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How touchscreens and eye trackers can tell us something about the dating life of orangutans11 March 2024Aesthetic attraction plays a big role in orangutans’ mate choice, behavioural biologist and PhD candidate Tom Roth has observed. But to discover just ...
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What drives humans? How Mariska Kret manages to touch science with her emotion research20 February 2024In zoos, at festivals and in a mobile lab at the market: everywhere, Mariska Kret tries to understand human and animal emotions with her distinctive b...
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Mariska Kret receives new science prize for groundbreaking research05 February 2024Professor Mariska Kret has received the Mercator Sapiens Stimulus, a new science prize from the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW...
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How slower breathing really helps against stress12 December 2023People who are often stressed can feel calmer by making certain adjustments to their breathing. Possibly this also positively affects concentration an...
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Four projects awarded science communication grants24 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 Congo07 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 Meng31 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 science21 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 idea10 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 research07 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 grant04 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 behaviour14 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 bodiesMimicry 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...