psychology Eveline Crone has been appointed member of the Social Sciences Council of th...
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Jojanneke van der Toorn appointed to new Workplace Pride chair 20 December 2016
From 1 January 2017 Jojanneke van der Toorn will be the first holder of the Workplace Pride special chair, with a focus on the inclusion of people who...
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Pregnancy changes brain structure 19 December 2016
Brain researcher Elseline Hoekzema has discovered that the structure of the brain changes during pregnancy, particularly those areas related to social...
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Child labour is also bad for linguistic development 09 December 2016
Child labour can stand in the way of linguistic development and mental health of Indian youth, according to the research thesis ‘The Class Divide in U...
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Grant for research on murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands 06 December 2016
’25 years of fatal violence’, a collaboration of dr. Marieke Liem and prof.dr.Lenneke Alink about murder and manslaughter in the Netherlands, has rece...
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Psychometric Society Career Award for Willem Heiser 01 December 2016
Willem Heiser receives the 2017 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement. 'Receiving this prize from my colleagues makes me very hap...
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Leiden researchers win public award in Smartest Project contest 04 October 2016
A research project by Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe and researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science has been...
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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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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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Multitalented psychology students Tessa and Naomi run relay race in Rio 10 August 2016
Tessa van Schagen and Naomi Sedney know exactly how to combine their Psychology study with top-level sport. Both students are running in the 4 x 100 m...
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Looking for those ‘butterflies in the stomach’ 09 August 2016
Put two single people in one place and what do you get? Science! Psychologists at Leiden University will be conducting research on human attraction at...
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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...