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Leiden researchers receive Ig Nobel Prize for research into romantic click16 September 2022Cognitive 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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Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for Rüya Akdağ11 August 2022Rüya 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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ERC Award for Mariska Kret bringing science to the zoo18 July 2022Mariska Kret, Professor in Cognitive psychology has been awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Public Engagement with Research Awards 2022. Kret...
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Young Talent Award for Anne Urai27 June 2022Psychologist Anne Urai has received the Young talent award from the Dutch Neuroscience society. She was described as a 'talented, promising early care...
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Psychology Science Day 202220 June 2022‘Very interesting’ is what two bachelor students have to say about the stories by Liesbeth van Vliet and Niki Antypa during the Psychology Science Day...
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Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food07 June 2022How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karl...
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European Grant for Mariska Kret's Virtual Reality emotion training tool24 May 2022Teaching people to recognize subtle, real-world expressions will help them understand and trust others better. The aim of Mariska Kret is to develop a...
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Podcast: Animals have emotions01 April 2022In this episode, we talk with Mariska Kret about the expressions of emotions in humans and animals. Mariska explores the similarities and differences ...
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What drives Lotte van Dillen, the new Psychology Director of Research?08 March 2022Lotte van Dillen has every confidence in the new-style Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology. ‘If we work on the basis of everyone’s good int...
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Trust me, I’m a university31 January 2022Technology 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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Psychology Awards 202112 January 2022Psychology teacher of the year is Anouk van der Weiden. The master thesis awards are for Irina Verhülsdonk and Christel Klootwijk. Eliška Procházková ...
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PTSD treatment can help patients with childhood trauma10 January 2022Adults 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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Anne Urai on her Veni subsidy and open science16 December 2021Neuroscientist Anne Urai has been awarded a Veni subsidy to further develop her ideas over the coming four years on how the brain makes choices. Why d...
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‘Heart rate and skin conductance predict romantic attraction’02 November 2021
Synchronised heart rates and skin conductance tell us that people are attracted to each other. This explains why we feel a romantic ‘click’ with some ...
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Psychologist writes sober book about psychedelic drugs29 October 2021Psychedelic drugs like magic mushrooms and LSD are embraced by some and seen as lethal by others. Cognitive psychologist Michiel van Elk delved into t...