Young babies laugh like adult apes do: producing sounds while inhaling and exhaling. Adult humans produce sounds on the exhale only. Cognitive psychol...

A team of developmental psychologists and educators are involving young people in the communication about brain development. A second team of Leiden n...

Exploring the minds of our primate cousins in the wild, using under-exploited observations of their travel paths. A large set of observations of the ...

Synchrony in heart rate, skin conductance and pupil diameter plays a big role in human social interactions, such as gaining trust or being attracted t...

The Psychology Teaching Award goes to the entire team of teaching staff. PhD candidates Wouter van Loon and Hilmar Zech wrote the best scientific arti...

For the first time, contagious yawning has now also been found in a species that roams its territory mostly in solitude and is less frequently engaged...

Mandrills keep track of how many days have passed to be the first to gather the food. This is shown by a team of researchers from the University of Am...

What exactly do psychedelics do in our brains? To investigate this, NWO has awarded a Vidi grant to Michiel van Elk. The Leiden cognitive psychologist...

Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...

The better you mirror each other's behavior, the better you appear to work together. In her PhD research at the unit Cognitive Psychology in Leiden, F...

Psychologist Daphne Tona is one of the first to investigate a small nucleus in the brain stem 'in vivo' in living volunteers. That nucleus is involved...

Researcher Gezinus Wolters regularly has to determine in court whether a witness statement is reliable. How does he go about his work?

Psychologists Fenna Poletiek and Erik de Kwaadsteniet have received a grant from the FNV trade union to research people’s attitude to work if they rec...

If someone around you yawns, the chances are that you too will soon yawn. In orangutans it has now been found that scratching is very contagious. This...

Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Stefanie Meeuwis, and Eliška Procházková have all been awarded a share of the Aspasia diversity grant obtained by Mariska K...