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Four projects awarded science communication grants 24 November 2023A climate game, a science and music festival, a mobile psychology lab and interactive sessions on anxiety in children. The Dutch Research Council (NWO...
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How to keep a forest happy? A study on singing behaviour in BaYaka hunter gatherers in Congo 07 November 2023Women during tuber finding events were more likely to sing when they were in large groups, especially when group members were less familiar. That was ...
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CSC fellowship awarded to Liwen Meng 31 August 2023Liwen Meng has been granted a CSC fellowship to initiate her PhD project, which will delve into the role of nature in buffering stress response. Her r...
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Lowlands as lab: virtual trips in the name of science 21 August 2023While tens of thousands of visitors dance to deafening music, a team of Leiden psychologists are trying to collect data for their research at Lowlands...
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NWO has rewarded CODELAB researchers for new startup idea 10 July 2023The new startup idea of Arko Ghosh and his colleagues at CODELAB concerns seamless brain assessments using day-to-day digital interactions. The study ...
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Vibrant illustrations and mind-boggling graphs - Psychology students share insights into their research 07 July 2023Why do some smokers quit much more easily than others? Can we think ourself to insomnia? And does playing music together help to calm conflicts? Psych...
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Psychologists at Lowlands Science: can virtual reality trigger a psychedelic experience? 15 June 2023Fantastic plants, dizzying patterns and pulsating sounds: researchers from Leiden are going to study the effects of a simulated psychedelic trip on th...
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New course Experimentation I: Programming Psychological Experiments developed with Grass Shoots grant 04 May 2023Last year, Henk van Steenbergen received a Grass Shoots grant to completely redevelop the research master's course 'Experimentation I: Programming Psy...
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You, too, have a bodily rhythm – and it affects your behaviour 14 April 2023Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analysed the usage data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that our body has rhythms ranging b...
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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies 05 April 2023Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much ...
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Chris Riddell is one of the new Faces of Science: 'Can't wait to share research' 09 March 2023Have you ever seen your friend smiling, and suddenly you started grinning too? PhD student Chris Riddell is researching how and why we copy body langu...
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Foraging skills may have made the essential difference in the evolution of our huge brain 07 February 2023Hunter-gatherers acquire their food through complex gender-specific foraging techniques for a relatively stable and diverse supply of energy. New rese...
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Psychology Awards 2022 09 January 2023Psychology 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 2022Cognitive 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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European grant for Birte Forstmann to create an atlas of the Human Deep Brain 27 September 2022Deep-brain stimulation (DBS) is the most promising surgical treatment for movement and neuropsychiatric disorders, but is accompanied by unwanted side...